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Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff

Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life

by Matt Paxton
Jordan Michael Smith
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America’s top cleaning expert and star of the hit series Legacy List with Matt Paxton distills his fail-proof approach to decluttering and downsizing.

Your boxes of photos, family’s china, and even the kids' height charts aren’t just stuff; they’re attached to a lifetime of memories—and letting them go can be scary. With empathy, expertise, and humor, Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff, written in collaboration with AARP, helps you sift through years of clutter, let go of what no longer serves you, and identify the items worth keeping so that you can focus on living in the present.
 
For over 20 years, Matt Paxton has helped people from all walks of life who want to live more simply declutter and downsize. As a featured cleaner on Hoarders and host of the Emmy-nominated Legacy List with Matt Paxton on PBS, he has identified the psychological roadblocks that most organizational experts routinely miss but that prevent so many of us from lightening our material load. Using poignant stories from the thousands of individuals and families he has worked with, Paxton brings his signature insight to a necessary task. 
 
Whether you’re tired of living with clutter, making space for a loved one, or moving to a smaller home or retirement community, this book is for you. Paxton’s unique, step-by-step process gives you the tools you need to get the job done.

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    February 8, 2022

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    • Kindle Book

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      • ISBN: 9780593418987

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      • ISBN: 9780593418987
      • File size: 857 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      December 1, 2021
      Who hasn't yearned for some really good help in dealing with excess stuff? In a book that is part client stories, part practical advice, with a good bit of infomercial mixed in, author Paxton (host of the PBS series Legacy List with Matt Paxton) takes readers through his experience as a professional declutterer. He offers useful advice, with each chapter devoted to a different step in the process, while entertaining with stories of individuals whose clutter situations are probably much worse than the reader's own. Concrete information and best practices are highlighted with text boxes throughout. His own personal decluttering story winds through the book, making his advice even more relatable. One can enjoy the stories, but the real meat of the book is at the end: pages and pages of resources for selling, donating, or tossing treasures. The information is often mostly common sense, but having a source like this to offer positive reinforcement is useful. Public libraries should find this to be a popular title alongside Marie Kondo's work.

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