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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.
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"From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed object in the digital age. Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today. He laments that many children and adults are losing touch with the material objects that have nurtured human development...
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"Forget the aesthetics of mainstream minimalism and discover a life of authenticity and intention with this practical guide to living with less...your way"--
When Platt set out on her journey to live with less, she just wanted to tame the chaos in her closet. After struggling with the austerity and whiteness of mainstream minimalism, she realized why minimalism often seems unattainable for so many: the emphasis on all-white, barren aesthetics distracts...
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"El popular bloguero y autor de The More of Less nos enseña cómo transformar metódicamente nuestro hogar en un entorno de paz, serenidad y vida útil. Uno de los más influyentes defensores del minimalismo nos ofrece una visita por nuestra propia casa o apartamento, enseñándonos de qué debemos deshacernos y qué debemos conservar. Nos ofrece las directrices básicas para simplificar nuestro estilo de vida doméstica y nos ayuda a detectar los...
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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...
7) Objects of our affection: uncovering my family's past, one chair, pistol, and pickle fork at a time
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After their mother's death, Lisa Tracy and her sister, Jeanne, are left to contend with several households' worth of furniture and memorabilia. What starts as an exercise in information gathering designed to boost the estate's resale value at auction evolves into the discovery that the roots of our passion for acquisition often lie not in shallow materialism but in our desire to possess the most treasured commodity of all- a connection to the past....
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