Household Winners for Working Women: Your Personal Organization Tool Kit to Declutter and Design an Comfortable Home [Paperback]

A. Kingsley Bishop (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2002

This book is full of strategies for battling chaos and uses the AZURE System for organizing household areas from individual rooms to carjack prevention to paper systems. It is geared to working women but anyone wanting a more orderly household can use it. The book is also a minor battleplan. Why? Women, in a way, are also warriors. We fight drunk drivers, glass ceilings, child abuse, land mines, poverty, and injustice all over the world. We also need to attack clutter, time wasters, money robbers, and energy drains especially in our own homes. This is your code book. Take what you need to win.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The 'hospital passports' idea was worth 10 times the price of the book. -- Robert Mack, Sales Manager, Denver, CO March 2002

What a concept---a decompression chamber! I work on it especially when I've had a bad day. Thank you! -- Marianna Bocci, Human Resources Director, Dallas, TX, March 2002

From the Publisher

Household Winners for Working Women is designed to make your household sing while you concentrate on your career. The high octane AZURE System in the book targets and organizes household concerns that rob working women of time, energy, and money. It shows how to assess, minizone, declutter, rearrange, and finally enjoy a clean, orderly home. The author, often called the Goddess of Less Hassle, guides you to order in home offices, kitchens, parties, carjack prevention, interior design, paperwork and more. Included are anecdotes, illustrations, charts, tips, forms, beginning and advanced checklists.

This book has eighteen whopping chapters plus a large resource section and a valuable appendix including Life Objectives to fill in your personal preferences. Start on any chapter. Zero in on what's driving you crazy and follow the step by step guides. When that area's organized, set up a simple 10 minute Maintenance Plan for it. Presto! You're done with that area. What's next on your list? The author is a working mother of six who knows what chaos is and how to conquer it a step at a time while building a solid organizing foundation. 5% of every book sold goes to the Girl Scouts of the USA.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Greystone Intl Inc (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1929798067
• ISBN-13: 978-1929798063
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,661,843 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AZURE Your Way to an Organized, Comfortable Home, March 6, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Household Winners for Working Women: Your Personal Organization Tool Kit to Declutter and Design an Comfortable Home (Paperback)

Written in a conversational style, Dr. Bishop guides us through a delightful process of decluttering and organizing our home environments--to Assess, Zone, Unload, Rearrange & Enjoy. Chapters address creating organized rooms and work and storage spaces throughout the home. This comprehensive manual is especially valuable for the numerous checklists for project planning and for documenting important family and household information. Also includes extensive, useful Resources, Apprendix, and Bibliography sections.

If reading from beginning-to-end is not your style, start by learning Dr. Bishop's philosophy of AZURE-ing (p.340-41) and move to Chapter 4 to create your own Personal Decompression Chamber. Then, in your personal care retreat, read the remaining chapters that will guide you in the process of organizing your other home environments, and simplifying your life to enjoy it more!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a book that works!, May 11, 2002

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Sophia C (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Household Winners for Working Women: Your Personal Organization Tool Kit to Declutter and Design an Comfortable Home (Paperback)

My excuse for being disorganized is that I'm genetically predisposed to be a pack-rat, and besides, I don't have the time to get organized. I've tried so many 'get organized' books in my life, but mostly, I just ended up losing them in the piles of stuff I was trying to organize in the first place. This book is written so that you are learning, being entertained, and getting really motivated all at the same time. One of the best things about this book is that it includes more than just advice to help you get your life in order - it gets down to the nitty-gritty. For example, in the chapter on organizing your car, there are lists (YES, I love lists) and forms to keep track of everything related to your car: your auto data, maintenance and service records, etc. The other really terrific thing in this book, that I've not seen in other 'get organized' books, is a fantastic chapter on food, groceries, and meal planning. The menus include meals that you can USE, don't take much time, the kids will eat, and they all come with the grocery lists needed to prepare them - all the work is done for you already. What a Godsend! I bought three more copies of this book for my friends who are equally disorganized and frantically busy (we're all working and in graduate school), and they haven't stopped thanking me yet. Get this book, and you'll be thanking me too.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid, useful, and highly recommended ideas, September 8, 2002

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Household Winners for Working Women: Your Personal Organization Tool Kit to Declutter and Design an Comfortable Home (Paperback)

Household Winners For Working Women: Your Personal Organizational Tool Kit To Declutter & Design A Comfortable Home is a highly practical and "user friendly" guide for keeping one's home free of useless encumbrances and enhancing a cozy, liveable space in which to better enjoy life. Written specifically for working women with limited time for housework, individual chapters address everything from an easy-to-access closet, to choosing groceries that offer maximum nutrition and delicious preparation with minimum fuss, to car cleaning and car jacking prevention tips, Household Winners For Working Women is packed cover to cover with solid, useful, and highly recommended ideas, suggestions, and advice.