Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff

Decluttering is an ongoing, lifelong process that we all deal with every day. We all buy and accumulate stuff because, we needed it or someone gave us something. As life goes on, this stuff starts to pile up when we don't have or take the time to deal with it. This book gives a simple, uncomplicated, get started, no mess, unemotional approach to decluttering that makes sense. There's no fancy, expensive organizing system, you just use what you have, ask yourself several non emotional questions and make progress without making a mess. This book gives the why and how in a simple, quick process. I borrowed the digital book from my library several times and always had to wait for weeks to get it. I decided to get the real book so, I would always have it on hand as a reference to getting unstuck, get started or, make progress decluttering. As far as the quality of the book, the cover feels like a waxy paper and the pages feel like construction paper just as other paper backs. The author also has YouTube videos that would supplement this book.

I loved the lighthearted yet knowledgeable approach. No checklists, no guilt trips, no soul-searching, and no hauling everything out into a pile! This book is great, and Dana's approach works whether you have 5 minutes at a time, or all day to tackle the mess. Just what I needed.

Having reached a point of having no space for "stuff" despite being a minimalist, I found myself in emotional torment. I have no issue decluttering and i don't have a lot of items in reality, but in some ways that makes it harder. I don't have draws and cupboards rammed... so when each item feels necessary but things are all feeling a bit too "full", i don't know what to cut- especially when it comes to childhood drawings etc. This book really gave me a light bulb moment and already I feel like the internal conflict around what seemed like an impossible task has lessened. Not only is the book easy to grasp, practical and actionable, it is also so well written... like a conversation speaking to you as a friend. As your own inner thoughts. I love this book so much I've ordered her other one...

I love this book! Yes - the author has five decluttering steps, which she explains in the beginning and the keeps on repeating for each room in your house. So the book is quite repetitive. But repetition is learning, right? It’s very easy to read and it’s fun. I loved the book and the tips. And the title is amazing - Decluttering at the Speed of Life... Yes!

I love this book. It is the best on decluttering I have read...in fact it is fun to read and for me it really inspired me to get moving on this task as I am needing to downsize as well as declutter!! Thank you