One Year to an Organized Life takes the reasonable stand that it takes more than a weekend to reorganize a truly disorganized house and life and so breaks up the tasks into 12 months (actually only 48 weeks, 4 per month.) Over-achievers can read the entire program in a couple of hours. The author mixes generic advice (purge your possessions before organizing them; assign a specific place for each item; store like with like) with the usual customer vignettes of truly out-of-control families (making us feel we’re not that bad) as well as some personal memories to lighten the load.
The 12-month format is effective. Each task seems doable (and if you’re not moving this year you can skip August altogether, yeah!) I don’t much care for the affirmations she mixes into each chapter but you can skip them. And who knows why she had to add a section about scrapbooking: doesn’t scrapbooking produce more stuff to store? You can skip that…
Overall a nice format to pace yourself over a year.
