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  • How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind

  • Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets
  • By: Dana K. White
  • Narrated by: Dana K. White
  • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (130 ratings)

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How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind

By: Dana K. White
Narrated by: Dana K. White
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Bring your home out of the mess it’s in—and learn how to keep it under control! Housekeeping expert Dana K. White shares reality-based cleaning and organizing techniques that will help you learn what really works.

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 an all-or-nothing approach, and Dana has broken down the most critical things that you'll need to do to keep up with the housework. With understanding, honesty, and her trademark humor, Dana shares her field-tested strategies including:

  • Exactly where to start to tame the chaos
  • Which habits deserve your focus and will make the most impact
  • How to gain traction in your quest for a manageable home
  • Practical tips you can implement and immediately to declutter huge amount of stuff with minimal emotional drama

Cleaning your house is not a one-time project—it’s a series of ongoing and daily decisions. Start learning Dana’s reality-based cleaning and organizing techniques—and see how they really work!

Get ready to say goodbye to the stacks of dirty dishes crowding your kitchen counters, conquer the never-ending piles of laundry, and stop tripping over clutter on your living room floor as Dana helps you discover what works for you, for your unique personality, and in your unique home.

A 28-day guide to help you start getting your home under control is available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2016 Dana White (P)2016 Thomas Nelson Publishers

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Daily tasks make a difference!

I really enjoyed this book. I have been listening to the podcast for several years and the book just collates a lot of the wisdom from the podcast into easy digestible chunks. I have found the daily tasks have helped me to manage my home, although I am still not convinced laundry day works yet.

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Love love love it

This book was written for a person like me who doesn’t see mess until someone is coming to visit and can’t quite get my head around the relentless daily nature of maintenance.

If in doubt, get the book!

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Helpful and easy to follow

Easy listen packed full of helpful and easy to follow steps to demystify the path to a manageable home. Helpful for neurodivergent/ADHD brains

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Marvellous!

I finally know where and how to start! Thank you Dana for your words of wisdom and encouragement.

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Great

Loved it. Lots of super simple but super practical advice.
Reason for 4 stars for the story is that a lot of the content is very similar to her other book, “Decluttering At The Speed Of Life.” However, I still found it to be very helpful, and any repetition just reinforced what I had learnt from that book.

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Loved it - so funny but useful!

Have recommended it to so many friends. Has helped me SO much! Thank you thank you!!!

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Love, love, love this book!

As someone who gives zero Fs about cleaning and has a million better things to do than organise and clean my house, I freaking love this book.

It's realistic and recognises that most cleaning and organising books are written by people who love to clean and organise. Therefore those books are not very helpful for creative, sentimental people whose first reaction is to keep something that they don't know what to do with, rather than get rid of it.

So yup, if you feel like you're drowning in stuff and can never get on top of your housework, this is the book for you!

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Simple, Practical, Non Judgemental

I found this book more concise than the podcast, great to focus on a chapter as needed or read the whole book. focuses a lot on mind set change and I found the mindset of the author similar to mine and how the most efficient way isn't always the most efficient way if you never do it.

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Funny and so relatable

I put off buying this book for a while, thinking I can learn all I need to know from YouTube. But, Dana, this book is outstanding. Captured my attention from beginning to end. You are so funny. You normalise how so many people think and feel about the whole daunting housework saga. You’ve done an incredible job speaking the text, with humour, friendliness, drama… not to mention your gorgeous voice and accent. I would love to listen to you on other books that aren’t your own! I tried reading a few paragraphs that I’d found so funny in the audio - but when I read them, they didn’t have all your humorous dramatisation and it was just not the same! Highly recommend this book , especially as an audiobook - even if you know in theory how to keep your home in order… but not quite in practice. Thanks Dana. I’ll definitely be checking out your newest book.

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The little voice in my head that helps me manage my home

I've listened to Dana's podcast for a long time now, and while the concepts in this book are those I've previously heard on her podcast, I love that I now have them all in one place. I listen to her coach me through my daily tasks and it motivates me to stay on top of the basics . It opens up so much more time, energy and life in our home when we're not dealing with daily chaos. Thanks so much Dana.

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