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30 Day Clutter Bootcamp is a lively, active book that will spur you on if your goal is to get rid of the clutter and streamline your home.\u00a0 Some of its features are:<\/p>\n30 Day Clutter Bootcamp is a lively, active book that will spur you on if your goal is to get rid of the clutter and streamline your home.\u00a0 Some of its features are:<\/p>\n
If you are looking for a guide to organizing your treasure-trove storehouse, this is not he book for you.\u00a0 If you want a practical guide to sorting through and clearing out the mess, here is the answer.\u00a0 And it\u2019s all written in Tanja\u2019s light-hearted, friendly style, so there are no lectures, no browbeating.<\/p>\n
I do hope you will go by Tanja\u2019s blog, \u201cminimalist packrat\u201d and peruse the posts there.\u00a0 Even if you\u2019re not a minimalist, there are lots of interesting and entertaining advice.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve been wanting to clear some of the clutter, this is a gentle way to start.\u00a0 If you are ready to get serious about taking the bull by the horns, get her book and roll up your sleeves.<\/p>\n
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About Tanja<\/h1>\nTanja was born a packrat.\u00a0 From her earliest years she loved accumulating stuff, and each Christmas submitted a long wish list to Santa.\u00a0 Even at four years old she was heavily into collecting stickers.\u00a0 By her early teen years she stepped it up to \u201cserious accumulation mode\u201d constantly prowling yard sales, thrift shops, the mall; any place she could find as a source for new additions to her collections of antique butterfly pins, concert ticket stubs, and random memorabilia.<\/p>\n
But it was when she moved out on her own that she cranked it up to \u201cturbo-charged gathering\u201d.\u00a0 Any blank space around her begged to be filled; and she filled them.<\/p>\n
When she met the love of her life, Patrick, he was perfectly happy to live like a monk with two duffel bags of possessions and his trusty towel.\u00a0 She did her best to convert him to be a fellow clutterer, but he resisted.<\/p>\n
The seed of change was planted when they packed up her small, one bedroom apartment for a move to a cabin.\u00a0 A minimalist friend, who they enjoyed socializing with, commented on the amount of stuff they were packing.\u00a0 And then there was the truck.<\/p>\n
She rented a truck for the move based on the guideline for a one bedroom apartment; a 10 foot box truck should be plenty.\u00a0 It ended up requiring a 24 foot box truck and that was packed FULL.<\/p>\n
There is nothing quite like having to pack, move, and unpack all your possessions to make you realize just how much stuff you really have.\u00a0 Add to that the frustration of never being able to find the things she wanted.<\/p>\n
Little things began to mount.\u00a0 But it was a slice of geode that became the proverbial straw.\u00a0 After this event, she decided to change her ways and took a harder look at Patrick\u2019s way of life.\u00a0 To find out exactly how that came about, you\u2019ll need to pop over to Tanja\u2019s blog and check out her My Story page.\u00a0 It\u2019s a very entertaining read and, for many of us, parts of it sound alarmingly familiar.<\/p>\n
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30 Day Clutter Bootcamp is a lively, active book that will spur you on if your goal is to get rid of the clutter and streamline your home. Some of its features are: 106 pages of decluttering magic. 40 sure-fire decluttering techniques. A 30 day clutter action guide. A personal cheerleading squad on every page. … Continue reading “Book Review: 30 Day Clutter Bootcamp”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,64],"class_list":["post-4311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share-the-love","tag-review","tag-simple-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21581,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions\/21581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}