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Interested in learning more about the Sidetracked Home Executives card file system?

Authors and Sidetracked Sisters Pam Young and Peggy Jones have published six books explaining how to use 3-by-5 file cards for home organization.

Two of the titles in the list below are out of print, while two others can only be purchased from the official S.H.E. Web site. Books in print may be ordered at a discount through Amazon.com. Look for out-of-print books through E-bay or online used booksellers:

• Sidetracked Home Executives
  Young and Jones 1978, Warner 1981;
• The Sidetracked Sisters Catch Up on the Kitchen
  1983;
• The Sidetracked Sisters' Happiness File
  1985;
• I'm Okay...but You Have a Lot of Work to Do!
  1988;
• Get Your Act Together: A 7-Day Get-Organized Program For The Overworked, Overbooked, and Overwhelmed
  1993.
• The Phony Gourmet: Includes 75 Delicious Recipes for Shortcut Cooking
  1995.
• Sidetracked Home Executives(TM): From Pigpen to Paradise
  (revised edition) 2001.

The sisters' first book, S.H.E. outlines the 3-by-5 cardfile system to move from "pigpen to paradise". Written at the end of the '70's, this is definitely a "Becky Home Ec-ky" presentation, but it contains the best description of the classic S.H.E. cardfile system.