Product Description

If you're tired of fighting an avalanche every time you open a closet or cabinet door... if you never answer the phone because you cant find it... if there's a "Cleanie" inside you whos striving to break free, The New Messies Manual can help you make chronic messiness a thing of the past!

After thirty-seven printings and over 300,000 copies sold, The Messies Manual is a proven best-seller. Now completely revised and updated, The New Messies Manual provides more foolproof strategies for overcoming messiness as our lives become busier and busier. Seven new chapters have been added.

A reformed Messie herself, Sandra Felton founded Messies Anonymous to help people improve their organizational skills. Combined sales of her Messies books now number over half a million. In this practical and perceptive book, Felton helps readers who swim in clutter every day learn the secrets of good housekeeping. This book was first published in 1981.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #553534 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 255 pages

Judith Kolberg, director, National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization
Felton has done it again! The New Messies Manual is a fun book to read, filled with practical advice and a voice of compassion that rings through in every chapter.

About the Author
Sandra Felton founded Messies Anonymous in 1980 and has taught the how-to's of good housekeeping to thousands of disorganized individuals. A well-known speaker and workshop leader, she is also the president of a direct marketing company that supplies products to disorganized people.

Customer Reviews

Simple Solutions for My Chronic Disorganization
I highly recommend this book for people who are chronically "messy" homemakers. I have to admit that the book did discuss too much of the "whys" of messiness, but if you can get past the first part of the book, you will be surprised that the second half of the book provides just as much of the "hows". I have read quite a few de-cluttering and organizational books, which have been very helpful, but this one has helped in a way that none of the others have been able to. I have been struggling with a messy house for the last 13 years, and after 3 months, my home is organized! I've tried lists and time schedules and they just don't work for me. However, the "flipper" idea in the book works like a charm! It helped me from getting overwhelmed by distributing small jobs over a period of a month. Cooking and grocery lists are much simpler now also. If you are sick of having a home that you are embarrassed to show your guests, read this book!

Too Much Talk
I was really motivated to change my housekeeping habits when I bought this book, but by the time I got to chapter 12 where they actually teach you some techniques I lost interest.

I agree with a previous reviewer that there is too much "why" and not enough "how". It analyzes too much about what makes us messies tick, and only about half the book gets into strategies for changing your habits. I think that if you are buying this book you already KNOW you have issues, just get to the point already!

A Real Eye Opener
I was very impressed with this book. Instead of a list of things to do, such as wipe the dog's feet, it addresses the value systems messies have and what keeps them from being neater. It was good to hear from a reformed messie and not someone who is obsessive-compulsive about housework.