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What’s a DIS-Organized Person to Do – Book Review

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What's a Disorganized Person to Do book Review

When I was contacted to review author Stacey Platt’s book ‘What’s a DIS-Organized Person to Do?’, I thought to myself, “they must know me!”  I try – I really try, to get organized, but I am just not very clever in that department.  I have a hard time coming up with creative ways that will help me get organized and stay organized.   I am definitely the right person to review this book, as the organizational ideas contained within are exactly what I need to get things in order around here.


About Stacey Platt:

Professional organizer Stacey Platt runs DwellWell, a New York-based organizing and lifestyle management firm with a clientele that includes celebrities, chefs, artists, doctors, lawyers, overextended moms and more. Touted by Daily Candy as being “well-versed in aiding the most cluttered, confused, and disorganized,” she is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers and has an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Nearly a decade and a half of daily yoga practice informs her approach to organizing and to life.

The book is laid out in simple terms – there are photos to go with the ideas (which really helps me!), and it really is an easy read.  The sections are broken down by subjects and rooms, and covers everything from reducing junk mail to designing a clothes closet, to sorting digital photos.  Check, check, check – I need help with all of these. There are also symbols throughout the book to help.  Specifically, there are three symbols –  One-Hour Project: Step-by-Step instructions on streamlining specific areas of the home, from the pantry to the bathroom vanity.  Quick Tip: An idea, product, or service that will instantly reduce clutter in your life.  Double duty: Space-saving solutions that multi-task.

Stacey Platt What's a Disorganized Person to Do review and giveaway

From the entryway to the kitchen, the kids’ bedrooms to the car, here’s a treasury of empowering ways to get yourself and your family organized. Within its 272 colorful pages, you’ll find out how to get a human being on the phone when calling customer service and what papers you need to save for taxes (and for how long) and all kinds of other juicy tidbits to help you unclutter and streamline your life. 317 easy-to-scan solutions to everyday aggravations make “What’s a Disorganized Person to Do?” an indispensable guide to controlling clutter. How do you keep from misplacing your cell phone or house keys? What’s the best way to organize the fridge? How do you pack efficiently for a trip? Find all these answers and more in this ultimate organizing bible.

I wish I could explain every single section of this book – each one is so helpful, and for me, so needed.  It’s like having a personal organizer with me at all times.  If there is something specific I need help with, it is so simple to just flip open that section of the book!  Some of my favorite parts of this book are: Ten steps to organizing anything, Help with letting go (I know for some of us it is really hard to let go of our possessions), Tips for making the most of limited counter space, Organizing frozen food, and How to set up a kitchen bill-paying area.  I love all of the sections in the book – it is hard to only tell you about a few!

If you are like me (or even if you aren’t), I know that you will find this book to be incredibly helpful with every aspect of  your life.   What’s a DIS-Organized person to Do? is available at Amazon.com, and other book retailers – the price is only $16.95  You can also enter to win a copy below!

THE GIVEAWAY is now closed:

One (1) winner received a copy of the book What’s a DIS-Organized Person to Do?

Open to residents of US only.  Giveaway ends May 23rd at 9:00 p.m. (PST)


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165 Responses

  2. OH…MY…GOD…it would be better to ask What area of our house and life DOESN'T need it!

    I have been sick for almost 10 years, really ill the past 2. With kids there have been LOTS disorganization and home/cleaning/organizing that has come to a standstill. Hmmm…getting rid of clothes/toys/clutter is the worst!!! Our storage room is sky high with these items. My husband is a pack rat and needs this book too!!!!

    thanks much!

    ejrichter60 at gmail dot com

    Eileen

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  5. Facebook Fan of yours!
    eileen richter

    thanks much!

    ejrichter60 at gmail dot com

    Eileen

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  6. Following Stacy Platt on Twitter!

    @2sic2mooov

    thanks much!

    ejrichter60 at gmail dot com

    Eileen

    Reply

  7. I left you a comment on your Police tribute post!

    thanks much!

    ejrichter60 at gmail dot com

    Eileen

    Reply

  8. I commented on your post on tricks to the Phone Menu "game"!

    thanks much!

    ejrichter60 at gmail dot com

    Eileen

    Reply

  9. I left a comment on your post to NOT DRINK & FLY>>>laughed so hard…WITH you, not AT you;)

    thanks much!

    ejrichter60 at gmail dot com

    Eileen

    Reply

  10. I have two rooms –the guest room and the office. Both of these are places that we tend to just dump stuff.

    msgb245 at gmail dot com

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  15. The dining room. It is not used for eating. It has dog crates, kitchen overflow and other "stuff" that has no home.

    lkish77123 at gmail dot com

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  19. Oh my gosh! It's just chaos every inch around here! 3 kids? It looks more like 300 live here. It's just nuts.

    mom03n06(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  25. My room definitely needs help more than any other part of the house. I just can't keep organized. daydreamsinbubbles(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  35. My hubby and I have separate financial affairs (and stuff together). our office can use an organizational makeover!

    rugerpuppies at hotmail dot com

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  53. I need to organize right by the door where we come in the house. The place where everything you carry in falls.
    puzzleme2(at)gmail(dot)com

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  58. The table the I use as my dining table, desk, filing cabinet, study place…

    Thanks for the giveaway >^..^<

    bloggyig at gmail dot com

    Reply

  67. our living room needs the most organizing between the 2 cats and their toys and us not putting stuff away i feel like it is still cluttered after i clean

    dwalline at gmail dot com

    Reply

  113. The areas of my home and life that need the most organizing are my time and my paper trail lol, and that's just the beginning!
    luckofdraw777(at)gmail(dot)com

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  118. My closets need it the most! I look pretty organized on the outside, but my closets are FULL of "miscellaneous" boxes and plastic containers. If nothing else, I need to reorganize those so that like things are together. Best-case scenario would be that I'd throw away/donate/sell a bunch of it and have more closet space in the end!

    krtrumpet [at] aol [dot] com

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  123. I need to finish unpacking from our move 2 years ago. I don't unpack because I know I'll have to organize it. So the boxes sit in the back room along with all the ohter things I need to organize. And the closets …

    I realize it needs done, I just keep hoping I'll come home one day and find it magically completed

    susan56bft at gmail dot com

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  124. What's a Dis-organized Person to Do fan/like on Facebook
    id:Susan Claus

    susan56bft at gmail dot com

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  131. I would say the office needs the most organizing. It's where all of the bills and everything else end up and it's getting frustrating.

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  135. I can't think of a place that doesn't need organizing except my refrigerator and that's only because I just got it. Give it a week or two and it will be just as bad as the rest of the house.
    I need to stop reading blogs and get to work 🙂

    Reply

  143. LOL, my whole house needs to be organized – it's just too small with too few closets to hold everything I've accumulated.

    Thanks for the giveaway!
    email in blogger profile.

    Reply

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