Customer Reviews

Finally Organized, Finally Free

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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!!!

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).

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 [...]

This book is extremely useful in breaking down organization into simple to-do tasks. I always got overwhelmed when faced with boxes of things to sort, but this book helped me get it under control by breaking it down into mini-sessions. Some very goods tips were included in her book as well. If you enjoyed those, you might consider checking out her website at www.getorganizednow.com for a weekly newsletter with tips and ideas.