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Real Life Organizing

Clean and Clutter-Free in 15 Minutes a Day

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Real Life Organizing

By: Cassandra Aarssen, Peter Walsh
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
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Real Life Organizing offers clutter-free storage solutions and advice that can help you create a Pinterest-worthy home on a small budget: Learn how to organize your home, simplify life, and have more time for the things you love.

Organizational expert Cassandra "Cas" Aarssen, the guru from YouTube's ClutterBug channel, reveals her tips, tricks, and secrets to a clean and clutter-free home in just 15 minutes a day. Aarssen spends her time organizing other people's homes, teaching college workshops on organization, and creating weekly videos and blog posts. Cas offers DIY Pinterest-type tips to people like you who are interested in how to get rid of clutter and how to organize your home.

Organized person on the outside: The secret to her success? She's a giant mess on the inside, but an organized person who can teach you how to get rid of clutter and organize your home once and for all.

Simplify your life: In her debut, Real Life Organizing, Cas walks you through the steps you can take to create a beautiful, organized, clutter-free, and almost self-cleaning home - a DIY Pinterest home. Simplify your life. You do not have to get rid of all of your things, you do not have to be a yoga-loving minimalist, and you do not have to radically change your lifestyle or personality in order to simplify your life and have an organized home. The truth is that you do not need to actually be an organized person to live like an organized person.

Organize home: Through her years of experience as an industry expert, Cas has uncovered easy and inexpensive tips, tricks, and solutions that allow her to maintain a clean, organized, and functional home with minimal effort. After you've listened to Real Life Organizing, you too will be able to live a more organized life without having to give up your sanity.

In Real Life Organizing, you will learn how to:

  • Create a household-management binder
  • Make a "kids cupboard" in your kitchen
  • Create an in/out system
  • Organize paperwork based on your unique style
  • Create a kitchen command center
  • Organize your holidays with a gift closet
  • Build the best toy-organizing system
  • And enjoy a DIY Pinterest home

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Cassandra Aarssen (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Cleaning & Organising Home Design & Renovation House & Home Interior Design & Decoration Personal Development Personal Success Time Management Inspiring
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She makes tidying so easy, straightforward and manageable!
The tips are actually actionable and don't leave you with stuff lying in guilt inducing piles while you sit paralyzed with indecision (like some other tidying methods do).

Finally feel like I know what I'm doing

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Practical tips for real life. Cassandra puts things in a light hearted fun way which makes the book an easy read. I also like that she shares her challenges of being a naturally messy person and how she needed things to be super simple to put away.

Helps to make life simpler

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This book goes through an overview of different clutter personalities and how to adapt for each. The reader completes a quick questionnaire which helps them determine where on the clutter spectrum they sit. This was interesting as it helped explain why I am different as opposed to my husband or child. I believe it could help other readers too. Cassandra also talks about how to adapt cleaning and storage solutions to each of the personalities.
The part that I really did like was her daily checklists and about giving love to your home. When you give your home a hug it will love you back and it will change you. I love all things manifestation and karma and spiritual and this book somewhat delivered that also (albeit at a smaller scale).
I will try and read more books by this author.

Give your home a hug and it will love you back

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Really gives you the boost you need to organise your house. The tips were easy to follow and completely achievable.

The boost you need

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I'm feeling really motivated to not only transform my home, but my life.
the way the author helps you identify your organisation style and gives you tips for your particular style, is revolutionary!! I can't wait to be living my best life with help from this book

Helpful!

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Loved ithis audio and listened all of it today . going to do everything suggested.

awesome to listen too.

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This book is so spot on it’s freaky. She knew my organising style and gave loads of tasks and ideas to fix it. Already I’ve told 7 friends who struggle as well. Best book I read in at least 3 years and I read a lot of book. It simple and easy to do tasks to correct your weaknesses and gives great storage ideas. All I can say is it’s so complete you couldn’t add anything else to it.

Wow am I impressed!

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Pivotal moment was realizing how people get stuck between the value of the stuff versus the value of themselves, what they need and deserve in life.

yes

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Once you do the quiz from her website to find out the type of clutter bug you are - get whoever you live with to do it too. Then listen to the organising techniques for yours and your partner’s organising style. Great tips and tricks

Feeling inspired

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since discovering that I'm a butterfly watching Cass on YouTube my home has been so much more manageable and clean and tidy. it's so refreshing to see her recommend things I already implemented like the kids toy bins system and things id never have thought of like treating myself like a child and giving incentives to clean before I do things I like.

the narration is wonderful and lively and the book is easy to follow. it's definitely worth a read if you need some motivation or inspiration. I especially like the chapter towards the end about being grateful for the home you have instead of thinking of all the things we're missing out on. in this day and age of social media it's easy to lose sight of how lucky we are to even have homes to clean.

I recommend this.

a great little listen for in the car or while tidying up

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