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  Sink Reflections

  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)
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  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)
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  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)
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  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)
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  It's All Too Much

  An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff

  by Peter Walsh

  When Peter Walsh, organizational guru of TLC's hit show Clean Sweep and a regular contributor to The Oprah Winfrey Show , appeared on national television shows and told people how they could reclaim their lives from the suffocating burden of their clutter, the response was overwhelming. People flooded Peter's website (www.peterwalshdesign.com) with success stories about how his book had changed their lives.... (more)
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  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.
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  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)
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  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)
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  Real Simple: Cleaning

  by Kathleen Squires

  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)
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  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)
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  Dirt

  The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House

  by Mindy Lewis

  This is a collection to which everyone can relate: a multidimensional look at the universal challenge of keeping our stuff, our dwellings, and our personal space clean and uncluttered. How we feel about keeping house speaks volumes about who we are, our roots, relationships, and our outlook on life.
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  The Berenstain Bears First Time Storybooks: Book 10

  The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room

  by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

  "The room shared by Brother and Sister is a mess because the cubs argue over who should neaten up instead of working together. Sure to make toddlers smile while they absorb an implied lesson."-- Publishers Weekly.
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  Speed Cleaning: A Spotless House in Just 15 Minutes a Day

  by Shannon Lush

  With today's hectic lifestyles the last thing you want to do after a busy day is clean the house. But "Speed Cleaning" is here to provide the answers for everyone who wants a clean house but doesn't have the time to spend hours with cloth and duster in hand. Shannon Lush and Jennifer Fleming show how in just 15 minutes a day their sure-fire systems and ingenious methods are all you need to achieve a spotless house... (more)
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  Clutter Control

  Tips and Crafts to Organize Your Bedroom, Backpack, Locker, and Life

  by Tracy McGuinness

  This guide shows girls how to get organized and cut clutter from their backpacks, lockers, and bedrooms. They'll learn how to tame paper piles, find new homes for things they've outgrown, and make cute crafts to store everything from books to bracelets. The label stickers at the back of the book also help girls straighten things up with style.
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  Talking Dirty With the Queen of Clean: Second Edition

  by Linda Cobb

  Want to clean a coffeepot in a flash? Unclog a sink with a simple homemade solution ? Do away with microwave odors? Banish those dust bunnies? Let her royal highness of housekeeping show you how to turn your home into a sparkling palace -- in no time at all! Step aside, Martha...Here comes the Queen of Clean, and her down-to-earth housekeeping guide for those of us who live in the real world. After all, the... (more)
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  How to Cheat at Cleaning: Time-Slashing Techniques to Cut Corners and Restore Your Sanity

  by Jeff Bredenberg

  Do you really think Martha Stewart never swept a little dust under the carpet seconds before guests arrived? Oh, how we’ve been damaged by the myth of perfectionism! We are slaves to microscopic specks of lint, hard-water smudges, and the relentless pursuit of dust bunnies. Brainwashed by Hollywood and slick photo spreads, we chase after unrealistic expectations. How to Cheat at Cleaning will change all of that.... (more)
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  Better Basics for the Home

  Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living

  by Annie Berthold-Bond

  These days, more and more people are saying no to "better living through chemistry" and yes to a lifestyle that is less toxic and more environmentally friendly. This trend toward a more natural lifestyle has become something of a crusade for Annie Berthold-Bond, author of Better Basics for the Home . After developing hypersensitivity to even very low concentrations of chemicals, Berthold-Bond was forced to... (more)
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  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)
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  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)
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  Clean Like a Man: Housekeeping for Men (and the Women Who Love Them)

  by Tom McNulty

  Most men have a problem with cleaning house: They don't konw how to do it, and they don't particularly want to learn. The results are usually a messy house or a bitter spouse—or both. Clean Like a Man is the solution. Written specifically for the attention-challenged and motivation-impaired male, it's the first and only housekeeping primer that tells men how to clean the house their way: getting everything... (more)