Survey #296—Full Response from Jacqueline
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| What useful decluttering or organizing strategies or methods did you take away from the book? | I like that she has a huge collection of resources for how to pass on or recycle almost anything that you no longer want to keep in your house. |
| What parts or aspects of the book did you find difficult to grasp or challenging to apply to your home or situation? | I felt like only a small part of the book was actually about decluttering, and the process of making decisions on what to keep and what to let go of. She does give a list of questions to ask about your items, but she kind of assumes that it will be easy to just rid of most of your things. |
| Please share your favorite quotations or key ideas and concepts from this book. | I think she is very practical when she talks about how and where to store items in your house. The things you use most often should be very easy to get to and to put away when you’re finished with it. |
| Wolf's “Rule for Purging” is that you must either use an item or “superduperlove” it. How does this differ from other decluttering methods you’ve tried, and does it make it easier or harder to purge stuff? | If I didn’t love it, I wouldn’t have brought it home. I think it can be helpful for some things, but I don’t think that it can be the only thing to consider, and still have a functional house. I think combining it with Dana K Whites container concept is more helpful because even though you may love all the things, some will be more favorite. If you put those in the container first, when it’s full the rest can go, not because you don’t love them, but because there’s no more room. |
| Wolf introduces the idea of a Triangle of Productivity—relying heavily on the combination of your email, calendar, and to-do list to manage your tasks and responsibilities. | I thought the triangle of productivity was very similar to what David Allen talks about in his book Getting Things Done. I read that book a few months ago and have been using to do lists and my digital calendar more than I was before and it is working very well for me. I find that I am much more likely to do a thing and do it more quickly if it is written on a list than if I just tell myself to do the thing. |
| Star Rating | 4 |
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