Decluttering our homes can be difficult.Letting go of things can be challenging.Living with less seems impossible.With wit and tough love, Stop Buying Bins seeks to break down the obstacles that tether us to our possessions. Why do we hold onto belongings that no longer serve us? How do we change our perspective regarding our things? And once we've tackled those questions, how do we go about actually downsizing our clutter?Told through individual...

How to Weed Your Attic: Getting Rid of Junk without Destroying History provides answers to the question: when someone dies or it's time to move-or just clean out the attic, garage, or basement, what papers and other things should we save for the sake of history and what can we safely toss? After reading this clearly written book by a retired archivist and a retired museum curator, you can comfortably clean out your attic—or office, garage, basement,...

Learn how baking soda was developed into a consumer product, how it works, and more importantly how to use it in an amazing number of ways. In fifteen different categories, ranging from cooking and cleaning to hygience and home remedies, you'll find ideas you never thought of. Baking soda can be used for cooking, laundry, gardening, skin solutions, kitchen clean up, dental care, caring for kids, crafts and hobbies, bathroom clean up, grooming, pet...

Stinking Cleaning is a small book about housekeeping and how to keep clean the important areas of a home. It follows a young couple, Steven and Clarissa, as they start life together in a one bedroom rental flat and what they learn about cleaning and saving money. Their intention is to purchase their own property to move into as a married couple. The book is set out similarly to a diary-come-recipe book, where either Clarissa or Steven talk about...

Failing the Mary Poppins' snap-the-fingers approach to cleaning, here's the next best thing: an utterly practical handbook that offers lasting results for anyone looking to banish clutter from every room in the house. Home organizer par excellence Meryl Starr offers up her hardworking organizing solutions in The Home Organizing Workbook, a straightforward guide to getting organized. The room chapters begin with targeted questionnaires that help the...

This collection of useful recipes, cleaning concepts and tips is full of ideas that have worked for others and will work for you. Whimsical line drawings by illustrator, Martha Campbell add a humorous touch to this wonderful addition of a home reference bookshelf filled with books by Vicki Lansky. One hundred and twenty pages fill this fun and practical compendium. In ten different chapters, ranging from cooking to cleaning to hygiene and home remedies,...

Home management expert and bestselling author Emilie Barnes comes to the aid of every clutter keeper with 101 simple ideas to rid rooms of piles, stacks, and disarray. Readers will rediscover space and peace in their home as they • stop making excuses for the useless items they keep • eliminate junk mail before it junks up a drawer • take back control over "stuff" and taste freedom • subtract an item before adding an item • reap the rewards...

Make Space for Life is far more than a how-to book on decluttering your home. It provides a journey that not only shows you how to rearrange your chattels and homes, getting maximum use of whatever you have, but also gives you amusing and thought-provoking insights into why so many of our homes become cluttered, chaotic, and uncomfortable. The book combines the skills and expertise of declutter expert Angella Gilbert and author and editor Peter Cross....

If you've lived with people who weren't good cleaners it should have had an effect in a positive way. But not always. Making sure not to follow those bad habits should become a mantra. Our experience shows that either you will learn to clean from it or live as others before you have. Cleaning is a necessary evil to some, and others love it. It takes training, time, and willingness to clean well, and it is our hope that, somehow, we can make learning...

Are you living in a mess? Is the clutter around you holding you back from order? Do you feel stagnant, stuck in a rut, and ready for a change? Do you want the peace of mind that comes when you turn your house into a home? If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll never restore order! Is this positive for you? Decluttering Magic! teaches you every step, including all the tips and tricks you've been too scared to try. This is...