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    Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living

    By Tsh Oxenreider

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    Create a life with less mess—and more meaning.
     
    Simplicity isn’t about what you give up. It’s about what you gain. When you remove the things that don’t matter to you, you are free to focus on only the things that are meaningful to you.
    Imagine your home, your time, your finances, and your belongings all filling you with positive energy and helping you achieve your dreams. It can happen, and Organized Simplicity can show you how. Inside you’ll find:
     
    *A simple, ten-day plan for organizing every room in your home, step-by-step
    *Ideas for creating a family purpose statement to help you identify what to keep and what to remove from your life
    *Templates for a home management notebook to help you effectively and efficiently take care of daily, weekly and monthly tasks
    *Recipes for non-toxic household cleaners and natural toiletry items including toothpaste, deodorant and shampoo
     
    Start living a more organized, intentional life today, and discover how a peaceful environment can bring a new peace of mind.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 25, 2010
    ISBN9781440313608
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    Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living
    Author

    Tsh Oxenreider

    Tsh Oxenreider is the author of Notes from a Blue Bike and Organized Simplicity, and is the founder of the community blog The Art of Simple. She’s the top-ranked podcaster of The Simple Show, and her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, CNN, Real Simple magazine, and more. A graduate of the University of Texas, where she studied English and anthropology, Tsh currently lives in Austin, Texas, with her family and eats tacos several times a week.  

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    • 3/5
      I think if someone really, really loves simplemom.net, they'll love Organized Simplicity. If, like me, they take what they can use from Simple Mom and ignore the rest, then this book will probably just be okay -- especially since most of the useful info in the book is already covered in the author's blog.

      Much of the first half of this book is devoted to explaining why we should buy into simplified/intentional living, and while there are some good points, this section as a whole feels a little judgmental and overly simplistic.

      To be fair, I may have gotten off to a bad start with the background section of the book -- in the beginning of the first chapter, Oxenreider talks about not making excuses, that we have the ability to shape our lives into simple ones. She posits that "[w]e can't blame a hectic schedule, too many bills to pay, or too many messes to clean for keeping us from our goals because we can do something about those." That sentence might be more convincing if she'd left out the "too many bills to pay"; sometimes those bills aren't there by choice and they're too large to buckle down and pay in a year or two. Similarly, her arguments against dual-income families rub me the wrong way. Is "working a dead-end job that leaves you unfulfilled" really just a bad habit?

      Maybe I should just say: I think Oxenreider and I live in very different worlds. Which is fine! In case you don't believe it's fine, the author herself allows that the reader "may be thinking [she's] extreme, and you just can't or don't want to live life the way I do. That's okay."

      Something I've seen mentioned in other reviews: Oxenreider is a Christian, and mentions giving things to God or glorifying God a handful of times in the first few chapters, which might turn some people off. I expected it because she is vocal about her Christianity in her blog, but I guess it could have been a little jarring if I hadn't.

      Once you get past all of the extended set-up there's a ten-day plan for simplifying your house. I picked through it to see if there was anything I can use. This part of the book is nicely organized, going room by room and giving tips and checklists for cleaning and decluttering. It's not new information if you've been reading blogs like Oxenreider's for a while, but it is nice to have it all in one place. There are some good recipes for green cleaners in there, too.

      One of the four appendices has pro/con lists for several "choices for a simpler life" and I had to laugh when I hit "Should we use cloth or disposable diapers?" because the author's bias is so evident that she might as well have drawn a picture of a sad-faced Earth for the pro-disposables list. Then I got to "Should we become a one-car family?" and found the two-item con list: lack of independence to travel, and it MIGHT limit "choices of employment, entertainment, and community involvement." Someone has never lived in the sticks.

      Mostly I think I should have just skipped the preachy bits and stuck to the meat of the organizational stuff. I know there are people who will get a LOT from the ~lifestyle choice~ section, but it isn't applicable to my life at this point. The Simple Mom blog is a better fit for me; I think I'll stick to that.


      (two-and-a-half stars)

      P.S. TOTALLY UNIMPORTANT BUT BUGGING ME: What is UP with that usage of "privy," I DO NOT EVEN KNOW. Is it common usage that has just escaped me my entire reading life? ("But more than 50 percent of Americans live in the suburbs. I'm not sure too many of those folks are privy to abandoning their motor vehicles.")
    • 5/5
      Every day I look around my home I think about how we need to be more organized, but many times, it's difficult to determine just where to start and what options will be the most effective. Organized Simplicity has this covered, providing a clear road-map to well, simplifying the organizing process!Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living is written by Tsh Oxenreider, creator of the popular blog SimpleMom.net. It's clear that Tsh has "been there, done that" and understands the challenges we all face in simplifying our lives and homes. Her wisdom and guideance are inspiring and best of all, do-able!The book includes "Ten Days to a Simpler, More Organized Home" which may revolutionalize the way you look at your home and the "stuff" inside. I'm working on day 3 now and couldn't be happier with the results. The guide's checklists and simple steps are a breeze to follow but offer long-lasting results and dramatic differences in the organization, decluttering, and cleaning of each room. Overall, Organized Simplicity is a clever guide, chock full of fantastic advice, and easy to follow instruction that will help free you from clutter and organize your mind and home!
    • 2/5
      Eh. 1.5 stars.

      For every hundred suggestions, maybe five of them were useful. The rest were either common sense or unworkable for my situation. The ten-day plan is fundamentally ableist in that it requires more physical exertion in a day than many even mildly disabled people can accomplish in two weeks running. Also annoying is the use of the rhetorical "we" in the beginning of the book, in which she preaches a sermon on what all is wrong with the world today. I found myself wondering what planet she lives on and desperately wishing her editor had insisted on I-statements.