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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning "death" and städning meaning "cleaning." Margareta instructs readers to embrace minimalism, and suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you'd ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children's art projects). Digging into her late husband's tool shed, and her own...
Author
Publisher
Glitterati Incorporated
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"What constitutes a prized possession? Step inside the private lives of some of the most wide-ranging and stylish personalities, celebrities, and fashion icons, to discover what their most prized possessions reveal about them" -- Excerpt from dust jacket flap.
Portraits include: John Bartlett, Simon Doonan, Nanette Lepore, Isaac Mizrahi and Anna Sui among others.
5) Objects of our affection: uncovering my family's past, one chair, pistol, and pickle fork at a time
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A provocative look at how our private spaces--from boardroom to bedroom--reveal our personalities. For ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected--and unplanned--ways, but also how we create personality in the first place, communicate it others,...
Author
Publisher
Llewellyn Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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." --
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Fewer, Better Things explores the history of craft in its many forms, explaining how raw materials, tools, design, and technique come together to produce beauty and utility in handmade or manufactured items. Whether describing the implements used in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, the use of woodworking tools, or the use of new fabrication technologies, Adamson writes expertly and lovingly about the aesthetics of objects, and the care and attention...