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Long before the arrival of the twenty-four-hour pharmacy, folk healers took care of aches, pains, and sniffles with home-grown remedies. Hidden in their kitchens, they had their own bag of tricks used for centuries to treat what ailed them. Growing up, Clementine Holmes Bass learned about many of these home cures from her beloved aunt Dollie, a woman whose wits and wisdom profoundly impacted the author's life. Some of her best days were spent in Aunt...
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Declutter your home without being overworked or overwhelmed.
Have a home 10 times more clean in only 10 minutes a day!
Lorraine Leet looks at why people clutter and makes it easy to unravel the causes. She gives the Clutterbug permission to be authentic while making progress decluttering.
What if your home was picture perfect?
What you will learn in this book:
• That being a Clutterbug is okay.
• How to eliminate procrastination.
• How...
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Get the Summary of KC Davis's How to Keep House While Drowning in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. KC Davis's "How to Keep House While Drowning" reframes care tasks like cleaning, not as moral imperatives but as neutral activities that should not define personal worth. Davis critiques the self-help industry for its reliance on unsustainable willpower and ignorance of individual circumstances. She shares her own struggles...
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Get the Summary of Dana K. White's ‘How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: 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...
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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...
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I'll be happy when____.
When I get my own room….When I have a driver's license...When I graduate from college…
I'll be happy when we buy our own house. I'll be happy when I have my own children. I'll be happy when my husband has a better job.
How many of us have said these types of statements to ourselves? I'll be happy when ____. What if we stopped deciding to wait to be happy? What if we were just happy now? Like right now!
Do you know how...
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Sometimes the constant hustle and bustle of everyday life gets the best of us. While we are busy focusing on our careers and juggling the long hours and multiple responsibilities with our hectic family and home lives, things can get tossed aside and forgotten about. Bills and other opened and unopened mail can pile up on your counter or be shoved in drawers. Your bookshelves and magazine racks are overflowing and in disarray. Your child's toys are...
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So you want to declutter, but think you do not have the money or the time to get the job done? You are wrong! This book lays out a simple, affordable plan for decluttering your home, your life, and your mind. Do you know the five common mistakes most people make when they start decluttering? If not, read on and make sure you don't waste your valuable time and money making these same mistakes In just a few hours, you will have all the tools necessary...
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Are you tired of living amidst clutter and chaos? Do you yearn for a simpler, more peaceful existence? In "Decluttering Your Home, Mind, and Life: A Room-by-Room Journey," you'll embark on a transformative adventure that will change not only your living spaces but also your inner world. This groundbreaking book takes you on a unique journey through each room in your home, guiding you step by step toward a clutter-free, organized, and harmonious life....
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Get the Summary of Christine Platt's The Afrominimalists Guide to Living with Less in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Christine Platt's "The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less" reframes minimalism as a mindset of intentional living rather than a strict aesthetic. It's about authenticity, understanding the deep-seated reasons behind overconsumption, and being a conscious consumer. Platt shares her personal...
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Trivia Question: What do hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, typhoons, cyclones, monsoons, earthquakes, rain storms, tropical storms, and floods all have in common? MOLD!Nobody wants to talk about it, right? But the fact is that mold, and its companion mildew, can present major disruptions in our everyday lives. It can invade our homes, businesses, and other domiciles indiscriminately.It affects the lives of millions of people annually with some of the...
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Out with the mess, live more with less, reclaim your home and free up space for abundance to flow in.
“The Designing Order-Getting Organized to Attract Abundance” shows you how organizing to clear and simplify your living space reduces stresses and frustrations, and releases energy so that you can focus on the things that matter. Rather than whittling time away on possessions that bog you down, just by busting clutter and restoring order, you...
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Our forefathers and mothers knew how to keep their homes clean and homey-and live richer while spending less. Many of today's products are expensive, bad for the environment, and don't work any better than Grandma's methods, which only cost pennies.
The editors at Back Home Magazine have collected hundreds of formulas for effective cleaning, gardening, and home maintenance-as well as ways our ancestors saved on heating bills, prevented costly repairs,...
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Books are written about recipes all the time, but "Natural Cleaning Recipes" is a bit different. This book focuses on cleaning recipes that can be used to sanitize not only the home, but anywhere else that needs cleaning as well. What most people don't realize is that a lot of simple ingredients that they have in the kitchen can safely help to clean up a mess and kill germs. Protecting yourself from breathing in harsh chemicals while cleaning is very...
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Decluttering the House: Winning your Never Ending Battle with StuffYou don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff-you can get rid of clutter for good!
This book is not for some organizing expert or a minimalist guru. It's for the regular person, like and me who needs to de-stress. It's for those of us who need some headspace to unwind and focus on the good things in life. It is for those of us who need to say goodbye to things we do not need and do...
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Life can be messy. Sometimes the mess can be a barrier to the life you hope to live.
Have you ever said:
• "I'd bake more if I could find the counter space. We need a bigger kitchen."
• "Who has time for hobbies? There's so much work to do around here."
• "I'd like to have friends over, but the house is such a disaster. We'd have to spend hours cleaning! Who wants to do that after a full day of work?"
Sometimes the answer isn't more...
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If you think you don't have the money to create a home you love, think again. With easy to follow tutorials and hundreds of thrifty decorating and organizing tips, covering every room in the house, this book will help you create a stylish home you love. Style doesn't cost money, it is an expression of who you are.
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