Organize Your Home: Simple Routines for Managing Your Household

by Ronni Eisenberg, Kate Kelly

Organization is everything--and now America's master of efficiency and author of the bestselling Organize Yourself! presents the ultimate how-to guide for getting everything organized. From cleaning closets to creating computer programs, getting groceries to making beds, there's nothing that can't be done easily.

Genres: Self Help

144 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1994

Reviews

[Margot]

This book is focused on hands-on actions to help get a reader's homelife in order. Sections include organizing your garage/basement/attic; using a planner, calendar, and to do list to manage your life and your familial obligations; and a plan of attack for eliminating paper piles. Organize Your Home seems to focus primarily on the busy homemaker, not the careerist or homemaker-with-career. I can't count the number of times I read, "Set aside several hours a week to..." Several hours a week?!?! I'm reading this book because I hardly have several minutes a week for personal time and projects, let alone several hours. Lastly, due to the 1994 publication date, the book is getting a bit outdated. Eisenberg talks about the internet, cellphones, and even computers as up-and-coming technology for the cutting-edge organizer, and her tech tips cater to the technologically inept.

This is a good one for keeping around and referring to frequently as you take on new cleaning and organizing projects around the house.

[Lynn Cutler]

Eh. Common sense advice, but this book was obviously written by a carpenter -- "have someone build you a custom rack" here, "have someone build you a custom other thing" there. Right! The one idea I'm mulling as possibly helpful is the one of keeping a stepstool IN the closet to make it quicker to get to the shelved stuff...