How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind


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Bring your home out of the mess it’s in—and learn how to keep it under control! Housekeeping expert Dana K. White shares reality-based cleaning and organizing techniques that will help you learn what really works. Do you experience heart palpitations at the sound of an unexpected doorbell? Do you stare in bewilderment at your messy home, wondering how in the world it got this way again? You’re not alone. But there is hope for you and your home. Managing your home isn’t an all-or-nothing approach, and Dana has broken down the most critical things that you'll need to do to keep up with the housework. With understanding, honesty, and her trademark humor, Dana shares her field-tested strategies including: Exactly where to start to tame the chaos Which habits deserve your focus and will make the most impact How to gain traction in your quest for a manageable home Practical tips you can implement and immediately to declutter huge amount of stuff with minimal emotional drama Cleaning your house is not a one-time project—it’s a series of ongoing and daily decisions. Start learning Dana’s reality-based cleaning and organizing techniques—and see how they really work! Praise from Readers: “This book lays out the hard truths of a clean house but in a way that doesn’t make me feel silly for not having embraced them before.” “Dana leads you step-by-step with the heart of a woman who has been there and struggled with the same issues you are currently struggling with. Really, this is a must read for anyone who wants to learn the secrets that all those organized types seem to know.” “I felt like a failure already. Did I really need to read yet another book full of tips and tricks that would leave me feeling worse? From the first page, I was put at ease.” Get ready to say goodbye to the stacks of dirty dishes crowding your kitchen counters, conquer the never-ending piles of laundry, and stop tripping over clutter on your living room floor as Dana helps you discover what works for you, for your unique personality, and in your unique home.




Household Management for Men


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Domestic God or Sofa Slob? Now for the first time, the modern man has everything he needs to know about the art and science of managing the home.




Household Engineering


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Large Family Logistics


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Prioritizing your time and your life, you'll be able to manage a bustling home in a way that honors God and builds up family relationships. By following the clear model of Proverbs 31:10, and adapting the characteristics that make up a faithful homekeeper, you too can become an "Excellent Wife."




Fair Play


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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way... It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the “shefault” parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family—and then sent that list to her husband, asking for things to change. His response was...underwhelming. Rodsky realized that simply identifying the issue of unequal labor on the home front wasn't enough: She needed a solution to this universal problem. Her sanity, identity, career, and marriage depended on it. The result is Fair Play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently. With 4 easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a series of conversation starters for you and your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what's important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore, from laundry to homework to dinner. “Winning” this game means rebalancing your home life, reigniting your relationship with your significant other, and reclaiming your Unicorn Space—the time to develop the skills and passions that keep you interested and interesting. Stop drowning in to-dos and lose some of that invisible workload that's pulling you down. Are you ready to try Fair Play? Let's deal you in.




Home Comforts


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A classic bestselling resource for every household, Home Comforts helps you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. “Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food.” —USA TODAY Home Comforts is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. It is a lively and readable guide for both beginners and experts in all the domestic arts. From keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains, folding a fitted sheet, cleaning china, tuning a piano, lighting a fire, setting the dining room table—this guide covers everything that people might want to do for themselves in their homes. Further topics include: making up a bed with hospital corners, expert recommendations for safe food storage, reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical guidebook to the art and science of household management.




Home Management 101


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Superwoman


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Beautifully Organized Home Planner


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Are you struggling to juggle the demands of managing your household? If so, this beautiful home management system planner gives you all the tools you need to bring order and routine to your family's life at home. The Beautifully Organized Home Planner provides essential tools, charts, and checklists that will help you run your home smoothly and efficiently, and reduce day-to-day stress--all in a sturdy and elegant linen-cover binder with gold foil. In her first best-selling book, Beautifully Organized, professional organizer and YouTube sensation Nikki Boyd (creator of "At Home With Nikki") shared her tested advice for how to create an organized home that was both functional and stylish. Now, in this new home organization planner companion, Nikki presents practical tools you can start using today to run a more organized and efficient household and create a home management system tailored to your family's life and needs. The Beautifully Organized Home Planner includes: Home Management System Essentials to keep your family and home running smoothly Daily, Monthly, and Spring Cleaning Checklists to stay on top of household choresHome Maintenance Schedules with seasonal to-do lists to keep everything indoors and outdoors in working order File Organization Strategies to efficiently tackle clutter and safely store your most important documents Emergency Action Plans to help your family prepare for the unexpected and get all of your most important information organized now Family Meeting Activities to get everyone in your home working toward the same goals School Worksheets to help your family stay organized through the academic year ... and so much more! Using Nikki's proven advice in this book, you and your family will soon be on your way to home organization success!




Head of Household


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This practical guide for general readers uses plain language and a sense of humor to explain 11 basic financial topics of concern to today's single parent, including budgeting, credit, childcare, health care, and housing, and offers advice tailored specifically for the priorities of single-parent households. Principles are demonstrated with stories of real families who found creative solutions for the financial situations faced most often by single parents. Six sample budget worksheets help readers develop their own workable plan. A glossary of terms and an extensive list of web sites are included.