Organize Now!: A Week-by-Week Guide to Simplify Your Space and Your Life [Hardcover-spiral]

Jennifer Ford Berry (Author), Jacqueline Musser (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 3, 2010

Get Organized Fast!

Clutter has a cost. It steals your storage space, robs your time and energy, and takes away the peace and beauty of your home. Don't pay for it another minute—get organized, now!

This updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Organize Now! features even more quick, effective organizing ideas. Easy-to-follow checklists show you how to organize any part of your life in less than one week. You spend more time organizing and less time reading—a perfect fit for your busy lifestyle! Long-term goals help keep the clutter away for the months and years to follow, so you can maintain the order you create.

You'll find help with everything from time management and routines to mental clutter, paperwork, pets, purses, toys, rooms and life events such as moving and celebrating the holidays.

Special money saving tips show you how to use your organizing efforts to cut costs around the house and even make a little money. Don't let piles of paperwork, overflowing closets and overbooked schedules drain your resources and energy anymore. Take control with Organize Now!

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

So you want to get organized? Well, I am so glad you are considering my book to help you on this path.  I can tell you this: if there is a will there is a way. ANYONE can get every area of their life organized by following the goals and tips in Organize Now! 

I wrote this book because I feel that there are too many "long-winded, novel-like" books about getting organized.  I know from being a Professional Organizer (for 10+ years) that when people are overwhelmed by clutter they don't want to waste time reading, they want to get it done!  They hire me because they want me to Tell-Them-What-To-Do (as quickly and painlessly as possible).  This book does just that.  I have left out the fluff and written a step-by-step plan to get YOU organized.  Organizing is my passion but my mission is to help each of you clear the clutter so that you may start living the life you dream about. 

Best of luck!
Jennifer

From the Back Cover

Clutter Has A Cost.  It steals your storage space, robs your time and energy, and takes away the peace and beauty of your home.  Don't pay for it another minute-get organized, now!

     This updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Organize Now! features even more quick, effective organizing ideas.  Easy-to-follow checklists show you how to organize any part of your life in less than one week.  You spend more time organizing and less time reading-a perfect fit for your busy lifestyle!  Long-term goals help keep the clutter away for the months and years to follow, so you can maintain the order you create.

     You'll find help with everything from time management and routines to mental clutter, paperwork, pets, purses, toys, rooms and life events such as moving, and celebrating the holidays.

     Special money saving tips show you how to use your organizing efforts to cut costs around the house and even make a little money.

Don't let piles of paperwork, overflowing closets and overbooked schedules drain your resources and energy anymore.  Take control with Organize Now!

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Product Details

• Hardcover-spiral: 256 pages
• Publisher: F & W Media; 2 edition (December 3, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1440308632
• ISBN-13: 978-1440308635
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 1.4 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #33 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Home Improvement & Design > How-to & Home Improvements > Cleaning, Caretaking & Relocating

More About the Author

Jennifer Ford Berry is a life organizing expert, entrepreneur, speaker and author.

Jennifer is the author of the best selling book: Organize Now! a week by week guide to simplify your space and your life which has currently sold over 325,000 copies world wide. She has recently released:
Organize Now! your money, business and career and
Orgnaize Now! 12 month home and activity planner

Jennifer is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL where she received a BA degree in Business and Marketing.

She is also the co-owner of Mothertime Marketplace, a semi-annual event geared toward children and moms, that is currently held four times per year in Western New York.

Currently, Jennifer resides in Western New York with her husband and two children. She is available for book signings, discussion groups and speaking engagements.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

66 of 67 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Step-by-Step Plan For Organization February 25, 2011

By Books and Chocolate TOP 500 REVIEWER

Format:Hardcover-spiral

This is a good tool for those who like checklists, making notes, and breaking up the process of organization into smaller, weekly jobs. The first chapter gives the basics of organizing, outlining the cost of clutter, dealing with the emotional side of letting go of stuff, and getting motivated. This is followed by 56 weekly chapters that focus on specific spaces around the house as well as organizing things like holidays, moving, back-to-school, a morning routine, meal planning, and even a pregnancy. Just about every area of home and life is covered.

This book is formatted like a workbook. The chapters are brief and each one includes a checklist of the week's goals for organizing the specified area, a list of tips, a section for writing down notes, and another checklist for keeping it organized once it is done with monthly, half-year, and once a year suggestions.

For someone who is overwhelmed by the organization process and needs to take it a step at a time with specific suggestions, this is a good resource.

41 of 42 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY! March 13, 2011

By John Kirton

Format:Hardcover-spiral

I am 46 and have ready MANY books on how to organize, both philosophically and literally. This book is the FIRST one I've seen and purchased which took a timely, week-by-week approach to help the common person come to grips with the daunting chore of both living simply and organized. Thank you, Jennifer Ford Berry, for taking this approach and writing about it. Yes, there IS hope and you have shown the light!

80 of 87 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for getting organized! November 9, 2010

By P. McBay

Format:Hardcover-spiral|Amazon Verified Purchase

I have struggled for years to clear my home of clutter. There never seems to be enough time, space, etc. I have ADHD, so that doesn't help. I'll begin decluttering one area, only to think of six more I should work on at the same time. I work full-time, and have a 16 month old and a 12 year old. Time is at a premium in my house. I work twelve hour swing shifts, so every week brings a new work schedule and a different shift. Add to that cooking, errands, grocery shopping, paying bills, balancing the household budget, cleaning, quality time with the family, football and baseball practice and games..... Life quickly takes over and the house is a mess yet again. any progress made is quickly struck down.

I have read through many of the chapters in this book. Each one is a week's worth of "to-do" checklists, and is designed to organize one area each week. You can do the chapters in the order they appear in the book, or you can skip around and do them in the order you choose.

I think this book will be one of the keys to getting my house, and life, organized. The checklists should make it easy to get things in better shape. I can focus on one mini-task until it is complete, helping me achieve my goal of getting our home and lives into the shape it should be in. I can just tell myself that I can't move on to the next task until that box is checked. Any ideas on other tasks can be added to the list. This book should serve as excellent guidance along my purging journey.

I do think that some of these tasks will take less than the allotted week. However, in my house, some of these areas will take more than a week to get through. I think it will be harder for families with parents who work, in or out of the home, to get each area done in seven days. Some of these areas are quite large for just one week. I think, though, that it will all even out in the end. My goal is to finish the entire book in 56 weeks or less, even if a few areas take two weeks to complete. Some areas will be easier for me. For instance, I already meal plan and have a system set up for grocery lists, coupons, etc. I can mark this area off fairly easy. My bedroom closets, however, will take some real effort to overcome.

All in all, this book is worth buying. The easy-to-follow format and having each area broken down into individual chapters makes this look easy.