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(Free Press, 2006)

Is your household a fine-tuned model of efficiency? Or do you simple close the door when the piles and heaps get out of control?  If your home, your calendar and your inbox are bursting at the seams, rest assured that you're not alone:  We?re all guilty of acquiring more and more stuff and have fewer place to put it.  Schedules are overrun with commitments, checkbooks stagger under ever-increasing debt loads, and closets long for breathing room.  Where does it end?

Being organized is the key to a simpler life, in which the things we own reflect who we are and everything has its place.  "How To Organize Just About Everything" covers the typical organizing dilemmas - closets, garages, desk - but goes beyond mere cosmetic fixes to the root of the problem.  You?ll find tried-and-true strategies that will help everyone from the hopelessly scattered to the chronically late - bringing relief to the most hard core pack rat.

There are 501 tips organized into sixteen broad categories:

Get organized
Life's nitty gritty
Daily debris
Heart and home
Yard and garden
Storage solutions
Education and career
Business and work
Financial plans
Family affairs
Food and entertaining
Celebrations and events
Community works
Travel and adventure
The unexpected
In your dreams