Clean Mama's guide to a peaceful home : effortless systems and joyful rituals for a calm, cozy home

Clean Mama's guide to a peaceful home Effortless systems and joyful rituals for a calm, cozy home

Becky Rapinchuk

Book - 2020

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 havens where we can leave the challenges of the outside world behind. But too often the mail piles up, the laundry doesn't get folded, or the kids forget to put their toys away, creating mess and adding to our anxieties. Becky Rapinchuk has taught people how to simplify their cleaning routine for years, with a simple 10-minute daily system that works. Now she reveals a game-changing method of freeing up mental and physical space to help us... find joy and make our home-keeping routine 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. Like Marie Kondo meets The Home Edit, Becky walks us through each room sharing the systems and rituals that she uses. Featuring two-color illustrations, decision trees, checklists, and space to reflect and record what's working and what you'd like to improve, Clean Mama's Guide to a Peaceful Home makes home-keeping a breeze and allows us to slow down and focus on the things that really matter in our lives.

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Subjects
House cleaning.
Orderliness.
Home economics.
Time management.
Do-it-yourself work.
Self-help publications.
Genres
Self-help publications
Published
New York, New York : HarperOne [2020]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Clean Mama (Firm)
Main Author
Becky Rapinchuk (author)
Corporate Author
Clean Mama (Firm) (contributor)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
"Over 50 tips for housekeeping bliss"--Cover.
Includes index.
Physical Description
xvii, 222 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780062996121
  • Introduction: A Simple Shift Toward
  • Less Stress and More Joy Inside Our Homes
  • Part I. Finding Time and Creating Routines
  • Chapter 1. What Kind of Home Do You Want?
  • Chapter 2. Pain Point Tasks and Happy Tasks
  • Chapter 3. Finding the Time
  • Chapter 4. Putting Routines to Work for You
  • Chapter 5. A Clean-Home Routine for Any Schedule
  • Chapter 6. The Clean Mama Declutter Process
  • Chapter 7. Seven Peaceful Home Guidelines
  • Part II. The Clean Home Reset
  • Chapter 8. The Clean Home Reset Checklist
  • Chapter 9. Kitchen: Storage + Organization
  • Chapter 10. Kitchen: Meal Planning, Grocery Shopping, and Prep
  • Chapter 11. Bathrooms
  • Chapter 12. Bedrooms
  • Chapter 13. Linens + Laundry
  • Chapter 14. Living Spaces
  • Chapter 15. Office + Paperwork
  • Chapter 16. Entryway + Mudroom
  • Chapter 17. Kids' Rooms + Spaces
  • Chapter 18. Garage + Storage
  • Chapter 19. Vehicles
  • Chapter 20. Cleaning Routine
  • Chapter 21. Whole-House Clutter Catchers
  • Chapter 22. A Final Note
  • Appendix: Clean Mama's Tried and True Recipes
  • Index
Review by Booklist Review

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.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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