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Summary: Sandra Felton is really obnoxious
Review: Her tone is so smarmy, you can tell she was never a messy person, and she looks down on messy people. Only buy her books if you want to feel bad about your mess, not if you want to clean it up!
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Summary: Revealing the TRUE Messie
Review: If you are a "Cleanie" looking for organizational how-to's, this book is NOT for you. If you are a 'Messie' desperate for in-depth answers to help understand your paralyzing and embarrassing problem, EUREKA!! Sandra Felton, a former Messie, clearly identifies the psychological characteristics of Messies and why we fail in our efforts to organize our lives. Understanding what drives our ineffective thought patterns is a huge step toward overcoming them. For me, this book -- which answers 'why' -- combined with "The New Messies Manual" (also by Sandra Felton) -- which contains a detailed 'how-to' -- give a Messie a real chance to transform our world.
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Summary: Revealing the TRUE Messie
Review: If you are a "Cleanie" looking for organizational how-to's, this book is NOT for you. If you are a 'Messie' desperate for in-depth answers to help understand your paralyzing and embarrassing problem, EUREKA!! Sandra Felton, a former Messie, clearly identifies the psychological characteristics of Messies and why we fail in our efforts to organize our lives. Understanding what drives our ineffective thought patterns is a huge step toward overcoming them. For me, this book -- which answers 'why' -- combined with "The New Messies Manual" (also by Sandra Felton) -- which contains a detailed 'how-to' -- give a Messie a real chance to transform our world.
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Summary: Sandra Felton is really obnoxious
Review: Just how many times can the same information be repackaged and sold again and again? This is how many: a dozen books; organizational products; and numerous audio and video tapes. This incessant line of stuff seems to be more of a cash cow milking the hopes of the disorganized than offering any new or useful information. If the information is so good, why so many versions? Doesn't that just add to the amount of stuff we are already hopelessly buried under? Save your money and rent a dumpster instead.
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Summary: Frustratingly Scatterbrained
Review: Professional organizer Sandra Felton is a former messy person - and after reading Messie No More, I do believe it. This book suffers from lack of organization and cohesiveness. Most chapters jump all over the place and what sparse substance they hold is buried under a clutter of random quotations, examples, non sequiturs, and parables that go nowhere. Felton offers many standard insights into the psychological motivations of the disorganized person, along with some general common-sense tips on getting a grip on household chaos. While the author is sympathetic and supportive toward the messy person (sorry, Felton's purposefully misspelled term "Messie" grates horribly on me), I would wager that most intelligent readers could not help but feel insulted and/or irritated by her unintentionally patronizing characterizations of the organizationally challenged. Like the "Messies" she describes, Felton comes off as nice and well-meaning, but dotty and scattered. She is occasionally on target and in the later chapters actually gets around to some practical suggestions, but these glimmers of potential only make the whole book ultimately more frustrating. Aside from its structural flaws, the book seems a bit old-fashioned and is off-putting on a couple of other counts - it is pretty much exclusively geared toward women who take the role of "housekeeper," maintains a very conventional view of housework and familial roles, and is filled with many references to Christianity and the Bible. I'm sure there are books out there that can be of real help to people like me who need strategies for getting organized, but this is not one of them.
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