This was a timely read. I'd been thinking about how much STUFF we'd accumulated anyway (buying wedding gifts for friends while trying to clear them out of your basement storage will do that) when I ordered this book about decluttering. The author also keeps a blog, which I didn't find nearly as useful. The book, however, I'd be happy to lend out to anyone interested in his family's story of reducing, giving away, and finding happiness.
Basic points-
Americans own too much stuff
Having too much stuff ends up taking over your free time and free space
This is really stressful, and we compensate for the stress by buying more stuff
You're much more likely to be happy with fewer (nicer) things
In the spirit of this book we've purged a number of items that were cluttering our house--our closets are cleaned out of clothes that we know we're never going to wear again, I took out several boxes of books that I was never going to get around to reading, we pitched some old ugly furniture, and we purged about 30% of the boy's toys from upstairs. (We all know what their favorites are...we didn't need two wooden trains out)
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