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Emilie's Creative Home Organizer (Barnes, Emilie)
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- Author: Emilie Barnes
- Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
- Release Date: July 2005
- ISBN-10: 0736914455
- ISBN-13: 9780736914451
- List Price: $11.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryMore than 285,000 copies of Emilie’s Creative Home Organizer have been sold! With its new cover, Emilie’s timeless household wisdom will reach even more women from all walks of life. A time and organizational management expert, Emilie offers thousands of helpful tips for cleaning, cooking, gardening, staying healthy, raising children, and more. From the kitchen to the bathroom, from doing laundry to cleaning out the garage, readers will find innovative and practical suggestions for clearing out the clutter and organizing what is left to make life easier and allow time for more meaningful and fun activities. Emilie’s Creative Home Organizer has the facts, ideas, and creative solutions guaranteed to help readers save time, use their energy wisely, and avoid stress. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Home Organization
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I am still reading this book but it has given me some great ideas to do around my house. We have a busy household and can be overwhelming at times to get things accomplished. It is great to read ideas from other people to get you back on track or help you focus. This is a great book to do that.
Book of Tips, not of Method
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First off, I'm an unusual reader for this book.
1) I'm 22.
2) I'm male.
But, since I'm going to be moving out on my own in a couple months, and I found this book at a discount, I figured "Eh, why not?" I want to have an organized home, and since I'm not yet married, I figured I'd have Emilie Barnes, housewife extraordinaire, give me some advice.
At that, she did okay. First, since I'm going to be living in an apartment by myself, much of the book was pointless, so I skipped several of the chapters ("Raising Children", "The Garden", "The Garage"). But, what was left was pretty good advice. Simple things to make your life and more easier and more organized. Is most of it common sense? Sure. But, it's common sense that we don't necessarily think about without someone else pointing it out.
My major disappointments in this book were two-fold. First, it's terribly organized. One would think that a book about organization would be... well, organized. Instead, you get a more or less disorganized list of tips separated into topical chapters (which aren't always particularly accurate). Second, it can be kind of cheesy for me. Under "Beauty" (a chapter I browsed rather than read), she suggests to "teach a child to ride a bike". What that has to do with beauty, I'm not entirely sure, though it is a nice thing to do.
So, to wrap up, if you want a book with a step-by-step method for organizing your home and your life, look somewhere else. Emilie believes that whatever specific system you use has to work for you, so she doesn't bother offering one. If you want a book with some random good ideas that you could probably think of yourself if you had more time, then this is the book for you. Personally, I don't regret buying it. I think it will get me started on the right foot as I move into my apartment. (It's already encouraged me to clean up my room here at home! I haven't done that this thoroughly for 7 years!)
This book will encourage you to organize your life, and give you some tips to get started. But, Emilie certainly won't hold your hand all the way!
it just doesn't deliver
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This book will NOT teach you how to organize your home. What it does is offer you (in random order despite the clearly identified chapter titles) a host of tips on things like how to clean up messes and how to choose the "right" checkout lane at the supermarket. That got a whole page (in the chapter on finances)! There are 18 chapters including Cleaning, The Garage, The Automobile (has a section on what to do if your car won't start), Finances (includes the tip--when shopping classified ads use a colored marker to circle ads you're interested in, so you don't have to wade through the paper to find them again later), and even Raising Children and Good Health. The real problem with this book is it's scope is far too broad. Mrs. Barnes tried to give us practical help for every area of our lives. The trouble is, the book title says it's about Home Organizing. Why does it cover how to buy a car (or sell yours)? Most of the book's 300+ pages are devoted to tips for making chores easier and faster. That is NOT organization. If you want a good book for helping you set up your house to deal with clutter and hectic schedules, look elsewhere. If you get a kick out of the kinds of homey tips (how to mend a crack in a china cup with milk) found in ladies' magazines (and have LOTS of time to browse) you may have a winner here. I'm giving the book two stars because it contains SOME useful information. The thing to do though, is to use a highlighter to mark a tip you like so you won't have to wade through the whole book to find it again later!
Emilie will be your personal mentor in this detailed book!
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As a creative woman who has too much stuff to maintain well. I turn to Emilies Barnes' books over and over for motivation and encouragement to stay the course and make my home the most pleasant place to live, study in, to be hospitable and be able to find things that somehow have disappeared when I need them. She has her priorities straight and has determined that all homes no matter what the size can be organized and she gives easy to follow intructions. The only thing better than having her books handy is her videos *smile* or maybe her living right next door. You'll really learn lots. and then get a copy for the next bride who could use the tips.
Excellent organizing ideas!
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This book is filled with so many 'gee wiz' ideas for cleaning and organization. Just everyday tips and tricks you don't normally think to do. There are some tips on using certain items for cleaning that I did not know about at all. There were so many that as I read sections of the book, I would hightlight all that applied (which was a lot) then I would go back and read through those again to remember them all. I have made suggestions to friends and family. It always seemed that I never had enough hours in the day. Clutter had become a way of life. This book shows how to organize yourself, how to clean, and how to stay on track with it. Even if you are organized the tips on cleaning are very helpful. Would recommend this book to anyone! I read it just in time for Spring Cleaning :)
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