Review: Great Book!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2014
This book is so familiar to me in so many ways. I remember when my boyfriend and I first moved in together. He was so clean and neat; in a way you could say he lived a minimalist lifestyle. It just drove me so crazy to see him picking up stuff, throwing out things that I had laid down on the coffee table and not ever asking if I needed it first. He made me so mad to see him be so clean and throw out my stuff that I felt it was so wrong. To this day I still have no idea what it was he had threw in the trash that day but to me it was very important for some reason. When we decided to move in with each other I had taken all my furniture to storage and kept all my belonging for several years because in my mind I thought I would at some point need them. About 5 years later I decided to ask myself why I kept paying for a storage unit that I really didn’t need. Why I was keeping all the items in that storage, I will really never know. I decided to bring a lot of it to the house and sell most of the bigger stuff. After a while I found myself selling more stuff and more stuff. It was to the point all the stuff I had in storage and some things I had in the home were just no longer needed, so it was all sold or thrown out. Over the years I have come to the realization that I was in fact a pack rat, as some would call it a hoarder. It's been almost 10 years now and I still catch myself bringing home items that I really don’t need. I go through all my belongings once a year and throw out many items I don’t need. Yet I still consider myself a hoarder and can't get it to the point to where I'm happy and comfortable with. I suffer from allergies and year round sinus issues due to not being able to maintain and keep my home clean enough. The author of this book gives some really good points that could be very helpful in changing the mind set of an individual in order to maintain and keep a home in an organized and clean way. I plan to keep some points in mind when trying to maintain and clean my own home. This is a great book for anyone that is looking for ideas on what to consider keeping when cleaning and maintaining a home or for someone who is unsure of what to consider when purchasing items for a home.