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10-Minute Clutter Control: Easy Feng Shui Tips For Getting Organized (2004)

by Skye Alexander(Favorite Author)

3.12 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0739441663 (ISBN13: 9780739441664)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Fair Winds Press

review 1: It makes a nice, quick bathroom read. A series of feng shui thoughts to breeze through.A lot of the advice is common sense, but entirely too much is devoted to the "superstitious" side of feng shui for my taste. In places, I found myself reminded of Bridget Jones, in the scene where she tries to control the fates of herself and the people around her by moving her furniture, and a huge indoor plant, into illogical places.There are things that I really respect about feng shui, and it seems the only real "set of rules" that I have come across for maintaining the health of the subconscious. Its weakness, as I see it, is that there are sometimes Too Many rules. As in this book. I can perfectly agree with the idea that constantly looking at clutter or something depressing... more can grate on the subconscious, but the subconscious, almost by its very definition, defies being categorized and ordered by a single series of laws. And, really, should I be devoting my time to blaming my misfortunes on sharp or odd-numbered objects in the various "guas" around me?A LOT of this book is devoted to telling me where to place my trash bin and my plants, but very little how to identify and find time for legitimate clutter. But, in all, some good tips and a light read. (Only one thing stood out as a really bad idea. She advocates taking children's toys if they leave them out... and then giving them away without telling them if they don't ask for them back. That struck me as a tad mean.)
review 2: This was my first book on feng shui, and I found some of the beliefs to make sense as well as be of use. It's a handy little guide to keeping your house organized, but the author began repeating a lot of the same info over and over again toward the second half of the book. This didn't bother me too much, and I do understand the idea that advice of this sort kind of needs to be repeated to the reader in different ways in order to make the principles stick. The subtitle is "easy feng shui tips for getting organized," and easy they are. The book did spark a greater interest in me to learn more about feng shui, which was an unexpected thing since I mainly picked up the book because of the premise of "clutter control" and not so much for the feng shui. I got this book from the library, but if I saw it at a discount price of $2, I'd buy it. less

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