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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: $13.95
You Save: $11.05 (44%)
New (34) Used (27) Collectible (1) from $13.49
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:
 How to Organize Just About Everything by Peter Walsh May 11, 2005
25 out of 28 found this review helpful
This acquisition is perfect if your purpose is to organize a household methodically. The author provides details on how to
weed junk mail, establish tickler files and calendar important
deadlines. The book assists in balancing home life with work,
budgeting and "to do lists". The volume even covers the details
of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, as well as junk food avoidance.
The author provides websites for selling off unnecessary personal
items. i.e.
- Craigslist.org
- Bidadoo.com
- Monster.com job search
- Half.com
- Makeovermatic@substance.com
Purchase this book if your purpose is to bring permanent
organization into your house for the foreseeable future.
A wealth of info! April 1, 2005
17 out of 21 found this review helpful
I got this book because I basically have to reorganize my whole life, down to my sock drawer. The first chapter is worth the price of admission alone. It gently guides you through the organizing process so you feel confident tackling both small and huge projects. Once I had my sock drawer functioning like a well-oiled machine, I conquered my closets. What's next?!
 Too little information March 28, 2005
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book does have ideas on how to organize almost anything, 501 to be exact. Many of the topics are not useful such as: "Win the Tour de France", "Win an Academy Award", "Become President of the U.S.", and the list goes on...
The topics I found somewhat useful like "Design a new landscape", "Plan a Remodel" had commonsense ideas and were not detailed enough to give me any new ideas.
Big Disappointment March 12, 2005
135 out of 149 found this review helpful
I had high hopes for this book based on the 5 star reviews, and they were not even close to being met. Many of the lists were overly simplistic without any helpful organizing tips at all. Even more annoying was that virtually every list crossed referenced at least one other list, so one had to keep flipping around to get some sort of cohesive idea of what the organizational tips were. Perhaps if less time had been spent on titles like "how to win an academy award" , "how to fend off pirates" and/or "what to do in an ebola break out" (I am not kidding, these are actual lists)and more on actual real life organizing, I would have gotten much more out of this book.
 Oddly Disappointing February 6, 2005
129 out of 141 found this review helpful
It's hard to describe a book of over 500 pages as superficial, but that's exactly what it is. Chopping up complicated problems into a half-dozen "steps" might make them seem more achievable, and it does make fairly entertaining reading, but it trivializes the very real problems that I think most people would buy a book on organization for. I don't think it will help you get a handle on your paperwork or household clutter, won't help you organize your weekly schedule any better, and won't give you a more serene approach to inevitable problems. Elements of those challenges are touched on in dozens of one-page chapters, but not in a systematic way. This book makes you work way to hard to dig out the advice you need.
Reading through the other reviews, I note that most say they look forward to reading the book or plan to keep it as a reference. That's fine, but it doesn't make it a great book on organization for those who want to get or stay organized. For them, a single page to "Create a Flawless Filing System" is inadequate and a comparable amount devoted to "Become President of the United States" is absurd.
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