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| How to Organize (Just About) Everything: More Than 500 Step-by-Step Instructions for Everything from Organizing Your Closets to Planning a Wedding to Creating a Flawless Filing System | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Walsh
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
Buy New: $13.94
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 576
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.7 x 1.9
ISBN: 0743254945
Dewey Decimal Number: 640
EAN: 9780743254946
Publication Date: December 28, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 disappointing July 25, 2006
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
Perhaps if the book had been titled differently, I wouldn't have been so disappointed. It seemed like many articles would be a stretch to be categorized under organizing and so specialized it seemed like many people wouldn't even find helpful: "Become a concert violinist," "become a catholic nun," "Organize an archeological dig," "start a knitting circle," "organize a film festival," etc.
Those subjects that were helpful were so short and general that it seemed to be total common sense, and usually could be distilled into 1. clear out the place 2. toss what you don't need 3. go shopping for things to help you organize and 4. put it all back neatly in groups. I'm being overly simplistic but those who are looking for detailed nuts and bolts for getting organized will be disappointed.
If they had called it "500 Ways to Getting It All Together" it would have been more appropriate. However, calling it a book on organizing only fits in a loose sense.
On the positive side, I do have to say it was a nicely organized book in terms of layout and logical order!
 Excellent organizing and overhauling strategies in list format May 29, 2006
6 out of 15 found this review helpful
Peter Walsh has done a masterful job at presenting good approaches to overhauling chaotic, disorganized situations. He has about 500 separate lists for different conditions, places, problems and issues. Along with Tom McNulty's "Houskeeping for Men" (Three Rivers Press) and "How To Get More Done In Less Time" by Leon Cooper (probably out of print), these provide the sequenced tasks and analyses for installing orderly, organized systems that should work for you (for physical spaces, time and finances), and not disrupt your systems.
Like all systems, you may want to personalize these by ordering them differently, leaving some steps out, or adding to them. I would add to sorting stage in the "take it all out" of a cluttered location, a box or container for shredding confidential or private papers.
I would very much like Peter Walsh and his publisher to make his lists available online and able to be rearranged for an individual's personal use.
I observe that a great housekeeper and a good secretary or personal assistant go a long way in installing and maintaining organizing. A good accountant and/or tax lawyer likewise are important members of your life's team.
I give this book a strong "buy".
7/20/2007, 7:45 p.m. PDT: I stand by my review posted quite sometime ago. It accurately describes Mr. Walsh's book. Perhaps, readers of this review do not care for lists. Organizing one's personal effects, structuring one's activities and establishing strategies in one's life call for analytic ability and management skills. No book can deliver these skills.
I observe that it is nearly impossible to describe verbally what is essentially a spatial mental capacity. The best way to acquire the required skills and techniques is to WATCH a skilled organizer work his or her magic. This is unless you hire a good housekeeper, personal assistant, manager, or executive (secretary).
The two other books I mentioned when I first wrote this review remain favorites of mine on getting to clean, tidy and livable.
For the Right-Brained Dominant Folks! April 22, 2006
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
This is a Book of Lists for those of us who do not see life that way! Most of the really organized, left-brained dominant people (those who work on a NEAT desk) I have met seem to tell me that they are NOT organized. Maybe they think this book is a waste of paper, but not for those of us who are more influenced by the right side of our brains. (We are the folks who seem to create desk clutter in just a few moments.)
Those of us with the more random-thinking brains do not think of ALL of the little, sequential steps that must be done for a task. This is where Peter Walsh's book comes in. He lists step-by-step how to do many of life's tasks. Those of us who would not think of those sequential lists are grateful that he has listed them for us!
While he has put in a bit of fun (i.e., list for skydiving) there are also the things one needs daily and only a few (important) times in life. Certainly, not everything in every list has been included; that would be too comprehensive and this is already a very thick book. However, the important steps are there and give a framework for the further development of finished organizational lists. After the initial fun of thumbing through, this will become a reference book for planning many of life's experiences.
Please do not buy this book unless you want to see MANY lists. Personally, I trusted the wisdom of Peter Walsh from seeing his work with homeowners on television. I, for one, am very glad that I did so.
 Too detailed March 22, 2006
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
There were so many things to organize in this book, that not much detail was paid to any one item, leaving me full of questions. Not exactly what I was looking for.
How to Organize (Just About) Everything March 8, 2006
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
Great ideas and resource for any home or office.
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