Project: Organization Quick and Easy Ways to Organize Your Life

Reviewed by Dayna Davis, LDSFiles.com Staff Writer

Project: Organization Quick and Easy Ways to Organize Your Life by Marie Ricks. Published by Shadow Mountain.

Retail Price: $16.95 Available here

Do you dream of being more organized? Do you feel like you are constantly running two steps behind where you should be? Are you fairly clean and organized but know things could run a little more efficiently? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you. It is divided into sections such as, "organize your home", "organize your time", and "organize your family", and inside each section is several two or three page chapters that tell how to quickly streamline a particular area, idea, thing or activity. You can read them in order or you can hop around. All can be accomplished quickly without giving too much time to it.

I love this book! I'm already a fairly organized person, and reading this book has just made me more effective in what I'm already trying to do! It's easy to read, each chapter is short and it makes a lot of sense. An example is the chapter about organizing cleaning supplies. I am constantly buying new cleaning supplies - forever searching for the perfect product. She suggests taking inventory of your supplies, having enough of the same product for both floors of your home, and then labeling them 'upstairs and downstairs'. Sounds simple enough - but I had never thought of it. Instead I carry my supplies from floor to floor, then dig through them all to find I'm out of toilet bowl cleaner. Through this small, quick, change, my life has become a little easier and more organized. I thought this book was very helpful overall. I only wish there was a few chapters on organizing food storage and recipes!

52 Weeks of Recipes for Students, Missionaries, and Nervous Cooks

Reviewed by Dayna Davis, LDSFiles.com Staff Writer

52 Weeks of Recipes for Students, Missionaries, and Nervous Cooks by Clark L. and Kathryn H. Kidd. Published by Deseret Book.

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The title says "52 Weeks of Recipes" but maybe it should be called "Beginning Cooking 101." There are basically 52 dinner menus. The recipes have a main dish, and either a side dish or a dessert, or on some occasions - both. I think this book would have been great for me when I just went off to college for the first time. The recipes are short, simple and not intimidating at all. With the suggestions of side dishes and dessert, you could learn to make dinner for others with very little fuss. The back Appendix A tells helpful information like, "how to buy and store avocados", and "how to cook bacon". Appendix B tells cooking terms while Appendix C talks about basic cooking equipment. This book truly is for the beginning cook. While the recipes are easy and good, those that have more cooking experience will prefer a different cookbook.