7 Days to Minimalist Living: A Stress-Free Guide to Declutter, Clean & Organize Your Home & Your Life
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The Most Practical & Modern Guide to Living a Minimalist Lifestyle in 7 Days
Is your house overflowing with stuff that you don't use or need? Clutter can:
• Overwhelm the senses
• Consume space
• Drain energy from our surroundings
• Cause stress and anxiety
This book will show you how to lighten up so you can walk into your home and be surrounded only by the things you love. Living in a minimalistic way means clearing the clutter from your life to focus on what's truly important. Chances are, 75% of the things in your home are no benefit to your life at all. You'll also find that throwing out a few garbage bags feels even better than therapy.
Why do you hold onto things? Here are just some of the reasons:
• Security—but the paradox is that the more we cling, the more frustrated and overwhelmed we feel.
• Addiction—shopping is a high and the novelty wears off.
• Approval—keeping material representations of who we are is one way we show off.
• Identity—we identify with what we own so that's why we're upset when something is stolen or broken.
• Obligation to others—we please others by keeping gifts and inherited things we don't really like or need.
By letting go of possessions that no longer serves us, we can
• Let go of old beliefs
• Open ourselves up to new opportunities and relationships
• See your home, your life for what they really are
• Need less and do more
• Cultivate meaningful relationships
• Be more in tune with yourself in a meditative space
• Stop shopping as a form of therapy
• Stop wasting money
• Restore clarity
• FIND WHAT YOU REALLY VALUE
When you have inner clutter, it expands to your environment. So when you live in a clean and soothing environment, it can only benefit your inner life.
Don't let the word minimalism scare you. Minimalistic living is not about getting rid of modern advancements and living in the stone age. It's only about keeping things that are useful, meaningful and add value to your life. While it does not place importance on material things and lavish living, minimalism is also not about denying yourself of the things you need.
The guide is divided by different rooms and topics to make it easy and practical to refer to.
• Entryway
• Kitchen
• Living Room
• Bathroom
• Bedroom
• Children's Rooms
• Teen Rooms
• Garage
• Basement
• Attic
• Garden
• Office
• Computer & Technology
• Closets
• Mail
• Sentimental Objects
• Photos
• Cards & Letters
• Music
• People
This book also helps you
• Recognize Clutter
• Declutter, clean & organize your home room by room
• Sell your things for profit
• Shop for a minimalist wardrobe
• Get your family on board
• Declutter digital content and computer files
• Go car-free or car-lite
• Surround yourself with people who add value to your life
• Maintain your space once you've minimalized
Living with less is the first step to a peaceful mind. It makes space for the new to come in. Buy the book, put it into practice and welcome positive change into your life now.
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Reviews for 7 Days to Minimalist Living
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5nice and easy read with a bunch of helpful hints
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's a good guide for people who are only starting to discover minimalist living; it's simple, instructions are easy to follow and it's covering all the main subjects. For me personally it was a bit too basic, but for beginners it will be pretty useful.
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7 Days to Minimalist Living - Elizabeth N. Doyd
7 DAYS TO MINIMALIST LIVING
A Stress-Free Guide to Declutter, Clean & Organize Your Home & Your Life
ELIZABETH N. DOYD
Copyright © Elizabeth N. Doyd 2014
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No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or any other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.
In practical advice books, like anything else in life, there are no guarantees of results. This book is not intended for use as a source of medical advice. All readers are advised to seek services of competent professionals in the medical field as needed.
Contents
Introduction
How to Use this Book
LIGHTEN UP
Why You Hold On To Things
Why You Need to Declutter and Find What You Really Value
What You Really Value
How to Recognize Clutter
Things to Toss Immediately
MAKE THE PLAN
Your 7 Day Plan
Tips on Decluttering and Organizing
Selling Your Things
DECLUTTER, CLEAN & ORGANIZE
Entryway
Kitchen
Minimalist Cooking
What to Avoid
Decluttering Tips
Living Room
Bathroom
Bedroom
Children's Rooms & Their Things
Teenager Bedrooms
Garage, Basement & Garden
Office
Computer & Internet
Technology
Closets
Minimalist Wardrobe
Minimalist Car
Collections
Automatic Collections
Sentimental objects and gifts
Photos
Cards & Letters
Music
Digital Decluttering
People
Other People's Clutter
Minimalist Checklist
Maintain Your Space
Conclusion
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About the Author
Introduction
When you’re at home, do you feel anxious, overwhelmed and sometimes even depressed, but don’t know why?
Your first clue is to look at your surroundings. Clutter can overwhelm your senses, even unconsciously. The mess in your home is often a reflection of your inner state.
When you have inner clutter, it expands to your environment. This can show up as disorganization, junk, and hoarding. By uncovering your clutter, buried emotions can come to the surface.
Is your house teeming with stuff? Particularly stuff you don’t need or like all that much? Basement, bedrooms, closets, cabinets—every nook and cranny overflowing with stuff you hardly touch.
The extraneous things we own weigh us down. The overstuffed drawers, the lack of counter space, the junk shoved under beds—they consume space and drain energy from our surroundings. The stacks of papers and files on your desk, the books you’ll never read, the clothes you don’t wear are all dead weight in what could be your sanctuary after a long hard day at work.
Now imagine walking into your home and seeing only your favorite things. You cherish each piece of furniture and can’t wait to relax in your favorite chair. All the clothes in your closet are pieces you want to wear. The music in your collection are only the songs you want to listen to. Everything is clean and in their place. All the things you own only add value to your life. When you’re home, you feel peaceful and light. Everything you want is easily found. Home finally equates to comfort.
This book will help you get there. You might find that throwing out even a couple of garbage bags can feel better than therapy. You’ll lose that claustrophobic feeling and breathe again. I’ll show you how to clear the clutter from your life to focus on what’s truly important. Chances are, 75% of the things in your home are no benefit to your life at all.
Possessions are like anchors. They tie you down, yet you’re afraid of losing them. When you let them go, you also let go of greed, obsession and overworking.
Don’t let the word minimalism scare you. It’s not about getting rid of modern advancements and living in the stone age. It’s about keeping things that are useful, meaningful and add value to your life. While it does not place importance on materials things and money at the expense of health, relationships, passions, growth, and communications, contribution, minimalism is also not about denying yourself of the things you need.
Minimalism is clearing the clutter from your life to focus on what’s truly important. You’ll have no distractions when you live a minimalist lifestyle. You’re making room for the things you do want to come into your life.
The less stuff you have, the less time, energy and space it takes to maintain it. It frees up your own time, energy and space to let in more love and happiness.
Here some more benefits:
• You will need less and do more.
• More time on your hands. No more