The Book
Do you ever wonder “Where did all this CRAP come from?”
CRAP means Clutter that Robs Anyone of Pleasure and in her book, Vali explains where it all comes from. Organizing isn’t just about having a “home” for everything, it’s about a state of mind and way of life. It’s not about making a home perfect (Ack!), it’s about rightsizing your home to provide order to embrace the space you have. Being organized can help you handle the ups and downs of life and aspire to live simply in the present.
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What’s inside
It’s time to get rid of your C.R.A.P.
“Stop organizing my stuff!”
Vali’s best childhood
friend at age 13
Organize This! Practical Tips, Green Ideas and Ruminations about your CRAP a culmination and expansion of the newspaper columns Vali wrote for 10 years. You’ll learn how…
- To identify your own version of CRAP and how to keep it at bay.
- To slowly but surely eliminate the excess and embrace the spaces you have.
- The world revolves around buying excess CRAP (and why our planet is at risk).
- To explore why you have so much CRAP in your home, why you don’t want to throw it out, and why it’s so hard to deal with.
Vali knows that not everyone has that organizing gene, and in her book she can help you learn how to simplify your spaces and work recycling, reusing, and repurposing into your life so you no longer put your monetary well-being at risk (been there, done that).
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“Simultaneously witty and practical, ‘Organize This!’ is the intelligent person’s guide to a simpler, more organized life.”
Donna Smallin
Author of Organizing Plain & Simple and several other books on organization
“Vali writes with an environmentally responsible attitude towards ridding the world of CRAP. She understands the causes of disorganization, leaves judgment at the doorstep, and jumps right in to tackle the problems. Her resources are valuable – this is a book you’ll want to recycle and reuse again and again.”
Debbie Lillard
Author of Absolutely Organize Your Family and Absolutely Organized: A Mom’s Guide
“Stuff, or as Vali calls it, CRAP, can and will easily find its way into your life. The challenge is to limit the inflow and purge the unnecessary items that somehow remain stuck in your environment. Vali’s insightful book will help you accomplish those two life-changing goals.”
Chris Crouch
CEO of DME Training and Consulting and author of several books on improving productivity changing goals
Meet Vali’s husband as he is portrayed in her book (with his permission of course). Many of Vali’s clients and readers have a partner who is the opposite of them and her book can teach you how to stay in your own lane and focus on your own stuff.
Hello
Meet Vali
For 24 years, Vali worked as an administrator in Higher Education and when the University was hiring a new president, she knew her job was at risk. After reading an article in a Redbook magazine about a Professional Organizer in D.C. (who knew there was such a thing?), she started forming her own organizing business. That was in 2006 and since then, Vali realized that she’s been organized her whole life so she could spend time with friends and family, go forward in her career, read a good book, travel, sleep late, stay up late (once a night owl, always a night owl) and handle the tough times with grace.
Meet Vali’s husband as he is portrayed in her book (with his permission of course). Many of Vali’s clients and readers have a partner who is the opposite of them and her book can teach you how to stay in your own lane and focus on your own stuff.
Book Love
What Amazon Readers are saying…
“I should have read Organize This first! The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up was published after this book, but I should have skipped the Magic. Vali Heist’s book is much less anxiety inducing, and she really goes into why we may be holding on to way too much “CRAP” in a less guilt inducing manner. This book is all about approaching organizing in a manner that is reasonable and doable. I recommend this book to individuals looking to unclutter their own or loved ones’ houses whether you have one year or decades of accumulated stuff lying around. It also makes a great gift and conversation starter for friends and family. Our book club is supporting one another in our journeys to simplify and organize to have more time for enjoying the activities that we want to be doing.”
“If you want a no-nonsense approach to committing yourself to the organizational path…this is it. Awesome!”
“We all need this encouragement and the how-to. When you read a book like this and act upon it you feel cleaner, invigorated and more in control of yourself. Baby steps grow into big girl steps which continue to grow into life steps. The practice can help you even start dejunking the negative habits etc. from your life–even toxic friends/family. Read it now and then reread it every year as your body and your life continues to change.”
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“A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it.”
George Carlin, comedian
Close your eyes and picture yourself walking into a neat and organized room. How does it make you feel? I ask this question when I give workshops on organizing. I ask the participants to go on a mental journey and talk about clutter, how it affects their physical space, and how it affects their daily lives. Too much physical clutter can suck the life out of our homes and doesn’t allow us to breathe or to move forward with our lives. If we fill our lives with stuff, there’s no way anything else can come into that space. Peter Walsh, the bestselling author of It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff (2007), says, “If your primary relationship is with your stuff, you are setting yourself up for a life of frustration, because stuff is the worst partner you can have.”
We buy stuff because it promises to bring something into our life, but a lot of stuff just ends up taking up space. I call stuff that just takes up space CRAP – Clutter that Robs Anyone of Pleasure. If you aren’t using something, it doesn’t make you happy, or doesn’t make you smile, it’s CRAP. However, CRAP is owner-specific – my CRAP isn’t necessarily CRAP to someone else. If I give my CRAP to someone else and it becomes useful or makes someone else smile, it’s not CRAP: it’s just stuff.
The word clutter comes from the old word ‘clotter’ meaning to clot or get stuck. When people have too much clutter, homes aren’t the relaxing, comfortable places they could be. Too often, stuff is taking over and we are ‘stuck’ taking care of our stuff. Think about it – each purchase you bring through your front door has strings attached to it and demands attention. It takes time to put it away, maintain it, clean it, wash it, dust it, assemble it, repair it, refill it, buy batteries for it, remember you bought it, find it, find a home for it, keep track of it, cook it, freeze it, paint it, store it, fold it, file it, find a use for it, use it, iron it, wear it, dry clean it, mend it – you get the idea.
The Quaker word ‘cumber’ is the spiritual weight of having too many material things. The physical clutter that exists in our outer world is a reflection of our inner mental world, which is often an intensely private state of being. Our homes and our private spaces both reflect and affect our emotional well-being. The goal of removing tangible clutter from our homes and our lives is to get rid of what is no longer useful, reopen the flow, stop taking care of or trying to organize CRAP, and make space for living freely and abundantly in the present.
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