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Rightsizing Your Life: Simplifying Your Surroundings While Keeping What Matters Most Pub. Date: 1/4/2007 Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

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Whether it's going from the multi-bedroom suburban house to the city condo, or from a country and city house to one cozy cottage, millions of Americans in the coming years will face the task of planning a shift to smaller or more practical quarters, paring down a lifetime of possessions and furnishing their new lives with things that have meaning. This simplification of surroundings and "stuff" will liberate people in mid-life to pursue their passions such as travel or hobbies without the responsibilities of a big house weighing them down.

Rightsizing will be more than a handbook about the process of planning a new environment, jettisoning a lifetime's worth fo surplus household items, and moving painlessly into a more suitable space. It will also be the first comprehensive guide to the emotional passage that this winnowing process entails, providing a prescription for the internal hurdles that can easily sabotage sensible decision making.

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If you're approaching or straddling middle age, it's time to rightsize your life. The word may be unfamiliar, but its meaning is clear: It's time to adjust your life and possessions to make time for the things that really matter. You might want to make room for grandchildrens' visits, or perhaps you just yearn for a smaller place to clean. Ciji Ware's Rightsizing Your Life helps you conceptualize the upside of change.

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While books on clutter control abound, these two offerings delve into the emotional factors that prevent people from parting with their possessions. Library patrons might recognize Walsh (How To Organize (Just About) Everything) as the organizational guru of The Learning Channel's Clean Sweep. In a book geared to busy families, he draws on his experiences tackling family clutter issues to help readers assess the emotional cost of their clutter and their excuses for hanging on to things. He then provides a household assessment for determining each room's function and the items necessary for optimal use. There are also handy guidelines for holding a garage sale and selling items online. Print and broadcast journalist Ware's book is aimed at those baby boomers making the transition to smaller quarters because of age, lifestyle, or illness. Through a seven-step program, she helps readers take account of their future finances and family situations to make a successful downsizing plan. She concentrates on the emotional factors that can interfere with the process, such as nostalgic partners, overattachment to possessions, and reluctant children. A particularly helpful section addresses an elderly parent's move to assisted-living quarters, a rarely covered topic. Both books offer valuable suggestions and are recommended for public libraries. If one must choose, however, Ware's is preferred because of the gap it fills in books about aging, though Walsh's high media profile may spark demand. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780821258132
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Publication date: 1/4/2007
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 296,591
Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.12 (h) x 0.75 (d)

Meet the Author

Ciji Ware

Ciji Ware has been a print and broadcast journalist for twenty-five years, best known as a health and lifestyle commentator for ABC in Los Angeles. She is the author of Sharing Parenthood After Divorce (Viking), and more recently, five historical novels.

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Anonymous

Posted March 27, 2007

How to get rid of stuff

The author weaves anecdotal stories with practical steps to help you, your spouse, family, relatives, and others get rid of the stuff in your life. As a baby boomer couple the author realized that moving from 2200 sq ft house to 1,200 with 22 years of marriage stuff required a different size in her families life. Most the book explains and helps one understand why we hang onto so much of our possessions and how we can do without them in the right way. The book will help you or someone you know get the right size in the future.

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