I tried looking for that book via interlibrary loan when you first mentioned it; alas, it was not available in the entire University of California system. I don't want to buy it, because books on organization eventually become... clutter. I've got a copy of Sidetracked Home Executives somewhere...
But I'm glad you are posting excerpts and it's something I'd like to read, if not keep. Maybe I'll buy it anyway and pass it on to someone else when I'm finished. I've been home from work cleaning/decluttering/organizing all week, and I've meant to write about it but I've got major journaling block going on right now. All I can say is, if anyone DID hide a child's shoe in my apartment, I sure as hell would have found it by Tuesday.
What I dislike about most systems, from S.H.E. (yes, the acronym is deliberate) to Flylady, is the hugely sexist assumptions that you're probably a housewife with toddlers and a "hubby" or "DH" who would never be expected to have any household obligations except to fix the toilet and mow the lawn. I am not going to shine my sink, make the bed, get up half an hour early to put on shoes and makeup, or any of the other things that have been put forth as the One Thing You Should Do If You're Doing Nothing Else. Can you tell that I have a problem with authority, and/or that my sink is metal and doesn't shine and an unmade bed doesn't distress me?
Right now, I'm down to three boxes of things that need to be returned to their rightful places, or need rightful places created, or might just be clutter. Right now clutter is most definitely "things I don't know what to do with." I've thrown away a LOT this week, more than I thought I would, but I'm not going to toss everything that stumps me. And unfortunately, I have the category "well, I don't want this thing, but it's a sort of nice thing, so maybe I could leave it in a geocache...."
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But I'm glad you are posting excerpts and it's something I'd like to read, if not keep. Maybe I'll buy it anyway and pass it on to someone else when I'm finished. I've been home from work cleaning/decluttering/organizing all week, and I've meant to write about it but I've got major journaling block going on right now. All I can say is, if anyone DID hide a child's shoe in my apartment, I sure as hell would have found it by Tuesday.
What I dislike about most systems, from S.H.E. (yes, the acronym is deliberate) to Flylady, is the hugely sexist assumptions that you're probably a housewife with toddlers and a "hubby" or "DH" who would never be expected to have any household obligations except to fix the toilet and mow the lawn. I am not going to shine my sink, make the bed, get up half an hour early to put on shoes and makeup, or any of the other things that have been put forth as the One Thing You Should Do If You're Doing Nothing Else. Can you tell that I have a problem with authority, and/or that my sink is metal and doesn't shine and an unmade bed doesn't distress me?
Right now, I'm down to three boxes of things that need to be returned to their rightful places, or need rightful places created, or might just be clutter. Right now clutter is most definitely "things I don't know what to do with." I've thrown away a LOT this week, more than I thought I would, but I'm not going to toss everything that stumps me. And unfortunately, I have the category "well, I don't want this thing, but it's a sort of nice thing, so maybe I could leave it in a geocache...."