Complete Idiot S Guide To Organizing Your Life

When stuff rules a person's life, it's Georgene Lockwood to the rescue. Her revised handbook shows how to organize paperwork, food, clothing, and shelter systems and how to win the money wars.

The popular guide that makes organizing a breeze. In today's fast-paced, complex society, it's crucial to find ways to increase productivity, simplify, and stay sane. The fifth edition of this highly successful guide emphasizes how organization helps people survive tough times, assists them with life's challenges, and can lead to a happier, more peaceful life. New in this edition are: green organizing; getting things done in the electronic age; and loads of new products that help people organize. - Offers up-to-date information, a reading appendix, and new resources - Fifth edition with an expanded focus on simple living, a popular topic even before the recession, plus green organizing and organizing in the electronic age - Timeless themes of saving money and reducing stress - Download a sample chapter

Emphasizing how organization can lead to a happier life, this guide provides tips for getting your life together, including green organizing and getting things done in the electronic age, and features an expanded focus on simple living. Original.

Turn organzing your space into your next great project with this comprehensive guide! In our materialistic, time-crunched society, lifestyles are compromised by disorganization and clutter. In a 2008 National Association of Professional Organizers survey, 65 percent of respondents noted that their household was at least moderately disorganized, 71 percent said their quality of life would improve if they were better organized, and 96 percent of respondents indicated that they could save time every day by becoming more organized. A survey by IKEA reported that only 11 percent of Americans know where their Social Security cards are. Unfortunately, the problem has gotten so out of hand for so many, they have no idea where to begin. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Getting Organized Fast-Track, finds readers where they are and helps them take the first steps toward a more organized and efficient life. In this book readers get: • The principles behind effective organizing that can be applied to any situation in the home or office. • A plan for clearing paper clutter and putting important documents where they can be found. • Commonsense thoughts on prioritizing and letting go of objects that are no longer useful. • A system for categorizing possessions that does not require people to buy more stuff to organize the stuff they already have. • Tips for tackling disorganization hot spots, including home offices or dens, kitchens, closets, master bedrooms, garages, attics, and basement areas. • Advice for staying ahead of messy family members or coworkers who can undo a person's hard work in an instant.

Whether you live in a 20-room mansion or a one room apartment, drive an SUV or a MiniCooper - the stuff we have builds up into an endless stream of clutter. Most people just live with it, pushing it aside in closets or in garages and letting it pile up. But what happens when it gets so bad that it takes over your living space and there's no room for the stuff you really want? Renowned organizing expert and author Regina Leeds has the solution in her amazing new The Complete Idiot's Guide to Decluttering. Drawing on her nearly two decades of experience organizing living and work spaces, she gives us the quick and easy steps to conquer this problem- How to evaluate the extent of the clutter. How to create a plan to declutter - quickly and concisely. How to declutter each living space in your home from bathroom to bedroom, great room to kitchen. How to declutter other important spaces such as your office, your home gym, your attic, your garage, your basement - even your car. How to stay clutter-free for the rest of life!

You're no idiot, of course. You fold your laundry and put each article of clothing where it belongs, stack dishes in your dishwasher so they won't clank together, and keep all of your bills in a drawer by the microwave. But when it comes to finding your beloved blue shirt, your favorite cereal bowl, and your electric bill when you need them, you feel like it would be easier to organize a posse than organize your stuff. Don't call the cavalry yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Organizing Your Life, Second Edition helps you build the skills you need to hold everything together and stay in control of your life--even in the cyber-dominated 21st century. In this completely revised and updated Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:

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