The Parents Guide to Uncluttering Your Home: How to Organize What You Need & Recycle What You Don't - Softcover

This book was compiled to show even the most vociferous of packrats how to start sorting through their possessions and putting aside everything that just doesn't need to be in the way anymore. To start, you will learn how to stop and assess your situation, how much clutter can you afford to have, why does it happen at all, and what does it cost you to have such a mess in your home. You will learn how to start changing your fundamental way of living to reduce clutter and how to recognize your accomplishments in keeping a clean house. You will learn how to lighten your loads by throwing away what you really don't need, donating what others can use, and knowing how to make a little extra money by cleaning things up a bit. You will learn the basics of effective storage and how to organize your things. You will learn how to recognize clutter zones and renovate them to cut down on clutter in entranceways, closets, children's rooms, bathrooms, bedrooms, kitchens, family rooms, offices, basements, attics, garages, and cars. Find out how to ensure clutter never comes back by reducing your shopping, following a daily schedule to clean, and occasionally going through the same above motions.

Janet Morris Grimes writes from the perspective of a wife, parent, and employee who knows how difficult it is to balance it all and do any of it well. After downsizing from a 3,200-square-foot home to a 1,000-square-foot apartment four states away, she learned the hard way how to let go of stuff that owns you and that without a plan of action, clutter will find you. Freedom, she says, is a great place to live. The less you own, the less there is to take care of. Janet writes on a variety of topics, including faith, family, and the writing process."