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| Houseworks: Cut the Clutter, Speed Your Cleaning and Calm the Chaos | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 34 reviews)
Sales Rank: 8657
Category: Book
Author: Cynthia Townley Ewer
Publisher: DK ADULT
Studio: DK ADULT
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
Label: DK ADULT
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0756613612
Dewey Decimal Number: 648.5
EAN: 9780756613617
ASIN: 0756613612
Publication Date: March 20, 2006
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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
 Organized Home October 8, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Love this book! The layout, the pictures, the information is just sooo appealing, inviting, and yet informative!
 House Works August 18, 2008
Great book. As a mom of 3 young children ages 5, 3.5 and 19 months, I am always looking for ways to be better organized and keep a tidy home. This book is full helpful suggestions and tips.
 Great resource July 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book on a whim, and am very glad that I did so. Quite a few of the ideas in this book are common sense and/or things some people probably do already, but it is amazing how much information is packed into this book. For instance, there are some very handy charts for stain removal and food storage. I had never heard of a household notebook before, and I am implementing some of the ideas and checklists from the book and the website. I'm a very visual person and the colorful layout and motivating pictures appealed to me. I also liked that it was organized room by room. I know that I will refer to this book in the future, whether to find information or to find a way to revamp a stale cleaning routine.
 not for me June 30, 2008
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I was looking for a way to learn how to be organized. I have never been a good house-keeper and have piles of papers, clothes, etc. I need remedial help. This book is not remedial; it shows organized people how to clean and declutter better. It was very intimidating and made me feel worse than I already do. I'm sure that this author has never been as disorganized or as messy as I am and consequently cannot understand the issues involved for many of us who have never been organized or had a regular house-cleaning schedule. Lucky for me that I found Sandra Felton's books for "messies"; I now have hope that I can create a cleaner, more organized home.
Only for people with a house brimming with clutter! June 12, 2008
15 out of 21 found this review helpful
Unless your house has piles of clutter in every room don't bother
with this book. Because that's about all she tells you, over and
over in almost every chapter is how to sort and dispose of clutter.
I really didn't find it to be of much use at all in terms of the
best ways to actually go about cleaning your house. And her ideas
about shopping lists are really strange. She says that keeping a
shopping list doesn't work because teenagers won't write things down
when they use them up. Instead you are supposed to make lists of
every grocery item you ever buy and then photocopy them. Then people
are supposed to go through the printed lists and circle what they
have used up. Exactly why a teenager will do this if they won't just
write something on a list is a mystery to me. Also, what happens
when you want to buy something that you don't usually buy? I can't
imagine taking sheets and sheets of paper to the grocery store and
scanning through them to see what is circled. And how many times in
the book does she tell you to keep children's books in a plastic
dish pan so they can flip through them and put them back easily? How
is this an improvement on a book shelf? I found most of her ideas
rather impractical. Also, nobody in your house is allowed to have
any kind of a collection, because her idea about these is that you
let them keep three of each item and give the rest away. This will
not make you very popular with other family members who may have
carefully collected for years! All in all, I would give it a miss if
I were you, unless, as I said, you cannot even walk through your
house for all the piles of clutter!
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