The Home Organizing Workbook: Clearing Your Clutter, Step by Step

by Meryl Starr

Book Overview

Failing the Mary Poppins' snap-the-fingers approach to cleaning, here's the next best thing: an utterly practical handbook that offers lasting results for anyone looking to banish clutter from every... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811837327
• ISBN13: 9780811837323
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The Home Organizing workbook, by Meryl Starr

"Clearing your Clutter" as Meryl Starr so wonderfully says, is a great step by step method that enables a person to take the right approach without getting overwelmed by the task in sight. My husband and I decided to make our lives more organized so things would run a little more smoothly in our home. The book allows you to go to a chapter and empower you with great ideas and solutions. By having chapters at your fingertips this is making our task alot easier. I would highly recomend buying this well thought out and easy to read book.

This book changed my life!

I loved this book. I tend to be disorganized. I have piles of magazines, books, my babies things, clothing and anything else I can stack around my apartment. I live with my 18 month old daughter and my husband. My husband and I both own our own buisnesses so there is not a lot of time to clean and organize. My husband bought this book for me as a gift, hoping to inspire me. At first I was sceptical. I barley had time to organize, little less read a book about organization! Fortunately, he bought the perfect book. Meryl Starr's book is very easy to read and absorb. She offered so many helpful tips that I have easily used and to my surprise my apartment does look and feel much more orderly. Every section is broken down into a different part of the house. I started in my kitchen. Ms. Starr begins with questions, which I kind of skipped over, because I wanted to get to the solution part. This was perfect for me. Bullet pointed suggestions!!! Fast, easy and practical. now I love going into my kitchen. I implemented her idea for installing a pegboard with hooks so I could hang pots and pans and now I have more storage space. The author really opens your mind and gets very creative and practical with her suggestions. I also really loved that she had a section on a variety of different storage problems. I read the ones that applied to me and my home and then the book gave me several different solutions.I really felt this book was user friendly, practical, pretty, sincere, helpful, and motivating. I highly recommend it. I just bought two more as gifts. One is for a friend of mine that is pregnant. I thought it would be a great gift for someone who needs to create room and that will have A LOT of new items coming into her home. The other book I bought was for a friend that is already very organized. She just moved. I am sure her new apartment is perfectly organized, but I know she will greatly appreciate it and she will surly get some new tips.

Home Organizing Workbook: Clearing Your Clutter, Step-By-Ste

I am always in search of new ideas for organizing my home, office and life. When I was younger I would move to a new apartment or house almost every year and part of the appeal was that liberated feeling of having every object in my life sorted, dusted off and put away again. Now that I've settled down a little - one husband, two kids and ten years in one house - things have accumulated. I'm not actually a 'pack-rat' but I do have a difficult time letting go of 'sentimental stuff'. Armed with Ms. Starr's workbook, I have reorganized my kitchen - I love her idea of boxing and labeling items that I don't use regularly, but don't want to part with. This idea made me re-examine the basement-which is now re-organized and stream-lined along with the kitchen.The book is beautifully written - with dedicated individual attention to every area of your home. The author has provided a question/answer guide to give you a good launching point and sometimes this guide offers a new perspective of the room to be organized. Her ideas and visuals are motivating - even if you don't go out and buy another thing - once the organizing juices are flowing you will get creative and begin to see new uses for some of your old 'stuff'. The format of the book is user-friendly, offering step-by-step suggestions, and each room has it's own easy-to-access section. Do yourself and your surroundings a good deed and buy this book -it's just as liberating as, but much more fun than, moving.

This book can help you change your life!

This is an absolutely fabulous book. Getting and staying organized was a talent that I always assumed people were born with...this book outlines step by step systems that enable anyone to eliminate clutter and simplify their life. Reading this book is the next best thing to having a professional organizer working side by side with you. Getting organized feels overwhelming. That's why this book is so perfect. It's user friendly. It's divided by rooms, and problems that the reader may face in each room. You don't have to read the whole book to get started. Just turn to the chapter that corresponds to your life, read the questionnaire and turn right to the page that outlines your problems and solutions. This system is efficient and extremely manageable. And you learn the principles that enable you to stay organized which can be even more challenging than getting organized in the first place! This book is chock full of important tips that help you save time and reduce the frustration in your life. And the book is just beautiful. It's full of lovely photographs that inspire and motivate you to get organized. I highly recommend it. It's the best book on getting organized I've read.

Best organizing book in the known and unknown universe.

Meryl Starr has captured the essence of what organization is all about. Her book leaves nothing to chance. This workbook takes a step by step approach which is logical and easy to follow. The pictures are wonderful and each section clearly points out the most essential elements of organizing that particular room. I highly recommend this book!