How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets by Dana K. White

4.1 AVERAGE

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staceyjl's review

4.0
hopeful inspiring medium-paced
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eicart_reads's review against another edition

5.0
funny hopeful informative
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awknerd's review against another edition

4.0
challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

stacyshookter's review against another edition

5.0
This is the first book or cleaning advice I’ve received that truly works. I love how she addresses the underlying reasons for why you struggle to keep things cleaned. It’s changed how I clean my house!
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riviwriter's review against another edition

5.0
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kerush's review against another edition

3.5
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This book covers similar content as Dana's YouTube channel (which I expected), but doesn't trigger the same "clean-along" feeling that I get while watching her declutter.

The cleaning routine at the end assumes that you make heavy use of your kitchen and need to declutter your bathroom regularly.  If this isn't you, then it leaves you with the question of how to apply it to your own life. This isn't necessarily difficult (I may replace with going through the mail and decluttering my desk area), but I feel like it could have been more generalized.

What would have helped even more is some sort of guide to how often "Normal People" do things. How often do you clean the toilet? How often do you dust? (I genuinely don't remember dusting aside from when company was coming over growing up)

sleuthheroalien's review against another edition

4.5
informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced
I’ve been implementing a lot of the practices she teaches in this book, and it’s been great. Everything she teaches is simple, clear, doable, and really makes a difference.

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4.5
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5.0
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need_to_read's review against another edition

5.0
challenging funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced