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Organize Now!: A Week-By-Week Guide to Simplify Your Space and Your Life
Get Organized Fast!Clutter has a cost. It steals your storage space, robs your time and energy, and takes away the peace and beauty of your home. Don't pay for it another minute�get organized, now!
This updated and expanded edition of the bestselling "Organize Now!" features even more quick, effective organizing ideas. Easy-to-follow checklists show you how to organize any...more
This updated and expanded edition of the bestselling "Organize Now!" features even more quick, effective organizing ideas. Easy-to-follow checklists show you how to organize any...more
ebook, 142 pages
Published
November 5th 2010
by North Light Books
(first published 2008)
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The ideal me wouldn't need this book. The actual me is procrastinating reading it, let alone follow it's guidance.
I am a person who loves to keep things - things that I never again will use whether it be kept because of memories, or because it's something I might possibly wear, or because I just like it and don't want to part with it.
So this brings a house full of clutter - clutter in the closet, clutter in my dresser, clutter in the garage, clutter everywhere!
Let's hope this book helps me!
So this brings a house full of clutter - clutter in the closet, clutter in my dresser, clutter in the garage, clutter everywhere!
Let's hope this book helps me!
This book really helped me organize my organizing. In other words, those times when you have so much to do you just can't figure out where to begin. This book has got everything from organizing your laundry room to your car, even your purse! I just had to turn to a project in the book, check off the tasks, and when done stare at my room with wonder and relaxation. It's amazing how much happier I am when all my drawers and cabinets are orderly, and it's easier to keep the house clean, which helps...more
May 28, 2012
Arielle
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
people with children who need organizational tips
Pretty good. Clear and concise. Quick and easy to read. The author says she realizes many of these organizational books out there have so much meat and reading, that they end up taking so much time. Her book has quick little intro paragraphs, then check-lists and quick tips. It truly was a quick read. This book wasn't very useful for me, and where I am in my stage of life. This book is more for people with family, children, career, and a home (not a one bedroom apartment)but useful nonetheless....more
Jan 20, 2012
Annie
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommended to Annie by:
Debbie
Shelves:
misc
An organizational book that follows 52 week-by-week plan to organizing everything in life, from trips to receipts to the garage. The advice is practical and useful. I found some great tips but for the most part was doing most of her suggestions already. I think it would be immensely helpful for someone who is just beginning to want to be more organized.
I liked the structure of the book. Each topic was broken down into sections with an introductory paragraph, a list of items to complete to get or...more
I liked the structure of the book. Each topic was broken down into sections with an introductory paragraph, a list of items to complete to get or...more
Handy little book for folk looking to bust up the clutter and disorganization of their daily home or work life.
Personally, I can't organize enough, so this book didn't really 'help' me so much as just confirm good practices. But I love organizing so dang much that it spills over into wanting to read how others organize to see if there's some new idea I'm missing.
It's an easy read, ideas and suggestions broken down into simple tasks. I feel it would be a non-threatening/non-chastising read for s...more
Personally, I can't organize enough, so this book didn't really 'help' me so much as just confirm good practices. But I love organizing so dang much that it spills over into wanting to read how others organize to see if there's some new idea I'm missing.
It's an easy read, ideas and suggestions broken down into simple tasks. I feel it would be a non-threatening/non-chastising read for s...more
Nov 17, 2011
Meredith
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
home-style-organizing
This book would be great for someone completely unorganized who had read nothing else on the subject and needed a complete life makeover. The layout is good and easy to use.
As someone who doesn't fit the above category, reading this made me feel quite organized. I'm very glad I got it from the library instead of succumbing to the temptation to buy. Then I would be disappointed and unable to see the value of the book for others because of its relative worthlessness for me.
I'm always looking for...more
As someone who doesn't fit the above category, reading this made me feel quite organized. I'm very glad I got it from the library instead of succumbing to the temptation to buy. Then I would be disappointed and unable to see the value of the book for others because of its relative worthlessness for me.
I'm always looking for...more
This is a great organizational book! I love how easy to follow and straightforward it is. I've read a lot of organizational books, but this is one of the few I often come back to when I need some help. The best part of it is that it is organized week-by-week but also area-by-area of your home, so if you're just wanting to focus on one or two rooms you can check out those sections. Each section also contains a checklist of basic organizational tasks you should complete, which is super helpful.
I like the concept of this book, but I had difficulty with it's execution. Although, it probably didn't help that I was also working on weekly tasks from One Year to an Organized Financial Life: From Your Bills to Your Bank Account, Your Home to Your Retirement, the Week-by-Week Guide to Achieving Financial Peace of Mind at the same time.
It was difficult to stay on task and be consistent with completion. Some weeks had an overwhelming amount of tasks, while others could be finished in a couple...more
It was difficult to stay on task and be consistent with completion. Some weeks had an overwhelming amount of tasks, while others could be finished in a couple...more
I liked this book, although it is definitely not my favourite on the subject. It reminds me of a joke.
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Great organizing book that goes step by step for each room of your home. It goes closet by closet as well. It keeps it very simple and doesn't preach about why you have kept things or if your a hoarder etc etc. A weekly guide to start simplifying your space and your life. I read it cover to cover and learned some new things. It did energize me with motivation to get my trouble areas cleaned up! I gave it a four just for doing that!
Picked this up from the library and after five minutes of flipping through it told my hubby I wanted to purchase my own copy. I love the start-where-you-are-in-the-year format (no pressure to start in January), the brief and to the point goals and colorful, happy page design. I also love that she starts with the most important thing to successful organizing & decluttering- a (better) rested and (more) happy YOU.
If you ever thought to yourself "I just want someone to TELL me how to get organized!",then this is the book for you. No long paragraphs, just straight to the point tips and "how to's" to get every part of your life organized. Book includes how to organize everything from your schedule, priorities and finances to all parts of your home and office to your papers and special events. Checklists included.
This book was ok, I guess. I was looking for new ways/ideas to organize my house, but I just don't see this book helping much. I'm pretty organized already (when I finally do it), so this didn't help much for what I'm looking for. If you are looking to start somewhere, to get clutter/things you don't need in your home and life, this is a good book to start with. There are ideas in this book that are good, and ones I think are way to OCD for me.
This book is Awesome! Just Awesome.
I have 3 lists of things to do. ! of stuff to take Down to the basement, ! for things to find int he basement and bring UP.
The other for what stuff acutally belongs in my bedroom.
And I didn't even do the looking toward the future excerice yet.
THere is SOOOO MUCCHHHH good advice in here!
I have 3 lists of things to do. ! of stuff to take Down to the basement, ! for things to find int he basement and bring UP.
The other for what stuff acutally belongs in my bedroom.
And I didn't even do the looking toward the future excerice yet.
THere is SOOOO MUCCHHHH good advice in here!
This book covers thing I wouldn't have thought of. Plus, she has actual checklists to mark and further maintenance advice. It's not about chores or housework. It's about ourselves, our finances, our time, and even our moving process. She's got it all covered.
"Organize Now" was a personal productivity book I picked up out of curiosity. After reading it, I realized that I already did the majority of the suggestions (at least the ones that were applicable to my lifestyle), so I didn't really get anything new out of it. I appreciated the step by step, checklist organization of the guide, though, and the way it plots out getting organized with an aspect on a week structure. I think there are actually better written guides on the subject that make the tas...more
For you, the lost and wanderers, the have-no-idea people, and hoarders, this is the book for you. Jennifer put down a lot of TO-DO-LISTs for us. Thanks to her, we can start organize our lives.
this is a fun book that makes you look at different ways to organize. it has some obvious ideas but some good ones that i'm trying to implement. it's set in a way that makes all of it very doable.
Organizing books are something that I read like some people read novels; I've read many of then. This one ranks right up there near the top. I will read this one again.
I am only on page 37, but I have already adopted many of the strategies Berry offers for becoming more organized. She presents tips and explanations in a quick, easy to understand, and most importantly easy-to-implement immediately format. She gives you a week to master each new aspect of becoming an organized person, and I am finding this most useful.
I'm moving on up into the world of ultra-organization. Woo-hoo!
Imagine the possibilities!
Update: Several months later.....I've been too disorgan...more
I'm moving on up into the world of ultra-organization. Woo-hoo!
Imagine the possibilities!
Update: Several months later.....I've been too disorgan...more
Feb 23, 2009
Ashley (cnthrdlywt2bwz)
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
year-2009
Nice quick tool for tackling various household projects. Reading stuff like this gets me motivated to make changes and toss old junk!
Dec 17, 2011
Carolyn Amundson
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
decluttering
A left-brain sort of book. If you are completely disorganized in any area of your life (finances, pregnancy evening routine, jewelry box, recipes), this book has a checklist for organizing it. Each topic is broken down into a "week" to make the organization is little easier. The book warns that it takes work to get organized and I was more than a little overwhelmed by the lists of things to do monthly, every 3-6 months, and every year, after following all the tips and lists to get organized. Som...more
Lots of brilliant ideas and tips. I use this book whenever I need to tidy/clean or organised something in our house.
Great, list-driven weekly plan, specific and measurable for those that work best with such.
Oct 25, 2009
Elizabeth
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
non-fiction,
organization-books
I like to figure out ways to make my life better, and I am obsessed with organization books. This one has easy to follow steps, and lays out a decent plan. THey only allow one week for completing each section....which I find unrealistic for some areas of my home, but overall it is a great book.
THIS BOOK HAS LOTS OF REALLY GOOD IDEAS ON WAYS TO ORGANIZE.
Hopefully I can get organize somehow if I am a doer
Karrie, you reminded me that I've been intermittently reading this as we condense our house and make room for the Impending Flanagan on the way. It keeps the idea of simplifying your house and making it more user-friendly very straightforward. This book has crystallized for me the very true statement that none of us actually need about half the stuff we have. The author does a great job of breaking down what to tackle, when and how, so that the reader will actually stick to the suggestions. No,...more
i WILL be organized in 2010!
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