Peter Walsh’s “It’s All Too Much” DVD Review

Recently I was contacted by Peter Walsh, best selling author and professional organizer from TLC’s Clean Sweep, about his new It’s All Too Much with Peter Walsh DVD release and his new book It’s All Too Much, so get it together.  (This second book is designed for older kids, say age 10+ through young adult. I’ll review this book in a future post.)

I was thrilled to receive a copy of the DVD and his new book. I popped in the DVD and was impressed by the great presentation of what can be a dry topic for some – home organizing. I’ve been a professional organizer since 2005, but even I learned many new tips from the DVD that I can share with my clients.

Like having a professional organizer right in your home, It’s All Too Much with Peter Walsh DVD offers a step-by-step guide to reducing clutter and getting organized. Walsh moves from room to room offering practical, inexpensive and easy to maintain tips and strategies that anyone can do. I was pleased to hear Peter say that the key to getting organized in any space is to have a vision for each space and what activities you want to perform in each space. Then create zones in each space and establish limits. He explained and illustrated these concepts in an easy understand fashion.

Here are a few of my favorite strategies:

GARAGE: get things up off the floor onto shelves. Items are much easier to access when stored vertically and not stacked on top of each other.

KITCHEN: I’ve shared this kitchen organizing strategy with my clients and I was glad to see Peter illustrate it in action. Empty your cooking gadget drawer into a box. When you need to use one of the gadgets in the box over the next month, take it out of the box and put it back in the drawer. After two months, go back to the box and see what’s left in it. The items that are left in the box haven’t been used in at least two month, so do you really need them?

CHILD’S ROOM AND TOYS: use the vertical space as much as possible by installing hooks and hanging clothing and shoe organizers. Limit the number of toys and create a routine for putting toys away and purging as new toys come in. I taught these skills to my kids early and they are now very comfortable with these tasks.

When Walsh’s book It’s All Too Much was first released in 2007, I bought the book on Unabridged 6-CD set and listened to it in the car daily for at least six months.  I then also purchased the hardback as a reference to refer back to again and again.

I’ve read LOTS of books on organization and many are just rehashed versions of the same body of knowledge. But Peter’s books are different. He  has a way of explaining our fascination and obsession with stuff in such a practical and logical way.  The way he presents the material is like a light-bulb going off that says “why are we living our lives with so much stuff?” and “why are we putting up with it our home looking like a storage shed?” The DVD has the same great qualities and I’m sure anyone who watches this will be motivated to get started.

Great contribution Peter! I highly recommend the It’s All Too Much DVD, Book on CD and hardback.

You can find It’s All Too Much with Peter Walsh DVD on Amazon.com

Originally posted 2010-04-12 13:53:39. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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