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Houseworks: Cut the Clutter, Speed Your Cleaning, and Calm the Chaos
America's leading housekeeping expert shows you how to de-clutter, organize, and clean your home, with easy-to-remember tips for every job, from keeping your bathroom clean and doing the laundry to sorting out paperwork and organizing the family photo album. Where there is hope, there is help. You can win the chore wars!
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Paperback, 256 pages
Published
March 20th 2006
by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
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This book had some fantastic tips in it! My favorite is the quick way to get some cleaning done by setting aside 10 minutes and getting one box for stuff to put away somewhere else, one box for stuff that needs to be filed or stored, one box of stuff to give to charity, and a bag for garbage. Set your timer for 10-minutes and just do as much as you can in an area. When the time's up, then go put away the box of stuff to put away and you've made some major progress. There are some great clean...more
Megan Larson
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Why did I not know until now that there are books out there that teach you how to "speed the cleaning, cut the clutter, calm the chaos???" I think I speak for many moms of young kids, wives of men (God bless them), and generally busy women, when I say that it gets discouraging to see persistent organizational problems or even chaos around the house when you have a decent brain that could work out solutions to all those problems, except you're just...too...tired.... woah, I think I jus...more
I found the book to be helpful in understanding some of my clutter and how to organize it better. It also inspired me to sort through closets, kitchen cabinets, etc. to organize those few areas that had me dumb-founded. The tips on cleaning seemed a bit extreme, but I guess there are people who need that. Overall I found it to be a good and useful book.
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This is a well laid out book on tackling the organization of your home. She covers everything from how to clean to how to organize and how to effectively store things. I follow the FLYLady emails and I found this was incredibly similar, right down to using the same terminology in a lot of places, but as far as I know there are no official ties between them.
This is a great get-started sort of book. Some of the suggestions I've already started/implemented, others expanded my view of our current "habits". I really like that the author emphasizes thtat each household is individual & therfore the plan is individual as well. I enjoyed this read - took extensive notes & can't wait to implement them.
I've been a follower of Cynthia Townley Ewer for many years. This is a great book. My home is very organized, so I didn't find anything new in this book, but it was a pleasure to browse through each chapter.
So I only got through the first half of this book before I had to return it to the library, but the first half was exactly what I needed. I love that she explains that clutter is a behavioral problem, and so fixing it needs a behavioral change...not lots of expensive tubs, shelves, and racks. I definitely garnered some great information that I have been applying in my life.
**Update: I again got this book from the library to finish the second half. I was pretty disappointed. I still ...more
**Update: I again got this book from the library to finish the second half. I was pretty disappointed. I still ...more
Had some interesting ideas.
Very, very helpful.
pretty good and comprehensive, though nothing particularly novel or notable. would peruse again.
I love, love, love this book. Halfway through I had to buy my own copy. I highly recommend it to anyone else who may struggle a lot or a little with keeping your house organized and clean (like me). If I can implement half of what she talks about I'll be doing great. I know I will never clean quite that thoroughly and often because it's not worth the time to me but I'm excited to start and I can't wait to be organized for the first time :)
I liked this book so much that it lives at my bedside now. I like organizing books. I like seeing simple ideas on how to make areas in my home function better. This book has a magazine quality in how the information is presented. I like to pick it up and look at whatever section of my home is bugging me and get inspiration on how I want to tackle the problem.
This book was a wealth of information on organizing everything in your home. And lots of color photos, too, which I love.
Carrie
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This book will magically transform my home in to an organized, calm, oasis. I can feel it!
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more stuff that tells me how disorganized I truly am
Fabulous book. Amazing advice and tips!!
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