Jamie Novak

Stop Throwing Money Away: turn clutter to cash, trash to treasure - and save the planet while you're at it! by Jamie Novak.
I like this book! I have read quite a few organizing books, and just reading them does not make one organized. If just reading the books produced the desired effect, I would be slim and fit based on the number of diet and exercise books that I have read.
Jamie gives good, concrete, budget friendly tips on how to organize and get rid of your clutter.
Some of her ideas I show more don't think I would do - like using egg cartons to organize stuff in drawers, but other things she suggests, I have already done or am now doing!
She gives great ideas on how to overcome Organizing Distraction Syndrome - which I definitely suffer from. I may create a desktop file system like she suggests, and I already set up a little box to hold my monthly receipts. I like the idea of reusing what we have around the house.
I have been inspired by her book and am clearing out stuff to give away and sell.
Jamie also has a blog - http://bitesizeliving.com/blog-2/
and a website http://bitesizeliving.com/
I am glad that I read her book and I highly recommend it! show less

I was disappointed with this book. It had a good layout and premise but not much substance. Most helpful information was in the side bars. The actual Keep This part of each section were so obvious. The Toss This part was worse. Is it broken; is it worn, is it out of style; do you not like it any more? Well, duh!

I read this book to get some guidance on organizing and downsizing. I will have to read this book again because this was packed full of good advice. I did do some of the suggestions and I plan to keep doing a few each month. This is a very user friendly book. I may have to purchase it so I can write notes in it.

Overall a nice book.

But, there's one advice given that I really want to warn you against.

That would be the advice of having a single password for all of your web accounts. Yeah, no. Please don't ever do that.