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The CHAOS* cure : clean your house and calm your soul in 15 minutes / Marla Cilley.

by Cilley, Marla.

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Seal Press, 2018.

House cleaning.

9781580058025 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome cure : clean your house and calm your soul in fifteen minutes.

Clean your house and calm your soul in fifteen minutes

191 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

What you'll find in this book -- Don't get daunted, get dressed -- Perfectionism is like quicksand -- The art of happy houseguesting -- The Flylady's panic-free philosophy -- Make a plan for positive progress -- Feel the stretch -- Arm yourself! Flylady's top five must-haves -- Bathroom surface spruce -- Bathroom super scrub -- Housebreak the bedroom -- Pillows 101 -- The island of misfit tees -- The great sock-and-undie purge -- Extinguish your hot spots -- Conquer the coat closet -- Hook it up -- On a mission in the kitchen -- Where have you bin all my life? -- Perfectly imperfect cooking (plus: pancakes!) -- Germ warfare -- Say bye to the books -- 3,2,1... Launch! -- A lighter load -- To iron or not to iron -- Liberate your linen closets -- Medicine cabinet -- Make your office work for you -- Get out of mail jail -- A place of your own -- Refresh your home, refresh you (plus: cookies!) -- Just the middles -- Walls need your love, too -- The writing on the wall -- Hung up on hanging art -- Garage sneak attack -- Let's get a move on -- A hot mess on wheels -- Pest patrol -- Critterlove -- Fired up about fireplaces -- Conclusion.

If your house is a jumble of dirty dishes, piles of paper, and never-ending laundry, you are probably afflicted. But don't give up hope, because now there's an antidote: The CHAOS Cure. In her eagerly anticipated new book, Marla Cilley--aka "The FlyLady" to the hundreds of thousands who visit her website for daily domestic inspiration--reaches into our homes to help make housecleaning more meaningful and life less messy. With a little bit of armchair therapy and plenty of practical, tactical tips--such as "On the Fly!" quick fixes and genius uses for sticky notes--she'll help us get our houses in shipshape order before we can break a sweat. Along the way, the FlyLady teaches us to embrace household maintenance as an act of self-care, and to enjoy the soothing satisfaction of an orderly habitat.

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