It’s not an arbitrary number, Blanke promises: “Once you make it to 50, a kind of wonderful momentum takes over before you know it, the throwing-out thing becomes a habit, an ongoing mindset.”īlanke answers this question by giving you the “rules of disengagement.” They are: If this describes you, aren’t you tired of holding on to that baggage? Many of the people who have financial issues got into their money mess because of what Blanke calls life plaque - bad memories from childhood, a sense of entitlement, awful money habits and old debts. You may be wondering what this book has to do with personal finance. It’s the Color of Money Book Club pick for April.

That’s the seemingly simple advice in Gail Blanke’s new book.īlanke, a motivational speaker and president and chief executive of Lifedesigns, has written “Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life” (Springboard Press, $13.99). Blanke's motivational advice in this book will inspire thousands of readers to take action as do her popular columns in Real Simple.Spring, with its rebirth and warm days, is as good as time as any to get busy throwing out the stuff clogging your home, office, mind and spirit. She'll show us how to find and throw out 'toxic' possessions that remind us of failed relationships, bad jobs, etc, and she'll help us figure out what to keep to help us find out who we really are. Blanke will take the reader through each room in the house and help her figure out what to throw out that will help them move forward. It is the physical stuff that keeps us from being happy and calm in our house - not to mention keeps us from finding our keys in the morning! And it is the clutter in our mind that drags us down and holds us back from living the life we want to live. According to Blanke, 'Our lives are so filled with junk from the past-from dried up tubes of crazy glue to old grudges-that it's a wonder we can get up in the morning, never mind to work, care for our children, our parents and just put one foot in front of the other.' Blanke wants to start a movement of people across America throwing out fifty things (magazines count as only one!) that will help liberate us from the stuff-both physical and mental-that clutters our lives.

Throw Out Fifty Things by Gail Blanke