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You Don’t Have to Keep It All

A Practical Guide to Decluttering Gifts, Keepsakes, and the Things You Feel Guilty Letting Go Of

A book by Andrew Stinson

Keep the meaning. Make some room.

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BETWEEN THESE COVERS

Keep the meaning. Make some room.

Home & belongings
By Andrew Stinson

You liked the gift. You don’t have to live around it forever.

Some things are difficult to let go of because they are useful. Others are difficult because somebody gave them to you, they cost too much, or they belonged to someone you miss.

With warm humor and practical household stories, this book explores gifts, keepsakes, inherited collections, abandoned hobbies, clothes and shared spaces.

You can care about your things and still want somewhere to put your plate.

THIS MAY FEEL FAMILIAR

Gifts, keepsakes or inherited belongings are hard to let go of.

Here’s what you’ll explore.

  1. 01

    Understand what makes certain objects difficult.

  2. 02

    Make more deliberate choices about what you keep.

  3. 03

    Find room for your present life.

A NOTE FROM ANDREW STINSON

Why this book
exists.

Decluttering advice is very easy when the object in question means absolutely nothing to you. The harder decisions involve gifts, inherited things, expensive mistakes, unfinished hobbies and objects attached to people you love. I wrote this book for those decisions. The aim is not to persuade you to own less at any cost. It is to help you keep what matters more deliberately—and let some other things finally leave the house.

Andrew Stinson

YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

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Title
You Don’t Have to Keep It All
By
Andrew Stinson
Theme
Home & belongings
Retailer ID
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Some things are difficult to let go of because they are useful. Others are difficult because somebody gave them to you, they cost too much, or they belonged to someone you miss.

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