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Real Life Organizing

By: Cassandra Aarssen, Peter Walsh
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
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Real Life Organizing offers clutter-free storage solutions and advice that can help you create a Pinterest-worthy home on a small budget: Learn how to organize your home, simplify life, and have more time for the things you love.

Organizational expert Cassandra "Cas" Aarssen, the guru from YouTube's ClutterBug channel, reveals her tips, tricks, and secrets to a clean and clutter-free home in just 15 minutes a day. Aarssen spends her time organizing other people's homes, teaching college workshops on organization, and creating weekly videos and blog posts. Cas offers DIY Pinterest-type tips to people like you who are interested in how to get rid of clutter and how to organize your home.

Organized person on the outside: The secret to her success? She's a giant mess on the inside, but an organized person who can teach you how to get rid of clutter and organize your home once and for all.

Simplify your life: In her debut, Real Life Organizing, Cas walks you through the steps you can take to create a beautiful, organized, clutter-free, and almost self-cleaning home - a DIY Pinterest home. Simplify your life. You do not have to get rid of all of your things, you do not have to be a yoga-loving minimalist, and you do not have to radically change your lifestyle or personality in order to simplify your life and have an organized home. The truth is that you do not need to actually be an organized person to live like an organized person.

Organize home: Through her years of experience as an industry expert, Cas has uncovered easy and inexpensive tips, tricks, and solutions that allow her to maintain a clean, organized, and functional home with minimal effort. After you've listened to Real Life Organizing, you too will be able to live a more organized life without having to give up your sanity.

In Real Life Organizing, you will learn how to:

  • Create a household-management binder
  • Make a "kids cupboard" in your kitchen
  • Create an in/out system
  • Organize paperwork based on your unique style
  • Create a kitchen command center
  • Organize your holidays with a gift closet
  • Build the best toy-organizing system
  • And enjoy a DIY Pinterest home

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Cassandra Aarssen (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Great book!

I love Clutterbug! Cass had made organizing so much more relatable! I do NOT care for the voice doing the narrative.. No offense but I love watching the Clutterbug Youtube videos and I hate that she wasn’t allowed to read her own books for the audio version! Nobody could do it justice like she can.

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Useful

The book is interesting and gave me many useful tips of how to organisé my environment and home, so I do recommend it. The thing that disturbed me is how the author makes fun of the Marikondo style thaw in the same time using most tips and even names of this method. How can you say it’s ridiculous and useless and then recommend the same thing? It’s really a punch below the belt that should have not been there. Otherwise - very good book :)

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Great book! Great tips!

Great book! Great tips! So excited to get startedpurging and organizing in my own home!

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Best organizing book ever!

This is hands down the best organizing book I’ve ever read. Well this and the Clutter Connection. I’ve listened to both a couple times and love them. They keep me been super motivated. I also ordered her Organized
Success workbook. think the best part about it is the way she describes the different types of clutter “bugs”. The types of organizing styles - and systems they need to make it work. I’m definitely a Butterfly…and now I know I don’t have to feel like a failure anymore! Cassandra Arson is absolutely amazing and her narrator is just perfect! Thank you!

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Amazing!!

This is not just a decluttering and organizing book- it is THE decluttering and organizing book! Cas writes in a practical and inspiring way; just like her YouTube videos. The Clutterbug quiz is amazing. It really showed me what kind of organizer I am and how best to make my home work and bless me and my family. I am hoping to purchase the printed copy as it is so practical and full of life changing information. Read this one-I did in one day!

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good book

i liked the book it was pleasant and alot of good tips that im sure to use

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Clutter BUGS

What a unique way to categorize peoples’ organization styles that actually make so much sense!

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True Inspiration 👌👌

Extremely helpful & Inspiring to organize & commit to maintaining the spaces of my life 👌👌
Thank you

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Must read!

I love how practical it is. You can get started doing something immediately. I definitely recommend it.

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Listen to it at 1.1-1.3x

I disliked the slow narration but liked the content, so I listened to it at 1.3x speed. She attempted to categorize people into different types of “clutterbugs” which is a cute way of saying “this is the type of mess you make” but makes a quick caveat at the end that you can be a combination of multiple types of bugs.

She then breaks down practical tips for dealing with each clutterbug. I like it because it doesn’t force people into a one-size fits all organizing solution.

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