Marie Ricks

Marie C. Ricks

Presenter at Brigham Young University's Education Week in 2003-2009 under a four-day series entitled “A House of Order - The Better Way to Live”. Classes have an emphasis on home organization, time management, teaching children to work, kitchen organization, and food management and shopping skills. (Provo, Utah @ http://ce.byu.edu/ed/edweek.)

Guest on "Studio 5", KSL TV's daytime talk show at 11 a.m. focusing on personal and home organization, September 2006 to present.

Radio Show Host for weekly three-hour radio show called "Keep It Simple" on Utah's first radio station for women, AM820, May 2005- March 2006. This show focused on simple and effective ways to improve home management skills, shop smart, cook with finesse, and teach children life skills. It also included interviews with well-known personalities to share their perspectives on living, working, and learning.

Feature writer for newspapers, magazines, and blogs with columns regarding personal and home organization, 2004-present.

Author of Organize As You Go, Organized For A Mission, House of Order Handbook, Project Organization, and Master Menu Cookbook, plus other home organizational packets entitled: Stay-At-Home Housecleaning Plan, Working Person's Housecleaning Plan, Teaching Children to Work, Family Information Binder, Standards Cleaning Cards, and Cartooning Fun. See www.houseoforder.com/products.htm for more information.

Presenter of home organization skills at monthly Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Relief Society Enrichment Nights and other community/church groups, 1996-present.

Presenter at April 24, 2002 Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, Professional Conferences.

Teacher of eight-week courses regarding home organization skills through L.D.S. stakes in Utah and South Salt Lake County, 2006-present.

Teacher of eight-week courses regarding home organization skills at U.V.S.C. Community Education Program 1996-2006, Orem, Utah and Southside Community Center 1988-1996, San Jose, California.

Married to James N. Ricks. They are the parents of five sons. Tom is professor at Louisiana State University, David is attending Ohio State University medical school, Brian is seeking doctorial computer science degree at Brigham Young University and is a new husband, Jennifer is a B.Y.U. graduate in English Literature and is our new daughter-in-law, and Tyler is applying to B.Y.U.'s animation program.

Marie C. Ricks

Biographical Information, 2009

Marie has been sharing home organization skills for more than 20 years. In 1986, she began teaching an eight-week, sixteen-topic course at a local community center, which included classes on time management, food preparation, closet and cupboard organization, budgeting, teaching children to work, and shopping skills.

Marie’s classes have proven popular both in San Jose, California and Utah County, Utah, where she now lives. Marie continues to teach home organization classes and seminars at church, professional, and community gatherings. She also spends time coaching homemakers their own homes and helping them learn to be more organized. Marie has seen a lot of dirty laundry, cluttered closets, and untidy paperwork, all of which is very exciting to her.

Marie is a presenter at Brigham Young University’s Education Week. Her House of Order Handbook addresses the many facets of home management plus offers numerous worksheets to make running a home easier for any homemaker. Another book, Project Organization, Quick and Easy Ways to Organize Your Life, was published by Deseret Book and is available in local bookstores. She has created a library of home management materials and endorses high quality housecleaning products, all of which are available at www.houseoforder.com.

Marie writes columns for several venues, has had her own radio show, and appears as a featured guest on KSL TV. She shares a weekly email newsletter for interested women. Sign up at www.houseoforder.com.

Marie has been happily married to Jim Ricks for 37 years and together they are the parents of five sons. Tom is a Math Education professor at Louisiana State University, David is attending medical school at Ohio State University, Brian is a computer science doctoral candidate at Brigham Young University (and a new husband), and Tyler desires an animation degree at B.Y.U. Evan, their youngest son, passed away as a young child from leukemia.

Marie and her family live in Highland, Utah where she and her husband grow a vegetable and fruit garden as their summer hobby and share creative indoor projects together on colder days.