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

4.1 AVERAGE

lucyjune1684's review against another edition

5.0
Umm...this book basically changed my life. If you want hope for your home --- read this. You won't be sorry. Also, she's funny. Recommend the audiobook as she reads it and it is very entertaining. I devoured it very quickly! And then listened again! She answered every question and possible objection I had as I was reading. Really well researched and presented. It was nice to finally hear cleaning/home management advice from someone with the same brain.

And I would start here. I wouldn't start with her website or podasts (truly!). I'm obsessed with this book as it is organized and well presented. Everything on her website is boiled down to this book. And her podcasts are okay, but generally scattered (sorry if you're reading this Dana!) and the audio quality is not always good. Just go for the book and I HIGHLY recommend doing the audiobook. You won't be sorry.
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sarahreads2024's review against another edition

5.0
informative inspiring medium-paced
A fantastic book for anyone who looks at the kitchen, cringes, then closes the door and comes back to a worse mess later…! There is hope that you can get on top of the housework. Just do the dishes to start with 😉

sarahemevans's review

4.0
Really loved this book and so many of its super applicable tips. A good reminder that housework is never finished (sigh), but also provided some really easy-to-implement guidance on how to stay on top of the basics. I particularly enjoyed her two clutter clearing questions and have found them very helpful.

sddevere's review against another edition

4.0
Read via audiobook

ivan_yume's review against another edition

4.0
funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced
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clairebonello's review against another edition

4.0
Surprisingly useful.
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editrix's review

5.0
This book is a revelation. Holy shit. This is exactly how my brain works, down to some scarily precise details (I too have recurring dreams of finding rooms in my home that I didn’t know existed!), and I’m so, so, so glad this didn’t turn out to be a crappy blogger book with nothing to say. (I picked it up randomly and had low expectations.) I’m impressed by how much original information there is (“pre-made decisions”!), how many inexplicable parts of my personality(?) were explained (oh, how the desire to be efficient—which includes “debilitating frugality”—is the greatest obstacle to getting anything done), and how many of the actionable lessons are truly actionable. I’m buying a hard copy, and I’ll probably read it again before the year is out.

koolaidcupcake's review

5.0
This woman gets me. Her advice is funny, honest, and manageable.

Small note: Now that I've read both, I'm not really sure why she wrote Decluttering at the Speed of Life, since this book contains a whole (pretty comprehensive) section on decluttering. I would just recommend reading this one.

lilyheron's review against another edition

3.0
A lot of the material is repeated in later books, which I read first, so it's basically just choose which one appeals most I guess. I don't enjoy this trend of basically republish a book under a different name and claim it's a new book when it's essentially a new edition,but what you gonna do, monies.

actuallyrenard's review against another edition

3.5
lighthearted reflective medium-paced