The Life Laundry: How to De-Junk Your Life - Softcover

Walter, Dawna; Franks, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0563534753 ISBN 13: 9780563534754

Publisher: BBC Books, 2003

Synopsis

Everyone has clutter in their home but what we don’t realize is the huge impact it can have on our lives, and how energizing it is to clear it away. Drawing on years of professional experience, Dawna Walter explains how to get to the heart of why clutter has built up around you then shows you how to deal with it. Packed with valuable advice, practical exercises, and a questionnaire to help you identify your problem areas, Dawna will guide you every step of the way, motivating you to let go of the things you’ve collected but don’t use. And once you’ve started to take control of your possessions, you can follow Mark Franks’ advice on turning your junk into cash. Practical, inspirational, and liberating, this is the ultimate guide to de-junking.

About this title

About the Author:

Dawna Walter, co-presenter of BBC TV’s :"The Life Laundry," is the author of Organized Living; New Leaf, New Life; and Go For It.

From Publishers Weekly:

BBC co-host Walter (The Life Laundry) and antiques dealer Franks help readers tidy up cluttered living spaces in this cheerful how-to book. Directed at a wide audience-singles, married couples, divorcees, college students, professionals-the book explains why things begin to pile up, what the effects of clutter are and how to confront the challenge of cleaning it up. Correlating uncommonly messy homes with illness, stress and emotional hang-ups, the authors maintain that excessive material possessions "are often masking a more serious problem of holding on to past situations and emotions that you need to release in order to move forward." Concise chapters focus on different varieties of mess (clothing, entertainment articles, papers, garage junk, etc.) and include a self test to help determine the individual's particular problem areas. The authors, in an encouraging, empathetic tone, help the reader decide what is worth keeping and what should be thrown out.
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About this edition

• Publisher: BBC Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0563534753
• ISBN 13: 9780563534754
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144