Book Review - The Complete Guide to Getting and Staying Organized

Chapters

1. Being Organized Means Being Prepared

2. Finding Your Organizational Personality

3. Kicking Out the Clutter

4. Maximizing Efficiency in Every Room

5. Combating Overcommitment

6. Taking Control of the Clock

7. Putting Paper in Its Place

8. Menu Planning and Shopping Strategies

9. Now You're Cookin'!

10. Maintaining Your Home's New Order

11. Taking It Home, Making It Yours

Appendix: Recipes and Forms

Yesterday I finished reading The Complete Guide to Getting and Staying Organized by Karen Ehman. This is a book I've read before and enjoyed. It is full of common sense and sound advice. I especially enjoyed the chapters on menu planning and dealing with paperwork. 

Book Review: Minding Your Own Business - A Common Sense Guide to Home Management and Industry

One of the things on my list of 10 Things To Do In February is to read Minding Your Own Business by Raymond and Dorothy Moore. And this week I finished it.

 I enjoyed reading it again and found myself inspired and encouraged as I absorbed the Moore's ideas and advice on managing the home and a home business (or two). It was helpful to read the stories included of other families who have successfully woven a family business into the fabric of their day to day lives.

This book has two parts and sixteen chapters.

Part One: How to Manage Your Home

1. One Man's Family

2. How to Coach Young Financiers

3. Values: How Much Are You Worth?

4. The Wasteful Generation

5. Recycling: Happily Making New Out of Old

6. They Who Serve: The Twice Blessed

7. Organization: Just a Little Bit at a Time

Part Two: Home Industries

8: The Miracle of Work: How Hands Build the Head and the Heart

9. The C-I Magic: Why Cottage Industries Are Special

10. How Others Do It

11. A Few Home Businesses

12. Finding Money for Your Industry

13. When the Handicapped Become Assets

14. Preparing for Employment: Home Industries and Apprenticeships

15. Something for Single Parents, Too

16. Considering the Law's Demands

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in home management and/or home industry. Even if you don't agree with everything in the book there is a lot of great food for thought.