Year of no clutter : a memoir

Call Number

  • 616.85227 S3131 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2017]

Physical Description

xxviii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

The author explores the hoarding phenomenon as reflected by such cultural examples as Hoarders and The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up while sharing the personal story of how she organized a single room in her house that had been overtaken by psychological clutter.

Contents

  • Welcome to Hell
  • We begin
  • The hoarder
  • Problem? What problem?
  • Cluttered blood
  • We continue to begin
  • I hate Edith Piaf
  • A good problem to have
  • We continue continuing
  • Do you want this?
  • Like father, like daughter
  • The weirdest things I own
  • What we talk about when we talk about clutter
  • Strategies of stuff
  • The old heave-ho
  • The autobiography rug
  • Everything must go
  • It goes so fast
  • Are we there yet?
  • The room fairy.