Posts Tagged as ‘organization’

August 31, 2009

Throw out Fifty Things by Gail Blanke

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 [...]

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 [...]