Spring Cleaning for Adults

Go beyond Marie Kondo with librarian-recommended reads that offer realistic advice for decluttering, deep cleaning, organizing your home, and building habits that can last. Whether you want practical routines or gentle strategies, these reads can help you focus on what matters most.

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Spring Cleaning for Adults

Go beyond Marie Kondo with librarian-recommended reads that offer realistic advice for decluttering, deep cleaning, organizing your home, and building habits that can last. Whether you want practical routines or gentle strategies, these reads can help you focus on what matters most.

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Let it go : downsizing your way to a richer, happier life
Walsh, Peter
Paper Book
Say goodbye to clutter, reduce stress, and live simply with this easy-to-use guide to downsizing! Whether you are selling your family home, blending households into a new home, or cleaning out your aging parents' home, sorting through a lifetime's worth of accumulated possessions can be a daunting...
The life-changing magic of tidying up : the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing
Kondo, Marie.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The book that sparked a revolution and inspired the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo: the original guide to decluttering your home once and for all. ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE--CNN<...
The home edit: stay organized : the ultimate guide to making systems stick
Shearer, Clea
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the authors of The Home Edit and The Home Edit Life and hosts of the Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit, comes a guide to the most important phase of getting organized: staying that way. It's one thing to...
The clean living handbook : 80+ all-natural soaps, cleaners, detergents & nontoxic household products
Paper Book
Rejuvenate your body care with 75 organic and all-natural recipes you can make at home for a greener and healthier you. Commercially bought soaps and shampoos are jam-packed with harmful chemicals that you might want to avoid, but buying organic products can get expensive....
Tidying the abyss : a practical guide to cleaning and organizing while exhausted and overwhelmed
Dodson, Amanda Stuckey
Paper Book
A gentle, hands-on resource offering mental health-sensitive, disability-informed advice for those who do not have the privilege, bandwidth, or access to keep their home-and life-in a perfectly-ordered state. When we see people in desperate situations, we are quick to...
How to keep house while drowning : a gentle approach to cleaning and organizing
Davis, KC
Paper Book
An NPR Best Book of the Year | USA TODAY Bestseller This revolutionary approach to cleaning and organizing helps free you from feeling ashamed or overwhelmed by a messy home. If you're struggling to stay on top of your to-do list, you probably...
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