The Organized Life: Secrets of an Expert Organizer

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Manufacturer: North Light Books

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 648.8
EAN: 9781581808636
ISBN: 1581808631
Label: North Light Books
Manufacturer: North Light Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2006-12-06
Publisher: North Light Books
Studio: North Light Books

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"Hundreds of Proven Tips for a Less Stressful Life

*A top professional organizer shares her best ideas for saving time, banishing clutter and staying organized *Gorgeous design--with beautiful full-color images and bite-sized tips this guide stands out among other organizing titles

From overstuffed closets to towering stacks of paper, today’s busy families are hungry for information to help them win the war against clutter. This essential guide includes easy and ingenious ideas for managing every area of modern life, from photos and holidays to the garage, kitchen, home office and kids’ rooms. Packed with practical advice, this book gives readers the information they need to achieve a neat and organized home, and a happier life!"

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Summary: The Organized Life
Comment: Very cute little book. Each page has a new tip on how to be organized and they are dividede into catagories/chapters.

Books arrived promptly and in great shape.

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Summary: A delightful and beautiful book...
Comment: This is a delightful book. She gives us organizational tips in a simple, easy to read, easy to follow format. And I have to say the book is just a beautiful book. Nice to hold in your hand and very colorful. It makes you happy to think about organizing.
If I had to say something bad about it, I would say that it is a bit on the basic side. It doesn't go into great detail.

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Summary: Lots of Hints, but basic
Comment: This book was good in the aspect that it gives many easy-to-do tips on how to get organized. However, many of the tips were too basic or outdated. The paper management section was very outdated, but gives good ideas on how to filed effectively. I especially liked the section on time and the home office section. Both of these had great ideas on how to use organization to make a better environment in these areas. "The Fingertip Test" in the Home Office section is a handy and useful tip.

I am a professional organizer in Honolulu, HI (www.organizedislands.com), and I will certainly use this book for helpful hints for my clients.

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Summary: great organisation tips
Comment: This is my favourite organisation book (and ive bought a bundle!). It is an attractive, compact book with modern graphic design & images that make it fun to read. The content is simple and 'straight to the point' and instructions/strategies/tips are in easy to follow point form.
Don't waste your time with the many wordy,text dense organisation books that you have to search thru to uncover just a couple of good ideas... buy this book instead!

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Summary: Random Advice That Never Confronts Real Organizational Challenges
Comment: If you were able to follow the dozens of random tips in this book, you would probably enjoy a more organized life. On the other hand, if you are able to follow the tips in this book, you probably already have a well-organized life. For example, the author suggests several solutions for dealing with children's artwork, including mailing special items to grandparents, "...What you've chosen ... should be sent on its way quickly. A personal note on the back or a signature makes it that much more special." The assumption here is that one has packing tape, mailing tubes, address labels and suitable note paper readily at hand and that one has a system for remembering to take packages to the post office when one is headed in that direction.

A more ludicrous suggestion involves the "paper exchange," which entails setting up a filing system on one's kitchen desk so that children can file their school announcements and permission slips each afternoon; a parent then reviews these papers in the evening, signs any necessary paperwork and returns the forms to the children's backpacks. I could expend several hundred words picking apart the unrealistic assumptions underlying this proposal; instead, Dear Reader, I leave it to your imagination to consider whether this program could be easily implemented in your household. If it could and you haven't thought of it yet, perhaps The Organized Life is for you.

To her credit, Ms Denton does include some suggestions that are useful to those of us whose dispositions make us susceptible to clutter. She devote several pages (p. 100, p. 150) to ideas for reducing clutter and analyzing whether an item really needs to be stored or could better be discarded. She warns of the perils of accumulating needless toiletries. She tells an inspiring anecdote about a man who maintains a clean basement by regularly removing anything he could replace for less than $5 because he recognizes that the benefits of a clean basement outweigh the risk that he might someday havie to spend a small sum on replacement items.

In short, Ms Denton's attractive little book with its brightly colored pages and easy-to-read typography makes a diverting browse for someone who enjoys domestic organizational tasks. It is unlikely to provide any transformative guidance to the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free of their own wretched refuse and teeming to-do lists.

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