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The creator of the popular cleaning website Clean Mama and author of Clean Mama's Guide to a Healthy Home shows you how to establish systems and rituals to transform your home into a clean, organized, and comfortable space for you and your family.
We all want our homes to be cozy and comfortable spaces where we can leave the challenges of the outside world behind and connect with our families. But too often the mess and disorder only add stress.
For years, Becky Rapinchuk has taught people how to simplify and improve cleaning routines, and now she reveals a game-changing method to help us find joy and make our chores effortless. By pairing up systems--how we get things done so that they become automatic--with rituals--tasks that bring calm and happiness--we can feel more at peace in our homes.
Walking readers through each room of the house, Rapinchuk shows how to put new systems and rituals in place that will make the whole home operate more efficiently. Featuring decision trees, checklists, and space to reflect and record progress, Clean Mama's Guide to a Peaceful Home makes homekeeping a breeze, allowing us to slow down and focus on the things that really matter.
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Many people are spending more time at home than ever before due to the current pandemic, so methods for creating peaceful and joyful home spaces are in high demand. This approachable and well-organized guide is a good place to start--with a few caveats. Rapinchuk, the titular "Clean Mama", a homemaking expert and blogger, speaks to others like her: mothers of small and school-aged children. The tips and examples have a bucolic, suburban feel surrounding their universality (the daily dish battle, the piles of mail, the laundry slog). Here, systems and rituals come after delving into a personal exploration to understand what is working and where the "pain points" are in a household routine, guided by flowcharts and open-ended questions with space to journal and brainstorm. After evaluating needs room-by-room, Rapinchuk suggests daily, weekly, monthly, and rotating tasks to keep a busy mom's cleaning routine chugging along. Sure to be popular with New Year's resolutioners and Clean Mama's fanbase.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: A Simple Shift Toward | |
| Less Stress and More Joy Inside Our Homes | p. ix |
| Part I Finding Time and Creating Routines | |
| Chapter 1 What Kind of Home Do You Want? | p. 3 |
| Chapter 2 Pain Point Tasks and Happy Tasks | p. 7 |
| Chapter 3 Finding the Time | p. 11 |
| Chapter 4 Putting Routines to Work for You | p. 17 |
| Chapter 5 A Clean-Home Routine for Any Schedule | p. 37 |
| Chapter 6 The Clean Mama Declutter Process | p. 45 |
| Chapter 7 Seven Peaceful Home Guidelines | p. 53 |
| Part II The Clean Home Reset | |
| Chapter 8 The Clean Home Reset Checklist | p. 57 |
| Chapter 9 Kitchen: Storage + Organization | p. 61 |
| Chapter 10 Kitchen: Meal Planning, Grocery Shopping, and Prep | p. 81 |
| Chapter 11 Bathrooms | p. 93 |
| Chapter 12 Bedrooms | p. 105 |
| Chapter 13 Linens + Laundry | p. 121 |
| Chapter 14 Living Spaces | p. 135 |
| Chapter 15 Office + Paperwork | p. 145 |
| Chapter 16 Entryway + Mudroom | p. 159 |
| Chapter 17 Kids' Rooms + Spaces | p. 167 |
| Chapter 18 Garage + Storage | p. 177 |
| Chapter 19 Vehicles | p. 183 |
| Chapter 20 Cleaning Routine | p. 189 |
| Chapter 21 Whole-House Clutter Catchers | p. 201 |
| Chapter 22 A Final Note | p. 207 |
| Appendix: Clean Mama's Tried and True Recipes | p. 209 |
| Index | p. 215 |