A review by holly_keimig
Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness by Gretchen Rubin

4.0

A nice quick read about organizing your house (and your inner life) by one of my favorite authors on self-help. I read this whole book in one sitting and took away several good ideas. A couple of my favorite topics she covered were: Move clutter out of context, Most Decisions Don't Require Extensive Research (ouch!), Beware of Clutter Magnets, Don't Wait to Start Creating Order, Assign Each Day It's Own Task, and Choose the Bigger Life. The book is full of good ideas that will appeal to anyone, no matter what their cleaning style. As she says in the book, "Nothing is more exhausting than the task that's never started".

Another fun quote I liked from the book: "It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible." -Samuel Johnson