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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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...
Organizing for the rest of us : 100 realistic strategies to keep any house under control
White, Dana
Paper Book
Eliminate the clutter and discover the joy of having your house organized with simple, realistic strategies that work for normal people. So you want to keep your kitchen counter clean but you aren't ready to toss the toaster You want to be able to find your kids' socks but...
Tidy up your life : rethinking how to organize, declutter, and make space for what matters most
Moore, Tyler
Paper Book
Bring order to your home and focus to your busy life with the guiding principles and practical routines for organizing, cleaning, and determining what's "just enough"-both physically and emotionally-by the social media sensation known as Tidy Dad. A father of three with a...
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...
Clean my space : the secret to cleaning better, faster--and loving your home every day
Maker, Melissa
Paper Book
Melissa Maker has completely re-engineered cleaning. The energetic, fresh face of homekeeping behind the sensationally popular YouTube channel Clean My Space knows that today's generation doesn't need an 800-page tome on how to polish brass knobs. People still need to know how to clean, but they...
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