Nobody Wants Your Sh*t: the art of decluttering before you die
By Messie Condo
There are self-help books, inspirational books, how-to books, decluttering books -- and then there's Nobody Wants Your Sh*t by Messie Condo, the only book of its kind that might make you actually DO something. I highly recommend this book for the uninspired couch potato who rewards (her)self for moving a box from here to there. A box that was "here" for 10 years, and will now be "there" for 10 more.
Messie says, "You don't have to become Marie Kondo overnight to get your sh*t together.... you are not expected to declutter an entire house in a day, Hell, you don't even have to declutter an entire drawer in a day. (A junk drawer is easily a two-day project.)"
It's these kinds of parenthetical comments that snagged and inspired me. Sensible how-to talk tempered by understanding, hand-holding, humor and a good dose of potty mouth (if that's your thing).
Messie Condo encourages without chastising, advises without making demands, shows you the way but allows you to back off and move on to something else -- understanding that if you're forcing yourself, you might just throw in the towel (instead of packing it up for the Humane Society).