The House That Cleans Itself: Creative Solutions for a Clean and Orderly House in Less Time Than You Can Imagine
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The House That Cleans Itself is a true housekeeping guide for the housekeeping-impaired! It boldly takes on the reasons behind chronic messiness and why ordinary home-organization books won’t work. Using the methods of “horizontal thinking,” this book teaches readers how to set up a home so efficiently and logically that it seems to clean itself.
More than a how-to book, The House That Cleans Itself also looks at what God has to say about cleanliness and order, and how He can inspire order in every reader’s life in a fresh and unique way. For added fun, some of the tips Mindy uses come from research for her popular novels, The Trouble with Tulip, Blind Dates Can Be Murder, and Elementary, My Dear Watkins.
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Housekeeping is not my forte. Like Mindy Starnes Clark I feel drawn to helpful hints, but alas, they end up becoming part of my clutter rather than part of my solution.
This book is designed for the housekeeping impaired or challenged. What an amazing idea…restructuring the house rather than attempting to rewire the brains of the household members.
Eureka! If you have struggled with waves of stuff, or a house that seems to explode contents randomly and without warning, this book may be “the one!”
The very Christian message of prayer and persistance is within the pages along with encouragement.
Though I may not begin tomorrow, the ideas and tips are going to be swirling in my mind for weeks, and I’ll end up taking a highlighter to the book and then I’m going to get to work.
Two of my housekeeping nightmares are printed in the book and it was no surprise to my friends and family that my stories were chosen.
The House that Cleans Itself and I are going to become very close. I think I can smell lemony fresh freedom.
Rating: 4 / 5
The House That Cleans Itself: Creative Solutions for a Clean and Orderly House in Less Time Than You Can Imagine
This book is aimed at people who are cleaning impaired. As someone who struggles with keeping a clean house I knew this book was written for someone like me. I really enjoyed the cleaning tips and especially liked the embarrassing house cleaning stories at the end of each chapter.
However, I do think it is a little complicated of a system for someone who really struggles with keeping a house clean. I personally like Flylady’s (Marla Cilley) plan for helping the cleaning impaired as it keeps things simple and helps you to start a small foundation and build upon it until you find your house is running itself. This system starts out with the big picture first and it was too overwhelming to even think about doing all the planning and work it required.
The book was worth reading and it did include useful information on cleaning a house (and keeping it clean).
Rating: 4 / 5
The House That Cleans Itself: Creative Solutions for a Clean and Orderly House in Less Time Than You Can Imagine
This book makes sensible suggestions that you wish you’d thought of yourself. Thank goodness for the only book that has ever made a difference in my house, and I have a stack of them! The author recommends changing the set-up of your house BEFORE you change your behavior. She further proposes that if you could change your behavior when it comes to organzation and cleaning, that you wouldn’t need her book. I highly recommend this for anyone who is drowning and in despair over the state of their house. If you’ve been embarrassed when someone dropped by unexpectedly, this is the guide for you. Dive in and change your life!
Rating: 5 / 5
The House That Cleans Itself: Creative Solutions for a Clean and Orderly House in Less Time Than You Can Imagine
Mindy Starns Clark is one smart chick - she’s the gifted author of a series of inspirational mysteries and a Christian wife and mother. The Trouble with Tulip (Smart Chick Mysteries, Book 1) She’s also one of us “creative types”. Like me, Mindy was born “housekeeping-challenged”.
This book is geared toward women who do not naturally know how to clean a house. We are hard-working and well-intentioned, but we wok ourselves into a frenzy and the house is still not good enough. If this sounds like you, then buy this book. Mindy will help you analyze what you are doing and re-learn it, step by step. She teaches you how to work smarter instead of harder (you’re probably already working hard enough). You will learn to how to keep your house good enough all the time, instead of “very nice” once a month. This book will help you relax and find peace with your own personality. And most importantly, Mindy emphasizes that having a daily relationship with God is the only way to start - because unless the Lord builds a house, they labor in vain that build it… even a house that cleans itself!
Rating: 5 / 5
The House That Cleans Itself: Creative Solutions for a Clean and Orderly House in Less Time Than You Can Imagine
This book is a great way to FINALLY get your home neat and clean, for good. Just like dieting is a quick fix to loose weight, but doesn’t keep the pounds off, spurts of frantic cleaning right before guests come over won’t keep your home clean once the guests leave. To acheive and maintain your ideal weight you have to change your lifestyle, so why should we expect it to be any different with keeping the house clean? This book will walk you thorugh step by step how to make those lifestyle changes to keep your house clean. I’m not talking about adding 2 hours of chores to your already hectic schedule, but instead looking at WHY the kitchen counter is always a disaster or the coffee table is always cluttered/messy (It is almost like free therapy for your home) and coming up with a solution that works for you, not the solution that “generally works” for people.
Rating: 5 / 5
The House That Cleans Itself: Creative Solutions for a Clean and Orderly House in Less Time Than You Can Imagine