Totally Together- Shortcuts to an Organized Life by Stephanie O’Dea (giveaway)
As you know, I love the crockpot lady. I might be a stalker of hers. Her amazing recipes end up on my weekly meal plan week after week. Her Crockpot Candy Chicken recipe is cooking in my kitchen at this very minute.
Stephanie O’Dea is the author of multiple sites (which have recently all been married into one lovely site). She has also written a couple of crockpot cookbooks. Now, we can add Totally Together to the list.
Shortly after becoming a mom, over nine years ago, Stephanie quickly realized there was a need for an all-inclusive day planner or organizer. She knew that mom’s needed a planner for capturing family stuff, but she also wanted a book that would tell her what to do. She longed for reminders to set appointments, reminders to send out holiday cards and to call her mother. She wanted a set list of daily, weekly and monthly chores that she could check off, ’cause women love a check off list! Soon she started creating this journal Totally Together. Where day planner meets The Jetson’s- only in paperback.
About Totally Together
Does the thought of having company over or entertaining send you into a tailspin? Well, Stephanie is here to help us keep our house company ready within 30 minutes by helping us whip our homes into shape.
Stephanie lives by the “clean less, play more\” method, which allows you to fly through all the chores and minutiae in minutes a day so you can move on to what you really want to do: spend time with family and enjoy living life. Using a weekly organizational planner format, she spells out exactly what chores are essential and how they should be tackled to maximize time and minimize effort including:
- Seven daily chores that anyone in the family can do in just minutes
- Yearly, seasonally, monthly, and weekly chores divided into bite-sized chunks
- Household tips and cleaning shortcuts
- Guide for setting up meal plans
- Fun, fast recipes
- Reproducible grocery list with check boxes
- An action plan for keeping the entire family organized
One of my favorite things in this book is the section on age appropriate chores for children. I think no matter how much we know as mom’s that our children are capable of doing chores each day, we still put the weight of so many of the household chores on our own shoulders. Sometimes it is good for me to see what other people find effective when giving their children chores and household tasks. I also like that she breaks it down to give us ideas to make cleaning fun for all ages.
Throughout the book Stephanie also shares tips to make the household responsibilities easier, even for mom. I like this one for your microwave.
Easy Microwave Cleaning:
- Moisten a dish sponge, and sprinkle it lightly with baking soda.
- Cook the sponge on high in the microwave for one minute.
- Wipe down the microwave walls, floor, and door with this sponge.
- Rinse the sponge thoroughly and wipe out the microwave again to rinse away the baking soda residue, leaving your microwave clean and deodorized.
- Cover food with a paper towel when heating food to ward off future splatters.
Totally Together is certainly a mommy solution! This book hit shelves TODAY and sells for $15- very budget friendly and can be found at Borders, Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com, just to name a few.
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- Have all of your entries in by 8/16/11 by 11:59 pm, central time.
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I would SO use this book. How did you know that my microwave needs cleaning? See? I’m using it already. Now I’m off to find the baking soda and sponge.
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I so need this book. I returning to work and my husband world’s nights. The checklists will help keep me sane and organized.
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I could relly use this planner. Somedays it feels like …what am I supposed to be doing. Cleaning and laundry can be scary.
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Why I need this book – I have never managed to get my house organized and it is beginning to effect my life in disastrous ways! Plus the hubby says we can’t even try for a third until we can keep the house organized 🙁
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I’m (sometimes) a tad unorganized. I love Stephanie’s crockpot recipes.
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Would really love to win as I am a new to parenting (I am an international host mom of 3 kids) cleaning and trying to organize my Mom’s house and clean up her hoarding and now realize that I too have waaaaaay to much stuff and I am always running out of time or something slips through the cracks and I need all the organizational help I can possibly get!
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I am always looking for ways to be more efficient with the little time I have. I am returning to work after maternity leave and things are going to get even busier! This looks like a great resource to help ease the transition back to working full time.
I would love this book. I have yet to find the perfect planner, and to have a planner with lots of helptful hints is a GREAT idea.
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I am forever looking for new ideas and would love to have this book.
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I have a toddler who would love it if I could play more and clean less. I really need some tips as this place looks like a tornado has gone through it on some days. Thanks.
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I want to win this book because I am facing a shift in our family. I am hoping that for the first time in nine years I will be working outside the home for part of the year (the school year), and need to get better organized to do so!
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I would love to win this book to keep my family organized!! I am very type A, so this is right up my alley!!
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I need this book: D My family is trying to get organized and this would be the perfect addition to the system with three kids it would be a big help!
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This book would come in handy for my family. We are trying to get organized because we just moved into a new home and I an a work from home mom and the whole house has bcome my office.
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I would luv to have this book because it has lots of useful information that I could use…. the house cleaning tips and the age appropriate chore list for children.. and I need a planner. ; )
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I need this book because I have a 4 yr old and 2 yr old twins and I need organization HELP!
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With four kids, I need something to keep us organized. At this point, anything would help!
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My sister is a new mom and I would love to give this book to her as a gift. It’s full of wonderful ideas and moms can’t get organized enough. 🙂
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I would love to win this “shortcuts to an organized life” because I need help in that area of my life. reejen at comcast dot net
I need this book because “7 daily chores a family can do in minutes” sounds pretty good to me!
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I would love to win this book! I recently became a mom to my second baby boy and that made things so much more chaotic in our house. My husband works nights so I’m mostly responsible for taking care of the children and household. We also had to move away from our family because my husband got laid off. In addition to that, I’m doing a friend a favor and watching her daughter this year. Needless to say, my life is nonstop right now and I can use all the tips I can get! 🙂 Thanks so much for the chance to win this!
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I would love to win this book. I seem to be in a rut and need some inspiration!
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I need it because who doesn’t need a little help getting it all together!
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I stink at housekeeping so it would be awesome to have this book.
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I could use this book because I need anything that will help me organize my home and life!
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i would love to win this because i totally need to get more organized
I would love to win this organizer because I’m a very list oriented – organized person. I’m always searching for a better organizer – this looks like it!
I would love to win this book because I love to read, and I have my own collection of books. I’m always on the lookout for finding a good book.
Being a single momma, I can use all the tricks, techniques and great ideas I can get! This book sounds awesome!
I would love to learn the clean less, play more method!
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My life is so crazy right now I could really use something to organize it.
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