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About the Author : Don Aslett, America's #1 Cleaning Expert, owns one of the country's largest cleaning firms, Varsity Contractors. His numerous home care books have sold more than three million copies. He's a mediagenic powerhouse, having appeared on QVC Shopping Network, Oprah, Live with Regis   as well as all the prime national television shows and in the pages of every woman's magazine. He resides in Pocatello, Idaho.

Publication Data: DO I DUST OR VACUUM FIRST, 2 nd Edition : Answers to the 100 toughest, most frequently asked questions about housecleaning

By Don Aslett

Publication Date: June 2005; Adams Media, a division of F+W Publications, Inc.

Trade Paperback; ISBN: 1-59337-331-7

DON ASLETT IS AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS

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Our life is turned around, thanks to you and your great book.

Dear Don: You are superb. My friends and I really do appreciate your anti-clutter ‘Bible.’ It would be our choice of book to take to a desert island if we were castaways—along with Shakespeare and the Bible!

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts (and drawers and rubbish bins) for setting us free.

Just finished reading your delightful Clutter’s Last Stand, which should be called Swami Aslett’s Guide to Enlightenment. Your Mark Twain folksiness and Will Rogers delivery thinly disguise the wisdom of a prophet.

My main secret to getting started dejunking, for that kick-off (or should I say kick out?) oomph, is reading a Don Aslett book! Your books are like having a guardian angel on the shelf just waiting there to help me. Even just flipping the book open and reading chapter headings gets me stirred up!

I’m sure you hear this all the time. You saved my life, or at least my sanity, and possibly my marriage.

Your book gave me a ‘jump start’ into decluttering. I brought it home and decided to just look through it. Little did I realize that you don’t just look at this book. Two hours later I had read enough to know that my ‘dejunk’ time had arrived.

I now know what you mean when you say ‘Life truly begins when you discover how flexible and free you are without clutter.’ IT’S TERRIFIC!!!

The book that I feel has made the most difference in my life are Clutter’s Last Stand. It’s really true that it’s hard at first to let go of clutter, but it gets easier and easier until it really is FUN! Thanks to you, our clutter is NOT expanding to fill up the available space in our beautiful brand new house.

For some years now I have been meaning to write to tell you how much I have enjoyed reading your book Freedom from Clutter, and what a wonderfully liberating book I have found it. As you say, dejunking gives one a wonderful feeling of lightness and relief. This book has helped me so much....

I have worked in the mental health field, and I can tell you that everything you say about clutter is psychologically sound and it is worth years of therapy.

I was a clutterbug in the highest, most cluttered, most catastrophic sense. I kept everything out of fear. And then I read your book—your warm humor, your love—and I was sold—on life—a new life of happy uncluttered clean homemaking. I feel so free! I love you—my whole family loves you. You have also affected a mother and father-in-law, neighbors, parents—I recommend all your books to people.

I just read your book Clutter’s Last Stand. THANK YOU!!! I immediately went through my house dejunking with glee. I really can’t believe how much better I feel. It’s like a weight off my shoulders.

You deserve a Sainthood and at the very least a Knighthood, for you have done more to improve the quality of life for human beings than any other single person since the Renaissance at least. Think about it, Mr. Aslett—can you think of anyone who has done more to improve the day-to-day life of more people? As far as I am concerned, you are the Saviour of the modern world.

Your letter made my day today. It is just a thrill to hear from you, my cleaning Messiah. Yes, your books have changed my life and their influence are still ongoing.

I can’t help but feel you were inspired of the Lord when you wrote Clutter’s Last Stand (whether you were aware of it or not), and when I buy a copy (I read a library copy), it’s going to be right alongside my Bible on the bookshelf—a bookshelf that will have room for it!

You have a rare ability to hit one’s guilty areas without bringing out one’s defenses—it’s nice to be inspired to action for a change.

After five years, I think it’s time I expressed to you the gratitude I have for Clutter’s Last Stand. This book has changed my life. Are you coming out with a new book? I hope so—I have read and re-read your others cover to cover. I love them.

I thoroughly enjoyed and greatly benefitted from your book Clutter’s Last Stand. In fact, it changed my life. I only wish I had read it BEFORE we made the arduous 3000-mile cross country move that found us lugging tons of unnecessary ‘stuff.’ That ‘stuff’ has now bitten the dust, and we are happier for it. Thanks! I’m a fan for life.

I bought your book at a paperback store while looking for something light to read. At first I thought it was funny. I laughed, chuckled, and was thoroughly entertained. Then one evening I started reading it again. This time with a “Wow” in mind. I realized that this was the answer to my ball and chain.

Your book Clutter’s Last Stand is the most hilarious thing I’ve ever read. I’ve laughed so hard tears have rolled down my face for days. I’ve also begun dejunking immediately.

I’m currently reading Not for Pack Rats Only and because I’m enjoying it so much, I’m sorry that the last page will be coming up very soon. I felt the same way about Clutter’s Last Stand when I read it a few years ago. Both books are very interesting, informative, helpful, and amusing—often hilarious. The humor helps junkaholics like me to face up to shortcomings in this area of our lives.

I bought your book Not for Pack Rats Only as a joke for my husband. He never did read it, but I devoured it, followed rapidly by Clutter’s Last Stand. What a difference it has made.

Within moments of reading the first few pages, something hit me. And moments later—it felt like moments—I had ten shopping bags filled with clothes, shoes, socks, belts, roller skates, etc.

If you’d like to know what books I would grab and run in case of fire:
King James Bible, Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, Maxwell Maltz’s Psychocybernetics, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, The Merck Manual, and Don Aslett’s Clutter’s Last Stand!

I hope your book made you a million dollars. It made me wealthy. My wealth being freedom — freedom from stuff!

I just wanted to thank you for writing Clutter’s Last Stand. Four days ago I was strolling through the library and saw it and decided to check it out. It was the best book I ever checked out.

Your book, Clutter’s Last Stand, sure had an impact. I can’t remember ever sitting down to write a letter to the author of any book I’ve ever read.

I confess, I’m addicted. Don’t stop the presses. Please continue to author. This Aslett-addict will need a fix down the road.

Thank you. Your book has made a real difference in our lives. Are we telling our friends about Clutter? You bet we are!

Your book Clutter’s Last Stand has profoundly influenced me. I have donated it to two libraries and given it to friends.

I was quite motivated by your book. It was one I didn’t read just to say ‘Well, I’ll have to do that someday.’ It was one that jolted me to action.

I feel compelled to let you know what a difference you are making in my life since I’ve been reading your Clutter’s Last Stand. You are inspiring me to get rid of so much excess baggage. I feel excited about the adventure of living! God bless you. I really needed you to come into my life when you did!

How fantastic that you could take something so useful and universal and find such a lucid and entertaining way to present it.

I can’t thank you enough for the burden you’ve lifted from my life!

I’m so happy to report that your book has been the breakthrough in my recovery from life-long bouts of depressive illness. Your outrageous little book was the catalyst for some kind of miraculous renewal in my life.

I intend to make Clutter’s Last Stand mandatory reading every spring—to gear up for spring cleaning—hey, and fall too!

Send your comments to: Don Aslett c/o Marsh Creek Press, P.O. Box 700, Pocatello, ID 83204
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