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Finally, an organizational book for women who have given up trying to be Martha Stewart but still desire some semblance of order in their lives.Most organizational books are written by and for people who are naturally structured and orderly. For the woman who is more ADD than type A, the advice sounds terrific but seldom works. These women are looking for help that takes into account their free-spirited outlook while providing tips and tricks they can easily follow to live a more organized life.Kathi Lipp, author of The Husband Project and other "project" books, is just the author to address this need. In her inimitable style, she offerseasy and effective ways women can restore peace to their everyday livessimple and manageable long-term solutions for organizing any room in one's home (and keeping it that way)a realistic way to de-stress a busy schedulestrategies for efficient shopping, meal preparation, cleaning, and moreFull of helpful tips and abundant good humor, The Get Yourself Organized Project is for those who want to spend their time living and enjoying life rather than organizing their sock drawer.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 mai 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736943864
Langue	English

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
All Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, New International Version , NIV . Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Cover design by Left Coast Design, Portland, Oregon
Cover illustration Krieg Barrie
Published in association with the literary agency of WordServe Literary Group, Ltd., 10152 S. Knoll Circle, Highlands Ranch, CO 80130
THE GET YOURSELF ORGANIZED PROJECT
Copyright 2012 by Kathi Lipp Published by Harvest House Publishers Eugene, Oregon 97402 www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lipp, Kathi, 1967-
The get yourself organized project / Kathi Lipp.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-7369-4385-7 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-4386-4 (eBook)
1. Home economics. 2. Time management. I. Title.
TX145.L57 2012
640-dc23
2011028814
All rights reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Printed in the United States of America .
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 / BP-SK / 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
This book is dedicated to my second-favorite family ,
Brian, Lucinda, and Elsa Richerson .
Love you all. Thank you for the love and support for our family .
And Elsa, I promise to never give you
more toys than your mom and dad can organize
(but when it comes to books, I make no promises) .
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preparing for The Get Yourself Organized Project
1. Is This Book for You?
2. Eight Basic Rules to Get Yourself Organized
3. How the Projects Are Structured
4. A Quick-Start Guide
Launching The Get Yourself Organized Project
The Send-Off
Projects for Your Home
Project 1-The Living Room/Family Room
Project 2-Bedrooms
Project 3-Bathrooms
Project 4-Kids Rooms
Project 5-Your Kitchen
Project 6-Your Office/Hobby Area
Project 7-Garages and Basements
Projects for Your Family
Project 8-Your Laundry
Project 9-Your Family s Schedule
Project 10-Meal Planning
Project 11-Grocery Shopping
Project 12-Kids Chores
Project 13-Paperwork
Project 14-Travel
Projects for Your Personal Life
Project 15-Your Schedule
Project 16-Getting Out the Door in the Morning
Project 17-Your To-Do List
Project 18-Your Car
Project 19-Your Handbag
Project 20-Your Computer
Project 21-Your Wardrobe
Wrap-Up
Dear Reader
Other Books by Kathi Lipp
About the Publisher
Acknowledgments
Amanda, Jeremy, Justen, and Kimber -We love seeing you going out into the world and creating homes of your own.
The Dobsons, the Lipps, and the Richersons -Love each and every one of you.
My ministry partners who carry much of this load -Rachelle Gardner, my agent, and Rod Morris, LaRae Weikert, and the entire team at Harvest House Publishers.
Linda Jenkins -Thanks for your fingerprints all over this book.
My team -Lynette Furstenburg, Sunnie Weber, Ginny Chapman, Kimber Hunter, and Bronwyn Swartz-Thanks for using your talents so I can go and use some of mine.
Finally, to Roger -Thanks for being my partner in ministry so I can be your wife at home. Shut the door, baby.
Preparing for The Get Yourself Organized Project
1
Is This Book for You?
After his 3-month-old son sailed off the roof of his car at 50 mph and landed unhurt in the middle of an interstate highway on Sunday, Michael Murray decided to break the news to his wife gently .
It was, after all, Mother s Day, and Murray, a 27-year-old factory worker, said Monday he did not want to say right out that he had messed up by absentmindedly driving off while his son was strapped into a car seat that he had left on the sunroof of his bronze 1987 Hyundai. As her husband sheepishly held Mathew, who was sleeping serenely in white pajamas and sunbonnet, Deanna Murray, 28, recounted the phone call she received from her husband .
Come to the emergency room, he told me.
A surgical nurse, Deanna Murray was on duty at the Medical Center of Central Massachusetts in Worcester when her husband s call came in. The emergency room is down the hall from her work station .
Just come down here, that s all he told me, Deanna Murray said, describing the phone call. Mathew has fallen, he finally said. I ran all the way down the hall.
After learning the full story, Deanna Murray said, I was in shock. The nurses had to sit me down and hold me. It s a miracle. It really is.
As Michael Murray recounted it, things began innocently enough around noon Sunday when he decided to drive Mathew and his 20-month-old sister to the hospital, where Deanna was working the day shift. He wanted to drop off her Mother s Day gifts - a gold necklace bearing the legend Number One Mom and a single rose .
After presenting these gifts, Michael Murray carried his two children back to the indoor garage where he had parked the car. Murray put his daughter into her car seat but then got into the car with Mathew still on the sunroof .
The garage was dark, Murray said when asked how he could have forgotten about his son .
(Chris Reidy, Absent-Minded Father Sends Baby Son Flying Down the Highway, Boston Globe , May 12, 1992.)
I first heard this story on a radio broadcast over twenty years ago, and it still gives me the same sick-in-the-pit-of-my-stomach feeling every time I think of it.
But maybe not for the same reason as you.
You see, I think when most people hear or read about the story of young Mathew, their first reaction is, Thank God that baby is OK. If that is your reaction, congratulations. You are probably a pretty well-balanced, normal person.
However, my first reaction was, Thank God I haven t done that yet. If that was your first reaction as well, this book is for you.
Here are a few other ways to know whether or not this book is for you:
if you always know where your car keys are
if you look at Martha Stewart and think, Now that s somebody I can hang with
if all your dresser drawers slide closed with ease
if there s nothing in your fridge that s older than your youngest child
if you think laundry baskets are for folding laundry and not for running around the house gathering up papers, shoes, and fourth-grade science projects
then this book may not be for you. However ,
if you have offered any of your children five dollars if they win the Where Are Mommy s Keys? game
if you have ever entertained someone entirely on your front porch because your house was such a mess
if your kids automatically know that the hour before Grandma and Grandpa visit is stash-and-dash time
if you think that getting your shoes on, driving to the ATM, and ordering fast food at a drive-thru is easier than cooking
if your house is clean and your husband automatically asks, Who s coming over?
if you wear something besides pajamas and slippers to drop off your kids at school, and the drop-off lady asks, What are you all dressed up for?
then this book is for you.
You re Not as Disorganized as You Think You Are
I come by my chaos honestly.
I am only one in a long line of people in my family who are disorganized. I have an aunt and uncle who could easily take up a full season on the reality show Hoarders , and my dad has stored in his garage non-working electrical parts from the Nixon era. (At least when it comes to my mom s walk-in-closet-sized collection of quilting fabrics, they are organized by color for easy retrieval.)
So when it comes to managing my own household, I was probably a lot closer to being invited to my own clutter intervention than invited to cohost a segment on Clear Away the Kitchen Clutter on Good Morning America .
Like reading a diet book from someone who has never weighed more than a buck ten, trying to find help from organizational experts who have color-coded their laundry hampers since they were three just didn t do it for me.
Out of sheer desperation (and a strong desire to regularly have clean underwear) I would buy the oh-so-magical, super-organization books, start on their perfect systems, and then realize that the author and I had a major communication issue-we weren t speaking the same language. Apparently, my brain was wired completely different than hers was. (Then I would have to organize the book that I was no longer reading into my collection of organizational books.)
The difference seemed to be that while these experts lived to organize, I wanted to get things organized so I could live. I saw organizing as something I wanted to do and then move on. The experts saw organization as the goal in life. (The last time I checked, no one was giving out blue ribbons for the fewest mismatched socks.)
I m sorry, but I want a little more from life than an improved laundry system.
I bet you do too.
Now don t get me wrong-I have a few friends who love to clean. I mean can t-wait-to-get-down-on-their-hands-and-knees-and-scrub-the-grout-with-a-toothbrush friends. (Come to mention it, I m wondering again why we re friends.) There again, I realize we have completely different ways of approaching life. While I see the glass as half full, they see the glass as Are you finished drinking that? If so, go rinse it out and put it in the dishwasher. From these friends and their kind I would never be able to learn the art of home management.
I need to learn from people who have the same kind of brain that I do:
one that loves to get things done-as long as it s quick and easy
one that doesn t want to waste time on boring or seemingly unproductive things
one that doesn t want to spend time cleaning a bathroom that s already clean
one that would rather be watching a good DVD than organizing them on a shelf
When I was describing this book to fellow author Kristin Billerbeck, she looked at me and rolled her eyes. It too