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Off the Shelf January 2016
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Organizing plain & simple : A Ready Reference Guide With Hundreds If Solutions to Your Everyday Clutter Challenges
by Donna Smallin
"Organizing Plain & Simple is like a course from an expert teacher, grounded in the fundamentals and enriched with philosophy, tips, anecdotes, illustrations - everything necessary to make home and life run more smoothly. Donna Smallin takes a personalized, nonjudgemental approach to explaining how to assess each individual's situation and suggesting where to start organizing - room by room - and then covers how to stay organized." -- Publisher
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Home organizing & closet makeovers
by Bridget Biscotti Bradley
A full-color room-by-room guide with 400 photos not only offers advice on organizing clothing and shoes storage, but also bedding, television and library collections, and provides display ideas for family photos, in a book that also includes tips on saving time and money when working with contractors.
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What's a disorganized person to do?
by Stacey Platt
In a book illustrated with full-color photos, a professional organizer offers hundreds of solutions for gaining control of clutter, from quick fixes to hour-long projects, from organizing one's e-mails to sorting through the area beneath the bathroom sink.
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Throw out fifty things : clear the clutter, find your life
by Gail Blanke
A Real Simple columnist for "The Motivator" outlines practical methods for improving one's life by minimizing clutter in the home, in a guide that challenges readers to eliminate "toxic" possessions that serve as unhealthy memories of failed relationships, bad jobs, and other esteem-compromising regrets. By the author of Between Trapezes.
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Zero waste home : the ultimate guide to simplifying your life by reducing your waste
by Bea Johnson
"In Zero Waste Home, Bea Johnson shares the story of how she simplified her life by reducing her waste. Today, Bea, her husband, Scott, and their two young sons produce just one quart of garbage a year, and their overall quality of life has changed for the better: they now have more time together, they've cut their annual spending by a remarkable 40 percent, and they are healthier than they've ever been. This book shares essential how-to advice, secrets, and insights based on Bea's experience. She demystifies the process of going Zero Waste with hundreds of easy tips for sustainable living that even the busiest people can integrate: from making your own mustard, to packing kids' lunches without plastic, to canceling your junk mail, to enjoying the holidays without the guilt associated with overconsumption. Zero Waste Home is a stylish and relatable step-by-step guide that will give you the practical tools to help you improve your health, save money and time, and achieve a brighter future for your family--and the planet"
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Rightsizing your life : simplifying your surroundings while keeping what matters most
by Ciji Ware
A practical handbook for midlife Americans explains how to streamline one's life by paring down one's possessions to make a seamless transition to well-planned living quarters suitable to one's age, stage of life, and situation, with helpful advice on a six-step plan for the winnowing process while dealing with emotional factors that can sabotage the process.
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Your Spacious Self : Clear the Clutter and Discover Who You Are
by Stephanie Bennett Vogt
"In Your Spacious Self, author and professional space clearing expert Stephanie Bennett Vogt shows us that it's not our stuff but the holding on to it that creates a force field of stuck-ness that clouds our perceptions and paralyzes our lives.... Radical in its message and elegant in its simplicity, Your Spacious Self offers a new model that combines the ancient wisdom of space clearing with the modern practicality of clutter clearing." -- Publisher
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The hoarder in you : how to live a happier, healthier, uncluttered life
by Robin Zasio
"The once little known condition of hoarding has become a household phrase-- in part due to the popularity of the Emmy Award-- winning television show Hoarders, which has captivated audiences with its stark and heartbreaking look at the people who sufferfrom this paralyzing condition. Our fascination with hoarding stems, according to Dr. Robin Zasio, from the fact that we all fall somewhere on the hoarding continuum. From compulsive shoppers to hobbyists and collectors to ordinary, run-of-the-mill pack rats-- to some degree or another, we all hoard. Dr. Zasio shares behind-the-scenes stories from the show, including some of the most serious cases of hoarding that she has encountered-- and explains how we can learn from these extreme examples. She also shares psychological and practical advice for de-cluttering and organizing, including how to: tame the emotional pull of acquiring additional things-- make order out of chaos by getting a handle on clutter -create an organizational system that reduces stress and anxiety"
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The secrets of simplicity : learn to live better with less
by Mary Carlomagno
An interactive guide to the art of simple living shows how to make practical changes to declutter one's home and lifestyle to make room for what is truly important, based on the principle that the ways in which one spends one's time and money should reflect the true priorities of life.
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The Joy of Less, a Minimalist Living Guide : How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life
by Francine Jay
"A fun, lighthearted guide to minimalist living. Part One provides an inspirational pep talk on the joys and rewards of paring down. Part Two presents the STREAMLINE method: ten easy steps to rid your house of clutter. Part Three goes room by room, outlining specific ways to tackle each one. Part Four helps you trim your to-do list and free up your time, and explains how saving space in your closets can save the planet." -- Publisher
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The man who quit money
by Mark Sundeen
Traces the path and philosophy of Daniel Suelo, who left his entire life savings of $30 in a phone booth in 2000 and has lived a happy, fulfilled life in the caves of Utah without earning or spending money since that time.
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Eco-Clean Deck : 50 Recipes for Nontoxic Household Cleaners
by Annie B. Bond
"Using these recipes and a few ingredients from your kitchen, you can clean and maintain your home without exposing your family (and your planet) to toxic chemicals. This deck includes easy to follow formulas." -- Publisher
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The complete idiot's guide to cleaning
by Mary Findley
Complemented by an A-to-Z treasury of practical tips and techniques, a comprehensive guide explains how to clean every room in the house quickly, thoroughly, and efficiently.
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House works : cut the clutter, speed your cleaning, and calm the chaos
by Cynthia Townley Ewer
A leading authority on the art of housekeeping explains how to clean and organize the home, offering easy-to-follow instructions and tips on jobs ranging from keeping the bathroom clean and doing the laundry to sorting paperwork and organizing the family photo album.
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Green clean : the environmentally sound guide to cleaning your home
by Linda Mason Hunter
"Green Clean is the definitive, step-by-step guide to cleaning better while using natural, safe products. Room by room and stain by stain, the book offers non-carcinogenic strategies for cleaning deeply and more efficiently. In a unique, waterproof DuraBook format, Green Clean breaks environmentally conscious cleaning into simple principles and easily mastered routines, with beginner, expert, and advanced techniques that let readers set their own goals and develop their own cleaning plans." -- Publisher
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The house that cleans itself
by Mindy Starns Clark
"The ultimate guide for the housekeeping-impaired! Bestselling author Mindy Starns Clark delves into the reasons behind chronic messiness and helps you find the permanent solution you've been looking for. Using "horizontal thinking," Mindy will teach you how to set up your home so efficiently and logically that it seems to clean itself." -- Publisher
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How to clean your room in 10 easy steps
by Jennifer LaRue Huget
The ultimate (and irreverent) guide for messy youngsters that shares room-cleaning strategies that include dumping out drawers and waiting until mom is hollering to "GET UP THERE AND CLEAN THAT ROOM NOW," as well as invaluable advice on how to arrange all eight zillion stuffed animals.
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A perfect mess : the hidden benefits of disorder : how crammed closets, cluttered offices, and on-the-fly planning make the world a better place
by Eric Abrahamson
Touting the benefits of disorder, chaos, and mess, a groundbreaking study explains how and why a little disorder actually makes systems more effective, citing examples from business, cooking, parenting, politics, and other fields to demonstrate that the right amount of disorder yields better solutions, uses resources more efficiently, and is more durable.
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