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Organizing For Dummies
Organizing For Dummies | Elizabeth Miles, Eileen Roth
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Whats the favorite four-letter word of people who are less than fully organized? Help! So many technological, social, and economic changes affect your life that you need organization just to keep up, let alone advance. Many people have two jobs one at the office and one taking care of things at home. If you have a family, you may count that as a third job. Caring for elderly relatives or have community commitments? You can count off four, five, and keep right on going. No matter what life stage youre in, getting organized can make every day better and help you achieve your long-term goals. Organizing For Dummies is for anyone who wants to Polish his or her professional reputation Experience less stress Increase productivity Build better relationships Maximize personal time Organization isnt inherited. With the human genome decoded, the evidence is clear: DNA strings dedicated to putting things into place and managing your time like a pro are nonexistent. Instead, organization is a learned skill set. Organizing For Dummies helps you gain that skill with topics such as: Understanding how clutter costs you in time, money, and health Training your mind to be organized and developing a plan Cleaning house, room by room, from basement to attic (including the garage) Creating functional space for efficiency and storage Time-management strategies for home, office, and tavel Scheduling, delegating, and multitasking Making time for your family Managing your health physical and financial Finding time for love Organizing and cashing in on a great garage sale Getting organized is about unstuffing your life, clearing out the dead weight in places from your closet to your calendar to your computer, and then installing systems that keep the good stuff in its place. Organizing is a liberating and enlightening experience that can enhance your effectiveness and lessen your stress every day and its all yours simply for saying No to clutter.
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OrangeMooseReads
Organizing For Dummies | Elizabeth Miles, Eileen Roth
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It seems most people organize alphabetical by author. I‘ll be honest I‘ve never done that LOL 😂
I don‘t know if I could do by color even though it looks so pretty. My OCD would go off with subjects being mixed lol
Thanks for all the feed back! Love this community ❤️😊👍🏼
Picture of Isabella showing some tooth while sleeping just to grab your attention.

Crazeedi Awww Isabella is so cute!!! 5y
WhatThePuck I organize by cover. Paperbacks go together and hard backs. I try and keep books together by author and by order in series, but other than that I usually just throw it on the bookshelf. 5y
KatieDid927 I just wouldn‘t know how to find anything, personally, if it wasn‘t organized by author haha. Arranging by color def looks cool but I would NEVER find what I was looking for. 5y
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MommyOfTwo Arranging by color would be pretty but it would annoy me that books in a series weren‘t together. 5y
cathysaid 💕 kitty toe beans 5y
OrangeMooseReads @WhatThePuck I do a bit of that as well. My series have to be all together. I‘m the same the books just get shoved in an open spot, but I‘m trying to make better sense of them lol 5y
OrangeMooseReads @cathysaid she has cute little beans. 😊 5y
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OrangeMooseReads
Organizing For Dummies | Elizabeth Miles, Eileen Roth
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Since I did some book organizing I have a question ... how do you organize your fiction books? That is if you separate fiction and nonfiction. The nonfiction I feel are easy to separate further since they usually have a specific category (women‘s studies, history, religion), but fiction is usually just fiction. How do you separate those out, if you do?

WorldsOkayestStepMom All I do is alpha by author. 5y
stephothebesto By color 😝 and size. But more functionally, by genre and author 5y
Soubhiville I keep Fantasy, sci-fi, and dystopian separate from literary and historical fiction. Then shelve alphabetically. 5y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I do all my book alphabetically by author... 5y
JPeterson We broke ours into: non-fiction, horror (since we have a few shelves of just that), scifi/fantasy, fiction. Each section is then alphabetical. 😊 5y
donnalyy I am also a color and size book organizer! 🙋🏻‍♀️ @stephothebesto 5y
nudibranch I tend to only read literary fiction, and a lot of it is in translation (though many are in their original languages too). My nonfiction is a combination of history, language learning, and cookbooks. I also own a ton of books on world mythology. So my shelves are organized by world region. 🤗 5y
Erinreadsthebooks Currently, wherever it lands on the shelf, BUT I'm planning to get my life together and organize soon 😜😏🤓 5y
j9brown I organize by size on my shelves, and a bit by genre (all my battered old fantasy paperbacks live together) 5y
TheNeverendingTBR By author and size 🧐 5y
CouronneDhiver I arranged my shelves in rainbow colours... so easy to find the book I‘m looking for now 5y
CoverToCoverGirl I do everything in alphabetical order only... when I need to find a book, I need to be able to find it but I have about 3,000 books in two separate libraries. 😊 5y
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Jennick2004
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I don‘t think I‘ve ever shown you guys my “Read It” binder (books I‘ve finished)! Tabs with alphabet, each author gets their own page, then books by that author underneath!
#bookbinder #organized #ivereadit

Riveted_Reader_Melissa That‘s a wonderful idea! 6y
Jennick2004 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa it was difficult (time consuming) to get it started because I went back and added everything I had in Goodreads, but I love it! 6y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Jennick2004 I can imagine, but you have a backup if Goodreads goes down, which I think is great. I don‘t, and it worries me. 6y
rubyslippersreads Wonderful idea! 6y
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ReadingSusan
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Ok diving in to organizing my ebooks! I am horrified how many amazing ebooks I have that I have not read. I may need to do Mount TBR this year.

TheWellAccompaniedBook Me too. Me too. 6y
Liatrek I need to do the same. I keep great tract of my physical books but I‘m always buying those ebook deals and loose track of my virtual TBR pile. 6y
lauren.lerner This is so relatable. 6y
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Tameeka Yes, same here. Between my ebooks, physical books, and the library my Mount TBR pile keeps growing. 6y
kim.guernsey I'm challenging myself in 2018 to read only what I own, paper and ebooks. The only exception will be book club picks, and possibly any books that fit a category in a reading challenge that I can't make work with my own stuff. 6y
MaureenMc Preach! And a B&N gift card for Christmas plus the great end-of-year ebook deals have NOT helped. 6y
RebelReader So happy to see that someone else needs two devices to organize their book life!! 😜😜 6y
Lcsmcat @kim.guernsey Me too! I had to stretch the meaning of “classic” to do it, but I aim to put a dent in that list this year. 6y
Ubookquitous So true - Amazon has some of Goodreads Choice Award winners and finalists on sale 😕 but hey, New Years Resolutions about cutting back on book purchases aren‘t in effect until Monday! 6y
ReadingSusan @Liatrek yes. I can‘t believe it. I have hundreds of unread ebooks. I had no idea 🤭 6y
ReadingSusan @kim.guernsey that‘s a great goal! 6y
ReadingSusan @Tameeka so, so big. 6y
ReadingSusan @MaureenMc here too! I got a huge stack of books with my B and n gift card, books from amazon and a book outlet order 😳😳😳 6y
ReadingSusan @RebelReader oh you know it 🤣🤣 6y
ReadingSusan @Ubookquitous thanks for the tip 🤣🤣 just added four more book to my TBR. 6y
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SpeculativeFemale
Organizing For Dummies | Elizabeth Miles, Eileen Roth
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I am #MyOwnWorstEnemy when it comes to overbuying, overloading shelves, lack of organization, and general clutter. I really need at least one more bookshelf so I can space things out and organize better!

#90sinjuly @Cinfhen @Robothugs

Cinfhen Your shelves look very organized to me!!!! (edited) 7y
SpeculativeFemale @Cinfhen The mangas are good but the rest of it is a mess, LOL. Double stacking paperbacks is bowing the shelves pretty bad, too. 7y
WarpedSweetness I see Hellsing and Jacqueline Carey on those shelves!!!!! Jacqueline Carey is one of my favourite authors! 7y
SpeculativeFemale @WarpedSweetness I really enjoy Jacqueline Carey, but I have to admit I preferred the first trilogy to the second one. 7y
WarpedSweetness @SpeculativeFemale I enjoyed the first Trilogy more also. I think because it introduced me to so much of the world, and to Phedre. 7y
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bookishkai
Organizing For Dummies | Elizabeth Miles, Eileen Roth

It's a beautiful sunny day, our neighbor is blasting country music (admittedly not my favorite genre), and I'm cleaning cleaning cleaning away. It's time to get our disaster of a kitchen cleaned as part of our 2017 de-cluttering effort. I'd rather be reading, but it does feel good to be productive.

Bookworm83 It feels like spring today! 7y
LauraBrook It does feel good to be productive, and I hope you get some good reading time in tonight! 7y
kspenmoll My goal too when spring arrives! 7y
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Jennick2004
Organizing For Dummies | Elizabeth Miles, Eileen Roth
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Got rid of some toys to make room for the kids' books! 📚 #gettingorganized #kidsbooks