Secrets of an Organized Mom - 9781451672862

Organizing guru Barbara Reich offers a game-changing program for streamlining your life and home.

Mothers can feel like life is one never-ending loop. Just when we overcome one challenge, another one trips us up. But help is on the way: Barbara Reich has wrapped her clever strategies for staying ahead of the curve into four easy steps that can be applied to any organizing project: 1. purge, 2. design, 3. organize, and 4. maintain.

Barbara combines the humor of a sympathetic friend with the no-nonsense advice of a true type-A personality as she demonstrates how to approach organization in simple, consistent, manageable bites. She offers insight into the lives of crazed moms as only a mother could with tips like these:

• Keep only the toys your child plays with. Educational toys “exist to make you feel guilty.”

• Throw away useless kitchen gadgets. A streamlined kitchen can mean the difference between take-out and a healthy homemade dinner.

• Six children’s birthday parties in one weekend? Barbara preaches the power of “No”—and you don’t need to explain yourself.

• Don’t part with your child’s artwork. Scan or digitally photograph it and create a gallery on your computer.