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Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life
Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life | Peter Walsh
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Sorting through a lifetime s worth of accumulated possessions can be a daunting and stressful process that millions of Americans confront every year. The need to downsize often arises at a momentous life change, whether you re an empty nester or retiree selling your family home, a newlywed blending your households, or you re cleaning out your parents property after they ve moved into assisted living or passed away.Decluttering guru Peter Walsh knows the difficulty of downsizing firsthand. Along with six of his siblings, he went through the process of downsizing his family home and dividing his late parents possessions. He realized that making these decisions about mementos and heirlooms creates strong emotions and sometimes sibling rivalries. After this experience, he downsized his own home. Peter doesn t see downsizing as a difficult chore rather, it s a freeing, rejuvenating process. Now, in Let It Go, you ll access Peter s many tips and practical takeaways, such as how to: . Understand the emotional challenges that accompany downsizing. Create strategies for working with your spouse, adult kids, or siblings without drama. Calculate the amount of stuff you can bring into your new life. Identify the objects that will bring you real happiness and the rest that you should let goPeter will walk you through every step of the process and show you how to use downsizing as a positive experience that sets you up to better enjoy the opportunities that the next phase in your life will offer."
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BeeMagical
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Book 26📚 - 5⭐️
I love organizing! It‘s one of my “happy places” 🙃
This is a great book about downsizing and the emotion that can come up with it. Helps sort items into manageable categories and keep what makes you happy.
Shows you how others might be feeling during their downsizing journey.

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Honeybeebooks
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Worth a quick read. It includes some of the usual helpful hints to downsize and declutter. I did like it‘s emphasis on attacking the project with empathy for others, scripts to handle the emotions and roles adopted by family and self and to mentally prepare before undertaking a big downsizing project. Now to begin.

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Eggs
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This is my second Walsh read. So sensible, so true. It's helping me face the abundance of stuff that's accumulated-anyone over 65 can relate to this. Must. Simplify.

Crinoline_Laphroaig Stuff. It's such an ongoing battle. 5y
Cathythoughts I agree it‘s the time to start letting go ... it‘s easy at this point .. I have enough possessions ... need to pare down & it feels right 5y
jenreads7 My children and I pared WAY down a few years out of necessity. It was freeing! Now I‘m always looking for more stuff we can get rid of. 5y
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dariazeoli
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Um, Hoopla? I really don't think this summary is for a book that Peter Walsh wrote... 🤔😂