The One-Minute Organizer Plain & Simple: 500 Tips for Getting Your Life in Order

by Donna Smallin

Overview

Bring order to your hectic life, quickly and efficiently. Donna Smallin offers innovative ideas and effective solutions to the busy person’s daily battle with both physical and mental clutter. This easy-to-follow guide includes 500 strategies that will help you make your world a more orderly place so that you can spend more time enjoying the things that really matter. Even if you don’t have time for a top-to-bottom organizational makeover, you can still unclutter your life . . . one short minute at a time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603422123
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	09/15/2004
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	289
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Donna Smallin is the author of many Storey titles with a total of more than 928,000 copies in print. She is a frequent contributor to major national women’s and home magazines and has been a guest on the CBS Early Show, Better TV, HGTV, CNN, and Fox & Friends, as well as numerous radio programs. For the past decade, Smallin has been a spokesperson for such companies as Bissell, Kaboom, Staples, 3M, Keurig, and others. 

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
Part 1	Getting Organized
Chapter 1	Getting Started	7
Chapter 2	Clearing Clutter	37
Chapter 3	Paper Stuff	75
Chapter 4	Spaces & Things	117
Part 2	Staying Organized
Chapter 5	Everyday Strategies	159
Chapter 6	Clutter Control	199
Chapter 7	Home Management	225
Chapter 8	Schedules & To-Do's	249
	Index	277

Editorial Reviews

Donna Smallin, the overhaul impresario of Organizing Plain & Simple, returns with another anti-clutter masterpiece. The One-Minute Organizer offers quick, incremental solutions to life's big messes. Instead of draconian purges, Smallin prescribes measures that make our lives a little less cluttered each day, bringing us one step closer to a more orderly life. Who doesn't need this book?

…how to free your space – and your mind!” –Shape

“[with] The One-Minute Organizer…you’ll have everything from your finances to your laundry to the kids under control in no time flat.:” –Home Magazine

“The One-Minute Organizer will compel even the most organizationally challenged to corral and banish clutter.” –Canadian House Home

“…a cute little reference that lives up to its title words ‘plain and simple.’”

-St. Louis Post Dispatch

"...a compilation or organizing ideas that...are as easy to read and absorb as they are to accomplish." -Akron Beacon Journal

“…a quick fix for the organizationally challenged.” –Grand Rapids Press

“…hundreds of five- to 15-minute tasks to put you on the path to a tidier, more livable home.” –Kansas City Star

“This no-nonsense, reader-friendly book helps you get your life in order in record time…” –Tucson Home

“The One-Minute Organizer offers quick solutions to life’s littlest messes.” –At Home Memphis

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