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How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets
How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets
How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets
Audiobook6 hours

How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets

Written by Dana K. White

Narrated by Dana K. White

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About this audiobook

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.

A 28-day guide to help you start getting your home under control is available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherThomas Nelson
Release dateNov 8, 2016
ISBN9780718083243
Author

Dana K. White

Dana K. White is the creator of the No Mess Decluttering Method and (much to her own surprise) a Decluttering Expert. Dana shares realistic home management strategies and a message of hope for the hopelessly messy in her books: Organizing for the Rest of Us, Decluttering at the Speed of Life (a Wall Street Journal bestseller), and How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind. Dana teaches her strategies through her blog, podcast, and videos at ASlobComesClean.com and trains coaches in her unique decluttering process at DeclutteringCoaches.com.    

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Love that this book was narrated by Dana! She has truly changed my life. I know have more time, less clutter, and a better stabilized home. This is a short book but has already made a huge difference in one week. I took out six bags of clutter within 2 days.
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    Such a wonderful book! Really helped me, encouraged me, and just overall was a much-needed godsend of a book!

    Ms Dana has a wonderful voice that brings you peace during a stressful time of your life and keeps you moving throughout the days making more progress than you realize.
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    WOW! Every new wife/high school grad should receive this book. Practical and entertaining— never thought I’d say that about a book on home management. I can’t suggest this book enough!
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    Thank you! I have learned something new and good from you. I have enjoyed every minute of your story. Your so funny!!
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    Loved the book! It's written in a very easy to read funny manner and gives an unadorned but real hope with easy to follow instructions to truly manage our homes and so our lives.
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    She’s funny and engaging, and really knows how to lead the clutter blind. Best book for people who find regular housework overwhelming. Loved it!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Fantastic! With a lot of humor, this book makes you feel normal, and getting organized attainable. It also makes you understand where it comes from, an d makes you feel better about yourself. Wonderful! Thank you Dana!
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    This book helps me more each time I listen to it
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    On point! This book is funny and practical at the same time. It's been super helpful. Implementing some of Dana's tips, I went through all of my family's dirty laundry, some of which hadn't been washed in years, because other things always had to be washed first, and, in less than 2 weeks, found that the laundry hampers are all empty and the floors cleared of the piles of dirty laundry. I had no more dirty clothes to wash! I also had to donate two garbage bags full of clothes in order for the clean laundry to fit in the drawers. And it wasn't draining or overwhelming! Amazing! Oh and my counter has been free of dirty dishes 85% of the day, every day! My husband has even started putting dirty dishes in the dishwasher for the first time since I married him, almost 20 years ago ? All of these changes in just 2 weeks! I wouldn't have thought impossible, but all it took was two little routine changes!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Sooo good! Learned a lot from this! So thankful for this book!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    So good...Dana’s fun & quirky sense of humour shines throughout!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Loved every minute of this book I will be reading it again and again I loved it as much as her other book on decluttering if not more thank you Dana for speaking to the slob on Me! I definitely have slob vision and TPAD big time. I wish my house would stay perfect without effort but the truth is all in your book. I love your style of writing thank you thank you thank you
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    So helpful & motivating! She didn't criticize or judge the level of clutter/ mess. I was very productive listening to it! I am going to give it another listen to keep the momentum! Thanks Dana!
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    highly recommend for the real world struggle of mums everywhere
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    I loved this book! It is the second book by this author that I have read.
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    I am an already reformed slob, and can keep my house clean, but still loved listening to this book. The narrator/author is very entertaining. I still was able to glean some good advice. I enjoyed it so much I may listen to it again.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This book helped me so much! I was drowning in clutter and never understood why I couldn’t conquer it. Dana helped me understand that I viewed housework as a project... and some things are not projects (I.e. dishes).

    One of my other great takeaways was decluttering a space without making a bigger mess. I will no longer pull everything out of a drawer/closet/shelf/etc. instead, I look for the easy things first (trash and things that have a home elsewhere). That has made the biggest difference in my home over the past year!!!
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    Out of all the cleaning books I’ve read, this one has probably been the most helpful. It’s simple (and maybe a little too simple for those of you with already clean homes), but it was great at helping me shift my mind to tackle household chores before they get out of control!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This is the best decluttering book that I have read. It speaks to the person who is not naturally organized and gives several ah ha! moments. Wish I had found this book sooner!
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    I found this book very entertaining and very relatable and realistic. Different from other how to get your life and home in order books.
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    Our minds made this book great for me. Her words are what and how I think. So thank you for writing this book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    It made perfect sense to me because I am also a slob. The solutions work.
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    As a slob myself... I felt like I could have personally written this book. Every single call out.... well GUILTY AS CHARGED. she was SPOT on. I can’t thank her enough for writing the perfect guide to defeating my slobness my children and my husband thank you dearly too.
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    I loved it, entertaining and helpful, and oh so relatable!!
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    It is like she is talking straight to me. So good and helpful.
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    So smart!!! I don’t need to pick up trash for 5 minutes or wash 6 loads of dishes in one day, but I do need to declutter.Dana’s method of Decluttering without making a mess is brilliant!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Loved it! Great, reasonable tips that help manage expectations. I look forward to implementing her advice in my own home!
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    This author gets me! Absolutely loved this book. Life changing!
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    Simple steps that have changed our home. Just do the dishes!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Finally a book that gets me! This relates to real people who have very real struggles with the mundaneness of "keeping house" when there are so many other things to do that are so much more fun. Real advice. Real practical advice - not the rehashed stuff that we hear on every tv show or read in every magazine. Dana K. White takes a slightly less conventional, but far more sustainable approach. Thank you!