Customer Reviews:
 400 blindingly obvious tips to organise every room of your house April 10, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I normally love organising books with lists of tips in them. You get the condensed wisdom that someone has spent years perfecting. No need to wade through chapters of heavy text to find the nuggets of helpfulness, they're all neatly laid out in handy lists, pure genuis.
When I saw this book I thought, 'neat, 400 tips! there's bound to be a whole pile of useful ways of organising that I've never tried'. With three small kids our household needs as many sure fire systems that we can get to keep things on track.
Now, maybe our family's organisation system is already at a premium, because nearly 90 percent of the tips in the book are blindingly obvious. If you didn't have most of the tips in place already then you're either one of those families they show on tv (ie, the one's you wouldn't want to live next to), or a college kid just moving into your own place.
Tips for the bedroom covered things like; put dirty clothes in a laundry basket (hamper), hang robes on robe hooks, put jewelry in a jewlery box, use a tie rack to hang ties. Gems from the bathroom include pearls like; throw away expired medicines, store magazines in a magazine rack, keep toothbrushes organised in a toothbrush holder. I won't go on because I could list (in this sarcastic manner as I'm angry I forked out money for this book) the majority of tips in this review that fall into the obvious category.
If you're not mildly organised, you may pick a few tips out of the 400 listed, but you'd be better off goggling 'organisation tips' and reading the first few entries.
The author doesn't appear to be any more wise or organised than the average person, and they've gone through their own house and listed the stuff they've done in each room. Not inspiring or educational at all.
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