Clutter No More - 12 Steps to Freeing Your Life from Your Stuff (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

"Clutter No More" names a widespread problem, the addiction to messiness, to stuff, to clutter and offers solutions for it. It's destined to become a touchstone classic in the field. There are many good resources on de-cluttering and organizing, and some new research and books on hoarding as a form of OCD and anxiety. This is the only book that provides resources for dealing with the overwhelming amount of stuff 'and' the underlying root causes 'and' provides a day-by-day programme to live a clutter free life. No more bingeing clean ups (maybe with the help of expensive professional organizers) followed by the same old behaviour of building a mountain of clutter. In her introduction, Barb Rogers explains what the 'payoff' is for most addictions, including the clutter addict. 'People with eating disorders are seeking control in a world they consider out of their control. The alcoholic and drug addict escape reality and feelings through altering their minds. The gambling addict escapes life problems by sitting mesmerized by machines, cards, lottery tickets, waiting for the rush of winning. What is the pay-off for the clutter junkie? As long as they remain overwhelmed they don't have to live life, move forward, and they always have an excuse. Many clutter junkies will take on extra work, volunteer, go out of their way to do for others, to avoid their problems, to stay overwhelmed with a good excuse. Clutter is a wall built bit by bit of things that will keep the world out. As with other addictions, it becomes the prison that keeps the addict in'.