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1) DIY Cleaning Products and Craft Organization: 1/24/17

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Courtney and Liana are getting a jump on spring cleaning! Learn how to make your own cleaning products, start seeds for your garden, and organize your craft space. This video originally appeared on Facebook Live on January 24, 2017.

2) Organizing for the Rest of Us: 100 Realistic Strategies to Keep Any House Under Control

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White, Dana K

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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 aren't looking to spend your 401(k) on clear bins? You long for a little more peace but minimalism isn't sparking joy? Discover 100 practical, do-able tips to organize, declutter and manage your home.

Traditional organizing advice never worked for decluttering expert and self-proclaimed

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3) Happiness Cleaning

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Kananen, Aurikatariina

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Tips on the Joy of Clean from a House Cleaning Expert Auri Kananen, or Aurikatariina, is an expert in house cleaning and an international social media influencer with over 15 mil combined followers. This guide teaches pros and those with junk pile homes to transform their living space from disaster to sanctuary. Enter a judgment-free cleaning zone! Auri travels the globe cleaning the filthiest houses for free. Auri does not judge, she helps! Whether...

4) The more of less: finding the life you want under everything you own

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Becker, Joshua

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One of today's most influential minimalist advocates, Joshua Becker used to spend his days accumulating more and more. But then he realized his possessions were not only failing to make him happy, they were actually keeping him from the very things that do. Instead of bringing fulfillment, they brought distraction. In The More of Less, Joshua helps you recognize the life-giving benefits of owning less; realize how all the stuff you own is keeping...

5) The life-changing magic of tidying up: the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing

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Kondo, Marie

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The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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This best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing

6) Spark joy: an illustrated master class on the art of organizing and tidying up

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Kondo, Marie

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The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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"Tidying expert Marie Kondo's follow-up to her best-selling book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, is an illustrated master manual on her renowned KonMari Method with item-specific guidance and step-by-step folding illustrations"--Provided by publisher

7) The Home edit life: the no-guilt guide to owning what you want and organizing everything

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Shearer, Clea

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"The New York Times bestselling authors of The Home Edit show you how to contain the chaos and organize every aspect of your life, including hobbies and activities, work and office spaces, luggage and travel, and so much more"-- You don't have to live like a minimalist to feel happy and calm. Shearer and Teplin show you how to contain the chaos in all aspects of your life, from office space and holiday storage to luggage and pet supplies. By getting...

8) Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life

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Rubin, Gretchen

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In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place.

One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick—why? She was standing right in her own kitchen. She felt homesick, she realized, with love for home itself. “Of all the elements of a happy...

9) House love: a joyful guide to cleaning, organizing, and loving the home you're in

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Richardson, Patric

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This follow-up to the best-selling Laundry Love: Finding Joy in a Common Chore extends the concept of infusing joy into the everyday tasks of maintaining your entire home, with design tips and ideas for DIY projects

10) The One-Minute Organizer Plain & Simple: 500 Tips for Getting Your Life in Order

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Smallin, Donna

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Bring order to your hectic life, quickly and efficiently. Donna Smallin offers innovative ideas and effective solutions to the busy person's daily battle with both physical and mental clutter. This easy-to-follow guide includes 500 strategies that will help you make your world a more orderly place so that you can spend more time enjoying the things that really matter. Even if you don't have time for a top-to-bottom organizational makeover, you can...

11) Year of No Clutter: A Memoir

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Schaub, Eve

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Eve has a problem with clutter. Too much stuff and too easily acquired, it confronts her in every corner and on every surface in her house. When she pledges to tackle the worst offender, her horror of a "Hell Room," she anticipates finally being able to throw away all of the unnecessary things she can't bring herself to part with: her fifth-grade report card, dried-up art supplies, an old vinyl raincoat.

But what Eve discovers isn't just

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12) Real Life Organizing: Clean and Clutter-Free in 15 Minutes a Day (Feng Shui Decorating, For fans of Cluttered Mess)

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Aarssen, Cassandra

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Tips from a Professional Organizer on How to Have an Organized Home

"Real Life Organizing is a real solution to the clutter challenges we all face." ―Peter Walsh, New York Times best-selling author and organization expert

#1 Best Seller in Do-It-Yourself Improvements, Small Spaces, and Decorating & Furnishings

An organizing book with clutter-free solutions for keeping an organized home in just 15

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13) Simply clean: the proven method for keeping your home organized, clean, and beautiful in just 10 minutes a day

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Rapinchuk, Becky

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No matter how big your home or busy your schedule, Rapinchuk believes that in just ten minutes a day your can keep your house clean and decluttered. She shares her system to turn cleaning from a chore into an effortless habit, and also shares recipes for organic, environmentally conscious cleaning supplies

14) Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living

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Oxenreider, Tsh

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Remove the Mess, Add Meaning
Simplicity isn't about what you give up. It's about what you gain. When you remove the things that don't matter to you, you are free to focus on only the things that are meaningful to you. Imagine your home, your time, your finances, and your belongings all filling you with positive energy and helping you achieve your dreams. It can happen, and Organized Simplicity can show you how.
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15) The 8-minute organizer: easy solutions to simplify your life in your spare time

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Leeds, Regina

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Your coach in a box

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Whether you are busy dealing with a demanding job, raising kids, or coping with illness, simply finding the time to get organized can be a challenge. The 8-Minute Organizer to the rescue!

Regina Leeds shows how anyone can organize their home with just a few minutes each day. She has tailored her magic formula (eliminate, categorize, organize) so that readers can work in short, effective increments and complete small projects that add up to

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