Clutter
An Untidy History
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Emily Durante
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Jennifer Howard
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"I'm sitting on the floor in my mother's house, surrounded by stuff."
So begins Jennifer Howard's Clutter, an expansive assessment of our relationship to the things that share and shape our lives. Sparked by the painful two-year process of cleaning out her mother's house in the wake of a devastating physical and emotional collapse, Howard sets her own personal struggle with clutter against a meticulously researched history of just how the developed world came to drown in material goods. With sharp prose and an eye for telling detail, she connects the dots between the Industrial Revolution, the Sears and Roebuck catalog, and the Container Store and shines unsparing light on clutter's darker connections to environmental devastation and hoarding disorder. In a confounding age when Amazon can deliver anything at the click of a mouse and decluttering guru Marie Kondo can become a reality TV star, Howard's bracing analysis has never been more timely.
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What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our material world, from late Ming China, Renaissance Italy and the British Empire to the present.
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Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed.
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The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime, and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century. In Garbology, Edward Humes investigates trash - what's in it; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how some families, communities, and even nations are finding a way back from waste to discover a new kind of prosperity.
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Those with families
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You Get What You Pay For?
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There are 168 hours in a week. This book is about where the time really goes, and how we can all use it better. It's an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. With the rise of two-income families, extreme jobs, and 24/7 connectivity, life is so frenzied we can barely find time to breathe. We tell ourselves we'd like to read more, get to the gym regularly, try new hobbies, and accomplish all kinds of goals.
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Sorry I Wasted My Money
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Where is the pdf of the appendix????!!!
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Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a psychological force just as powerful - yet almost nobody has heard of it. It’s responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart, making certain goals attractive to some and not to others, and fueling cycles of anxiety and conflict. In Wanting, Luke Burgis draws on the work of French polymath René Girard to bring this hidden force to light and reveals how it shapes our lives and societies.
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One of the most important books you'll ever read
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All the Money in the World
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How happy would you be if you had all the money in the world? We spend endless hours obsessing over our budgets and investments, trying to figure out ways to stretch every dollar. We try to follow the advice of money gurus and financial planners, then kick ourselves whenever we spend too much or save too little. For all of the stress and effort we put into every choice, why are most of us unhappy about our finances? According to Laura Vanderkam, the key is to change your perspective.
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Very Practical Book with Good Ideas
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Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty, best-selling book on our ever-evolving consumer culture—full of fresh observations and important lessons from the cutting edge of retail, which is taking place in the world’s emerging markets.
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Author has knowledge but poor writing skills
- By Nidhi on 06-25-11
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- VoxVolat
- 08-29-21
Enjoyable & Thought Provoking: credit worthy
Just finished listening to Clutter this morning. I thought I was doing a pretty good job of keeping clutter to a minimum. But until listening to this book I had not thought about the cost to society ( or to myself ) of the clutter I have. The book was engaging and motivating without being preachy. Now to see if any behavior changes stick. 😃😃
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- Bea
- 01-31-23
Disempowering and whiny
I expected this to be an interesting look at the history of stuff followed by practical ideas or methods for managing my clutter. Instead, it’s a whiny telling of a story that our stuff has been forced upon us since the Industrial Revolution, and that the only possible way to break the cycle requires exhausting work and large amounts money to amply overcome this three centuries’ long deluge of consumerism.
The only positive is the narrator’s well-done performance.
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- Karen Bauer
- 05-04-22
Touches on a lot of useful information
Having listened to and read numerous organization/clutter books I feel this book was valuable in that it brought to my attention more thought provoking topics of where does everything go once you’ve donated or trashed your items. A few times I found my mind drifting elsewhere while I listened (chapter 2 and discussing trinkets and souvenirs from the Victorian Era) but the writer did a great job touching on many subjects and I feel there is room for her to go even further in another book regarding the discard of our country’s plastic and waste problems. She cites useful books that I’ve added to my library checklist and websites. 👍🏻 the narration was ok, too.
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- Booker
- 04-30-23
Thought Provoking
This book really makes you evaluate the effects that clutter has on us, those around us, our society and those worldwide. We must think before we buy.
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- Zeozombz
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History of Clutter
Wow! What a great book on clutter. Being a working mom of two small children, I am living the clutter life. I am working hard to get out of the clutter life and looking to embrace a more meaningful life with less things.
What I truly enjoyed about this book is the fact that the author strings a linear web of how things have become so important to us. She starts with the history of the Victorian times and how the addiction to cheap nick-nacks started there. She strings us along the line of current period and how our stuff has become so overwhelming that a lot of charities are having to send even good quality items to landfills.
I like how she discuss the heavy weight of our items and how they impact our families and our lives. She does this in a way I think most of us do not think about.
I commend her deeply for the insight in her reuse, recycle, and repurpose. Mostly, maybe just giving your item to someone else in need.
The author did a lot of research in writing this book and gives credit to many of the minimalist and tidy authors.
The narrator was fantastic.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-30-23
Microcosm of a Much Bigger Problem
I am on another listening of this book. I find it to be a unique approach as it relates to bigger issues in our world. It causes you to think of our world itself. I find it a useful read.
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- AoM
- 05-20-24
Informational Book About Consumerism
The book gives a history lesson on how we have acquired so many belongs... and a ride along as the author cleans out her mother's cluttered house...
If you are looking for tips on decluttering - this isn't your book. If you want to know why you clutter - this is probably the best book for that either...
If you want to know how you've got to thw point of acquiring too many belongs and/or you're cleaning our a beloved parents home - probably a good listen!
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- Amanda B.
- 03-14-24
History lesson
Mostly a history of clutter, not particularly useful for how to handle it. The reading of it was okay though, something to listen to while cleaning.
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- Sharon C
- 12-17-23
It did not have any ideas on decluttering
Boring 15 word review is ridiculous. I’ve got better tighten things to do than that.
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- Rey
- 09-14-23
Interesting, but not helpful!
The author’s purpose seems to be simply to express the built up resentment toward her own mother. However, it’s not her mother’s fault; it’s because capitalism is evil. Yeah, I didn’t think that made sense either. I guess writing a book is cheaper than therapy.
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