Reviews
Organizing For Life: Declutter Your Mind to Declutter Your World by Melinda Schmidt, Sandra Felton
dustcircle's review against another edition
2.0
Wanted to like it more, but I couldn't get past the returning to the religious. Some great material otherwise.
jacksons_books_and_music's review against another edition
4.0
This book should have had something on the cover or in the description that it is Christian-focused. I don’t mind it; it just would have been nice to know going in. The book itself is pretty useful in terms of addressing what many of the root causes of messiness are.
ixi's review against another edition
1.0
I managed to finish reading the book(that was a fit on itself)
at the beginning of the book, there are a couple of things you should take into account and maybe check out more, but otherwise I just wanted to smack he author in the head. I felt as if a self-righteous attitude was used when writing and the advice given is kind of non-existent.
it was implied that only women should and take care of the house, that if a man takes care of the household the woman should be grateful and consider herself lucky. that beautiful homes are only those put in order, that everything good comes from a clean house.a lot of advert for the messies.com site and her other books and at some point there is a sentence that says along the lines:"I am not going into details about clothes and whatever else, because it was discussed in my other books"(maybe I don't want to read those-definitely not now for sure)..there are just so many other things that rubbed on me wrong and made me angry.
oh..one useful thing was the fact that at the end of every chapter you had a set of self-asessment questions(not all of them making sense or thought in a way to help you think of your improvement though)
did it help me in any way? NO
maybe it can help others
I did learn one thing though. do you remember the Nike motto "Just Do It"? this is as far as I am concerned this book, a self-righteous way with a superiority complex way of saying it, just do it cause you are a failure otherwise
at the beginning of the book, there are a couple of things you should take into account and maybe check out more, but otherwise I just wanted to smack he author in the head. I felt as if a self-righteous attitude was used when writing and the advice given is kind of non-existent.
it was implied that only women should and take care of the house, that if a man takes care of the household the woman should be grateful and consider herself lucky. that beautiful homes are only those put in order, that everything good comes from a clean house.a lot of advert for the messies.com site and her other books and at some point there is a sentence that says along the lines:"I am not going into details about clothes and whatever else, because it was discussed in my other books"(maybe I don't want to read those-definitely not now for sure)..there are just so many other things that rubbed on me wrong and made me angry.
oh..one useful thing was the fact that at the end of every chapter you had a set of self-asessment questions(not all of them making sense or thought in a way to help you think of your improvement though)
did it help me in any way? NO
maybe it can help others
I did learn one thing though. do you remember the Nike motto "Just Do It"? this is as far as I am concerned this book, a self-righteous way with a superiority complex way of saying it, just do it cause you are a failure otherwise
libbyoneil's review against another edition
1.0
This book had a few helpful ideas but takes this idea of "the messies" way too far.
I'm sure some hobbies could just be an excuse to accumulate stuff, but to state that that is what all hobbies are and that you cannot create things remotely as nice as you can buy them shows that there is a different personality and gifting involved.
Some of the minimalist ideas were encouraging or helpful but the idea of "ok" is too narrow.
I'm sure some hobbies could just be an excuse to accumulate stuff, but to state that that is what all hobbies are and that you cannot create things remotely as nice as you can buy them shows that there is a different personality and gifting involved.
Some of the minimalist ideas were encouraging or helpful but the idea of "ok" is too narrow.
kotabee's review against another edition
1.0
I'm not Christian nor am I the feminine stereotype this book seems to assume anyone with a uterus is so I struggled to finish this. The parts of this book that I found at all relatable did not contain any new information or present it in a new and interesting/motivational way.
If you're looking for a book on decluttering that includes a section that looks through the bible to conclude that it doesn't actually say anything about keeping a messy house making you a bad person (cool story, bro), then maybe try this? But otherwise there are so many other books on the subject that you could try. For some of the same concepts about why we clutter I would recommend [b:The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life|11452567|The Hoarder in You How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life|Robin Zasio|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1347514993s/11452567.jpg|16386549] by [a:Robin Zasio|4876052|Robin Zasio|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66-347709e8e0c4cd87940bf10aebee7a1c.jpg].
If you're looking for a book on decluttering that includes a section that looks through the bible to conclude that it doesn't actually say anything about keeping a messy house making you a bad person (cool story, bro), then maybe try this? But otherwise there are so many other books on the subject that you could try. For some of the same concepts about why we clutter I would recommend [b:The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life|11452567|The Hoarder in You How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life|Robin Zasio|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1347514993s/11452567.jpg|16386549] by [a:Robin Zasio|4876052|Robin Zasio|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66-347709e8e0c4cd87940bf10aebee7a1c.jpg].
dustcircle's review against another edition
2.0
Wanted to like it more, but I couldn't get past the returning to the religious. Some great material otherwise.
ixi's review against another edition
1.0
I managed to finish reading the book(that was a fit on itself)
at the beginning of the book, there are a couple of things you should take into account and maybe check out more, but otherwise I just wanted to smack he author in the head. I felt as if a self-righteous attitude was used when writing and the advice given is kind of non-existent.
it was implied that only women should and take care of the house, that if a man takes care of the household the woman should be grateful and consider herself lucky. that beautiful homes are only those put in order, that everything good comes from a clean house.a lot of advert for the messies.com site and her other books and at some point there is a sentence that says along the lines:"I am not going into details about clothes and whatever else, because it was discussed in my other books"(maybe I don't want to read those-definitely not now for sure)..there are just so many other things that rubbed on me wrong and made me angry.
oh..one useful thing was the fact that at the end of every chapter you had a set of self-asessment questions(not all of them making sense or thought in a way to help you think of your improvement though)
did it help me in any way? NO
maybe it can help others
I did learn one thing though. do you remember the Nike motto "Just Do It"? this is as far as I am concerned this book, a self-righteous way with a superiority complex way of saying it, just do it cause you are a failure otherwise
at the beginning of the book, there are a couple of things you should take into account and maybe check out more, but otherwise I just wanted to smack he author in the head. I felt as if a self-righteous attitude was used when writing and the advice given is kind of non-existent.
it was implied that only women should and take care of the house, that if a man takes care of the household the woman should be grateful and consider herself lucky. that beautiful homes are only those put in order, that everything good comes from a clean house.a lot of advert for the messies.com site and her other books and at some point there is a sentence that says along the lines:"I am not going into details about clothes and whatever else, because it was discussed in my other books"(maybe I don't want to read those-definitely not now for sure)..there are just so many other things that rubbed on me wrong and made me angry.
oh..one useful thing was the fact that at the end of every chapter you had a set of self-asessment questions(not all of them making sense or thought in a way to help you think of your improvement though)
did it help me in any way? NO
maybe it can help others
I did learn one thing though. do you remember the Nike motto "Just Do It"? this is as far as I am concerned this book, a self-righteous way with a superiority complex way of saying it, just do it cause you are a failure otherwise
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