Good Housekeeping Organize Your Life

by Good Housekeeping (Editor)

It’s time to clear out the clutter! This motivating guide simplifies home organizing projects and offers hundreds of genius tricks to create a calm and tidy life.

Often the hardest part of organizing is getting started. This attractive book from the experts at Good Housekeeping breaks down your decluttering to-do list into smaller zones so you can tidy up and whip your home into shape.

Whether you're looking to take on every room in the house or focus on trouble spots (like your linen closet and that junk drawer!), this step-by-step action plan will help you decide what to keep and what to let go, as well as give you neat ideas for putting every space and every room in order…and to keep them that way.

With 5-minute tidy-up projects or a 28-day declutter challenge and beautiful photographs throughout, you’ll unlock the secrets to an organized home.

Inside you’ll find how

With inspiring yet practical advice from the home experts at Good Housekeeping, you’ll create order in your home and transform your life.

Genres: Nonfiction

160 pages, Hardcover

Published April 2, 2024

About the author

The Good Housekeeping Institute was created to provide readers of Good Housekeeping magazine with expert consumer advice and delicious, classic and contemporary east-to-follow recipes. These ideals still hold true today. The institute team are all experienced cooks, home economists and consumer researchers. They test the lastest products in purpose-built, modern kitchens, where every recipe published in the magazine and its range of bestselling cookery books is rigorously tested so that you can cook any Good Housekeeping dish with confidence.

Reviews

[Ambur Masen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Assumes audience is a female homeowner with ample built-in storage potential (closets, pantry, a whole ass extra room, attic/basement, etc); very little of this material can be easily translated into advice for smaller spaces (like a shared 2-bedroom apartment or a studio).

[₊✩‧₊˚Aria ʚ♡ɞ Nichole˚₊✩‧₊ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good Housekeeping Organize Your Life by Good Housekeeping was a really great overview of organizing and your house. It was filled with beautiful graphics and short lists. Very easy to follow. Lot of common sense things, but it's nice to have it all in one place.

[January · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good Housekeeping Organize Your Life by Good Housekeeping written by Kelsey Mulvey Forward by Jane Francisco
161-page Kindle Ebook ends on 154

Genre: Nonfiction, Self-Improvement, Home Organization

Featuring: Table of Contents, Full Color Photos, How To Get Started, Room by Room, 28-Day Challenge, Index

Rating as a movie: G

Quotes: No two people are the same, so why should their organization systems be? To find a flow that works for you, identify your tidying persona. For Cassandra Aarssen, a home organizer and the owner of Clutterbug, your persona can be determined by two questions: Do you prefer to store your everyday items hidden behind closed doors, or out where you can see them? Are you looking for a down-to-the-detail solution or a laid-back method? Once you’ve answered these, you can find a solution that works for you. “Working with your natural tendencies means that putting your things away and staying organized in the long term will feel effortless,” Aarssen says.

Is It Expensive to Replace? We don’t recommend wasting money, but if you can replace an item for under $20 or in under 20 minutes, consider tossing it. (In the meantime, enjoy that empty space.)

Place a container by your washing machine for change, receipts and lip balms that are lurking in your laundry’s pockets. Make sure your pocket’s contents are returned to their designated storage spot once the load is done.

Nest Your Bras “If you fold them with one cup inside of the other, you risk messing up the shape and shifting the padding,” Forté explains. Instead, nest them inside each other in a row, like you might see in a store.

Diversify Your Hangers Use a different hanger color for each garment type to stay organized: For example, try black for pants, white for blouses and pink for dresses.

Nowadays, most of us take pictures on our smartphones or digital cameras. However, if you have some physical prints lying around, store them in photo boxes. Label each box by year — and include negatives and photo discs inside, too.

My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟📦🗃

My thoughts: This book is fabulous it breaks down organization tips by room and then again by section, for example, the Bathroom and Laundry shares a chapter, but that chapter is divided into sections that have lists, tips, and photos for Vanity, Shower and Tub, Cosmetics, Medicine Cabinet, Laundry- Wash Zone, Laundry Dry Zone, Care For Your Clothes, Linen Closet. It even goes over how to fold a fitted sheet with instructions and color photos. The first chapter is Getting Started but each chapter also starts with a Before You Start. This book is great for people who get overwhelmed and those who benefit from clear instructions as well as those visual learners. It covers all learning styles and is well organized. It's a very quick read so you can spend your time implementing the tasks instead of reading about them. I'm going to get started as soon as I post this.

Recommend to others: Yes! Yes! This is great for those who are moving, downsizing, decluttering, or just wanting to find items quickly.

[Rachel Hafler · Rating 1 out of 5]

Parts of this book seem like they were written by AI and some parts just made no sense- get a better editor! Stock photos were uninspiring and unrealistic. Some of the general organization/decluttering advice was decent, but overall I'd say this book is not worth your time.

[Shebbles · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some good tips in this book, but overall, none of my mom friends or I live like this. We battle clutter. Most of the rooms pictured look like magazine picture rooms, not someplace my family could live comfortably. It'd be nice to be that nice and organized, but unrealistic for me.

[Sheri · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good ideas now just have to organizational. ...

[Debbie Nicoletti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Checked this out from my local Library’s new book section. It was a quick read with great photos. I am on a cluttering journey and found many of the tips to be quite innovative.

[Adrienne Adrimano · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good general advice. Practical breakdown of the tips, not large daunting blocks of text.

Lovely pictures that double as inspiration for spaces.

[Ann Mireles · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent tips for organizing rooms in your home!

[Awjtf · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book! Breaks down each task into smaller manageable goals so you do not get overwhelmed. There is a 28 day checklist in the back of the book to help you start.

[Karol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fresh, easy and organized read.

Helpful quick refresher to stay motivated each time I work on cleaning out and reviving a room or more in my home.

[Laurel Jones · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing revolutionary and several suggestions I didn't really like.