How to manage your home without losing your mind Dealing with your house' s dirty little secrets
Book - 2016
You've tried to organize; you've decluttered and you've cleaned. Yet your home is still messy, or reverts after all too short a time. White explains, clearly and without delusions, what it takes to get-- and keep-- your home under control. Discover what works for you, for your unique personality, and in your unique home.
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- Published
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Nashville, Tennessee :
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
[2016]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9780718079956
- Who Needs This Book?
- Part 1. Reality Check
- Chapter 1. My First Step: Giving Up on the Fantasy
- Chapter 2. The Worst Thing About the Best Way
- Chapter 3. Bad News: Cleaning Your House Isn't a Project
- Part 2. Daily Stuff: The Down-and-Dirty Truth About a Clean House
- Chapter 4. Where to Start
- Chapter 5. The Truth About Habits
- Chapter 6. Just Tell Me What to Do
- Chapter 7. Pre-made Decisions
- Chapter 8. Don't Judge a Habit on the First Day
- Chapter 9. How to Use Timers: Fighting TPAD (Time Passage Awareness Disorder)
- Chapter 10. Putting an End to the Never-Ending: Weekly Cleaning Tasks
- Chapter 11. Laundry Conquered. Yes, Really
- Chapter 12. A Whole 'Nuther Chapter on Laundry (Answering Your Many Objections)
- Chapter 13. Get Dinner on the Table
- Part 3. Decluttering: The Down-and-Dirty Truth About All Your Stuff
- Chapter 14. How Decluttering and Routines Are Codependent
- Chapter 15. Don't Get Organized
- Chapter 16. Cure Decluttering Paralysis: Do the Easy Stuff First
- Chapter 17. Containers and Limits and How They'll Change Your Life
- Chapter 18. Find Your Clutter Threshold
- Chapter 19. How to Prioritize Decluttering Projects: The Visibility Rule
- Chapter 20. Two (and Only Two) Decluttering Questions
- Chapter 21. How to Declutter Without Making a Bigger Mess
- Chapter 22. Head Explosions, Regret, and Re-decluttering
- Chapter 23. Sentimental Clutter
- Chapter 24. Clutter Guilt
- Chapter 25. The Value Trap: Sell or Donate?
- Chapter 26. Decluttering Momentum
- Part 4. Change That Lasts
- Chapter 27. Other People
- Chapter 28. Special Circumstances
- Chapter 29. But Will It Last?
- Appendix: 28 Days to Hope for Your Home
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author