Decluttering Your Home: Tips, Techniques and Trade Secrets

An organized, clutter-free home appeals to everyone. But where to begin? This useful guide provides fun, creative and painless ways to get started using the tips, techniques, quick fixes, and trade secrets used by professional organizers.

Decluttering Your Home shows how to save time, money, and energy. It takes the cluttered and distressed through the first steps in decluttering and gives common sorting strategies that work.

The chapters include:

• Clutter, Clutter Everywhere -- The psychology of clutter; common sources of clutter; clutterer personality types.
• Household Clutter -- Eliminate clutter and improve organization room by room throughout the entire home.

Each room feature includes numerous topics and tips, such as:

• How to use the dining room for other purposes without adding clutter; Creating a laundry system; Why making the bed every day is important; Creating "capsules" of clothing.
• Digital Clutter -- Manage multiple devices, cord and cable clutter, organize electronic files and digital photos.
• Calendar Clutter -- Time management strategies for the entire family, overcoming procrastination, knowing how and why to say no.
• Maintenance -- Keep a newly organized life clutter-free.

Geralin Thomas specializes in home and home-office organizing. She's a public speaker and an instructor to professional organizers. For six seasons, she organized America's most cluttered homes on A and E's TV series, Hoarders. Her website metropolitanorganizing.com receives around 10,000 unique visitors per month.