Bring your home from the clutter it’s in and learn how to maintain it under control.

“The dirty little secret about most organizing advice is that it’s written by organized people,” says blogger, speaker, and decluttering expert Dana K. Light. “But that’s not really how my mind works. I’m lost on web page three.” Dana websites at A Slob Shows up Clean, chronicling her successes and failures with her self-described “deslobification process.” In the beginning she utilized the name “Nony” (brief for private), about How to Manage YOUR HOUSE Without Losing Your Mind: Coping with Your House’s Dirty Small Secrets because she was posting her deep, dark, slob key. Now she has truly arrive clean-with not only her actual name but the strategies she’s developed, tested, and demonstrated in her own home. She has discovered what it takes to create a home out of Catastrophe Status, which practices make the biggest and most long lasting impact, and how to maintain clutter under control.

In How to Manage YOUR HOUSE Without Losing YOUR BRAIN, Dana explains that cleaning your home is not a onetime task but a series of ongoing premade decisions. Her reality-based cleaning and organizing techniques debunk the largest housekeeping fantasies and help readers learn what does work. Chapter titles consist of

My FIRST RUNG ON THE LADDER: QUITTING for the FantasyThe Worst type of Thing About the Best WayJust Tell Me What to DoConquering LaundryGet Supper within the TablePutting a finish to the Never-Ending Regular Cleaning TasksDon’t Get OrganizedHow to Declutter Without Building a Bigger MessFighting the Perceived Worth BattleBut Will It Last?With a huge helping of empathy and humor, Dana provides a step-by-step course of action with strategies for eliminating large numbers of stuff in only a small amount time (and with as little emotional drama) as you can.