The Life Laundry 2: How to Stay De-Junked Forever - Softcover

Walter, Dawna; Franks, Mark

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9780563487494: The Life Laundry 2: How to Stay De-Junked Forever

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ISBN 10: 0563487496 ISBN 13: 9780563487494

Publisher: BBC Books, 2003

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De-junking is a way of life, not a one-time experience. "How to Stay De-Junked Forever" takes you beyond the process of a one-time sort-out so that you can live in a permanently clutter-free and liberating environment. To help you achieve this goal, Dawna suggests plenty of different projects to make your home ship-shape and shows you how to plan your time to make the job less daunting. After the initial sort out, it is crucial to find permanent storage solutions so that you can make the most of your space and ensure that every room is being used for its proper purpose. Once again, Dawna, a storage expert, is on hand with practical, innovative and stylish advice. Case studies from the series, complete with before and after shots, allow Dawna to examine each type of room in turn and to identify common problems and ways of overcoming them. Packed with checklists, time-saving ideas, "top ten tips" and inspirational pictures showing how you could transform the layout of your room, "How to Stay De-Junked Forever" should help you turn your home into a place that you are truly able to enjoy.

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Do we really need books such as Dawna Walter's How To Stay De-junked Forever? Or TV series such as The Life Laundry, which it accompanies? The answer would appear to be a resounding yes, as more and more of us sink under an avalanche of objects that we are reluctant to get rid of. Writers such as Graham Greene and Jean-Paul Sartre believed that we are possessed by our possessions, and it's that philosophy that Walters is out to puncture with a vengeance. The great success of The Life Laundry: How To De-junk Your Life (which accompanied her first television series showing us how to clear the clutter) was a sage mixture of both fairly elementary advice and some cutting, not-so-obvious truths. Apart from those few people living in minimalist Japanese-style homes, many of us found much food for thought in Walter's book and programme, and a great deal of weeding out of old clothes, magazines, toys, etc, no doubt took place after she had shown us the way.

In the new book, though, her concern is with making us alter our lifestyles completely in order that the clutter will never return. She teaches that, in order to create a functioning, organic environment, it's necessary to undertake genuinely life-altering procedures. There are motivational projects, storage tips (in which every iota of space in-house is intelligently utilised) and a room-by-room analysis of our storage solutions that are highly practical and (still more important) achievable.

The format of the book is highly user-friendly, with attractive checklists, storage tips, floor plans and aspirational images. So if you feel you can add one more book to the mountains that you already possess, this had better be it. --Barry Forshaw

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