I am sure you’ve heard my book clutter story.

When I lived in London, I was lucky enough to live near a wonderful old bookshop called Daunt Books in Marylebone High Street. It has the most amazing interior (search it online, you’ll see!)

On a regular basis, at least twice a month, I would browse the shelves and be transported to another world of possibilities. For three of the years that I lived in London, I was at university. This gave me a perfect excuse to buy books in Daunt Books on a regular basis. As with all retail shopping, it was how the shop and the books made me feel that I fell in love with. 

Of course, it would be several years later, when I was creating the Clutter Clearing Journey as I cleared my own clutter, that I realised I was accumulating more than I would ever read. My motivation for buying books was to feel cultured, intellectual, and for other people to think that too if they saw my bookshelf. Not that they ever did, because of my clutter.

A book, like anything in our clutter, can trigger a memory and emotion that connects us to our past, present and imagined future. It can take us to places in our memories and imagination that are preferable to the reality of our life in the present.

If you struggle with book clutter, if you know that realistically you’re unlikely to ever read the book again, yet you still struggle to let it go, then try to find out what the book represents, what emotion it triggers, and how you can get that in a different way. Then make sure it’s captured in some way as part of your Best Life Script.

You know your Book Clutter is out of control when…

1. You accumulate more books than you actually read. You buy books because someone reocmmended it to you, it’s on a recommended reading list, you like the cover of it, you think you ‘should’ read it, but you don’t make regular time on your weekly planner to actually read
2. You have books amongst your clutter that were gifts that you know you want to read but feel you ‘should’ keep it and read it – ‘some’ day
3. You’ve bought the same book multiple times but not even read it once
4. You’ve kept books for decades that you feel you ‘should’ read
5. You have books that you’ve started reading but never actually finished, so have to go back to the beginning each time
6. You’ve got both physical copies AND digital copies of the same book
7. You’ve got multiple decluttering books amongst your clutter…. (I’m not saying anything!)

You can clear your clutter fast, or you can clear your clutter forever, but you can’t clear your clutter forever, fast.

To find out how Clare can help you clear your clutter Forever, without the need for an expensive home visit, click here now: https://www.clutterclearing.net/clares-help-centre/