Life Laundry: How to de-Junk Your Life FROM THE PUBLISHER
Is your living room littered with newspapers? Is your closet crammed with unworn clothes? Is your desk overflowing with paperwork and bills? Do you feel like you need a fresh start? Take heart—now The Life Laundry shows you how to give your life and your home a serious spring cleaning.
Everyone has clutter in their home—but what we don’t realize is the huge impact it can have on our lives, and how energizing it is to clear it away. Drawing on years of professional experience, Dawna Walter explains how to get to the heart of why clutter has built up around you—then shows you how to deal with it. Packed with valuable advice, practical exercises, and a questionnaire to help you identify your problem areas, Dawna will guide you every step of the way, motivating you to let go of the things you’ve collected but don’t use. And once you’ve started to take control of your possessions, you can follow Mark Franks’ advice on turning your junk into cash. Practical, inspirational, and liberating, this is the ultimate guide to de–junking. Dawna Walter, co–presenter of BBC TV’s The Life Laundry, is the author of Organized Living; New Leaf, New Life and Go For It.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
BBC co-host Walter (The Life Laundry) and antiques dealer Franks help readers tidy up cluttered living spaces in this cheerful how-to book. Directed at a wide audience-singles, married couples, divorcees, college students, professionals-the book explains why things begin to pile up, what the effects of clutter are and how to confront the challenge of cleaning it up. Correlating uncommonly messy homes with illness, stress and emotional hang-ups, the authors maintain that excessive material possessions "are often masking a more serious problem of holding on to past situations and emotions that you need to release in order to move forward." Concise chapters focus on different varieties of mess (clothing, entertainment articles, papers, garage junk, etc.) and include a self test to help determine the individual's particular problem areas. The authors, in an encouraging, empathetic tone, help the reader decide what is worth keeping and what should be thrown out. (Feb.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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