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Absolutely Organized: A Mom's Guide to a No-stress Schedule and Clutter-free Home Paperback – January 1, 2007
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- Print length191 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherNorth Light Books
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2007
- Dimensions5.75 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches
- ISBN-109781581809558
- ISBN-13978-1581809558
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- ASIN : 1581809557
- Publisher : North Light Books (January 1, 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 191 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781581809558
- ISBN-13 : 978-1581809558
- Dimensions : 5.75 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,958,874 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,422 in Home Cleaning, Caretaking & Relocating
- #9,640 in Motherhood (Books)
- #374,487 in Health, Fitness & Dieting (Books)
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Debbie Lillard is the owner of www.spacetospare.com. She has been doing business since 2003 and is an active member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO). You may have seen her on episodes of HGTV's Mission Organization, Hoarders or heard her on several national talk radio shows. Her organizing tips have also appeared in such magazines as Better Homes & Gardens, Woman's Day, Family Fun and All You. She is one of six children and the mother of three. She writes about what she knows: trying to keep order and sanity in a home full of active children!
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Thank you for writing this book! As a new Mom and business owner who works out of my home, my time is more valuable (and scarce) then ever before. Debbie Lillard's great new book is a mandatory read, like Jeff Olson's The Slight Edge or Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad or Napolean Hill's Think and Grow Rich.
Why? It has some of the most practical, useful tips in having a successful life, which of course, all starts at HOME! I wish my Mom of six had this back in the 70s! It would have made her life much easier.
You might imagine a book on organizing to be, well, dry, boring or condescending...but Debbie Lillard's words are compassionate and inspiring - part instructor, part therapist, part cheerleader and ALL MOM. She's pulled great quotes from some of the world's great thinkers which set a strong context for the "why" behind being "absolutely organized."
The book rests next to my combination diaper bag/backpack purse on my desk, next to the baby carriage...This will be a great reference tool for time to come. Not everyone can hire a personal organizer. This is the next best thing! I second Jeanne - already bought 6 copies for family stocking stuffers and will buy many more. Congratulations Debbie. This book will make a profound difference for anyone - not just Moms!
But the household chores would absolutely NOT work for a mother like me with 5 children, 3 whom are too young to be expected to put their own clothes away or even separate their own laundry in the basket. Anyone who has an infant (and 6 other people in one house) knows that you can't do laundry only once per week unless you want mounds and mounds of laundry piled up that cannot possibly all be done in one day!
Bottom line: The book would be much more valuable to smaller families with only one or two children, preferably those children being older.
The book goes through different rooms in your house as well as types of items like photographs. I found ideas most chapters that I thought were helpful. Somethings that I can start to do now and others that I know I can refer back to when i have kids. It's a quick read.
I have to say, while reasonably well written, and easy to read, it is not at all helpful to two sorts of parents:
1. Those working with a limited budget (the author brags about her 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, vacations to Paris, etc)
2. Those who believe in attachment parenting (she offers a rigid schedule for babies. Sleeping through the night at 6 weeks? Really?)
Her cleaning schedule is impractical for those with a smaller home. Cleaning the bathroom once a week might be practical in a home with four bathrooms. It is not in a home where 5 people share one bathroom. Her laundry advice of one time a week is also impractical with three little kids and small house where laundry makes a big mess if not washed and put away daily!
She assumes that if you have a small child in the house, only one child is quite young and the others are older. While this is true of some people, it's certainly not my demographic!
Her scheduling advice for young babies is alarming, dangerous, and unhealthy. She recommends spacing nursing sessions every 4 hours, which anyone with an ounce of common sense knows is very unsafe especially for little babies, and will lead to failure to thrive, malnourishment, and eating issues. She recommends a rigid nap schedule and I strongly suspect she used the brutal and anti-attachment "Crying-it-out" technique at an obscenely young age to achieve it.
Bottom line: if you are wealthy, have a large home, have only one (or no!) young children, and practice detached parenting, this book will probably assist you in your organizational goals.
If you're on a small budget, with a modest home, have more than 1 young child, and believe in treating babies and children with the respect they are due (and, um, not starving them in their formative months) keep looking, because this is not the book for you.

