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Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home

Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home

by Martha Stewart

Whether your home is small or large, an apartment in the city or a country cottage, it is a space that should be at once beautiful and livable. The key to that is managing the upkeep without feeling flustered. Until now, there has never been a comprehensive resource that not only tells how to care for your home and everything in it, but that also simplifies the process by explaining just when. With secrets from... (more)

Cleaning Plain & Simple: A ready reference guide with hundreds of sparkling solutions to your everyday cleaning challenges

Cleaning Plain & Simple: A ready reference guide with hundreds of sparkling solutions to your everyday cleaning challenges

by Donna Smallin

Writing especially for the busy person, Smallin begins by asking “What’s your cleaning style?” Super cleaner? Speed cleaner? Green cleaner? Occasional cleaner? No matter what the style, she has tips for how everyone can be successful at achieving and maintaining a clean, inviting home environment. She covers every imaginable situation, with special advice for dual-career families with busy travel schedules, pet... (more)

Sink Reflections: Overwhelmed? Disorganized? Living in Chaos? The FlyLady's Simple FLYing Lessons Will Show You How to Get Your Home and Your Life in Order--and It All Starts with Shining Your Sink!

Sink Reflections: Overwhelmed? Disorganized? Living in Chaos? The FlyLady's Simple FLYing Lessons Will Show You How to Get Your Home and Your Life in Order--and It All Starts with Shining Your Sink!

by Marla Cilley

Fly Out of CHAOS (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome) Into Order--One BabyStep at a Time With her special blend of housecleaning tips, humor, and musings about daily life, Marla Cilley, a.k.a. The FlyLady, shows you how to manage clutter and chaos and get your home--and your life--in order. Drawn from the lessons and tools used in her popular mentoring program, FlyLady helps you create doable housekeeping routines... (more)

The Girl's Guide to Absolutely Everything

The Girl's Guide to Absolutely Everything

by Melissa Kirsch

A COLOSSAL CHEAT SHEET FOR YOUR postcollege years. Finally, all the needs of the modern girl—from the benefits of a Roth IRA to the pleasure and pain of dating (and why it’s not a cliché to love yourself first), from figuring out what to wear to a job interview to the delicate enterprise of defriending—are addressed in one rollicking volume. Here is the perfect combination of solid advice and been-there secrets... (more)

Organizing Plain and Simple: A Ready Reference Guide with Hundreds of Solutions to Your Everyday Clutter Challenges

Organizing Plain and Simple: A Ready Reference Guide with Hundreds of Solutions to Your Everyday Clutter Challenges

by Donna Smallin

Desk drowning in papers? No room for the car in the garage? Santa still sitting on the roof in May? A less-is-more philosophy is great, but we all still have way too much stuff. The home office swallows up whole rooms, as does the family computer station. Then there's the home gym, the TV room, and the playroom, not to mention our collections - books, CDs, toys. Time management experts agree that when the minor... (more)

Real Simple: Cleaning

by Editors of Real Simple Magazine

Is there ever a week when cleaning isn't atop your (loathe) to-do list? Within hours of disinfecting the kitchen countertops, they're inevitably glazed with Popsicle drippings or splattered with olive oil. And it seems to take mere minutes for the dust to settle once again on that side table. The dirty work, truly, is never done. Still, there's no sensation quite like having a spotless home. After the tub... (more)

The One-Minute Organizer Plain & Simple

by Donna Smallin

Every day, in every way, you can get just a little more organized in just a few minutes. For instance, when you take your clothes off, hang them up or put them in the laundry. Throw out that pile of mail-order catalogs you still haven't flipped through. Limit yourself to saving one tote-bag-full of housecleaning rags. The One-Minute Organizer Plain & Simple is the perfect handbook for busy people who don't... (more)

Organic Housekeeping: In Which the Non-Toxic Avenger Shows You How to Improve Your Health and That of Your Family, While You Save Time, Money, and, Perhaps, Your Sanity

Organic Housekeeping: In Which the Non-Toxic Avenger Shows You How to Improve Your Health and That of Your Family, While You Save Time, Money, and, Perhaps, Your Sanity

by Ellen Sandbeck

Longing for a kinder, gentler world? As the old saying goes, everything begins at home, and odds are, if you live in the all-American household, the air inside is more toxic than the air outside, even if you live in the most polluted of cities. You regularly handle the filthiest object in your home -- the kitchen sponge -- and put the same chemicals on your face that are used in brake fluid and antifreeze. The... (more)

How to Clean Practically Anything

by The Editors of Consumer Reports

A handy, up-to-date guide describes the most efficient and cost-effective ways to clean practically everything, with special sections on how to cope with daily cleaning regimens, eliminating germs, paint removal, oven cleaners, carpet and floor cleaning, and safe storage of cleaning supplies. Original.

Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home

Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home

by Linda Mason Hunter

There is a revolution going on in America—a green revolution. The latest front is the home, as households across the country adopt new ways to keep their homes clean and healthy—and ways to do it that are good for the environment. Green Clean is the definitive, step-by-step guide to cleaning better while using nontoxic, ecofriendly products. Room by room and stain by stain, Green Clean breaks environmentally... (more)

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

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

by Cynthia Townley Ewer

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... (more)

Haley's Cleaning Hints

by Graham Haley

In paperback for the first time - the authors of the bestselling Haley's Hints tackle household grime, goo, and garbage... Readers will be amazed at how much money they can save by not having to buy those expensive cleaners, deodorizers and "wonder" products. In these pages, they'll get the inside scoop on the amazing multiple cleaning properties of their very own "Household Heroes," like shaving cream,... (more)

Make Your House Do the Housework

by Don Aslett

Presents the radical new idea of PREVENTING HOUSEWORK!! Shows you how to take advantage of work-saving products, materials, and approaches that will make your house keep itself in order. Full of ideas, suggestions, and instructions for eliminating unnecessary work. Hundreds of exciting ways to redecorate, remodel, design or build cleaning and maintenance out of your home. Don Aslett and his daughter Laura offer... (more)

Mrs. Biddlebox (Golden Kite Awards (Awards))

Mrs. Biddlebox (Golden Kite Awards (Awards))

by Linda Smith

On a knotty little hill, In a dreary little funk, Mrs. Biddlebox rolled over On the wrong side of her bunk. Mrs. Biddlebox is having a really bad day. The birds are screeching, her belly is grumbling, and even her crumpets are stale. What is she to do? Then, suddenly, Mrs. Biddlebox has the most bewitching idea! With a pinch of magic and just the right amount of humor, Linda Smith and Marla Frazee have... (more)

Green This! Volume 1: Greening Your Cleaning

Green This! Volume 1: Greening Your Cleaning

by Deirdre Imus

Change the way you clean and keep your family's home wholesome and healthy with the help of expert and activist Deirdre Imus. We all grew up thinking chemical smells like bleach and ammonia signaled "clean." But as Deirdre Imus reveals, some of the chemicals we use to maintain our homes are doing us and our families much more harm than good. In Greening Your Cleaning , the first in her Green This! series,... (more)

How to Cheat at Organizing: Quick, Clutter-Clobbering Ways to Simplify Your Life

How to Cheat at Organizing: Quick, Clutter-Clobbering Ways to Simplify Your Life

by Jeff Bredenberg

The anticipated follow-up to the bestselling How to Cheat at Cleaning , How to Cheat at Organizing is a life-changing book for the non-perfectionist, a liberating lifestyle manifesto. This is the organizing book "for the rest of us"--everyday overcommitted folks with little time and little focus. Life can be messy enough without all the clutter that comes with it. Now, America's favorite cleaning cheater... (more)

The Well-Ordered Home: Organizing Techniques for Inviting Serenity into Your Life

The Well-Ordered Home: Organizing Techniques for Inviting Serenity into Your Life

by Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

Organizing the home is one of those desirable and beneficial activities that remain elusive for many. This practical guide explains the many benefits - physical, emotional, and spiritual - of an organized home and shows how to attain them. Breaking down the process into 50 steps, the author uses her own experiences as a psychologist and professional home organizer to help readers clear away not only the physical... (more)

The Big Book of Hints from Heloise

by Heloise

Need some help around the house? Let the one-and-only Heloise give you timesaving tips, tricks, and techniques to use in the kitchen and every other room in the house. This special collector’s edition includes the complete text from Heloise from A to Z and All-New Hints from Heloise and offers you thousands of hints on: - Recycling - Cleaning - Organization - Plant care - Cooking - Entertaining ... (more)

Simply Upholstery (Simply)

by Editors of Sunset Books

More involved than constructing a slipcover, upholstering furniture means giving an item a new identity that it will wear like skin. Understanding the layers of fabric, trimming, padding, and webbing that give a chair or a sofa its curves and contours can seem like learning a new language. How do you handle the practicalities of repairing the old innards, calculating new yardage, cutting pieces to fit properly,... (more)

The Slob Sisters: Organized from the Inside OutPam Young, Peggy Jones

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by Martha Stewart

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by Melissa Kirsch

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by Donna Smallin

by Ellen Sandbeck

by The Editors of Consumer Reports

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by Graham Haley

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by Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

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by Pam Young, Peggy Jones