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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)

Real Simple Solutions: Tricks, Wisdom and Easy Ideas to Simplify Everyday

Real Simple Solutions: Tricks, Wisdom and Easy Ideas to Simplify Everyday

by Editors of Real Simple Magazine

Looking for a new way to set a table? Need to remove an ink stain? Fresh out of toothpaste? From imaginative ideas to innovative tricks to in-a-pinch fixes, Real Simple Solutions is packed with hundreds of easy and inspired ways to help you live better. Following the success of The Organized Home, their top-to-bottom guide to streamlining your surroundings, the editors of Real Simple have compiled hundreds of... (more)

Clutter's Last Stand: It's Time To De-junk Your Life!

Clutter's Last Stand: It's Time To De-junk Your Life!

by Don Aslett

The book people say belongs on the shelf right beside the Bible, the book they read over and over, and give to their friends CLUTTER S LAST STAND, 2nd edition. This is the bold,unique volume that first put the finger on one of the major causes of depression and inefficiency in modern life junk and clutter! With good reason CLUTTER S LAST STAND, 2nd editon, has been called the book that convinces you to declutter.... (more)

Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?: An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More

Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?: An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More

by Peter Walsh

Diets don't work. Why not? Because they focus on what foods we should and shouldn't eat but completely ignore everything else that makes us fat. Look at your own situation: You say you want to lose weight, but you just can't stop indulging. You say you'd exercise more if only you had the time, yet you spend precious hours every night in front of the TV doing what? Munching nutrition-free snacks and drinking... (more)

It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff

It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff

by Peter Walsh

When you think of what it will take to clean your house, are you so overwhelmed you throw up your hands and cry, "It's all too much"? Do you dream of having a closet where your clothes aren't crammed in so tightly that you can actually get to them? Is your basement filled with boxes of precious family mementos you haven't opened in ten years but are too afraid to toss? Are your kitchen counters overrun with... (more)

Is There Life After Housework?: A Revolutionary Approach to Cutting Your Cleaning Time 75%

Is There Life After Housework?: A Revolutionary Approach to Cutting Your Cleaning Time 75%

by Don Aslett

Offers professional advice on tools and techniques that can make cleaning house less time consuming and more efficient.

Christmas with Martha Stewart Living

by Martha Stewart

A holiday grab bag of party recipes, entertaining ideas, table settings, decorations, gifts, and wrappings, complemented by step-by-step instructions and how-to color photographs, includes a Christmas calendar for planning ahead. Original. 150,000 first printing."

The Complete Tightwad Gazette

by Amy Dacyczyn

At last--the long-awaited complete compendium of tightwad tips for fabulous frugal living! In a newsletter published from May 1990 to December 1996 as well as in three enormously successful books, Amy Dacyczyn established herself as the expert of economy. Now The Complete Tightwad Gazette brings together all of her best ideas and thriftiest thinking into one volume, along with new articles never published before... (more)

Home Almanac

by Lena Tabori

This classy resource could be the only book readers need to guide them through all the aspects of living at home: cleaning, organizing, design, improvements, maintenance, repairs, entertaining and etiquette. It’s at once inspiring and practical, with its advice on how to light an entryway, clean the glass of a picture frame, inspect a roof to assess damage, register for a wedding, store family keepsakes, unclog... (more)

Craftsman Bungalows: 59 Homes from "the Craftsman"

Craftsman Bungalows: 59 Homes from "the Craftsman"

by Gustav Stickley

Best and most attractive designs from Arts and Crafts Movement publication — 1903–1916 — includes sketches, photographs of homes, floor plans, descriptive text.

The New Bungalow

by Matthew Bialecki, Christian Gladu, Jill Kessenich, Jim McCord, Su Bacon

The Arts & Crafts bungalow has been reborn, in as rich and full an array of iterations as it was in its heyday—from tight clusters of similar inexpensive housing opportunities to the grand, and arguably borderline, bungalow scale of the "ultimate bungalows" of the 1910s. The New Bungalow is a celebration of contemporary interpretations of this classic house style--an art form that symbolizes the best... (more)

Atomic Kitchen: Gadgets and Inventions for Yesterday's Cook

Atomic Kitchen: Gadgets and Inventions for Yesterday's Cook

by Brian S. Alexander

Conscious cooks in the 1950s equipped their drawers and cupboards with the latest and greatest specialty doohickies, thingamajigs, and must-have products. From the Saucy Stovetop Butter Melter to the Chop-o-Matic, if there was a vegetable to chop or meat to be carved, there was a device to make it better and easier! ATOMIC KITCHEN presents a gallery of gadgets, features, and cooking devices that appeared—and in... (more)

The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches: A Practical (and Fun) Guide to Enjoying Life More by Spending Less

The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches: A Practical (and Fun) Guide to Enjoying Life More by Spending Less

by Jeff Yeager

It used to be that “stuff” made you cool. That is so twentieth century. Jeff Yeager, the man dubbed The Ultimate Cheapskate by Matt Lauer on Today , offers a completely fresh take on personal finance, teaching us how to enjoy life more by spending less . He will show you how to buy less stuff, retire young, and live financially free, while you make a positive difference in people’s lives and save the planet... (more)

Absolutely Organized: A Mom's Guide to a No-stress Schedule and Clutter-free Home

Absolutely Organized: A Mom's Guide to a No-stress Schedule and Clutter-free Home

by Debbie Lillard

"There is a place for everything, and when everything is in its place, life runs a lot smoother." --Debbie Lillard, professional organizer and mother of three Do you run non-stop but never feel like you accomplish anything? Feel stressed out at home? Dream about doing things that you never get around to doing? Wish you had extra hours in your day? Well, here's something even better! Absolutely... (more)

Confessions of an Organized Homemaker: The Secrets of Uncluttering Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life

Confessions of an Organized Homemaker: The Secrets of Uncluttering Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life

by Deniece Schofield

When Deniece Schofield first confessed to being organized, thousands wanted to hear the juicy details. Now Schofield's back, with a 90's version of her tell-all tale--hundreds of ideas and techniques for organizing a household. 120,000 copies of the first edition sold.

The Color Scheme Bible: Inspirational Palettes for Designing Home Interiors

The Color Scheme Bible: Inspirational Palettes for Designing Home Interiors

by Anna Starmer

A practical guide to using color successfully. The power of color is its ability to influence mood, create atmosphere, and enhance perception. As a result, one of the most effective ways to transform any room is by changing its color. Which colors to use is the challenge. The Color Scheme Bible is a practical, yet inspiring reference for those who want to take advantage of different colors without... (more)

Get Organized With Heloise

by Heloise

The name Heloise is synonymous with household hints. Today, more than 40 years after the original Heloise began her newspaper column, her daughter has carried on the tradition for dispensing reliable and practical advice, garnering a whole new generation of fans. Now for the first time, Heloise's hints for getting and staying organized have been assembled in one easy-to-read volume. From shopping and... (more)

Don Aslett's Stainbuster's Bible: The Complete Guide to Spot Removal

Don Aslett's Stainbuster's Bible: The Complete Guide to Spot Removal

by Don Aslett

The spot on your most expensive shirt . . . the mark your car left on the driveway while you were sleeping . . . the coffee stain on your formerly beige sofa. . . . Don Aslett brings all his humor, encouragement, and sure-fire techniques to getting these spots--and 197 more--completely out. Aslett is the author of seven bestselling books on cleaning, and is the founder of a multi-million-dollar cleaning operation.... (more)

The Elle Decor Home

by Editors of Elle Decor

Elle magazine is well known for its trendsetting in the world of fashion. But fashion can, and should, say the editors of this book, extend into living spaces too. Whether it's one room or a whole home that needs spiffing up, The Elle Decor Home offers easy instruction and inspiration. Aimed at both homeowners and renters, and divided into chapters for each room of the house as well as outdoor spaces, this... (more)

Organizing from the Inside Out, second edition: The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life

Organizing from the Inside Out, second edition: The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life

by Julie Morgenstern

A completely revised and expanded edition of the New York Times bestselling guide to putting things in order Getting organized is a skill that anyone can learn, and there's no better teacher than America's organizing queen, Julie Morgenstern, as hundreds of thousands of readers have learned. Drawing on her years of experience as a professional organizer, Morgenstern outlines a simple organizing plan that... (more)

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by Marla Cilley

by Editors of Real Simple Magazine

by Don Aslett

by Peter Walsh

by Peter Walsh

by Don Aslett

by Martha Stewart

by Amy Dacyczyn

by Lena Tabori

by Gustav Stickley

by Matthew Bialecki, Christian Gladu, Jill Kessenich, Jim McCord, Su Bacon

by Brian S. Alexander

by Jeff Yeager

by Debbie Lillard

by Deniece Schofield

by Anna Starmer

by Heloise

by Don Aslett

by Editors of Elle Decor

by Julie Morgenstern