Getting Organized: The Easy Way to Put Your Life in Order

by Stephanie Winston

Book Overview

A handy guide that has been helping people manage their daily lives since 1978 is revised and updated to apply the principles of organization to today's lifestyles. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393087867
• ISBN13: 9780393087864
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good Book

The author defenitly provided me with fair suggestions to organzie myself better, however, most the suggestion were common things. However, do not compare yourself with me because prior purchasing this book, I still was a great organized person; it's just that I like to be perfect.

A Little Bit of Confusion

When I first stumbled on Stephanie Winston's book, I thought that I had found a treasure! Then I asked everybody else that I know, and they said, "Of course! Her book is the best." May I please ask the reader why they had not told me about it? I buy organizational books every once in awhile hoping that they will do all my work for me. I have about 10. Some are real "killers". Details, details, details. Push, push, push. Then there are the voluntary simplicity ones. "If it's difficult, then don't do it." This is true! In my opinion (and it seems everyone else's), this is the best. You will find this book like a kindly companion guiding you along the way. My favorite is her method of choosing names for your files (no! She does not like a "miscellaneous" file. She will explain why after you start using her book). She suggests that you "feel" what name is right for a file. And it can be anything! But it will set off a trigger in your brain. This is a stroke of genius. I'm sorry to criticize. But this is a review. Another book which I won't name ("The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Organized" HA!) has all these horrible plexi-files that can be fitted together for a "complex" system. All it gave me what was a headache. Will Rogers stated, "I have never met a man I didn't like". Bill Butler stated, "I never read an Idiot's book that I did NOT dislike." Anyway, BUY THE BOOK. It is so simple. While accomplishing so much.

Simply amazing!

I thought it was a book for housewives until I read it thoroughly. Men can use this infomation, too. I borrowed it from a colleague and had to buy a copy for myself. I'm glad it's still in print. Bottom line, anybody who has 'stuff' can use this book. Do you know anybody who doesn't have 'stuff?'

This is an easy-to-follow guide to making your life easier.

Whether you are an Oscar, a Felix, or something in between, there is something in this book you can use. The book itself is neatly organized into sections about managing time, money, paperwork, and your home, and is indexed so that you can locate what you need to know without reading it from cover to cover. There are step-by-step instructions for setting priorities and completing specific tasks--however, the basic organization methods outlined are very flexible, so that they can be applied to almost any untidy situation, ranging from the annoying (such as continually running out of shampoo, or not being able to find your favorite shirt) to the potentially catastrophic (you have to itemize your tax return, and you always misplace your receipts and canceled checks). Even if you have it reasonably well together, this book can be quite helpful, since Ms. Winston also offers shortcuts for onerous tasks, suggestions for living within your means, and creative storage solutions--and who has enough time, money, or closet space these days?