Summary of Dana K. White's How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind

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Get the Summary of Dana K. White's How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Do you experience heart palpitations at the sound of an unexpected doorbell? Do you stare in bewilderment at your messy home, wondering how in the world it got this way again? You’re not alone. But there is hope for you and your home.

Managing your home isn’t an all-or-nothing approach, and Dana has broken down the most critical things that you'll need to do to keep up with the housework.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669342854

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Insights on Dana K. White's How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind

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Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

A Slob Comes Clean is the author’s name for her blog, which chronicles her journey to becoming a clean housekeeper.

#2

When the author began sharing her struggles with clutter on her blog, she was surprised to find that other women were also suffering from the same issues. The women she connected with online were all creative and intelligent, and they all had one thing in common: they were slobs as well.

#3

The author is an idealist, and an idealist will always strive for the best way to do things. This often leads to the sloppiest of ways.

#4

Things should be done a certain way. When those words are in your inner monologue, ask yourself, But what will I do.

#5

Things that won’t happen don’t need to consume your time. Focus on the things that will actually happen.

#6

There are many things that people do that would be great for the budget, but are not worth the effort to do. Things like selling used toilet paper rolls on eBay. While this may seem like a good idea at first, it’s not worth the trouble and effort to do.

#7

You can read this entire book five times and your house will still be filthy. Housecleaning methods don’t clean your house; you have to clean your house.

#8

The author has tried many different ways to clean his house, from hiring a