Checklists for Life: 104 Lists to Help You Get Organized, Save Time, and Unclutter Your Life

by Kirsten Lagatree

A Handbook For An Organized Life

If you've ever wished for a class in Coping 101, or a guide to living more efficiently and with less stress, this book is for you!  Over 100 sensible checklists offer quick tips and expert advice to make your life easier at work, at home, and through all of life's ups and downs.

Arranged by subject, from Personal Safety to Home Maintenance to Social Life, these lists will help you know what to ask, what to do, and what to have on hand in any situation.

  What to do when your wallet is stolen
  How to stock a bar
  Questions to ask when hiring a contractor
  What to keep in your medicine cabinet
  Frequently overlooked tax deductions
  How to be friends with your computer
  The best and worse places to hide valuables
  What to keep in a safe deposit box
  Six steps of bare minimum housework
  How to organize your file cabinet
  How to cure your dying houseplants
  Tips for writing an effective complaint letter
   who and how much
  A countdown to moving day

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Self Help, Productivity

320 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 1999

Reviews

[Alicia · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you're already organized or have been functioning as an adult for more than five years, you probably don't need this book.

[Michelle Lim]

a guide to living more efficiently and with less stress

[Jo Oehrlein · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don’t know what I was expecting, but this isn’t it. The author is an unabashed list-maker and is out to convert the world. However, her lists aren’t formatted as checklists that you could just copy and check off. Many items on her lists are a paragraph long. I only made it about half way through the book, but so far the lists include the groceries you should have on hand (all wrong for our household), the tools you should own, how to prepare for winter, what to keep in your medicine cabinet, etc. Some stuff seemed dated (published in 1999), and others just didn’t seem to apply. I think I was looking more for the kind of list found in the back of Side-tracked Home Executives. It’s not that the information found here is useless, but much is common sense and the rest would probably be best covered in a book on a specific topic (personal safety, remodeling your home, etc.)

[Kathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun book to have in the bathroom. I love lists. I picked up a couple of new tips that I hadn’t thought of like ‘Does my bank account start paying me interest when they receive the deposit or after the check has cleared?’ Most of the information was basically summaries of books that specialized in that field.

[Sherry · Rating 4 out of 5]

An informative and well put together book, I think this would be a great gift for high school or college grads just starting out. I like this book well enough and found enough useful information that I'm keeping it on my reference book shelf.

[Carolyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

I cannot believe I actually wanted to read this book and even got it from interlibrary loan. I kept thinking that it would help me get organized, but I felt like the list was some sort of rudimentary type thing - like: if you feel like you are in danger, phone the police. HUH?

[Janice · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is like a big long checklist of how to do a whole bunch of things - kind of like a how to do everything book.

[Lilla · Rating 2 out of 5]

Has a couple useful lists but nothing so great it'll make me recommend it.