While this books had really good tips on hand, most of the stuff was not really new. Positive: * 15 minute challenges were interesting and got you motivated * How to make cash out of your items: some tips were useful, more useful probably for readers in the US Negative: * The cash-backs after every chapter were just ridiculous. I know it was meant so that you could write it in front of the title "X money worth cash!!" But really: Not everybody has Tiffany earrings sitting in their jewelry boxes. * Author wrote her own perspective on things, making the tips plainly useless if you are not 100% in the same position * The first chapter was downright insulting it is so stupid: Really, the 25 uses of shoeboxes?? I thought about giving up the whole book then but got myself through that chapter and afterwards it got better, but it's not a good start. Somewhere in between: * I cannot decide if the "toss-keep-sell" overviews are good or bad. I mean, people should know when to tolls, keep or sell an item, right? Still 5 starts for the couple of useful tips that were in there and for being somewhat motivational to go through all the stuff, cluttering out the apartment.