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The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life
 
 
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The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life [Kindle Edition]

Lorie Marrero (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: December 24, 2008
Applying just an ounce of the advice in this practical guide saves you enough time and money to pay for itself. You will learn:

• The actual scientific law of nature that helps you get organized
• The cure for procrastination
• Ten types of “High Calorie Clutter” to avoid
• Where to start and how to tackle your projects
• How to successfully add new habits into your life

Certified Professional Organizer® Lorie Marrero is the creator of ClutterDiet.com, an innovative program allowing anyone to get expert help at an affordable price. Her organizing products are sold online and in stores nationwide. Lorie is the national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International, and she is a sought-after expert for national media such as CNBC, Family Circle, WGN News and Woman’s Day.

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As a successful organizing coach, I immediately related with Lorie's motivational concepts in The Clutter Diet. Applying these principles can change your life! -- Dorothy Breininger "President of Delphi Center for Organization, Dr. Phil Show expert and author of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Life Lessons for Organizing and Balancing Your World"

About the Author

Certified Professional Organizer Lorie Marrero is the creator of ClutterDiet.com, an innovative program allowing anyone to get expert help at an affordable price. Her organizing products are sold online and in stores nationwide. Lorie has been a spokesperson for Brother label makers and FedEx Office, and she is a sought-after expert for national media such as CNBC, Family Circle, WGN News and Woman's Day.

Product Details

  • File Size: 606 KB
  • Print Length: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Reason Press (December 24, 2008)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B001OC6SAY
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #167,516 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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83 of 83 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Lorie Marrero is no stranger to clutter. I know this because her blogs and website have helped me sort through four storage units (saving me hundreds of dollars each month!) and most of my condo. Comparing the clutter of our lives with diet makes a lot of sense. Diet...we don't gain weight overnight and we can't lose it overnight. Same goes for clutter. All we need is a plan. Lorie provides us a plan to release this clutter.

There are many excellent books on Clutter and organization. This is one of them. Lorie helps you understand how the clutter is aquired and how to get it out of your life forever. It's not an easy task but this book helps you each step of the way.

The book is broken down in to four main sections, Getting Motivated, Clutter Prevention, Clutter Reduction, and Maintenance. Prevention helped me as much as the actual decluttering sessions. I learned to see "what enough looks like" - sounds simple but I did not know. So my "homes" for my items were overflowing. I am now learning what enough looks like.

The final section in the book breaks it down to suggestions on a room by room basis. She suggest products to help you along the way but you don't need to buy anything (other than the book) to implement Lorie's system.

This book is very easy to read and well organized.
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52 of 52 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Lorie Marrero makes the cogent point that a cluttered life is a reflection of a cluttered mind. Using the metaphor of a food diet for the process she recommends to organize your life is inspired since the two have much in common---eating junk food is the nutritional equivalent of a home cluttered with junk.

First, I really liked the graphic design of this book. It's paperback format is oversized and the pages have a spacious, inviting feel. The lines are spaced with extra leading so large sections of copy don't feel ponderous and overwhelming. Generous amounts of white space enhance the approachability of this 260 page book. In short, it's an easy read.

Another intelligent element of this book is the author's knowledge that any form of habit-breaking program needs outside support in order to succeed. Unless there are others providing some oversight to our efforts, it's human nature to back-slide. She accurately points out that 95% of people will likely achieve a goal if they have specific accountability with a person to whom they are committed (think Alcoholics Anonymous here). A website www.clutterdiet.com provides support and tools, including a free downloadabale companion workbook, to help keep your decluttering efforts on the straight and narrow.

Marrero spends a considerable portion of the book devoted to the psychological aspects of cluttering. Procrastination is, she says, the major reason why people clutter. Procrastination robs you of your energy (it's called the karm of incompletions). Specific exercises are provided to overcome the various mental barriers to leading an organized life.

Besides the obvious clutter---Beanie Baby collections, stacks of magazines, clothes you haven't fit in since college, that junky crap that you get for free---Marrero addresses other forms of "clutter" in our lives. Time clutter is a subject that could (and has) been the subject of a book all on its own. The author provides a 12-Step Program called Overdoers Anonymous to tackle the time clutter problem.

There's also the exponentially increasing problem of modern life she calls Communication Clutter---emails, junk mail, spam, telemarketers, and all that other inconsequential and unimportant online and telecommunications "stuff" that eats away at the time we have here on earth.

The back of the book includes room by room "recipes" with the "ingredients" for successful decluttering. There's a lot of meat here (to use the author's food analogies) and also requires the most actual physical work. So it's not an easy section to get through.

There's a lot of take-away in this book that more than justifies its price. I've read two other highly recommended books about getting rid of clutter in your life and learned a lot. But this is the best book on the subject by far, in my opinion. Start here before you look anywhere else.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've read several "clean up the clutter" guides recently, including "It's All Too Much" by Peter Walsh, and this book stacks up well against all the recent titles. I really liked Lorie Marrero's "hook"--that organizing your home is a lot like learning to eat well--because it takes into account both the short-term and long-term aspects of combating clutter. Anyone who's interested in buying a book like this is probably facing a fairly serious situation and needs immediate help, but needs a longer-term framework or philosophical approach too in order to stay uncluttered. Marrero's diet analogy works on both counts: you can go on a "clutter diet" to make an immediate, noticeable impact, but then you maintain your new "physique" (your less-cluttered home) through consistently-applied new behaviors. In short, I really liked the book, I liked the writing and tone (it read as if the author was walking through my house with me, giving suggestions and moral support), I liked the helpful format, and I definitely recommend this book to anyone seeking help in getting their stuff under control.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
simple and easy to follow
Comprehensive lists and information to help people get organised. Includes stuff for people with children too. Anyone could follow this.
Published 10 days ago by Cassandra Russell
Fantastic! Easy to follow and extremely helpful but...
So far, I absolutely love the book. I hate to read. It's time consuming for the most part and, until a few days ago, I had a serious problem finding something interesting enough to... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Breann Short
This book has empowered me to change my habits
The Clutter Diet gave me lots of tips and strategies but also made me realize that I can seriously do this! Read more
Published 9 months ago by SugarPlum
I'm giving this to my girls when they leave home
The Clutter Diet is a comprehensive guide to home organizing, but it's more than that, because it's also motivational. Read more
Published 9 months ago by winnetkakelly
Love it!
I have followed Lorie's blog for a long time and finally got around to ordering her book. I wish I'd bought this book 2 years ago. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Erica Cosminsky
Very Basic Overview on Uncluttering
Lorie uses a friendly and straightforward approach without placing judgement or blame on the clutter bug. Read more
Published 18 months ago by MetroCookBookDiva
Copies "Flylady"
The "clutter diet" concept is almost an exact replica of the system that FLYLADY has been providing for free for many years. Go to [...] and see if you agree. Read more
Published 18 months ago by rebecca mccoy
LOVE THIS BOOK
I really loved this book. I have to say that I think it's fantastic and I am applying stuff to my own life now. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Brooke
Step by Step decluttering
I am still working through this book but finding it to be a great help, guiding me in a step by step decluttering process. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Barbara Foote
Very Disappointing
I purchased this book because it had good reviews and I needed help with all my clutter. What I found after reading half of the book were suggestions on how to throw out things and... Read more
Published on April 1, 2010 by Judith Brindley
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Lorie Marrero
Certified Professional Organizer® Lorie Marrero is the bestselling author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. She is also the creator of ClutterDiet.com, an innovative program allowing anyone to get expert help at an affordable price. Her organizing books and products are sold online and in stores nationwide. Lorie is the spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International, and she is a sought-after expert for national media such as CNBC, Family Circle, WGN News and Woman's Day. She writes weekly as the organizing expert for Good Housekeeping's Home Style blog.

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The root of all disorganization is truly delayed decisions and actions. Look around youevery bit of clutter on your kitchen countertop, your desk, or your coffee table is something that has not been decided yet or something that has not been done yet. In other words, procrastination is the cause of almost all clutter. &quote;
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Your state of mind is reflected in the condition of your home, and you can consider it a mirror that gives you a lot of information about yourself. &quote;
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perfectionism is one of the major causes of procrastination. If I cant do it right, I dont want to do it at all. Doing it 80% right is better than doing 100% of nothing at all! Give up on perfect TODAY. &quote;
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