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363 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
363 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
Very relatable and manageable. I really like the container concept.
I’m not rating this book because it wouldn’t be fair. I’m not the target audience. I do my dishes everyday and it’s a running joke that I throw out anything not screwed to the wall. I do struggle with bigger cleaner tasks and often scramble when guests are coming. Some ideas were new to me and I plan on implementing. I thought the book was a tad repetitive but it’s reviewed so highly it’s clearly spoken to people.
Every day, wash your dishes, sweep your floor, and spend five minutes cleaning and tidying. These are the basic takeaways of this book by a self-professed slob blogger. The content is relatable, but it gets repetitive. Not only does the author have the same basic principle for everything (do things daily so mess doesn't accumulate), but she often repeats the same principles over and over in each chapter, and even repeatedly in the SAME chapter. I get it, I need to wash my dishes and bring in less stuff. "I know you've STILL been putting this off," she mentions at the end of the book. And she's right! No matter how many times she's said to wash my dishes right away, I still have a pile in the kitchen.
Eh. This one wasn't as good as the first one that I read (which was actually after this one, published in 2018, but yeah).
I don't know, maybe it was too wide range or something.
It was interesting and everything, but it wasn't really my cup of tea. Which could be because I read them back to back.
Still, as someone who LOVES all things decluttering I wasn't too enamored with this one. Skip ahead and just read "Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff" and you'll get more out of it.
*shrug*
I don't know, maybe it was too wide range or something.
It was interesting and everything, but it wasn't really my cup of tea. Which could be because I read them back to back.
Still, as someone who LOVES all things decluttering I wasn't too enamored with this one. Skip ahead and just read "Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff" and you'll get more out of it.
*shrug*
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
So there's a warning on like the first page that says IF YOU LOOK AROUND YOUR HOUSE AND DON'T SEE A BUNCH OF MESSES, THIS BOOK ISN'T FOR YOU. Which is brave, yeah, but also kinda bad advice. Because I was in a relationship for a long time with a slob (sorry, it's true) and this book helped me understand THAT PERSON in a way that I find helpful and positive. Why would she leave the clean dishes in the dishwasher and pile the dirties in the sink until one was empty and the other was full?! Why did she constantly come up with things to stockpile and sell and then never follow through with either? Why would the simple suggestion of a plan from me result in hours of ill-temper? I didn't know at the time, but now it seems pretty clear that she was a slob who needed this book.
Entertaining and useful. Also very realistic. The only thing that was a little disappointing was how gendered it was - do men not need to clean their homes too?
Really enjoyed Dana's new book. My home gets out of control quite frequently so its nice to hear from a fellow not so secret "slob". Cleaning the dishes and her container suggestion are what I always keep in mind to help me from allowing my own "slob" to come through. I've always enjoyed listening to Dana's podcast so of course I had to get the audiobook. If you like her podcast you will enjoy listening! :)
You can read a hundred different books with hundreds of tips and they just don't click with you. Then you find the book that just may be your decluttering saviour. This is my book.
I listened to this and the first disc spoke to me and the rest was so so.