You are here: Home / Archives for Simple

The One-Minute Cleaner Plain & Simple: 500 Tips for Cleaning Smarter, not Harder

July 30, 2010 By 5 Comments

The One-Minute Cleaner Plain & Simple: 500 Tips for Cleaning Smarter, not Harder

Clean smarter, not harder! That’s Donna Smallin’s cleaning motto, and now she shows readers how to do it in just minutes a day. The One-Minute Cleaner Plain & Simple is the perfect handbook for busy people who might never find the time for a top-to-bottom household scrub, but do want to keep their living areas clean, sanitary, and clutter-free.

Two broad sections, Ready, Set, Clean! and Challenges Inside and Out, cover every cleaning situation the reader is likely to face. Room by room, challenge by challenge, Smallin’s handy tips keep dirt and grime at bay. A few minutes each day is such a small price to pay!

Rating: (out of 5 reviews)

List Price: $ 10.95

Price: $ 2.73

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

Real Simple: Cleaning

July 14, 2010 By 5 Comments

Real Simple: Cleaning

Is there ever a week when cleaning isn’t atop your (loathe) to-do list? Within hours of disinfecting the kitchen countertops, they’re inevitably glazed with Popsicle drippings or splattered with olive oil. And it seems to take mere minutes for the dust to settle once again on that side table. The dirty work, truly, is never done.

Still, there’s no sensation quite like having a spotless home. After the tub has been scrubbed, you, too, feel like a sparkling version of yourself — calmer, healthier, cobweb-free. Because you’ll always strive for that clean slate — even at the expense of fun and relaxation — you persevere through the stain-busting, the sanitizing, and the polishing.

Real Simple Cleaning gives you a fresh start, breaking down the dirtiest jobs into clean-cut, manageable tasks. With room-by-room strategies for your space and methods for maintaining your stuff, the book guides you through what to do and when to do it, culminating in one cleaning calen

Rating: (out of 18 reviews)

List Price: $ 21.95

Price: $ 10.00

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: , ,

Cleaning Plain & Simple: A ready reference guide with hundreds of sparkling solutions to your everyday cleaning challenges

July 13, 2010 By 5 Comments

Cleaning Plain & Simple: A ready reference guide with hundreds of sparkling solutions to your everyday cleaning challenges

Writing especially for the busy person, Smallin begins by asking “What’s your cleaning style?” Super cleaner? Speed cleaner? Green cleaner? Occasional cleaner? No matter what the style, she has tips for how everyone can be successful at achieving and maintaining a clean, inviting home environment. She covers every imaginable situation, with special advice for dual-career families with busy travel schedules, pet owners, families with small children, allergy sufferers, and homeowners with large outdoor living areas.

Endorsing the motto “clean smarter, not harder,” Smallin makes practical suggestions for cleaning routines for each area or room of the house, and breaks down the big tasks into simple, doable pieces with varying timeframes. She builds on her organizing roots and suggests a combination of plain & simple organizing practices combined with daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning practices to keep the home environment clean and clutter-free—leaving more time to e

Rating: (out of 6 reviews)

List Price: $ 16.95

Price: $ 3.93

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , ,