How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets

by Dana K. White

If you want to learn from the best, I’m not the best. If you want to clean your house from top to bottom and never have to clean it again, I’m not your woman. If you’re looking for tips that will help you tweak your already almost-perfect organizing strategies, move right along. But if you want to finally understand what it takes to bring (and keep) your own home out of Disaster Status, this is the book for you. If you’ve cried real tears of pain and isolation because you just don’t get it, you’ve found your people. I get it. Here’s the dirty little secret about most organizing advice: It’s written by organized people. Their brains don’t work like mine. I know what it takes to change. I know because I’ve done it. Every strategy I’m going to share with you has been tested and proven in my own Slob Lab. No hypotheses, just real life. These ways work, even when life happens. There’s no perfection here, no fairy tales. Just clear explanation of what you need to do to get your real-life home under control. Oh. And I’m funny. Part 1 Reality Check

Methods don’t clean your house. You have to clean your house.

Here’s what I had to accept: Cleaning my house is not a project. It’s a series of boring, mundane, repetitive tasks.