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Each year Americans as a whole waste nine million hours searching for misplaced items. That's 375,000 days of time that could be spent in other ways.As you make New Year's resolutions to get organized, "50 Ways to Leave Your Clutter" will help you stick to your resolutions all year long. Written by organizing expert, Audrey Thomas, it is an easy-to-digest, spiral-bound book with fifty ideas designed to be implemented over the course of one year, which allows long-term habits to form.The book is filled with simple, manageable steps to gain control of all types of clutter, including what to do with piles of paper and mail, overflowing email, the Tupperware cupboard and other kitchen surprises. In addition, Thomas offers loads of time and space-saving tips for every area of the home and home-office. ... Read more

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Better than nothing, but not by much
As a weary veteran of the clutter wars, I wondered if this book might give me a week-by-week incremental approach to cleaning up my act.It doesn't.In fact, its content is little more than you might find in a longish women's magazine article, and truly is just a list of 50 helpful hints, mostly not new ones.Its spiral binding gives the illusion of something more useful, but it's really not.
If you truly have no clue where to start in clearing out the mess, you might find this book helpful.Otherwise you will be as disappointed as I was. ... Read more

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Songs My Mother Taught Me
I first read this memorable book when I was in high school.Twenty years later I found myself recommending it to my daughters.Songs My Mother Taught Me is a coming of age story about the manner in which a young woman comes to terms with herself and her relationships with her remarkably disfunctional (fearful and angry) parents.In doing so she draws strength, maturity, and perspective from both expected and unexpected sources: a caring, albeit excentric grandfather, a summer love, and the staff and inmates of an institution for the insane.

The passionate emotions of this story are Thomas's trademark
Songs My Mother Taught Me is a heart-warming account of a young girl's relationship with a mother she never really knew nor took the time to care about. The author recounts the story as a fond recollection of her youth and the interactions and friction amongst the members of her family. She is especially concise and sometimes even bitter towards the sister character in the book. Yet these real-life human qualites which Thomas gives to her characters are what keep her readers interested and dedicated to following her work. A true delight ... Read more

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Living with chaos, clutter and confusion? Think a stress-free lifestyle is nothing more than a myth? No matter how disorganized you are (or how disorganized you think you are), you can begin to transform both your surroundings and your life.

In this compact, easy-to-follow guidebook, professional organizer Audrey Thomas offers the proven advice you'll need to find your way off the Road Called Chaos. She'll help you first identify and understand the reasons behind your disorganization, then craft a plan for banishing disorder based on your individual personality style. Using real-world examples and common-sense guidance, "Organized Audrey" offers the support and insight you'll need to take the first steps toward organization—and create a more peaceful environment for you, your coworkers, and your family. ... Read more

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Helpful!
We all want a stress-free life. But living with chaos, clutter and confusion contributes to greater stress. Audrey Thomas, author of The Road Called Chaos, presents simple and logical tips and techniques that allow even the most disorganized person to organize and simplify their lives.

The Road Called Chaos not only identifies the organizational problems in life but assists in identifying the reasons that contribute to disorganization. She then facilitates the transformation of our surroundings based on individual personality and learning styles.

Thomas discusses the different learning styles and personality types and gives definitions, which I found particularly helpful. And to further help us she provides actual case studies for different situations.

This is a compact and concise book filled with practical information to help us get organized and accomplish more.
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Lovely story, excellent writing
I loved this book. It is the story of a woman who moves to the Gulf Islands (off the coast of British Columbia) with her two little girls. She is a writer, a mother, a woman separated from her husband and dealing with jealousies, past memories, and all the emotional baggage of a marriage that has gone sour. Audrey Thomas writes beautifully of the surroundings, the quiet pleasures of island life, as well as therelationships with a few of her women friends who prove to be less than trustworthy. Thomas does an excellent job conveying the pretentiousness
and hypocrissy of so-called artists and intellectuals. Her main character was a woman I genuinely liked.
Audrey Thomas is, in my opinion, a highly underrated Canadian author. ... Read more

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We saved $230 the first month we used this system!

What's for Dinner? combines a self-guided workbook with a DVD of the workshop Organized Audrey has taught for 13 years. What's for Dinner? will save families thousands of dollars a year and make dinner-time a manageable and family-focused event.

Planning your meals and grocery shopping in two, three or four week increments can save the average family of four, $1,500 to $2,000 each year. If you have ever walked into the supermarket for a 39-cent can of mushrooms and come up with a 30-dollar bag of groceries...this course is for you!

Included is the 75-minute DVD video, the 40 page workbook with budget planning tool, menu ideas, guidelines for picky eaters, meal calendars, grocery and household item lists and much more.

No longer will you dread that familiar question; "What's for dinner?" This system saves time, money and frustration by eliminating hours of shopping time and saving the dollars spent on supermarket delis, fast food restaurants, high fat frozen entrees and pizza delivery. And as you follow the steps outlined in the course, you'll discover your family time will increase...around the dinner table. ... Read more

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Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, "Tattycoram" tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her career, Audrey Thomas has repeatedly challenged her readers to follow her into new territory. In Tattycoram, she does it again, taking readers into the distant fictional world of Charles Dickens’s England, where, in an unusual twist, Dickens interacts with his own characters, allowing Thomas to raise questions about the intersection of life and art.In Thomas’s hands, Harriet Coram gains both a poignant personal history and a quiet dignity. Abandoned as a baby at the London Foundling Hospital and cared for by a kindly foster mother until the age of five, the young Hattie attracts the attention of the Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, who hires her as the family housemaid. In the Dickens household, Charles’s sister Miss Georgina takes an instant dislike to Hattie’s pretty looks and trains her caged raven to tease her with the mocking nickname of Tattycoram. Although Hattie escapes from Dickens and his family to care for her dying foster mother in the country, she is later swept back under the famous author’s sphere of observation as a teacher in his newly founded school for released female convicts. There she befriends Elizabeth Avis, who also appears as another minor character from Little Dorrit. In typical Dickensian fashion, Hattie meets not one, but two, long-lost brothers and falls in love with the one who conveniently turns out not to be her "real" brother. But first, she must confront her benefactor about his shameless misrepresentation of her and Elizabeth’s characters in his latest novel. ... Read more