Clutter
An Untidy History

A really quiet and enjoyable read about so many different perspectives on a topic we tend not to talk about.......more

Delightful! It's particularly charming that a book about clutter is presented in such a slender volume. It would have been dreadfully ironic if this had been a tome. Instead, in "Clutter" we get a concise, lively history of the drive to accumulate, with not a wasted word. In highly readable and ente......more

I became increasingly agitated as I made my way through this book and I realized it was too close to home. The writer got the job many of us have had or will have: that is cleaning up the detritus of a lifetime of our parent (s). Her mother was so like my mother: she had 3 husbands; divorced 2 and o......more

Howard's book is a great read on the history of clutter. If you're looking for a how-to book to treat hoarders or how to clean your own place up, this isn't really the book. But it delves into how we, in the modern age, have come to acquire so much clutter from those who preceded us. Interspersed th......more