The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide

I recently had a road trip ahead of me and thought it would be a good time to learn more about minimalism. Wish I looked elsewhere, I was trapped in the car for two long with this book. It started off good and there were a few take-aways that I got from this, but overall I felt the book to be very pushy and not within the mindset of other minimalism resources I have looked into.

I would highly recommend skipping this and looking elsewhere for your introduction into minimalism!

I think it is a nice book to start to know about minimalism and what are the steps to become a minimalist. There are chapters about each area or room of a house explaining how to apply the author's proposed method for dealing with clutter. Those were interesting chapters because they really go into detail about the steps necessary to declutter. But maybe they weren't meant to be read all in a single sitting (which was what I did) because I found the last chapters a little bit repetitive.
And I got the impression the book talks a lot about really cluttered places and lives and sometimes I thought that the audience of the book were people with really extreme amounts of clutter (like hoarders). There were many examples that really didn't apply to my life, maybe because I am almost a minimalist person without it.
The method she proposes, the “STREAMLINE”, is very straight forward, detailed and can be applied anywhere.
All in all, I enjoyed the book because it gave me the clarity to start planning my decluttering project.