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...
Practical Tidiness : how to clear your clutter and make space for the important things in life : a room by room guide
Roberts, Martha
Paper Book
Do you yearn to be surrounded by tidiness? Do you wish you could spend your days enjoying your home rather than endlessly searching through boxes, drawers and cupboards for something you'd hope to find in an instant? If so, you're not alone. Tidiness is both a physical entity and a frame of mind. It...
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 neat method organizing recipe book : 70 simple projects to take your home from chaos to composed
Murphy, Ashley
Paper Book
"An organizing book that reads like a cookbook. Each project comes with an ingredient list of supplies, an approximate time length, and clear step-by-step directions." --Real Simple In this one-of-a-kind organizing book, there are smart, stylish solutions for...
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...
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...
Decluttering
Stoller, Jane
Paper Book
The book that cuts through the clutter of decluttering  Modern life has produced so much clutter that the thought of packed closets, attics filled with storage bins, and rental units specifically used to store odds and ends produces its own stress. The decluttering movement...
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