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What's a Disorganized Person to Do?
by
Stacey Platt
An easy-to-read, idea-packed guide for anyone who wants to be more organized and who doesn't?
Everyone has overflowing closets and desk drawers, countertops loaded with kitchen gadgets, and overstuffed computer desktops. We dream of getting organized but what's a disorganized person to do? In this book, professional organizer Stacey Platt comes to the rescue with empowerin...more
Everyone has overflowing closets and desk drawers, countertops loaded with kitchen gadgets, and overstuffed computer desktops. We dream of getting organized but what's a disorganized person to do? In this book, professional organizer Stacey Platt comes to the rescue with empowerin...more
Paperback, 277 pages
Published
April 2nd 2010
by Artisan Publishers
(first published 2010)
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Imagine an avid Pinterest user's "Organize" board put into book form, and this is it. It's a collection of tips and techniques for organizing your home, room by room. As other reviewers have said, it's not all that original. If you're already a very organized person, or a collector of these types of books, you won't find it very helpful. But as a natural piler with disorganized tendencies, I found it to be very helpful. Although, it could be an advertisement for The Container Store. But I think...more
Apr 14, 2011
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I ordered this book on Amazon and it arrived yesterday. At first glance I thought - this is more of a 'read a section here and there' book rather than a 'read cover to cover' type of book. But I nearly did just that yesterday! It was a bit overwhelming seeing as how being organized doesn't come naturally for me *at all*, but it was so much fun to read and has some fabulous organizational tips and ideas. I especially like her attitude about throwing things away, I'm more of a thrower-awayer type...more
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I guess I can't give a book that is about organizing my pots and pans five stars when I have given five stars to books that have caused a great spiritual or emotional change in my life, now can I? BUT, this book totally changed how I organize my home, and that is massive. I don't know what it was about this little book that changed the way I look at everything in my household, but it worked. I liked her theory of the fork. Everybody knows where the forks are in their home. You don't have to sear...more
This is a great little book with ideas for organizing any thing and any space in your home. A lot of it isn't new, but it definitely did have some good tips I'd never considered before. It's organized by rooms in the house and has photographs demonstrating almost each principle. The only thing it didn't take into consideration is homes that might not have as much storage space as this book assumes. When we moved in to our new house over 2 years ago, we unpacked all our boxes quickly just throwin...more
This is definitely an eye-pleasing book (lots of pictures), but a lot of this information is common sense or stuff most people learn throughout their lives. Unfortunately, nothing just gets organized. Organization (and staying organized) takes work and diligence. All the containers and labels and whatnot won't help if you don't do it and keep it up! Platt's book covers pretty much all areas in our homes from closets to kitchens to food storage to home offices/guest rooms and everything in betwee...more
This book has numerous good ideas, but the problem with being organized is that no matter how many sorting boxes you put in your house, it wont matter unless you make a point to USE them.
I've begun to use a few of their ideas, and while sometimes I feel like I'm being all OCD about sorting, they're generally working. There were a few thoughts like magnetic strips on the kitchen wall that I feel look just too utilitarian and unwelcoming, and so you need to balance homey-ness with clutterlessness....more
I've begun to use a few of their ideas, and while sometimes I feel like I'm being all OCD about sorting, they're generally working. There were a few thoughts like magnetic strips on the kitchen wall that I feel look just too utilitarian and unwelcoming, and so you need to balance homey-ness with clutterlessness....more
There is information in here that you could get elsewhere, but this little book is organized so well that you really don't need to. There were a couple of things I really loved, and I surprised myself by reading it virtually cover to cover. Even if you would call yourself an organized person, you'll find something that speaks to you, like folding fitted sheets!
As a hyper organized person myself, I am always looking for that extra...something, and I never find it in these books. I see their value for people who have somewhat of an idea what to do. For hoarders? These books are useless. Now back to my Hemingway's letters book.
Jul 11, 2011
Donna
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
disorganized people like me
Shelves:
nonfiction
Now if I only did what this book suggested..... Actually it's a pretty well organized book on how to get organized. I always marvel at the size of the closets and bathrooms in which stuff is being organized. They need to write an organization book for the small home.
I was surprized when I got the book, that it is literally 1 to 317 listed ideas,tips, projects, and lists. Just like it said on the book cover,lol. I bought the book on the internet so I didn't see how organized it was.
The tips are extremely helpful.
The tips are extremely helpful.
Informative and useful book about getting and keeping things organized. Also blessed with countless photos that make it light and livier, even if they don't always contribute much useful information.
I'm a very organized individual but always looking for tips/advice to increase my own efficiency and cut down wasted effort. Most of the things in this book I already do but there were a few items I learned that will help me at home. Plan on buying book as a present for a very disorganized person I know (evil grin)!
(non-fiction) 317 tips including projects and lists to unclutter and streamline your life. Nothing particularly new, but if one wasn't an addict of such books, it would be very good.
This book has a lot of great tips-- some of them were common knowledge and some were eye-opening.
Now all I have to do is actually implement what I learned... later.
Now all I have to do is actually implement what I learned... later.
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Always some good ideas in these books and this one has many - field trip to my home in a year to see if I have been successful in incorporating any of them!
Super book! Good size, easy to hold, clear and interesting. Lots of excellent ideas. Practical. If you're going to read just one book on getting organized or decluttering, make it this one!
This should be called "what should a disorganized person buy?" Too many gadgets and containers for this simple living gal. Fail.
Good practical tips for every room in the house. Things that don't come naturally to us messier types can be learned.
I really liked this book. It was very easy to read and the suggestions where very helpful and easy to implement.
Very well set up, especially for someone with ADD. Each tip is succinct and self-contained, so you don't have to read a whole chapter at a time to benefit.
Mar 18, 2013
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Answered questions that I didn't even know I had. Informative. Will be referring back to this book.
Awesome easy to read book! Great tips that I will be using to organize a few areas in my house.
As it turns out,I already have almost every single organizational skill pointed out by this author!
I loved this book. It has a lot of tips that are very useful.
It was all right; I didn't think there was anything in the book that I couldn't have figured out in a visit to The Container Store.
Solid info, but nothing really new to me. A super quick read.
If only reading a book would solve my diorganization!
Beautifully presented. Resourceful. Best takeaway: adding "decant" to my organizational lexicon. (As in, taking things out of their bulky, original packinging and putting them into something more functional or asthetically pleasing.)
Oh! I LOVE this book! I'd love to be this organized! The pictures are awesome. I show my husband those pictures and just sigh. The utility room....man, I'm drooling over it! Really though, the book is organized by rooms in your home and there are helpful tips for each. Even a way to organize a paper piler like me! I can read little bits at a time and dream away....
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