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Decluttering at the Speed of Life
- Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
- Narrated by: Dana K. White
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Categories: Home & Garden, House & Home
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Publisher's Summary
You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff - you can get rid of clutter for good!
While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, real women with real families who are constantly growing and changing simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is a home that is difficult to maintain, so where do we begin? Add in paralyzing emotional attachments and constant life challenges, and it can feel almost impossible to make real decluttering progress.
In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, decluttering expert and author Dana White identifies the mind-sets and emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter. Then, in her signature humorous approach, she provides workable solutions to break through these struggles and get clutter out - for good!
But more than simply offering strategies, Dana dives deep into how to implement them, no matter the listener's clutter level or emotional resistance to decluttering. She helps identify procrasticlutter - the stuff that will get done eventually so it doesn't seem urgent - as well as how to make progress when there's no time to declutter.
Sections of the book include:
- Why You Need This Book (You Know Why)
- Your Unique Home
- Decluttering in the Midst of Real Life
- Change Your Mind, Change Your Home
- Breaking Through Your Decluttering Delusions
- Working It Out Room by Room
- Helping Others Declutter
- Real Life Goes On (and On)
As long as we're living and breathing, new clutter will appear. The good news is that decluttering can get easier, become more natural, and require significantly fewer hours, less emotional bandwidth, and little to no sweat to keep going.
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- Katie Katie Book Listener
- 30-05-2018
Refreshingly different and highly practical
This book is different to the many other decluttering books I’ve read. It doesn’t just give tips and strategies, it gets into mindset too. The author / narrator was excellent but sounded a bit snarky in the middle. Though in fairness she did say she might trigger some irritation! I highly recommend this book to anyone whether starting out decluttering or more advanced. Any criticisms are minor and definitely do not outweigh the immense value I got out of the book. I’m reading it again!
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- Rachael
- 21-10-2020
Finally! Realistic and structured advice for overwhelmed Mums and caters
Are you sick of instagram curated minimalism experts banging on about the theory about how great it is to live with less? changing your mindset but not really breaking through paralysis and overwhelm with ACTUAL step by step actions. If you are a busy working Mum and general household slave who goes from one day to the next hoping to just to survive- this is your book. Dana is SUPER BOSSY and will gently kick your time poor butt. She knows that you will be constantly be interrupted and tells you exactly how to declutter without making a bigger mess. She even called me out on 99.976% of my previous ‘organising’ mistakes!
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- Anonymous User
- 23-08-2018
Great book.
Absolutely loved this book, and helped motivate me on my decluttering journey! Super applicable and more manageable to fit into everyday life when you have zero time!
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-12-2020
Entertaining Listen, with practical doable advice
Dana offers practical, doable steps for the desperate (me). This book really is a book to mentally prepare the listeners for a "mindset shift", but it does go into very specific steps to do the decluttering. Like all things great (at least I think it's great), Dana's concept is a simple one (but not an EASY one). In fact, there's really only a couple of steps (requiring hard work) involved. I could list them out in this review, but I personally think listening to the whole book at least once will work much better for the declutterer. At least her reading is so engaging it won't be much of a chore to listen to the whole book first. I can't be sure that the system works, because I just finished listening to it today, and the contents are still randomly swimming in my head. I did immediately shared this to someone else. Dana advise sound practical and doable even to the impatient. She doesn't promise a quick fix, but easy to remember, simple way for the person to do it at their own speed, around life. If nothing else, it's quite fun to listen to. Perhaps it's because I find her so relatable? A mother, wife, friend, so distracted with life and all its possibilities, but with a home that she was embarrassed about. So bossy, like this definitely. made. a. lot. of. sense. then. but.... I will definitely be listening to it again and again. Making notes and stuff.
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- Angela Fogarty
- 28-07-2020
Simple and brilliant!
Loved this book so much! It’s fun and easy to implement with a busy life!
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- MCC
- 16-06-2020
I found this helpful
I was able to relate to this book really well. I will be able to put a lot of things in place.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-01-2020
Practical & Non Judgemental
Practical and non judgemental strategies to get the work done and make progress. Loved it
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- Anonymous User
- 23-01-2020
Life changing
EASILY the best decluttering advice I have ever heard. Completely changed the way I approach decluttering/managing a household. Touches on overall mindset AND super practical techniques room by room. The “visible spaces first” and the “no keep piles” were totally life changing.
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- Melinda - YarnderWoman
- 24-11-2019
Life changing
Such a practical book, based on real-life experience. If you are someone who struggles with decluttering, this book will definitely help you through the process.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-09-2019
Amazing
if this were a physical book it would have fallen apart with the amount of times I have read it! Great for when I've run out of podcast eps of A Slob Comes Clean. Perfection.
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- Bridget
- 28-03-2018
Just. Wow.
I can’t even tell you how many decluttering books I’ve read/listened to/“re-read”... and still nothing ever really sunk in or “took”..and You’d think if you’ve read one, you’ve read them all...but this one really is different. I could *so* relate to this author-I, too, am a ‘creative’ and always see the *potential* in things...things that other people would just be like “wth?” And all these dreams of what I “could potentially do”or had “been meaning to do”-but (duh) even years later “never DID”..yet I was collecting stuff ‘just in case I did’...ugh) The container rule? {MIND BOWN} ... I have tons of audiobooks I never finished (I know, shocker!) ..but really, THIS ONE? I Read it twice in a row and I guarantee that won’t be the last time. TRULY..you won’t be disappointed ..it’s a must read for anyone needing to declutter and not have a bigger mess than when you started!
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- K. Rowe
- 22-04-2018
I wish I had this book 40 years ago
I've had a huge problem with clutter since I was a teenager. I had a hard time throwing things away for a variety of reasons. Sometimes the clutter would paralyze me. My mom tried to help me to get organized and would encourage me to throw a few things out, but the emphasis was on organization of my clutter, not decluttering. This book makes it crystal clear that organizing is not as powerful as decluttering. I now have a once-a-week de-cluttering afternoon along with my five minute pickups each day. I really wish I had this book 40 years ago. Best audiobook I've listened to in 3 years.
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- Dawn L. Zajk
- 07-04-2018
The ONLY book that has ever helped
This is the most helpful book/audiobook that I have ever purchased! I love Dana’s sense of humor in approaching such a sensitive subject for me. She is here in the trenches with us fighting her way through the mini mountains of stuff that choke our homes, our family, and our psyche. Her straight forward and easy steps helped me get past the overwhelming beginning. Her self deprecating humor helped me out of the weeds when I started to hit sensitive areas. And her reiteration of the process helped me to remember the basic steps when dealing with a complex mess. Her narration is so charming that I felt more like I was chatting with my best friend than being taught how to unburden my house from a mess of my own making. Every day I wake up and put on my earbuds and listen to her cheer me on while I find a new area to make livable and beautiful. The Audible version of the book makes the most sense for me because I want to listen to her while I am working on my house, picking up and chauffeuring kids, and running errands. I highly recommend this book before reading her first book about how to manage your house. After decluttering, managing housework is so much easier and less stressful. Thank you Dana!
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- Anonymous User
- 07-03-2018
Very inspiring!!
I honestly do not even know how I found this book as I was browsing through Audible. But I am so glad I did!! The authors wit and way of telling her story of how she decluttered has actually made it enjoyable! I definitely recommend this book!!
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- Kenneth Trey Smith
- 07-04-2018
Author makes an excellent reader
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It seems natural to assume that an author, more than anyone else, is best suited to read aloud their own writing. After all, they are the ones who strung these words together to create sentences that turned into paragraphs, pages, then chapters. If you're an avid audiobook listener, though, you've realized this is often not the case. Surprising, isn't it? But "Decluttering at the Speed of Light" is an exception. I cringe at the thought of someone else reading these words, with their conversational style and underlying humor. Dana White's words are insightful on paper or read aloud, but her humor is largely achieved in her unique delivery. She is pitch perfect.
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- G. Wright
- 28-02-2018
The best decluttering book out there
I love Dana’s approach and wit. And this system works! I highly recommend this book for people who aren’t automatically tidy or who wake up one day surrounded by clutter. Honest, funny and good to the bone!
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- Barbara Kerr
- 22-03-2018
Awesome & Helpful
First off, I’ve never listened to an author read a book that was any good, but Dana was exceptional!!! If she ever decides to quit her blogging/writing, she could earn a living reading audio books. I would look for her ,that’s how good she was. Secondly, I went into this book thinking it wasn’t really possible to change the way I think about my stuff, and finally get some things out of our home. I was wrong! I’m in the beginning stages, but I’m walking around my home for the first time ever and looking at it as a container. Dana has given me the permission I need to throw away and donate stuff instead of just figure out how to reorganize the stuff we have spilling out everywhere. The book was extra interesting because of her own personal examples. I guess it seemed doable compared to those super neat freak women that want to tell you how to to fix your home. Thanks Dana! You’re my new hero.🌷
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- Kelly Riddle
- 02-03-2018
"Spoke to my 'slob' soul..."
Excellent. Even includes a chapter on decluttering "dreams"! Can't wait to implement her proven tactics!
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- MLH91
- 01-03-2018
Love this book!
I never thought I’d write a glowing review about a de-cluttering book yet here I am. LOVE this book! Fantastic analogies, heartfelt understanding and realistic tips! Plus, it’s funny! I’ve read several books on de-cluttering but this book is by far the best! Id recommend reading or listening to her first book as a prelude.
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- Catrina Minter
- 09-03-2018
Anxiety, released!
You know when you know you need to do something, but you just need/want someone to tell you to do it? And you do want to start, but you don't know how? Dana's book helped me past this paralyzed state. I also welcomed the ideas of recognizing the difference among cleaning, organizing, and decluttering. All very different. I have already begun to o declutter my home, and it feels oh so liberating.
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- Ms. L. J. Branch
- 09-03-2018
Real help for the messies of this world
I think exactly the way this author describes her brain. We ‘messy’ people may be brilliant in numerous ways but we struggle with our homes because of the way that we think. This book gives a simple 5 step strategy to improving your home in a mode that will work for those of us who think differently from most. She goes over the same strategy a number of times to ensure by the time you are done listening - you’ll have the strategy ingrained. So far, my house is DISTINCTLY better since deploying the strategies. Even 3 or 4 minutes has an impact and that’s because the system doesn’t rely on the fact you’ll have longer to devote to it. Well worth your credit.
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- Mrs
- 22-11-2018
Great book!
Have read a few decluttering books and also had my own business as a home and life organiser in the uk, helping people with hands on decluttering. This is my favourite author. Great, simple, motivating tips and an easy to listen to voice. Went on to listen to how to Manage your home without losing your mind. That also covers decluttering in some depth, so not sure you need both books, but loved them both anyway. Probably best to listen to manage your home first if you really need it.
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- Katherine Farland
- 12-03-2019
Fun to listen to, but more importantly it works!
Read by the author in a very listenable, funny but most importantly helpful voice of experience, this contains concepts that really work to help you start improvement by your life - painlessly! Having acquired a goodly stash of 'decluttering' books, some by famous and widely-acclaimed authors, I was beginning to wonder if I was a hopeless case. Having listened to Dana's simple but profound insights and gentle logic based rules I can now see that the reason the other books failed was that they were too complex, required massively ambitious projects I could never finish - in some cases not even really start - required imagination and visualisation skills I don't have and space to sort stuff out in, which I also don't have. In fact the other books made the problem worse, not better because I'd invariably get stuck half-day through Dana's system is so simple there is no way to get stuck and one simple rule that absolutely stops you churning, creating new piles or making a bigger mess while you declutter. Those other books are on their way (finally) out of the door and I have stopped feeling like failure. I haven't finished, in fact I have only just started but already there is so much difference in my life and so much more space in my rooms. They are becoming places to live in, and thrive rather than dread spaces filled with misery-making boxes, clutter and junk. I cannot recommend this highly enough. If you need your life back from the stuff that's taking (or has taken) it over - start here!
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- Ms. M. Turner
- 19-11-2019
it's a Start
this book was repetitive but has truely helped me to declutter my home. simple to follow, makes complete sence, just wish I had read is sooner.
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- Georgina B.
- 24-08-2018
straight forward, no nonsense, witty and it works
this is written like Dana is in my head, her decluttering mindset pre decluttering, is exactly where I was coming from. I've been decuttering my whole life, but for the first time I feel I've broken the mold. a great read, with real workable technics.
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- Christopher Matthews
- 25-06-2018
Good simple pointers
Simple plan for decluttering all parts of a house. A little repetitive in places but short enough in length that it was fine.
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- justjanielou
- 06-11-2019
I listen and I listen again!
Love this book! No nonsense, no frills, just decluttering in a non-emotional way. Perfect for me and I am seeing results for the first time in decades!
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- Carol Davis-Wilkie
- 19-01-2021
Down to earth real world help to declutter in easy gradual steps
I’m so thankful I found this and Dana’s other book. I would buy both. To be honest this is really a joint review of both books. Despite many purchases of other Decluttering books, which I still love, like Marie Kondo, Dana K White (just Google to get details of both her books)is the only person that has enabled me to make significant progress on decluttering. She is funny, and real, and makes me feel ok that on some days just even doing the dishes is enough, but the magic happens when you regularly and routinely implement just 4 habits.
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- Nat
- 14-01-2021
Love love love this audiobook
Practical and easy to listen to. No judgement from Dana and reasonable targets to achieve
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- Sharon B.
- 17-11-2020
Really useful.
Easy to understand with realistic goal setting and how to manage your expectations. I also appreciated knowing that we can get caught up in a fantasy about our clutter that makes the practical act of decluttering overwhelming.
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