Put Your House on a Diet: De-Clutter Your Home and Reclaim Your Life

by Ed Morrow, Rita Rosenkranz, Sheree Byofsky

Book Overview

A fresh, light-hearted approach to trimming away excess clutter If your home is like most homes, it has been accumulating unwanted "stuff" that, like body fat, makes your life more difficult and less... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159486103X
• ISBN13: 9781594861031
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Sensible and Timely

Is your house groaning with stuff? And do you continue to buy more? Our things, say these authors, can easily become a burden - much like extra weight on our bodies. The solution, however, while simple for some, can be quite daunting for others. Like a diet, it requires an examination of our impulsive behaviors and emotional attachments to objects. Room-by-room, though, we can regain control of our homes - and our lives. The authors show us how to do that, in sensible and timely ways.

It Helped Me Clean Out My Home Office

I found the advice on the home office section especially practical and useful. This book has a lot of energy and it inspired my decision-making and creative decluttering. I took some of their ideas and used others as a springboard for my own. Now I need a book on how to organize my diet, so that will work as well ...

Will help you no matter how big your space is...

I just moved into a tiny apartment and brought with me this book, which had helped me with my "spring cleaning" a few years ago. The organizing tips helped me tremendously to configure my new space -- highly recommended for anyone who wants to ban OR prevent clutter.

great for ordinary folks!!

Put Your House on a Diet presents straightforward advice on cutting clutter room by room. It's written in a humorous tone with tons of tips the reader can use to cut clutter. The book also describes many options for turning your clutter into cash. Flea markets, auctions, eBay, and other options are discussed. Put Your House on a Diet provides simple,inexpensive, practical storage solutions that nearly anyone can implement unlike Martha Stewart's quite costly ideas. Anyone living in a clutter cramped apartment or home will find some useful tactics here to use in their battle with clutter. Buy It! It will change your living space and state of mind!

Lots of practical advice in a humorous style

There are a lot of books out there on how to declutter your life. Is this the best one on the market? That depends on what you're looking for. If you want soul-searching advice or spiritual guidance as you empty out that junk drawer, then this is not the book for you. But if you just want a lot of ideas you can put to use quickly and easily, you might want to consider this book.