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Döstädning, or the art of death cleaning, is a Swedish phenomenon by which the elderly and their families set their affairs in order. Whether it's sorting the family heirlooms from the junk, downsizing to a smaller place, or setting up a system to help you stop misplacing your keys, death cleaning gives us the chance to make the later years of our lives as comfortable and stress-free as possible. Whatever your age, Swedish death cleaning can be...
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"A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents--first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother--author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their middle-aged knees with conflicted feelings of grief and relief. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, twenty-three...
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"Offers a fascinating and insightful account of what becomes of the stuff that we accumulate in our homes and lives. It's a powerful reminder of how the deeply personal acts of daily life are shared across families, cultures, economies, and countries, and an account of how one author's struggle to manage her family's clutter led to a deeper understanding of what matters most in all of our lives"--Back cover.
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A provocative look at how our private spaces--from boardroom to bedroom--reveal our personalities. For ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected--and unplanned--ways, but also how we create personality in the first place, communicate it others,...
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"Fewer, Better Things explores the history of craft in its many forms, explaining how raw materials, tools, design, and technique come together to produce beauty and utility in handmade or manufactured items. Whether describing the implements used in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, the use of woodworking tools, or the use of new fabrication technologies, Adamson writes expertly and lovingly about the aesthetics of objects, and the care and attention...
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Minimalism and the Simple Life
Author and YouTuber, Zoey Arielle, opens up about her struggle with loving all the things in life we bring home. A hoarder in disguise, Arielle has mastered the tools needed to embrace simplicity and the minimalist philosophy.
Minimalism guide. It's natural to love stuff! More than that, it's natural to love your stuff. That notebook from 8th grade, your Disney VHS, mismatched socks. They all have sentimental value...and...
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Morris helps readers learn the real issues about clutter: when everything you touch is an extension of your identity, it's easy to get stuck in the past. By discovering the item's relationship to your past relationships, jobs, and unhealed grief, you'll be able to move into a new phase of your life, get rid of what's holding you back, and align with the life you want.
11) Waste
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"Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object may be, it is also waste-or was, or will be. All it takes is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance. Waste is not merely the field of discarded objects, but the name we give to our troubled relationship with the decaying world outside ourselves. 'Waste' focuses on those waste objects that most fundamentally shape our lives and attempts to understand...
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"What constitutes a prized possession? Step inside the private lives of some of the most wide-ranging and stylish personalities, celebrities, and fashion icons, to discover what their most prized possessions reveal about them" -- Excerpt from dust jacket flap.
Portraits include: John Bartlett, Simon Doonan, Nanette Lepore, Isaac Mizrahi and Anna Sui among others.
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