Clutter Junkie No More: Stepping Up to Recovery

Liked the book. Found several areas that i can apply to my life with a different perception of being a "clutter junkie". Have suggested it to a friend who also would benefit from some direction

I am finding this to be a very helpful reference as I have recently begun my journey with the twelve steps in Clutterers Anonymous. This will be a handy handbook for me to be able to refer to again and again.

This is a great 12-step approach to clutter addiction. .. I have cherished it for enhancing my own personal program, and I have bought multiple copies to share with others who suffer.

This book basically tells you to go to an AA, NA, GA type meeting for people who like to clutter. Skip the book and go to the meeting instead. Doesn't really offer any advice about how to stop cluttering your life.

I ordered this book because I need help with clutter. What I got was an oft-repeated hymn to the glories of 12 step programs. The book should be retitled : "How I got a new life with the 12 steps". If you need some platitudes you will like it.

I think that every one should have this book! It is truly amazing! A wake up call!

Wonderful

Okay, I admit it. I am a messy person, albeit mostly in my home office.However, this book is about Clutter, with a capital C--with clutter as a symptom of underlying problems. Hmmmm, people say I could have a nice clean office if I just wanted to (like we say to those with other addictions--"just change/quit").This book is NOT about organizing messes, but about why people let clutter overwhelm them--to keep the world out.What brings people to the place of being a "clutter junkie?" When the addict outside cries out for control, what happens?"All addictions are based in fear and are used for avoidance. Fear of other people, an inability to trust, self-esteem issues, and the feeling of not fitting into the world around them," so the author says in the introduction.Rogers, who has been in recovery from her own additions, deals with clutter addiction with a 12-step program adapted from AA. These 12 steps move you from the admitting you are powerless over clutter to personal intervention to having a spiritual awakening where the addict practices the 12 steps every day.Clutter is having too much of anything, nesting comfortably with these things: books, magazines/newspapers, pets, collections--anything that fills the "hole" that brought them to this addiction in the first place--and takes them to a "comfortable place" where they feel in control of one thing in their life, even if its unhealthy.The 12th step is "we" to show we are not alone in this. Living in clutter keeps others away and feeds our poor self-esteem--like we are living in a box.The chapters are written around the 12 steps, and the book ends with an entire section about The Serenity Prayer and some wonderful affirmations. It is NOT through acceptance, courage and wisdom that we are given serenity. For the clutter addict that means giving up the chaos, the excuse for being overwhelmed.Armchair Interviews says: Unlike addictions that we read about all the time, clutter seems like such a small deal--unless the addition happens to you or someone you love.