Stuffology 101

Get Your Mind Out of the Clutter

By: Brenda Avadian, Eric M. Riddle

Narrated by: Susan Boyce, Lloyd James

Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

Stuffology 101 is for those of us who want to get the clutter out of our lives without being featured on reality TV. We can still use our bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen, but we harbor secrets.

• Do you race around to pick up piles when someone's at the door?
• Do you close the door to hide your stuff in the spare room?
• Do you still have boxes to unpack from your last move a dozen years ago?
• Are you unable to focus because your mind is so frazzled?

Stuffologists Brenda Avadian and Eric Riddle share four decades of experience dealing with stuff - or rather, clutter. Inside Stuffology 101, you'll find fun and flexible approaches to get your mind out of what you define as clutter. Funny, serious, and humbling stories are woven in with tips to help you clear the toxic clutter out of your life.

At the end of your life, what will matter most - things or people? Are you ready to manage the stuff in your life?

©2014 Brenda Avadian, MA, and Eric M. Riddle (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Great help

I found detail oriented steps to help with getting rid any preventing adding on, it is useful to listen and do the task while listening.

Basic Info with some interesting tidbits

The information provided was pretty basic. Maybe I'm not the intended target audience, as I didn't have a lot of clutter issues at the time I read this book. It may be more useful for someone who needs the motivation to get started to de-clutter. I did enjoy learning about the mental, temporal and digital clutter in addition to the traditional "physical clutter" concept. The chapters are short and easy to listen to, but I'm not sure how I felt about the authors marketing their product at the end. I did realize that my main clutter issues are my unread audible books that I sometimes about getting to and my ever expanding Goodreads "to read" list; I related well to the authors' discussion on not being able to get to current books because they are catching up on the older unread ones!

Much of the same

The authors aren't really breaking much new ground in this book with cleaning and organizing. They tried to be a little cutesy by adding some poems, but I'm personally not a fan of poetry and felt they were filler. The biggest thing I felt that they offered differently than other books was including the mental clutter that comes with always having something going on in the background.

Great Advice

I have been struggling w/Clutter for many years and I still have trouble letting go.
This book has given me valuable information.

Enjoyable and inspirational quick read.

I am in the process of cleaning up and this is one of a handful of books that assisted me through the process. Professional and good content.

extremely useful and profound tools

I loved the whole book, with its stories and examples. most of all I appreciated emotional clutter part.

Worth the Read

I actually loved this book. It's not my 1st book about clutter but it had a lot of good points all in one place. I enjoyed the short and to the point chapters.
If you have have a lotbof clutter - physical, mental, or digital - this book will help motivate you to change it. It will give you great reasons why you should declutter your life and change your habits. It helps you keep certain thoughts in mind while decluttering to keep pushing through.
If you need help decluttering or the motivation to start or keep going - read this book!

Good Ideas

What made the experience of listening to Stuffology 101 the most enjoyable?

I liked the ideas these authors put forth to clear the clutter. Certainly things to think about and to use.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes and it's a good book to listen more than once.

Útil y ligero

Me agrada como habla de simplificar, no solo en objetos físicos sino también en ideas y obligaciones. Narración ligera, agradable

Actually Effective

I listen to self-help books a lot, and never do anything with them. This book perfectly described my house right at the beginning. Very fitting to most anyone, very effective. It really works, and... YOU CAN DO IT!