This is a basic, manageable guide for anyone looking to better organize their home. The author's core concept is "the container rule", meaning you have different containers for items and when it's full, you can't keep anything else. This container can be a bucket for markers or on a larger scale, your living room is a container and so is your whole house. I like this concept and can see how it will help me tame the clutter in my house.

The author's tone is positive and encouraging, her tips make sense, and her writing is straight forward. I highly recommend this for anyone looking for guidance on organizing their home.

This was not only useful, but a genuinely enjoyable read! The author is fun, lighthearted, and funny while still dispensing some great tips that I hadn't heard before. I liked that not only were there practical ideas, but readers were also coached in how to think about the concept of organizing and decluttering, so they could apply the principles to their own unique situations.

There are some very helpful photos, including one step-by-step of how to declutter a cabinet that will be great for visual learners and people who benefit from seeing what "done" looks like. The author's thoughts on time management, including the suggestion to time tasks to help avoid distortions (As in her example. I always think unloading the dishwasher is going to take way longer than the 3-5 minutes it actually does.) were very practical and effective.

This is an easy, straightforward, well-organized guide that almost anyone could benefit from reading. I definitely found some things I'm inspired to try!

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!

This book reads like a collection of Instagram posts. Not necessarily a bad thing, but a little annoying to read.
This book is a great resource of how I can imagine someone starting to "adult" better and get their home in order. With a focus on "getting rid of" rather than "make room for", everything is practical and cheap.
My only real complaint is how White organizes her week, with a day for Laundry, a day for Mopping, etc. This only works for stay-at-home parents, and she doesn't offer any other solutions besides what works for her. Fair enough, but makes her suggestions less effective for many readers. Most of the advice will work for everyone.
**I received an advance copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

It is easy to feel overwhelmed just at the thought of organising a cluttered and dirty home but Dana K White’s new book will keep the reader calm! It is written in a very easy manner, like the author is talking to you, not lecturing at you. The book is also well illustrated with before and after photos which look just like our own living spaces.

There are plenty of tips on how to get through the decluttering process and the recommended daily actions. Get those in place and THEN comes the cleaning.

One piece of advice which has stayed with me is that when decluttering, stay factual, not emotional. That’s the bit I find really hard!

Thank you to publishers Thomas Nelson and NetGalley.

This is a super helpful book for anyone trying to take control & organise their life! this would definitely have a place on my bookshelf, would be great for families!

I needed a kick to do some decluttering and this is just what I needed - a nonsense, simple approach. I appreciated her sense of humor and that she also identified herself as having behaviors that she mentioned (e.g. not realizing how much time has passed since you last cleaned something, getting distracted in the middle of cleaning, etc.). Not only did I see myself in those descriptions, it felt like we were sharing tips as equals.

I really liked her container concept as a way of controlling clutter: don't buy more containers to contain, find a clutter threshold by appropriately filling containers and use one-on-one-out principles.

I also appreciated the ways that this was the opposite of the empty everything out to declutter policy - she provided a more realistic way to tackle clutter slowly without destroying your house.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for this eARC.

I read a lot of organizing and decluttering books and Dana K. White's are always my favorites. I generally get one or two good points from an entire book and I take those with me. With Marie Kondo, it's the whole spark joy thing. With Dana, it's the container concept that's always stuck with me (you have a container for each type of thing you have and when it's full you need to get rid of the things that are not your favorites -- whether it's a bookcase or your sock drawer or your living room, don't get more containers, just keep the best of your things). That was in her other books too (Organizing at the Speed of Life and another who's title I forget) and that's in here, along with some of her other takeaways like start with the place you see first because it inspires you and don't take everything out Marie-style but take one thing at a time and deal with it immediately.

This book is 100 tips in large print format. Each tip takes a page or two, but they're spaced large so this is sort of a gift book format (there's even a page in the front for you to write your name as a present, though I wonder if some people might take offense at getting a gift book telling you how to declutter your house). There are some photos of her and her spaces but they seemed to be ones she already had from her blog. Sometimes they were cool and helpful, and sometimes she explained something with just words and I thought this is where you really could have used one of those photos. Most of the photos are sort of stock images like rolled towels, but some are obviously from her cleaning her own bathroom sink and such, which I always enjoy.

Dana is likeable and fun, and she writes from the perspective of someone who could never keep her house clean and organized until she developed these systems so it's relatable for those of us who were not born to clean. I'm not sure if I recommend this one over her other books, but if you like reading tidbits it's a good pick. It's also nice in that it doesn't tell you the same principle 15 times in a different room each time, which lots of organizing books do to fill up a whole book. This also covers cleaning jobs and not just decluttering and organizing, so it's helpful there (slip a pillowcase over your ceiling fan to collect the dust, etc.).

Well recommended.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

I'll just say it: I loved this book! Dana White is smart, funny, clear, and, above all, she knows firsthand what she's talking about. For those of us who struggle to have a tidy house, she knows our struggle is real since she's lived it herself. The difference between someone like me and her is that she has spent the last ten years or so figuring out how people like us can change and, again, she did it herself.

This isn’t a book for those who find it easy to keep organized or just love to clean their house! It's a book for the rest of us. It is realistic, practical, and different than every other organizing system.

Enjoy it. I have not only been inspired by it, I couldn’t resist immediately starting to use her ideas and immediately starting to reap the benefits as my house has begun the transformation to tidy!

Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas Nelson for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review!

The formatting on this was a bit all over the place, which made it difficult to read, hence the rating. However, what I could read, I enjoyed. I thought there was some good advice in there.

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

If you’ve tried “Sparking Joy” and your house is still a mess try Dana White’s system. “Organizing For The Rest Of Us” is a great book for anyone who wants to get started decluttering but doesn’t know where to begin. Instead of dumping everything out of a cupboard and touching it ,she recommends taking a before ,middle and after photo and removing once piece at a time. White notes that creative and sensitive people will form a connection to any item so the quicker you toss it the better. This book is sort of the antidote to the perfectly colour -coded bins and boxes we see on Instagram. This might be the push regular people need to finally get a system that works for THEM. I always enjoy the author non-judgemental approach.

Organizing for the Rest of Us is a down to earth approach to clutter clearing and getting your home ship shape. The best advice in the book is that you don't need to pull everything out, and it is OK to just do a little bit at a time. I found some of the recommendations were not for me, some were just common sense, but in amongst these were some really useful ideas. It is written in an easy high level style, so it is a great book for dipping into for a motivational boost.