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Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Buried in Treasures outlines a scientifically-based and effective program for helping compulsive hoarders dig their way out of the clutter and chaos of their homes.
Discover the reasons for your problems with acquiring, saving, and hoarding, and learn new ways of thinking about your possessions so you can accurately identify those things you really need and those you can do without. Learn to recognize the "bad guys" that maintain your hoarding behavior and meet the "good guys" who will motivate you and put you on the path to change.
Features of this book include:
-Self-assessments to determine the severity of the problem
-Tips and tools for organizing your possessions and filing your paperwork
-Strategies for changing unhelpful beliefs about your possessions
-Behavioral experiments to reduce your fear of anxiety and fear of discarding.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85227
EAN: 9780195300581
ISBN: 0195300580
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2007-02-08
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
Take tiny steps necessary to discard all that unnecessary stuff -
"Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding" is for "collectors," of which I most certainly am one! If you are a "collector," you know you must solve--all on your own--this problem of accumulating too much stuff.
Oh yes, it would be wonderful to have someone come in and help you make all the stuff disappear, as the team on "Clean House" does. Sort it in bins, then discard, donate, sell--yep, the way to go, except, Mr. or Miss Collector, you cannot put it in any bins except to keep it. Right?
That's where this book comes in--it actually breaks down every argument your pesky little mind can throw in your way to de-clutter. I won't go into details, but my severe acquiring and cluttering developed as a result of divorce. I literally could not touch anything to put away or discard. It had to just sit there, taking up space, keeping people away. Someone volunteered to help me organize, but the thought put me in panic mode.
"Buried in Treasures" is helping. Writers David Tolin, Randy Frost, and Gail Steketee name the condition as compulsive hoarding and stating that overcoming the problem is hard work. They define three conditions for hoarding:
1. Accumulating, then having difficulty getting rid of things of limited or useless value,
2. Clutter that limits or prevents the use of living spaces in the manner for which they were intended,
3. Both the clutter itself and discarding the clutter cause distress.
In order for the hoarder to address the problem, he/she must understand the causes for hoarding, the results, and reasons to change. Hoarding did not happen overnight nor will the clutter disappear overnight. Reinforcement through repetition of information and self-help tests interspersed throughout the book force the reader to think and respond, think and respond.
The authors show the hoarder how to begin discarding through information: strategies, lists, categorizing, flowcharts, agencies that will accept your discards, setting up filing systems, rules, everything, anything that will help begin the discarding process.
Here's an example of treating one aspect of hoarding: Making decisions. Easy for you? A hoarder will pick up something, not be able to decide what to do with it, and put it back amidst the clutter for a decision later. A decision has two parts: make a decision, then follow-through. So, how does a hoarder follow through? A whole list of questions is provided for handling each item. Tedious, you say? The point is to get past the point of getting started.
Getting started: Obtain bins for trashing, donating, and keeping. The point is to have the "keep" bin the emptiest. The second step is to set a specific length of time every day to de-clutter until the clutter is gone, whether one hour or fifteen minutes. Make a schedule. Follow it.
The book is very helpful. At least, I have started the process and have thrown out several boxes of stuff in the last week alone. It's a beginning, whereas I was stuck in time before this book.
Thank you, Tolin, Frost, and Steketee. Your book is itself a treasure, but it's not buried.
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Buried in Treasure -
This book was purchased for a friend and she shares its contents with me at times. It is very informative about reducing the clutter in our homes and the ideas are very workable. A good book for anyone who wants to downsize and simplify their lives.
What to Keep and What to Toss -
This is an excellent book, well written and I felt the people giving the information were really concerned about the people who bought and read this book to improve their situation with this problem. Recycling and downsizing can soon get to be a mountainous task. I found this a most helpful book and one I will certainly recommend to others. Thank you to George too!
Not Very Helpful - 
Not a very substantive book and not well organized and not much of a program. I have diffuculty with my clutter and with organizing and was looking for a way to get a handle on these issues. Don't bother with this book.
Their steps are not in any real order - they expect you to be good at prioritizing already and in identifying where to start. An early chapter says they will help you develop goals but the actual exercise is just to write them down! They offer no suggestions on developing or revising or choosing these goals which are the cornerstone of their alleged program.
Their chapter on motivation is just to get someone else's opinion of your home and then see how it matches yours! That would DE-motivate me. I can't imagine why they think it would be helpful.
As the person with the problem - they have labeled me a hoarder - I found the "Fact File for Friends and Family" sections offensive. I am glad they don't want them to argue with me, but if this book is supposed to give me tools to help myself, I don't need to read their advice to friends to be patronizing to me.
Much more helpful were Making Peace with the Things in your Life, by Cindy Glovinsky - fun and funny but with real tips and strategies for taking action - or Overcoming Complusive Hoarding, by Neziroglu, Bubrick and Yaryura-Tobias - although it is very clinical and quite demanding, it also has actual steps for action.
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didn't know I have OCD-thought I was just an "accumulator" -
First time ever to see a psychologist. She recommended this book. IT IS a TREASURE!! Some of the exercises are hard to do, but they sure open "doors" I didn't know I HAD!! A collector collects thing of VALUE; an accumulator saves EVERYTHING--Just In Case!!
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