Comments on: If Your Life Is Too Stuffed, Get Unstuffed

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 17:20:49 +0000

How fun — I was looking over books to possibly review, clicked on your review, and realized we knew each other 🙂 I agree with most everything you’ve written here — I, too, have read many books like this, but keep doing it to remind myself. I love the idea that our homes are a reflection of our mental state. This does make sense.

By: Lux G.

Lux G. — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 02:49:45 +0000

I’m loving these quotes and tips. Boy, do I need to unstuff. 😀

By: June

June — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:33:55 +0000

I think I would love this book just based on it’s opinion about sleep, lol 🙂

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:41:38 +0000

Gosh, you are right about the number of books on decluttering! I appreciate the review. It does sound like it overlaps a number of others. Even so, your reviews tend to be spot on so I appreciate each one!

PS I haven’t yet started the book on exposure, but plan to do so by this weekend!

By: Andrew Budek-Schmeisser

Andrew Budek-Schmeisser — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 19:11:29 +0000

Great post, and looks like an interesting book.

It would indeed be wonderful if ‘good enough’ were indeed good enough.

But I do disagree with two points –

1) The home is not necessarily the reflection of the mind. It’s more a reflection of priorities, and sometimes of what’s possible in a given situation. Certainly my surroundings are more cluttered than I might prefer, but there are irreducible duties in dealing with the dogs, and an ever-decreasing amount of energy…and Barb’s work obligations are increasing. It’s just life.

2) I’ve kept a lot of things for far longer than 18 months on the vague feeling that ‘this might be useful someday’. Often it wasn’t, but it’s happened very many times that I had an ‘Aha!’ moment, as in ‘I know the perfect use for that thing in the cupboard!’ Case in point – Barb has a favourite rocking chair with a wicker seat, and one day something large and heavy was dropped on the seat, making a ragged hole. She also had a sombrero she loathed, but as I kind of liked it I hid it so she couldn’t throw it away. You guessed it – the sombrero was the perfect ‘fix’ for the seat

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 19:07:49 +0000

I’ve found the less I have that I can visually see, the calmer my mind stays. Clutter drives me looney. I pick up after myself. My son is currently living with me to save money and my goodness does he have way too many clothes and half of them he doesn’t wear. Will he get rid of them? No. Geez. This is a great reminder and I agree with you…you have to stay on top of it or it will take over! Thank you, Lisa!

By: Barbara H.

Barbara H. — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:20:46 +0000

Good thought about stuff and memories not being the same thing. I tend to keep things of sentimental value, but you can only store so much of that stuff, and then how often do I really look at it. And then when I pass on my kids will probably toss it anyway because they don’t know the people involved and don’t have the same attachment to it that I do.

By: floyd

floyd — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:44:42 +0000

I’m definitely ahead of the curve on this one… now if I could get my youngest to be!

By: Dianna McBride

Dianna McBride — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:57:16 +0000

What truth are in the quotes from the book that you shared…especially the last one. I know in my own life that when I feel stressed and am just going through the motions of living for Jesus rather than living it from the heart, our home shows it. Learning to be content, as Paul teaches, truly changes a heart.

By: Linda Stoll

Linda Stoll — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:32:55 +0000

Yes, our overstuffed houses are reflective of our overstuffed lives, our overwhelmed souls.

It seems to be true that when we clear the junk from one part of who we are, the others are more able to follow and do the same …

Interesting read, Lisa …