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The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide

The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide

How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life

2010 • 296 pages

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I think it is a nice book to start to know about minimalism and what are the steps to become a minimalist. There are chapters about each area or room of a house explaining how to apply the author's proposed method for dealing with clutter. Those were interesting chapters because they really go into detail about the steps necessary to declutter. But maybe they weren't meant to be read all in a single sitting (which was what I did) because I found the last chapters a little bit repetitive.
And I got the impression the book talks a lot about really cluttered places and lives and sometimes I thought that the audience of the book were people with really extreme amounts of clutter (like hoarders). There were many examples that really didn't apply to my life, maybe because I am almost a minimalist person without it.
The method she proposes, the “STREAMLINE”, is very straight forward, detailed and can be applied anywhere.
All in all, I enjoyed the book because it gave me the clarity to start planning my decluttering project.

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