The NEAT Method Organizing Recipe Book: 70 Simple Projects to Take Your Home from Chaos to Composed by Ashley MurphyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Once again I was lured into a glossy book of photographs which promise to organize and keep order in my home. However, this book differs from many of the others that I have already reviewed. First of all is the complete absence of color in many of the photographs. Virtually every single photo in the book is comprised of white, beige, tan and gray. (Personally I can't imagine living in a house so devoid of color.) It is a nice break, though, from those forced rainbow organized refrigerators, pantries and closets! Another feature is a description of their NEAT method, which has good suggestions of how to approach the editing.
The book is divided by rooms in a house, including the garage. Each of the chapters includes various sections (cookware, refrigerator, spices, etc.) and is presented like a recipe - including the approximate time to organize plus the essential equipment and accessories needed along with step-by-step instructions. Finally they have included a 7-day reset, a way to spend 30 minutes each day for 7 days in order to maintain the order that you have created.
If you are looking at just specific rooms or sections, it's a great way to approach your organizing. However, if you are reading the book page by page, you soon realize how much repetition there is between the sections. And I don't necessarily agree with their suggestion that you need to put everything in matching bins, and I definitely think that decanting all of your kitchen ingredients into other containers doesn't work for me. That being said, I came away with some ideas to implement. My recommendation is to check the book out from your local library and save your money (I did).
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