Finally Organized, Finally Free [Spiral-bound]

Maria Gracia (Editor), Joseph Gracia (Editor, Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1999

Over 1,300 ideas, tips, techniques and systems to help you organize your life. Also includes ready-to-use forms and checklists to help you get your life in order.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Disorganization can actually "trap" you into living a life filled with stress, frustration and chaos. It can rob you of the precious time you should be spending enjoying your life. By overcoming disorganization, you can be set "free" to live the kind of life you've always dreamed of.

Finally Organized, Finally Free by writer, speaker and personal advisor, Maria Gracia, gives you the simple solutions to help you declutter your life, simplify, and find more time to spend on the things you love. There are no theories or difficult concepts here. Every idea, tip and technique is simple, proven effective and ready for you to use immediately.

About the Author

Maria Gracia, founder of Get Organized Now!, specializes in helping people get better organized to live the kind of stress-free life they've always dreamed of.

Originally from the east coast, Maria had an accomplished career as a marketing, organization and management specialist with Dun and Bradstreet's Nielsen Media Research in New York.

Today, Maria and her husband, Joe, live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where they own and operate their company, Effective Business Systems. Maria founded the Get Organized Now! division in 1996.

Maria is an author, speaker, consultant and personal organizer. She is the author of the Get Organized Now! Newsletter and Better Business. Her broad range of skills covers planning, scheduling, peak productivity, records management, space planning, time and paper management, administrative services and computer oriented organizational systems.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 192 pages
• Publisher: Bluemoon Pub (July 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096727950X
• ISBN-13: 978-0967279503
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,814,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY...Get Organized the Practical Way!, October 29, 2000

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Mrs. Karen Denton-Betts (Dearborn, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Finally Organized, Finally Free (Spiral-bound)

If you want to have your own personal organizer--Read this book! Garcia offers simple, proven ideas and solutions to help you get rid of clutter once and for all. There are hundreds of great tips, good motivational quotes, and I especially like the how she included bits of advice from her readers and customers. It offers practical checklists for homes and businesses, realistic time estimates, and effective space-saving techniques. I love Garcia's innovative "get organized now!" approach. As a new professional organizer, I am in the process of reading any organizing book I can get my hands on and I was honestly impressed with this one. For the organized, disorganized, or someone in between, this book delivers!!!

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Many Helpful Hints, September 13, 2004

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E. Laswell "hoosier69" (IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Finally Organized, Finally Free (Spiral-bound)

I enjoyed reading this book (was fortunate enough to acquire it through our public library's inter-library loan system), but I'm only giving it 4 stars because I felt it was lacking in some areas.

While I felt the book has a lot of great tips and tricks, if you will, I don't work in an office environment, and I felt that the word/words "delegate" (as in giving a job to someone else to handle) is obviously going to be directed towards someone who is working in an office versus a SAHM (stay at home mom), which is what my occupation is. Simply put, there isn't anyone else that is going to take up the slack since my husband works full time, etc. Not only that, but when one person does the housework without any, if much, help from their better half, they are going to have to come up with clever ways of getting things accomplished in a timely manner so as to be able to free up time to enjoy life.

Other than that, I did enjoy reading the book and have picked up a few of the author's ideas for improving things around the house (i.e. storage solutions).

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars There are better systems out there, July 22, 2005

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LadyRainstorm (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Finally Organized, Finally Free (Spiral-bound)

Although Maria Garcia has a lot of good "tips" on how to do certain things around the house, if you are looking for a system to organize your housecleaning and everyday life, a better book to check out is Sink Reflections, by Marla Cilley. Her approach is "down-home Southern" and a bit unsophisticated, but it is useful, practical, and loving. It is especially good for SAHMs [...]