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Organize Now!: A Week-by-Week Guide to Simplify Your Space and Your Life |  | Author: Jennifer Berry
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
Media: Spiral-bound
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 1600611087
Dewey Decimal Number: 648
EAN: 9781600611087
ASIN: 1600611087
Publication Date: October 24, 2008
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Product Description
With a unique week-by-week approach, Organize Now! gives readers simple and effective tools to organize every aspect of their lives. Jennifer Ford Berry walks the readers through each step of the organizing process for 52 different topics, dealing with each topic one week at a time. Organize Now! is not only easy-to-use but covers a wide variety of topics from paperwork, time management, mental clutter, pets and specific rooms to special events such as moving or vacation planning. The advice is proactive, straightforward and presented in checklists so that readers can see immediate results as they work. Advice for monthly and yearly maintenance is provided. Due to the structure of the book, readers can follow the book from start to finish for a full organizational makeover, or work through the book in any order they wish, targeting the problem areas for their life. Offers practical, effective and easy-to-use instruction on organizing 52 specific problem areas and is structured so that readers can take a week-by-week approach if desired. Printed on uncoated paper so that readers can easily mark off the checklists and write in their own notes and ideas.
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 Sometimes repetitive. Poorly ordered. August 24, 2010
ArchiMark (New England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 July 31, 2010
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.
Good reference book July 27, 2010
Tihaitien (Tallahassee, Florida United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Straightforward and simple July 25, 2010
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 :)
organize now July 12, 2010
dahlhouse
Love this book! Been the easiest organizing tool I've ever had come my way. Very simple and practical!!!
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