Overall, the book was disjointed ---- chapters are interspersed that bring you out of her story --- they read like self-help columns for people looking to stop drinking or quiz themselves about whether they have a drinking problem along with short treatises on related but diverse subjects like women's body self-images, the English and their attitudes towards drinking, scientific studies about alcohol, and even astrology (yes, astrology).

Excluding the fortunate few to whom organizing comes naturally, if we do not address this aspect, rebound is inevitable no matter how much is discarded or how cleverly things are organized. A common response and not surprising, considering that almost everyone has experienced a rebound effect at least once, if not multiple times, after tidying. In this witty and searingly honest memoir, Glyde addresses her party years—from the excuses used for drinking to the ones she used when giving up.Llama Llama’s mama tells him that everyone has jobs to do; she suggests, and Llama Llama imagines, what the house would look like if Mama never cleaned. It is about 2 friends who tidy together, and shows how tidying up your home can create space for joy in all parts of your life. Metro At the end of a twenty-three-year love affair with alcohol, Tania Glyde remembers her inner white wine witch.

Exposing the culpability of the drinks industry, the enabling qualities of Class As and our powerful sense of entitlement to drink until we fall over, Cleaning Up examines a moral panic of our time, exploring why women drink, how to stop and what life after alcohol is really like. If Hunter Thompson had been born in middle England, female, and thirty years later this could be the book she would have written, except this one includes an ending of sanity and redemption.You may as well be asking them to traipse one hundred miles in the rain, across rough terrain, with an elephant strapped to their back.

Sorry Marie Kondo, but before you were even born my favorite book was The Big Tidy Upby Norah Smaridge. The depiction of the alcohol and drug moderated social scene in fin du vingtieme siecle Britain as frighteningly heartless, uncaring and cruel is perfectly accurate for a particular milieu which still exists today.Llama Llama Mess Mess Mess – When Mama Llama says it’s time to clean up, Llama responds like any child more interested in playing than cleaning . It's about living very intentionally and allowing your surroundings and possessions to become an expression of yourself. Tic and Tac haven’t done laundry before, and the two are shocked when they discover that hanging laundry and helping out is actually fun! Picture books are a great way to strike up conversations about all sorts of topics that are important to kids or topics we want to bring attention to. Since the premiere of Marie Kondo's new Netflix show, Tidying Up, the Internet hasn't stopped talking and creating memes about it and I completely understand the obsession.