Houseworks: Cut the Clutter, Speed Your Cleaning and Calm the Chaos Review

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(More customer reviews)I have a lot of trouble with clutter, so I read a lot of these books--and this one is the best I've ever seen. It doesnt just tell you how to get organized, but all the photos are so beautiful and show you how to do it.
This book is so funny, too. My husband kept asking me why I was laughing. He wanted to know why I was cracking up at a book about cleaning the house.
This would be a great wedding gift or for a sister or a friend.

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America's leading housekeeping expert shows you how to de-clutter, organize, and clean your home, with easy-to-remember tips for every job, from keeping your bathroom clean and doing the laundry to sorting out paperwork and organizing the family photo album. Where there is hope, there is help.You can win the chore wars!
Author, founder, and editor of the top-ranked website OrganizedHome.com
Introduces easy-to-remember tips for organizing the home
Step-by-step photographs throughout show how easy it is to reach your goal

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The Home Owner's Journal, Fifth Edition Review

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(More customer reviews)I ordered this one and the Home Owner's Diary, intending to keep one for myself and give the other as a present. They are both the same price, and from the amazon descriptions I couldn't tell which one would be better. Both are good, but I like the way the Journal is organized better, it gives you more room to add additional notes etc. on each page in an extra column. Also it has cute little quotes on some pages. I ended up giving the journal as a present and returning the Diary ... I will re-order the journal for myself. If you can't make up your mind either - maybe this will help you.

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This book will help you keep track of renovations and repairs to your home. Now in its Fifth Edition, The Home Owner's Journal has been published since 1986 and has sold over 500,000 copies. Have you ever forgotten the last time you had something cleaned, serviced or repaired? Have you ever purchased too little or too much paint because you didn't record how much you used the first time? Have you lost track of warranties or vendor contact information? This all-new Fifth Edition Journal is your solution. It contains a chapter for every part of your home, inside and out. Keep receipts and warranties in two handy pocket pages. The Home Owner's Journal is a great gift for housewarmings, weddings, closing gifts and for you.

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Housekeeping Secrets My Mother Never Taught Me Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a lifesaver for me. Growing up, my family did the picking up and putting away around the house on a daily basis, and I washed dishes daily, but a housekeeper came in once a week to do the heavy cleaning. My mother ran a successful business, and didn't do much cooking or cleaning at home. Therefore, I didn't learn the way most women do - watching their mothers. Fast forward to my first apartment - hovering over my very own toilet, I wasn't exactly sure how to clean it. Joni Hilton works the house from top to bottom, room by room, explaining exactly what kind of dirt can build up in which places and how to most efficiently get rid of it. She even tells you her favorite cleaing products. Other housekeeping books are such boring Martha Stewart manuals that not only are they a drag to read, but they leave you feeling completely incapable of ever having a clean house. Joni Hilton's book is a quick, funny, light read, and her clean house is very attainable.

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Master the Art of Keeping House—the Easy Way!Everyone loves a clean and well-kept house. But these days most people don't have time to clean thoroughly, keep up with laundry, decorate properly, and actually enjoy their home. Caught in the vacuum of life, our home skills are lacking—and it shows!This lifesaver of a book provides all the essential secrets, basic instructions, and creative tricks on the best ways to keep house, from laundry and housecleaning to floor and carpet care and minor home repairs. Whether you are single, married, a house owner or apartment dweller, you will discover how to efficiently take care of your home, as well as yourself! Mom's favorite housekeeping secrets include: ·How to clean, room-by-room ·Must-have supplies and how to make them yourself ·Speedy tips and tricks to prepare the house for unexpected guests ·Decorating secrets for a stunning presentation ·And many more!"I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page!" —Deniece Schofield, author, Confessions of an Organized Homemaker

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The Family Manager's Everyday Survival Guide Review

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(More customer reviews)The Family Manager's Everyday Survival Guide by Kathy Peel
What a wonderfully refreshing resource Ms. Peel's book is! The Family Manager's Everyday Survival Guide is not only filled with useful, practical effective tips for managing your home, but the author's philosophy is so REAL. She immediately provides the reader with "10 Reasons to Get Organized", followed by "10 Reasons Why You'll Never Get Organized and Stay That Way Forever" - how true to life! So many books on organizing and time management teach just one way of doing things, and when this style does not match the reader's personal style, a sense of failure is created; but not so with Everday Survival Guide.
This book is well written, easy to follow, and (dare I say it) well organized. It is a guide, reference book, and primer all in one. Reading one of the basic principles in organizing early in the book is a big plus for the reader: "Organization is an ongoing art, a process, not an end product." This is exactly what organizing professionals teach their clients, and a lesson not to be dismissed lightly. By stating this right up front, Kathy Peel has tuned the reader in to the fact that there is nothing wrong with them, and the quest for finding balance in their life is shared by all women.
I particularly enjoyed the home management exercises, such as looking through rooms in your home for "secret" storage space, and not taking anything for granted in uncluttering your home. Using checklists as a time-saver is a wonderful idea, avoiding being disorganized on trips, for parties, etc.
I've added The Family Manager's Everyday Survival Guide to my recommended reading list for my workshops and teleclasses, and encourage readers to buy two copies: one for themselves, and one for a friend. Happy organizing!

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"Whoever you are, and however you operate as a family manager, this book can help. Use it as a yearly planner, a reminder, and a good friend with good ideas."--Kathy PeelThroughout the year, life is full of surprises. A sudden rainy day confines your kids to home. Wouldn't it be nice to give them fifty fun ways to combat cabin fever? Your husband calls: he's bringing home some important business associates for dinner. Imagine whipping up a delicious meal on a half hour's notice. A sudden visit from family? Learn to clean your entire house in a weekend. You can do it--and family manager expert Kathy Peel shows you how in this indispensable year-round planner. ¸ Outline monthly and seasonal goals and strategies ¸ Develop your best management style ¸ Apply the seven survival strategies ¸ Simplify finances and record keeping ¸ Anticipate and plan for the big changesPlus ideas for shortcuts in the kitchen, speed cleaning, smart shopping, and hundreds of other ways to make every day easier and your life much happier.

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Coming Clean: Dirty Little Secrets from a Professional Housecleaner Review

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(More customer reviews)I found this book disappointing, especially after reading the description and the glowing reviews posted here. I thought I would get a lot more tips on how to clean quickly and efficiently, but I only found one tip I felt would make a difference. I also thought the book would give a better plan of attack for cleaning the whole house, but the plan was scattered throughout the book. I would have liked to have seen that plan presented in a single place (perhaps as a review at the end of the book.)
I also felt this book just scratched the surface of the hows and whys of cleaning and organizing. I think people would be much better served buying two separate books that go more in depth into both topics. I don't know which book to suggest for cleaning, but for organizing "Organizing From The Inside Out" by Julie Morganstern is the best.

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A book about "work simplification in your home," Coming Clean offers a no-nonsense plan of attack for weekly, monthly, and seasonal chores. As a commonsense approach to the business of running a clean, organized home, Schar Ward champions simple tools and routines. She discusses supplies, equipment, and planning, and focuses on specific areas in the home (including dreaded children's rooms), problem surfaces, and thinking clean when it comes to remodeling.

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Just Clean Enough: Home Organization in an Imperfect World Review

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(More customer reviews)For a busy woman who is juggling home, family, and career, this is a book of 365 easy cleaning and organizing tips that can be done one at a time, in just a few minutes a day.
As the authors point out, there are two isses with trying to keep a home clean. One is finding the time to do a top-to-bottom cleaning of any room, let alone the whole house. The other is feeling we need to clean completely, right down to the last dust bunny that is hiding behind a very heavy, difficult to move china cabinet. We are given permission to leave such dust bunnies alone and instead clean what is obvious in small steps that can be done over time.
Every room of the house is covered with tips such as taking 10 minutes to clean out a make-up drawer in the bathroom, keeping fruit in the refrigerator to cut down on countertop clutter, using an anti-bacterial wipe to quickly clean all the doorknobs, and keeping an attractive basket in each room as a catch-all for papers, toys, etc., so they don't end up scattered on the floor or tabletops and can be put away later. Some of the ideas are obvious but I found others that I hadn't thought of such as freshening a room by placing a scented dryer sheet on the back side of a running fan for a few minutes.
This book isn't for those who prefer to do a full house or room cleaning in a day, but those who don't have the time or motivation to do so will benefit from the 5-20 minute tips in this book that yields the same result over time.


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A clean house means peace of mind. But who has the time to keep on top of it? Fortunately, this book breaks down home organization and gives busy families a solution. Unlike other decluttering books that press for perfection, this flexible guide features tips for each room in the house and helps you tackle your clutter in any way that works for you. With helpful icons that highlight quick tasks more suitable for weeknights as well as time-consuming jobs best left for the weekend, you will clean up and still have time for fun! After all, why spend all day cleaning when it's easy to do small things, like:Dump out the junk drawerToss unnecessary papersCorral kids' toysClean out the medicine cabinetBefore long, you will be able to clean up your act--one closet, one room, one day at a time!

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The 15-Minute Organizer Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is great. It gave a detailed chore list and told me exactly what to do to organize my cleaning. It was great help with our move, too. There is a section on almost every catagory you can imagine.
Each chapter can be read in 15 minutes, although I stayed up all night to read it... I would recommend this book to anyone who has 15 minutes to spare... If you don't have it, make it. You will have more time, I promise!!!:)

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Bestselling author and time-management expert Emilie Barnes giveswomen the basic strategies they need to survive in today's busy world.Realistic and practical, each chapter offers proven methods for taking thestress out of meal planning, housekeeping, finances, holiday shopping, andmore. In just 15 minutes a day, readers will discover how to-

whip their entire house into shape
create a personalized daily planner
double their closet space
organize a fail-safe filing system

Now with an updated cover, the 15-Minute Organizer (over 220,000 copies sold) contains more than75 time-saving strategies on topics that include goal setting, involving childrenin chores, grocery shopping, and record-keeping. Women will discover they canget ahead and stay ahead.

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The Family Manager Takes Charge: Getting on the Fast Track to a Happy, Organized Home Review

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(More customer reviews)SHORT CUTS and HOW TO's. Everyone must read this if you are the head of the household, in that mom-sort-of-way. I think anyone starting out would especially appreciate this book. It teaches basics such as how to sort laundry the best way to cleaning shortcuts. I have only read a few chapters so far, but enjoy every minute reading it when I have the chance. Everyone will learn something from this book! Thanks Kathy!

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Being a mom means more than being a wife and parent-it also means being the household accountant, building manager, cook, gardener, housekeeper, and personal shopper-just to name a few of the roles that come with the territory! As America's "Family Manager," bestselling author Kathy Peel has shown millions of moms that running a household is like operating a business. Like any good C.E.O., every mother must know her goals, determine her strategies, and manage her human resources. Delegate-Motivate-Organize...Relax! Every smart manager knows that success depends on teamwork. Kathy shows readers how to get kids and spouses to help around the house-with lots of practical advice and encouragement to get them motivated and keep them going. Save Time, Money, and Your Sanity With hundreds of time-saving, money-saving, and stress-reducing ideas, this indispensable handbook also shows readers how to take charge of running the home-without running themselves into the ground.

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