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Organize Now!: A Week-by-Week Guide to Simplify Your Space and Your Life Review

First off, she is not telling you anything you don't already know how to do. You've had organization ideas pop into your head all the time. But if you're like me, you have too many things to organize at once. What Berry has done is organize all these ideas in Organize Now! It is a well thought out reference book with many possible areas you have thought of to organizing. I have a large tote bag of photos I've been meaning to tackle but have been procrastinating about for years. I read the photo chapter and now have better idea where to start. It is pretty easy to follow if you want to go at it week-by-week. Each week has a check list of what to do, tips, and follow up tasks to stay organized.

Organize Now!: A Week-by-Week Guide to Simplify Your Space and Your Life Overview

Find practical, straightforward advice and instruction presented in checklists that anyone can use and see immediate results in Organize Now! The revised edition will include a new section Organize Your Routines that contains four weeks on organizing different routines, morning, meal-time, nighttime and errands to help anyone who needs to get organized.

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Customer Reviews

Sometimes repetitive. Poorly ordered. - ArchiMark - New England
This book is organized with 52 chapters, and the idea that you could read and implement one chapter per week, and be completely organized within a year.

I felt that there were some problems with the order of the chapters. I would have liked to jump into this book and felt like I'd accomplished a tangible difference in some area of my home. But the earliest chapters in the book are about organizing your mind - with suggestions like making lists of life goals, starting a journal, buying a datebook, etc. I think that I would have accomplished more if I'd selected some chapter out of the middle of the book - like "Organize Your Linen Closet", or something along those lines, and started with that first. That would have been better for getting some momentum going.

The book focuses on organizing financial papers, photographs, recipes, music, mail, and other paperwork and small collections of items long before it gets to the big, messy spaces. I found this counter-intuitive. I would rather organized the garage, kitchen, etc. before I got too wrapped up in things that take up a more limited amount of space and are really just filing projects.

The book doesn't get to "Organize for Emergencies" until chapter 51 - though the book stresses that this is the most important thing you can do. I'd suggest skipping to this chapter early on, as it's a fairly easy one but very critical.
Most of the last 8 or 10 chapters are "special occasion" chapters, like "Organizing Your Pregnancy" and "Organize Your Holiday". It's a little depressing that the book ends with Chapter 52, "Organizing After a Loss".

Because each chapter is formatted like a 3 or 4 page checklist, the chapters tend to be a little repetitive. For every room or space you're instructed to sort things into piles: Keep, Toss, Sell or Donate, etc. The various basic storing, labeling, organizing advice is pretty similar for many different areas of the home.

There are a number of editing mistakes (incomplete sentences, misspellings, etc.) throughout the book that can be slightly annoying.

Overall I've read this whole book now over the course of some months, and am somewhat more organized than when I began, but have a long way to go, and don't think this particular book will get me the rest of the way.

Quick & simple - Carmshell -
I really like this book. It cuts to the chase so that you can get the job done. You can easily reference problems spots in the home or use the weekly program to get your whole house done. I consider it a book to keep me organized from now on.

Straightforward and simple - Megan G. Owens - Mobile, AL
I don't think getting organized could be made any easier. The author trims the fat and gives a short list of goals for each area of your life that will help you get organized without a whole lot of chatter on the topic. She also includes a list of tips for each section and also monthly, quarterly, and yearly to-do items for maintaining the organization The format and design of the book itself also lends itself to ease of use. Love this book :)

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