Say goodbye to clutter, reduce stress, and live simply with this easy-to-use guide to downsizing!Whether you are selling your family home, blending households into a new home, or cleaning out your aging parents’ home, sorting through a lifetime’s worth of accumulated possessions can be a daunting and stressful experience. Decluttering guru Peter Walsh recently went through the process of … process of downsizing his childhood home and dividing his late parents’ possessions among his family. He realized that making these decisions about mementos and heirlooms creates strong emotions and can be an overwhelming chore.
In Let It Go, Peter will help you turn downsizing into a rejuvenating life change with his useful tips and practical takeaways, including how to:
• Understand the emotional challenges that accompany downsizing
• Establish a hierarchy of mementos and collectibles
• Calculate the amount of stuff you can bring into your new life
• Create strategies for dividing heirlooms among family members without drama
This new phase brings unexpected freedoms and opportunities, and Peter walks you through every step of the process. You’ll feel freer and happier than you ever thought possible once you Let It Go.
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If you need to unclutter, down-size, or just clean out all of your parent’s stuff, this is the book for you. I appreciated the process of learning how to analyze and let go of the many things we hang on to.
Excellent suggestions and VERY helpful!
This is another view of decluttering which has some worthwhile points.
Very helpful! I was originally looking for more of a decluttering book, but this book had a lot of good information! To be clear, this book isn’t like Marie Kondo (decluttering), it is made to help people who have to DOWNSIZE their home, and MUST get rid of stuff (not just get rid of it because it’s nice not to have a cluttered home). But even reading it from my current life situation (late 20s and moving into my first home, which is actually larger than my apartment) I still learned a lot, especially some good tips on how to decide whether to get rid of sentimental items. I know I’ll pick this book up again in the future if I need to help clean out or downsize an aging or deceased parent or grandparent’s home.
This is very informative for paring things down. Great book, easy to read and at parts funny.
Peter Walsh tells it like it is. He minced no words about getting your house in order, and how that will lead to having your own life in order. I have followed Peter for many years when he was one of the hosts on Clean House, and I have found his methods to not only at times to be daunting, but challenging to one’s psyche -and you might ask yourself – why do I hang onto this stuff? Read when you are ready to really clean and let go
Always his books and methods make sense and are helpful.
It’s okay. The proble, with these decluttering books and simplified living, if you read one, then you really have read them all.
Book was only so-so. There is good information in it if you have not already read other de clutter books
Great book. Love this author
Peter Walsh does it again. His decluttering books are the best. He really has a realistic grasp on this subject. He sets up a step by step process and easy to reach goals. What is unique to him is he understands the psychological process of letting go. We are in the midst of “letting go” of 41 years of accumulation in a large home since we will relocate. It is a difficult process and Peter understands this but you feel he is holding your hand and urging you to “ let it go” as you do.
Great suggestions on how to downsize, whether due to a move or a death in the family.
very easy to understand and read. I got a lot of great insights from it and I learned a very valuable skill and not feeling guilty about throwing stuff away.
I’m loving this book so far. Gets down to be underlying psychological reasons we find it hard to downsize and part with unneeded stuff
Deals with emotional issues about getting rid of things
I have read a number of books on de-cluttering – and some have had some good points, but they didn’t really help me to actually DO IT. I’m part way through this one and I can hardly wait to start! The author has a unique approach that also deals with baggage and the emotions tied to all of our baggage/stuff.