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If I Could Just Get Organized! Home Management Hope for Pilers and Filers

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I own many organization books and implemented their strategies only to fail miserably a few months later. Why? Because I'm a Piler - I have piles all over the house, on every flat surface imaginable. Ironically, I KNEW what was in those piles. Karen's book helped me to realize that I needed to work with my natural instinct to "pile". Her book is delightfully funny, and at the same time, uncanny because she described me perfectly (my husband says that Karen and I were "twins seperated at birth"). The book will show you the difference between a Piler (a person who battles with chronic piles) and a Filer (Martha Stewart-types), how to organize each room, how to sift through clutter without getting bogged down, how to handle paperwork, cooking, doing chores, and holidays. I had already been doing some of the things she suggested, but feeling like a failure because "it wasn't the way Emilie Barnes does it." She validated my successes. PLEASE get this book if you are the type of person who has trouble keeping up with calendars & planners, live by "out of sight, out of mind" (think of those "science projects" lurking in the back of the fridge), have piles on every flat surface in your home, have "Laundry Mountain", don't mop floors, clean toilets & tubs until you "see a ring", always late when sending cards, letters, bills, have rolls of undeveloped film, etc. My piles are now contained, and I can easily locate things when I need them. Karen gave me HOPE and appreciation for my differences, instead of feeling like a failure for not being able to "keep up" with all the lists and schedules, like my "cleanie counterparts". You will enjoy her sense of humor, too. Thanks, Karen!

This book is wonderful! It is like sitting down and talking with the author over a cup of tea... except the author is not there in person. But the ideas! Wow! So many simple to implement ideas that make sense, if only I had thought of them first! One of the ideas I tried out... which was hard to do, as I have been a preschool teacher and believe everything should be sorted carefully and put away with like items... well, I tried the method of containing piles within a clear bin for my boys. It was amazing! They didnt care if the army guys, the super heros, and the cars were all mixed up or not! They really do dig through the stuff to find what they are looking for, if they can see the pile to start with! That idea alone has saved me hours of sorting! I highly reccomend this book to anyone who has a home, and a family and would like to have a life besides stepping over piles or sorting and putting away for hours on end! Great book, Great story besides!

Is the author a mind reader? How did she know exactly what my kitchen cupboards looked like?! It was great to read a book that had me laughing (instead of crying!) about my personal organizational style. I always thought I was just an unorganized person since I could never get any of the usual home organization systems to work for me (ie: notebooks, file cards, etc.). Nothing helped much, and sometimes just the attempt to get more organized was often depressing. Well, after reading this book, I feel I have hope! The author understood how my mind worked, helped me laugh at myself (and my piles throughout the house!), and taught me that being "differently" organized isn't wrong--just different. If you've tried EVERYTHING and nothing's worked, try reading (and applying) this helpful and humorous book.

Throw away all of those other "how to get organized" books out there. I speak from experience that Karen Jogerst has written the only `how to' book for those of us wives, mothers, grandmothers, employees, and homemakers who ARE NOT Martha Stewart and who are not filers, but `pilers'.

Using her extraordinary gifts of humor, communicaton,faith, and home management skills Karen has managed to write the MUST HAVE book for all of you, like me, who have tried and tried and tried to use the other useless `filing' system(s) for home management and threw up our hands feeling hopeless. Reading the book is not only fun as she describes her frustrations; she has brilliantly come up with the one plan that absolutely works. Piles! Organized piles.

Thanks to Karen's methods, delightful sense of humor, and her application of Biblical principles, I am now totally organized throughout my home, and this has resulted in my feeling very good about myself, my accomplishments, and my sense of pride in my now well organized happy home. Karen, you are my hero!

I was just about to figure out the Piler system on my own, but this book helped me overcome the inevitable inertia that confronting my "visual organizational system" has previously produced. I don't have to write the reminders on how to stay organized on my hand for ready reference either! But I must admit it would be helpful to me to have a copy of this book in every room of my house. I'd tell you more but I've got to get back to organizing-it's FUN now!

Finally someone who takes a real life approach to the complex world of household management...or at the very least taming it!!! I could relate to so many of the situations and the help Karen offers is so real! I am not a misfit...I just have bent chromosomes and that is OK! Filled with funny stories too, can't wait for the other books to hit the market! Keep up the GREAT work Karen.

THIS BOOK IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A STRONG URGE TO CLEAR OUT CLUTTER AND THE MOUNTAINS OF "STUFF" WHICH MAGICALLY FINDS ITS' WAY INTO YOUR ONCE ORGANIZED LIFE. GOOD READ AND HELPFUL TIPS.

although this book is quite entertaining, and she quite accurately describes pilers like myself, her approach is too 'dumbed-down'. She kept me laughing as she described situations which could have easily happened in my own home, but gave little actual information I felt I could use.