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Minimalista: Your step-by-step guide to a better home, wardrobe and life

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Now I'll know what book to recommend when people ask me to help them on their journey towards minimalism! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The family and I are finally off on our rescheduled two-week trip to Europe after a major passport fail this summer. Even though I have been minimizing my home for years and I absolutely love organization and beautiful things, I still enjoy reading books on minimizing and organizing to inspire me, keep me going, etc.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Rather than imposing strict rules and limitations, Shira redefines minimalism as having the perfect amount of everything—for you—based on your personal values and the limitations of your space. Stopped reading this early on when she suggested tearing off book jackets and organizing books by color. Shira Gill is a home organizing expert, author, speaker, and founder of the “fifteen-minute win” productivity hack. Which are valid criticisms, since The Home Edit is definitely too focus on the visual aspect of home decor to the point where it seems like a hard system to actually live with.Being a life coach and an organizer helps me approach the challenge of clutter through a unique lens and allows me to help my clients make dramatic and lasting transformations—both from the outside in and from the inside out. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Shira Gill is a globally recognized home organizing expert,and author with a less-is-more philosophy. Not the Minion memes part of the cheugy, but the hanging your wide brimmed hat on your wall as a statement piece part of cheugy. All in all I thought this was mostly common sense advice but it was a quick read and we’ll benefit from it.

Over the past decade, she has helped thousands of people around the world reduce clutter and create more space for what matters. I like how the author broke her organising steps down into sections for each room so you could see how to approach each type of room in your home. I was just having a conversation with a friend about how minimizing and she asked me, “well what do you do about all of your kids stuff? I do not see the point in this step apart from wasting money to make your cupboard look like a Pinterest image (and then not knowing best before dates because you got rid of all the packaging). I guarantee you those sneakers will still get dirty over time like any other (cheaper) sneaker and won’t last any longer!

I lost count of how many times she dropped in “I only own one of those” while scolding people for having more, like she’s the picture perfect minimalist.

I am amazed how much I can tackle in that amount of time (or feel the motivation to then keep going. Because of these two opposing truths, I’ve found a way of streamlining and simplifying my cleaning routine to make it feel easy-breezy. Getting rid of things we do not use gives us a sense of calm and more time that we are not spending looking for things or taking care of extra things we did not need. If you wish to make your design even shinier, additionally polish your nails with a dry cotton swab. Rather than imposing strict rules and limitations, Shira redefines minimalism as having the perfect amount of everything-for you-based on your personal values and the limitations of your space.

For example, it took me years to arrive at one of Gill's pro tip: one nice product costs far less than a dozen cheapo products. As a professional home organiser with clients ranging from students to multi-millionaires, Shira Gill observed that clutter is a universal stress trigger. And frankly, as I sat on the 10+ year old couches, that used to live in my parents basement, while wearing my husbands ratty old college sweatshirt (that is so damn comfortable you’ll have to pry it from my cold dead hands) I realized I’d need to take the rest of the book with a grain of salt.

Teach them young to organize and take care of their things and to put them away when they are finished with it before moving on to the next thing and don’t clean up after them and this will be a GIFT they will take with them into adulthood! I’ve seen it again and again in my years helping clients all over the world edit and organize their homes.

I've lost count of how many minimizing and decluttering books I've read since then, but this one is at the top of my list.

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