Organize Your Personal Finances in No Time

by Debbie Stanley

Written by a professional organizer and coach for the chronically disorganized, this do-it-yourself guide shows you how to create a fool-proof, easy-to-maintain financial system in a single day. It... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789731797
• ISBN13: 9780789731791
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Here is the help you need in getting your finances organized.

Whether you have been managing your personal finances for years, or you have just left home and have no idea where to start when it comes to managing your finances, you will benefit from this book. Stanley's approach to teaching the reader how to manage their finances is fun, exciting and motivating. The ideas in this book are practical and easy to implement. They are easy-to-follow and are adaptable to various situations and varous personalities.

Great step-by-step guidance!

Because the books contains consise "To-Do lists" as well as flagged reminders of key organizing principles, it is easy to take the information from the book and apply it to each reader's own situation. Working as a professional organizer, I was able to utilize the information from the book to help my clients become less overwhelmed with all of their papers and stick to an organized bill paying system that works for them.

Organize Your Finances and Keep Them That Way!

This is an excellent guide that offers practical solutions to get your finances organized and keep them that way. Debbie Stanley's shining personality stands by the reader throughout the entire book as she offers a myriad of solutions to today's financial challenges. Her focus is on creating an organized, efficient financial system that works for you rather than you working for your system. The author emphasizes that even financial items need homes in order to manage financial clutter. Debbie offers recommendations for setting up financial files, automatic bill payment, financial software, daily mail, paper flow systems, and yes, even shopping excursions! The concept of being "organized enough" is stressed throughout as a pleasant reminder to keep it simple. This book is loaded with helpful tips, visuals and resources to help you save money, time, and frustration by creating a customized, efficient personal finance system. It's a "must have" book if you are ready to organize your personal finances and keep them that way!

Finally, an easy to follow book to organize your finanaces!

This book is great! I would have never guessed that a book on organizing finances would be fun to read, but this one is! It is easy to follow and is presented in a way that makes it quite simple to customize your own systems. In addition to all the wonderful financial advice (some which I did not even realize that I needed to know!), there is plenty of advice on organizing other area's of your life. For example, dealing with non-financial paper and clutter like magazine articles and catalogs. My favorite is the "room-by-room" files. They work awesome! Every young person or couple just starting out should have this book! I'll be giving it for bridal shower gifts from now on!

Practical and to the Point

If you need to simplify how you handle your finances and paperwork, this is the book for you. Even if you are organized in this area, this book will motivate you to simplify even more. It did for me. As a Professional Organizer, one of the biggest downfalls I see to any money management system is making it overcomplicated--e.g., waiting to organize your finances because first you need to learn the computer program you plan to use. Next, is the indecision most people face when they are trying to get organized. This is commonly seen in how to name files and how to store files (covered simply in the book!). Stanley provides practical, to the point direction in how to decide what is just right for you, so that your systems will actually support you and not work against you by being overcomplicated. This book takes you through the decision making processes involved in setting up the systems you'll need. This is the first book on organizing finances that I have seen that is as interested in you the person, as a seasoned Professional Organizer would be. She makes it so easy to decide what you need to do next, based on you. It was as close to having a live Professional Organizer there with me while I was reading. Be sure to check out the cool icons that guide you to quick tips and hints, such as "Clever Client" and "Organized Enough" (hooray that an organizing book is finally addressing the concept of not over-organizing).