H2H
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Post by H2H on Feb 26, 2017 20:45:50 GMT -5
Clutter's Last Stand by Don Aslett is a book written in 1984, given to me long after by a neighbor who had an apartment stuffed to the gills. After decades of running a cleaning business Don may have been the first to nail the problem he saw causing suffering. I never opened the book, at the time, I still had a tidy organized apartment above my neighbor, and kept to my rule of "one new thing in, one like item out" Now look at me I grumble... surveying piles far and wide, and down the hillside! I still can't pin down the exact period I morphed, but I got this book out today and am laughing out loud!!! I am certain it is available for cheap online ( a penny for the HB and PB versions), libraries must have it..worth it to browse. I am sure many of you here are well versed in this book..
Aslett was on TV shows far and wide as people begged for the secret of de-cluttering. Or contact your local Independent or online book seller..they might have it. www.amazon.com/Clutters-Last-Stand-Don-Aslett/dp/0739452460/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488159762&sr=1-2&keywords=clutter%27s+last+stand- Hardcover: 262 pages
- Publisher: Adams Media; 2nd edition (2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0739452460
- ISBN-13: 978-0739452462
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Post by ohblondie on Feb 26, 2017 21:13:54 GMT -5
What us hitting home the most for you?
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Post by H2H on Feb 27, 2017 15:31:24 GMT -5
Ohblondie his collecting potato sacks on the family farm begins the book (in which you put broken metal parts, old cans, etc) ..everything was useful on a farm during the 40's, nothing wasted ever...and he has long list of Q's to ask yourself..I could check off so many!!
Reminded me also of my adoptive mother showing me ration stamps, explaining that you could not buy fabric because there was NONE to buy, she patched their clothes with feed sacks!
A boyfriend's mom and whole family was interned in a horse stall (she is Japanese) during the war, her family lost everything, by her 60's she owned 5 dining table sets, and would buy them and leave them in storage at the store until they called and treated to give it away unless she came for it... and there were only tunnels in her home. I was never allowed to visit, it embarrassed my friend greatly. And she was the sweetest most generous woman hiding such a "lack" from an early age. so I've known Hoarders from WAY BACK..
and there are funny cartoons all the way thru..short paragraphs to read so you can stop and absorb them.
Am just enjoying this as an encouragement to keep at it! Have you read it?
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Post by creativechaos on Feb 27, 2017 16:35:31 GMT -5
i read it a long time ago and forget all that was in it  have you read anything by Brooks Palmer? i love his books. Don Aslett is funny though; i remember laughing a lot. Brooks is more gentle and probes some good questions - he has this way of cutting to the root of issues for his clients - and he is an organizer, not a counselor, i believe. but he is darned GOOD at nailing it - the core issue for each person, the unlived dream or hidden traumas holding them back from their lives... ETC oh my - your story of the interned Japanese family - so deeply moving. yes, trauma like this terrible thing done to the Japanese Americans - horrifying. That would trigger hoarding tendencies, to have everything ripped away from you - land, home, everything. |
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