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Cleaning up the Clutter: Easy Ways to Keep Your Family Organized
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Manufacturer: Harvest House Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 640
EAN: 9780736909792
ISBN: 0736909796
Label: Harvest House Publishers
Manufacturer: Harvest House Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 2004-03-01
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Studio: Harvest House Publishers
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Most women feel overwhelmed as they juggle raising a family, pursuing a career, and keeping a home. Emilie Barnes comes to the rescue in Cleaning Up the Clutter: Easy Ways to Keep Your Family Happy, Healthy, and Organized. Emilie shows readers how to... - Get the house clean and keep it that way
- Involve family members in helping with chores
- Plan healthful meals that save time and cut grocery bills
Helpful organizational tools and charts add to the usefulness of Cleaning Up the Clutter. Readers will be able to sort through the chaos to discover more hours in each day as they create a positive home environment. Formerly titled Simply Organized.
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Summary: Disappointing
Comment: I was rather disappointed by this book. For a start, although it is only a thin book, almost half of it (from page 95 onwards) is devoted to recipes. Quite frankly, if I had wanted a recipe book, I would have bought one. Also, how do recipes help me to de-clutter?
There are some useful tips, such as start one room at a time, but there the usefulness pretty much ends. If you are confronted with a truly cluttered room, it's all well and good to know that you only have to spend 15 minutes in there each day, but where do you start? I have been in a house where 15 minutes of work would barely have let you find a chair to sit in and rest. What goes first - toys, clothes, papers? Are these all gathered up and put where they belong in that 15 minutes or are they all just collected for later sorting (given that the collection could well take more than 15 minutes if you are stepping over and digging under piles of rubble)? There is little or no help for those people who are truly disorganised and have no idea of how to begin to order themselves.
It's a great idea to put things in sorted and labelled boxes - but then, where do you put the boxes? Will these boxes not just create another pile of clutter (albeit, internally organised clutter)?
A lot of time is spent dealing with paper clutter but what about all those little odds and ends that you have lying around the place that just never seem to have a designated spot?
The wardrobe and kitchen are the primary rooms Emilie Barnes looks at de-cluttering, but what about the bedroom itself, or the bathroom, or at a lower level, the medicine cabinet? It's fine to talk about bags in the laundry for the different coloured items, but what about the laundry room, about the innumerable cleaners that people have, the cloths and brushes, etc?
Overall, I don't think I'll get any use out of this book - except perhaps to put it on my "Gift shelf" (ah, to have the spare room!).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great ideas
Comment: This is a great book. If you feel overwhelmed by your clutter and don't know where to start and how to go about cleaning it up, Emilie has some great ideas. For example, for starters, work 1 room at a time and separate things by what to keep, what to get rid of, etc....
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Summary: An Organized book
Comment: Emilie Barnes' book Cleaning up the Clutter, is a conglomeration of ideas you may find in some of her other books but they are organized into a cohesive system that is easy to get your arms around. I recommend this book to anyone who needs a system of organization for their home.
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Summary: Great read for home organization.
Comment: My sister gave me this book as a gift and I have really enjoyed reading it and putting into practice the clutter-cutting ideas. This has especially helped me to organize my chores into daily chunks so that the whole is not so overwhelming. Also, it has helped me create a system for mail sorting that is very helpful. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who desires to create a peaceful and organized home. There are ideas for menu planning, storage organization, and general home chore scheduling. As a stay-at-home wife and mom, it has been extremely helpful and encouraging for me.
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