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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Dec. 22nd, 2015 07:19 amThis book is all about how your life will be better if you throw away most of your stuff and then steadfastly continue to throw away more stuff.
I have a modest proposal: STOP BUYING SO MUCH STUFF.
The most unexpectedly amusing thing about this book is the way that the author repeatedly reminds her readers to throw away their books. "Books are stupid," she writes. "You never learn anything in books. I wrote a book to teach people this valuable lesson."
The other source of deep dark black humor I got from the experience of reading this mess came from the author encouraging her readers not to stockpile supplies. "This is Japan," she says, "not some third world country. It's not like we're going to have a huge major earthquake that shuts down the entire country's infrastructure or anything."
I mean, I'm not a big fan of clutter either, but one does need to be prepared forthe zombie apocalypse emergencies.
I have a modest proposal: STOP BUYING SO MUCH STUFF.
The most unexpectedly amusing thing about this book is the way that the author repeatedly reminds her readers to throw away their books. "Books are stupid," she writes. "You never learn anything in books. I wrote a book to teach people this valuable lesson."
The other source of deep dark black humor I got from the experience of reading this mess came from the author encouraging her readers not to stockpile supplies. "This is Japan," she says, "not some third world country. It's not like we're going to have a huge major earthquake that shuts down the entire country's infrastructure or anything."
I mean, I'm not a big fan of clutter either, but one does need to be prepared for
