Some people read mysteries as a guilty pleasure: I read organization books. So when I picked up Throw Out Fifty Things I was expecting some interesting strategies about purging one’s possessions, and indeed the author includes recommendations on how to separate the useful from the superfluous, room by room. Nothing very creative there, but I [...]
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September 10, 2008
One Year to an Organized Life by Regina Leeds
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 [...]
March 5, 2008
1001 ideas for Kitchen Organization by Joseph R. Provey
Some blog readers feel that I should not arbitrarily censor books about kitchen organization so here’s a wonderful one. 1001 Ideas for Kitchen Organization is the best book I’ve ever read about organizing a kitchen (and as a dedicated organization freak I’ve read many!) It’s the only book that suggests solutions to the crucial issue [...]