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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
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
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 😉
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.
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
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.
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.
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.
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.
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
I love reading home management books to see if there are any tweaks I can make to my own system. I am very similar to the author and have made many of the same conclusions as she has about things. An easy and enjoyable read for anyone who wasn’t born organized!