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Lady Elegance Purse Organizer
$9.15
I bought this organizer for my wife. She carries more things in her purse then a soldier preparing for overseas duty. The last time she cleaned it out she found things that had been missing for years. This organizer works great. There is a pocket for everything you can think of. It has been over a year now and it still looks like new. She is very pleased with it.

4 Weeks to an Organized Life with AD/HD
$16.95
This book purports to show AD/HD adults how to deploy their (alleged) superior "right-brain" visualization aptitude to cope with the demands of a "left-brained" world. The author's claim is that, by practicing visualization regularly, the AD/HD individual will be able to "stay with the program", so to speak. There you have it: get good at visualizing your day, in vivid, sensory detail, and you will have an "organized life"! What's there not to like?

The authors make no effort whatsoever to provide any support for their prescription, scientific or otherwise. As far as I can tell, they just dreamt it up, and turned it into a book. Maybe these ideas can be used by an AD/HD coach to good effect, but I'd argue that, in that case, the success would come mostly from the impact of the relationship with a person (the coach) rather than the content of the advice. Whatever utility these methods may have, I doubt that they can be turned into a "product," which is what this book ultimately attempts to do.

As with many, if not most, in the torrent produced out by the self-help industry, this book's contents could have been easily covered in not more than ten pages. The authors use the standard gimmick of padding their thin material with fake-sounding vignettes of individuals with AD/HD. "Jacqueline was forty-seven, and her husband, Jim, wondered if she would ever get her act together...", and so on, to the point of nausea.

Actually, the most instructive vignette appears in the book's introduction, and concerns the people behind the book. First we learn that "[Jeffrey Freed, one of the two authors] had developed more techniques and applications of his theories since his last book. But his literary agent had told him that his next book really should be written in collaboration with a psychiatrist." (The other author, Joan Shapiro, is, neatly enough, a psychiatrist.) Unbelievably, in the very next paragraph, the authors write: "Our combined experience was perfect. Could this be a team? As we sat across from each other at a library table, wondering if it could be this easy, the last piece fell into place: we shared the same literary agent! We each called [her]. She said, "Do it!"" I sat there wondering who was more gullible, the authors for thinking their meeting was something fortuitous, or me for having bought this typical product of a cynical industry.

One Year to an Organized Life: From Your Closets to Your Finances, the Week-by-Week Guide to Getting Completely Organized for Good
$16.95
Finally help for those of us who get overwhelmed easily. In just a few months, the difference in our household is amazing, from the cleaned-up clutter to the atmosphere.

Your Life Organized
$0.99
Clutter control & organization tips, tricks, ideas, inspirations and information to simplify life. Organize, take control and live a meaningful life to be proud of. Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day.