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Rating:  - Lame and laughable
I personally can't believe someone got a book contract for these obvious and/or lame rehashed suggestions about managing the stuff in your life. Some examples:One guy saved space in his bathroom by getting rid of his hairdryer when he went bald. That one's headed "No Longer in Dryer Straits." If you have more than one bathroom, keep a clothes hamper in only one of the bathrooms. When you clean out the bathroom cabinet, "take a big plastic trash bag and a couple of big boxes with you to your bathroom battlefield and keep them in easy reach. Be sure that the bag is sturdy enough to handle the weight of all the items that you'll discard. Tops on the list: old tubes of toothpaste, the empty carton that used to be full of cotton swabs, the cologne your husband never, ever wears. When the job is done, tie it [I'm assuming she means the sack, not the husband or the cologne] up and make one trip to your trash cans." "....As you unearth spare stands of dental floss, odd buttons, old pantyhose, and other items in your bathroom cleaning binge, Courtney Watkins [a former kindergarten teacher whose creds golly gosh include appearing on The Donny and Marie Show and doesn't that impress us all?] encourages you to use those materials to boost your child's creative powers. 'I think I have the most fun cleaning and organizing when I look at my collection of things and say, "What else can this be?" ' says Courtney. 'Playing the game of What Else, you push that muscle of creativity and ingenuity both in your child and you.' " I submit to you that Courtney and author Lori Baird don't know what real clutter is. Buy Karen Kingston's Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui instead. It works and it's interesting!
Rating: - Rehashed for Cash
This book seemed a lot of already-heard organizing ideas rehashed by Rodale to make money. They should have had the person who wrote the marketing piece write the book! Confusing style, not funny - too cutsie, much too wordy... in a word... cluttered.
Rating:  - Hillarious
I thought this book was GREAT and a huge help in zeoring in on my cluttering problem. It helped me evaluate how I accumulate STUFF, and gave me the OK to re-evaluate, trash, donate, recycle, relocate and re-gift things that would probably be HERE forever. I also learned some great decorating and storage tips. It's been a fun trip to ordiliness! Thanks, Di
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