Leeds Regina. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Decluttering

Alpha Books, 2007. — 208 p. — ISBN13: 9781592576289.Myriad reasons exist for why people are not organized. The most common is, quite simply, no one ever taught you! Organizing is at its hear a skill that anyone can learn. Moving out from hat center, we find a cornucopia of reasons why it isn’t part of your life: perhaps your moth was a neat freak and chaos is how you have chosen to rebel. It doesn’t matter that Mom is long dead and you have reached retirement age.
Tracing your personal history, you might discover that you were always organized and then the birth of your last baby pushed you over the edge. Juggling a home, a career, a spouse, and motherhood have seem insurmountable. You might also be caught in the vise of that age-old double-sided terror, fear of success and fear of failure. Getting it all together seems like too much responsibility, no matter which way you cut it.
Unwanted or sudden change can also knock you off the organized path right into the clutches of depression. Perhaps someone close to you did or you had to move to a new city to accommodate your spouse’s caree. The launch pad into depression is varied. You can be there for a long time before you realize you aren’t getting out of bed, much less making it.
While the scope of this book is narrow and we are not at liberty to delve into your past and find out why you are living in chaos, we can identify one common denominator. Unorganized people avoid, delay, or simply do not make decisions. That’s how clutter is created. Item by item enters the environment, and no one knows what to do with it. To use this book effectively, you need to make just one decision: decide to use it as your guide to an organized life. Step by step through all the rooms of your home or office, we’re going to make a journey out of chaos into order.