Did you make a New Year
’s resolution to clean up your clutter and organize your home or
office? Great idea, but if you are like most people you give up
because you just can’t figure out what to do with all the stuff in
your life.
Did you make a New Year’s resolution to clean up your clutter and organize your home or office? Great idea, but if you are like most people you give up because you just can’t figure out what to do with all the stuff in your life. The library has many books which can help you take control of clutter.
• Clearing the Clutter for Good Feng Shui by Mary Lambert
This book is a fabulous tool for anyone who develops attachments with their belongings and has a hard time deciding what to get rid of. Mary Lambert’s book will teach you to be in control of your stuff, rather than letting my stuff be in control of you. It is a very liberating feeling to be turned from a “pack-rat” into a “clutter-combator”.
• Let Go of Clutter by Harriet Schechter
Overflowing desks at work … overstuffed closets and piles of mail at home…overwhelmed minds all the time .… No wonder so many people say they are drowning in clutter. In Let Go of Clutter, organizing expert Harriet Schechter presents a fresh approach to overcoming the natural urge to accumulate objects and information. Dispensing equal doses of help, hope, and humor, she provides effective and realistic options for anyone who juggles too much stuff, too many decisions, and too little time.
• Organized Living by Dawna Walter, Helen Chislett, Dawn Walters
The perfect book for people with limited time and space, this book promotes organized living as a way to have more free time. Dawna Walter’s hands-on, dynamic approach shows readers that it is how you organize space that counts. A well-organized interior makes life simpler, freeing up time for the more fun things in life.
• Outwitting Clutter: 101 Ingenious Space-Saving Tips and Ideas to Make Any House or Apartment More Livable by Bill Adler Jr.
In Outwitting Clutter, you’ll learn about: How to declutter your life in 1-, 5-, and 15-minute increments; dealing with broken stuff; imposing a time limit on underused clutter; how to determine: is it sentimental, or is it clutter?; clutter in all the wrong places; how to outwit kids’ clutter without giving them away; how technology creates digital clutter; avoiding clutter; clutter at work-in your desk and home office.
• The Queen of Clean Conquers Clutter by Linda Cobb
The Queen makes even the most dreaded organizing tasks a breeze with hundreds of easy and practical tips! Find out how good it feels to be a savvy manager of all that threatens to invade your orderly domain with these simple and effective strategies from America’s #1 housekeeping expert, the Queen of Clean®.
• Stephanie Winston’s Best Organizing Tips: Quick, Simple Ways to Get Organized and Get on with Your Life by Stephanie Winston
Winston, founder of the consulting firm Organizing Principle, doesn’t promise to add more hours to the day, but she does present practical guidance on doing things faster and more efficiently. Setting priorities and “getting it done” are the focus here. Winston profers advice on handling “paperwork gridlock”, filing, paying bills and taxes, even dealing with junk mail. She suggests ways to manage your kitchen, clean your house and tidy up car clutter.
• Stylish Storage: Simple Ways to Contain Your Clutter by Paige Gilchrist
This book aims to provide “an accessible, inspirational guide for real people who want practical, easy ideas for containing some of the clutter those busy lives generate.” Presented here are projects for building wood shelves, potting ledges, sewing pouches, and bags, to name just a few.
These book and many others are available at the Morgan Hill Library. Find us on the web at www.santaclaracountylib.org
Questions and suggested topics for At the Library, which appears in Tuesday editions, should be directed to Nancy Howe, community librarian, at nh***@**********************ca.us or by calling 779-3196. The Morgan Hill Library, located at the corner of Peak and West Main avenues next to City Hall, is open every day but Sunday.
