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How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets
Dana K. White
4.1 AVERAGE
362 reviews for:
How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets
Dana K. White
4.1 AVERAGE
inspiring
medium-paced
challenging
hopeful
fast-paced
Only for stay at home moms! Very frustrating
An organizing book for real life
I LOVED this book!! Even if I couldn't relate to every single scenario, it didn't matter- the basic ideas are the same for us all. This book is full of grace and truth and reasonableness. I will likely read it again and again! Plus, it's funny!
I LOVED this book!! Even if I couldn't relate to every single scenario, it didn't matter- the basic ideas are the same for us all. This book is full of grace and truth and reasonableness. I will likely read it again and again! Plus, it's funny!
I kinda can't believe I read this, but it's a testament to the influence of Myquillyn Smith, the Nester, who recommended it as her favorite. I got it via Hoopla, which is free via my library but made me appreciate Audible so much more (no chapter navigation, and at least with this recording, no pause between chapters).
I wouldn't recommend it as an audio-book (the blog comments and the slow-building routine at the end don't translate well) but I would have enjoyed this book back when a good friend first shared FlyLady and I was obsessed with building routines while my kids were babies.
She does a great job of describing the right-brain approach to decluttering ("Squirrel!") and why putting it away right now, even if that means being inefficient and making several trips up and down stairs, is best for certain people.
I didn't relate the cleaning chapters as I am a germ freak and was a bit horrified...but I could see listening to her second book on decluttering---because the truth is, after listening to this on the commute home at night, I had more motivation to sweep my floors and take a bag to Good Will than I do most evenings!
I wouldn't recommend it as an audio-book (the blog comments and the slow-building routine at the end don't translate well) but I would have enjoyed this book back when a good friend first shared FlyLady and I was obsessed with building routines while my kids were babies.
She does a great job of describing the right-brain approach to decluttering ("Squirrel!") and why putting it away right now, even if that means being inefficient and making several trips up and down stairs, is best for certain people.
I didn't relate the cleaning chapters as I am a germ freak and was a bit horrified...but I could see listening to her second book on decluttering---because the truth is, after listening to this on the commute home at night, I had more motivation to sweep my floors and take a bag to Good Will than I do most evenings!
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
I love these kinds of books. They are so… cozy to read and give me hope for a cleaner house. I am inspired once again amd my house is sparkling. The real test is time. Will see how long this lasts.
Ps: read it in Russian.
Ps: read it in Russian.
5 stars based on the helpfulness and relatability to me, a slob, wired the same as the author. Thank goodness 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Great book for all slobs 😜 Relatable and reassuring (because I’m not quite as bad as she was in the beginning lol) Practical and applicable-to my life, home, and family. I’m a few weeks in and starting to see and feel a difference!
informative
slow-paced
I am going to give this self-help for the slob a 4 star rating, not because it did so much for me, as it has the potential for someone wanting to de-slobify, as the author puts it. I am not a slob so I actually read in some shock (horror?) as the author described having to eat cereal out of measuring cups because there were no clean bowls. Or that she couldn’t begin to sweep floors because of all the old newspapers an debris in the way. Yikes. So I was a bit frustrated as she yammered on about doing the dishes every single day. Are there people who don’t? Ok - I know there are, but not me. I am a little OCD about having the kitchen “put away” every evening as my children will attest to. Happy mom - have the kitchen picked up before I come home. They know the drill. So what did I get out of this book other than some cringe worthy laughs? I just retired and am trying to develop a lasting house cleaning system that keeps everything tidy and doesn’t require a lot of my time - after all I have STUFF to do! I have had a cleaning service for the last decade and will now be on my own again - with the help of my adult children still rooming with me of course. So again, what did I get out of this book? Well, my nemesis is the floor. I have 2 dogs and 2 cats - lots of hair. And I hate hate hate sweeping and vacuuming. So I procrastinate it until the floors look like they could come to life. Tumbling tumbleweeds of hair. So - I turned the author’s philosophy onto my floors. Sweep every day, damp mop at least 1/week. And you know what? If I sweep every day and vacuum/mop weekly, and pick up hair balls as I see them - it takes little time at all. It is manageable AND my floors are looking better, and less gross to walk on. And I get to work on my squats as I pick up hair all day long. I also treated myself to a Norwex mop and other cleaning supplies - oh yes, I researched this stuff to death; that’s who I am. I have a new system, more on that possibly later on my blog-to-be. Would anyone read a blog if I developed one? Would you? Not devoted to cleaning but to life beyond working in corporate America.