Sometimes a book’s suggestions seem a little obvious. In the best cases, it’s because the author has done such a good job spreading her message, we’re already familiar with it. The ideas in Donna Smallin’s Unclutter Your Home: 7 Simple Steps, 700 Tips & Ideas ring a bell, because she’s been a prominent writer on organizing for years, and because she explains things in such a simple, useful way it’s hard not to find her suggestions useful. Her seven steps,
outline a reasonable structure for figuring out what you need to deal with, attacking it, and maintaining your changes; whether you’re doing it on your own or working with an organizer. Her writing style is straightforward, patient, and encouraging. I recommend this, either as a purchase (because the steps bear re-reading on occasion) or a library read.