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Cassandra Aarssen

Cassandra Aarssen is a professional organizer, author, and television personality best known as the founder of ClutterBug, a home-organizing business and YouTube channel reaching over 500,000 families worldwide. She is also recognized as the host of HGTV's Hot Mess House and has authored books including The Declutter Challenge and Real Life Organizing.
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Real Life Organizing: Clean and Clutter-Free in 15 Minutes a Day

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Real Life Organizing: Clean and Clutter-Free in 15 Minutes a Day by Cassandra Aarssen is a home-organization guide published by Mango in 2017, with a foreword by professional organizer Peter Walsh. Built around Aarssen's "ClutterBug" personality framework and a 15-minutes-a-day philosophy, the book is designed to help readers build sustainable organizing systems tailored to their individual style — without requiring a dramatic whole-home overhaul. It is one entry in Aarssen's broader body of organizing titles and is aimed at anyone who feels perpetually overwhelmed by clutter but skeptical that lasting change is possible.

Reviewed May 29, 2026

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