28 Days to Hope for Your Home

by Dana White

Are you overwhelmed by the mess in your home?

Have you ever wondered if there’s no hope for you?

I know that feeling. I’ve experienced it too. I’m so glad that now I can say . . .

There is hope! For anyone!

28 Days to Hope for Your Home is not for the mildly disorganized! Develop four habits over four weeks. Discover hope for real change in your home.

Warning: This e-book is NOT for everyone!

If you’ve ever wondered how someone could sleep at night knowing there were dirty dishes in the sink . . . . DON’T buy this e-book.

If, at the end of a long day, you mindlessly put your dirty clothes in the laundry hamper and hang your jacket neatly in the closet . . . DON’T buy this e-book.

If you’ve never experienced heart palpitations at the sound of an unexpected doorbell . . . DON’T buy this e-book.

28 Days to Hope for Your Home is for people like me. People who dream of an orderly home, but truly don’t understand what happens in the three days between Party Ready and Disaster Status.

That WAS me. I’m definitely still not perfect, but I’m no longer bewildered.

I know what it takes to maintain a livable home.

28 Days to Hope for Your Home is NOT a guide to getting your home completely organized in a month. Based on the experience I have gained during my personal deslobification process, this e-book is a guide to developing basic habits that other people seem to know (but people like us don’t).

If you follow the instructions for each day, you will learn new habits and change your thinking about your home. Through personal experience (the best teacher), you will understand the basics of keeping your home out of Disaster Status.

You will have hope.

28 Days to Hope for Your Home includes:

Twenty-eight days of specific instructions to help you develop four basic (but essential) home management habits.

Insights into why these concepts seem foreign to you.

Practical tips to keep you from giving up.

Bonus sections with realistic strategies for laundry management, meal prep, and decluttering.

More than 45 pages of all new, exclusive content!

If you’ve ever read my blog, A Slob Comes Clean, you know my style. There is no judgment here. I completely understand the brain of the hopelessly unorganized (from inside my own head!).

While I resisted giving advice for years, I am so excited about this way to share my hope with others!

Genres: Nonfiction

72 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 30, 2012

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Reviews

[K.a. Bachelor · Rating 5 out of 5]

While I like the concept of FLYLADY, Marla Cilley, I felt like I was spending too much time organizing to get organized. I have a control journal, I bought some of her excellent cleaning products. ... but I spent a lot of time polishing my sink, tying my shoes, and trying to fit a square plug into a round hole.

Dana commiserates with the slob I can be. She wrote things in just the right way to make the odious task of housework more manageable. She was the calalyst I needed to pull it together.

My house still gets dusty. I still have piles of magazines and paperwork. But the dust gets swiped at more often, the magazine pile is less than 6 months old, and I am not as panicked when I think about de-slobifying.

For me, one cleaning/ organization method was too hard for me to adhere to. But this book helped turn the key in my lock. I like the way she writes, she touched the right notes in me, and I enjoy her blog.

[Stacey Mason · Rating 1 out of 5]

I came to this book after reading a few entertaining blog posts by Dana White, over at “ A Slob Comes Clean.” The ebook is only $5, and I needed to kill a couple of hour so I figured “why not.” I read the whole book in 30 minutes.

So I’ll save you having to read: each day involves doing the dishes and the point of the book is that there’s no magical secret to cleaning beyond doing the work and honestly assessing when the mess around you has grown to feel normal.

The prose will entertain a certain demographic, but the entirety of the book contains less information than a single well-written blog post. Self-help books often suffer from repetition and verbosity, but this book is by far the worst I’ve seen. I left offended, feeling like the book was a money-grabbing ploy.

Save your money and just read the blog; it’s more entertaining and you’ll get more out of it.

[Molli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute, simple, funny and encouraging. This is a book written by a self-professed slob, not a borderline OCD organization specialist. The instructions are self-taught from real-life, meant to build very basic, daily cleaning habits that will start to make a messy house seem more manageable. This is not a book that will tell you how to thoroughly clean and organize every inch of your home, rather, teach you where to start, how to build momentum, and what to do when feeling overwhelmed. Much of the advice goes against, or at least deviates greatly, from what popular/celebrity organizers advise, but for the stressed-out, borderline-hoarder, the approach is much more practical, though not without a good deal of elbow grease.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm embarrassed to say I needed this book, but I never felt embarrassed reading it. Dana takes the shoulds and shame out of the equation and just gives you a ridiculously short list of what to do to begin solving the problem. She's funny and real and holds your hand as you take baby steps that produce results. Giving a definition to "slob brain" and "slob vision" helped me realize that maybe I am different. Maybe cleaning comes more naturally to others than to me. That doesn't mean I don't have to do it, though. If you're dyslexic, you still need to learn how to read, even if it doesn't come as easily to you because your brain's different. We just need a different strategy to find success.

[Sandi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simple, humorous, basic advice, easy read (and yes she pegged me- read it before I did it ;) ) While the focus area or start area in this book isn't a 'crisis' spot for me, the simple routine can be applied to basic household management. The key is in the application and sticking with it, not giving up. No one else's formula or routine is going to keep your house clean. You are-one step at a time.

[Susie · Rating 3 out of 5]

An e-book I saw raved about on Pinterest... surprised that it isn't here, that's why I added it. It was 3.99 on Amazon, and it takes all of 30 minutes to read. Pretty basic stuff - common sense stuff. Maybe I'll give it more stars after 28 days :)

[Denise · Rating 5 out of 5]

She's hilarious and completely non-shaming for those of us who--by birth or by circumstance--suddenly look around our pig sty homes and ask, "How do I get out of here?!" But that subtitle is no joke. Go do the dishes.

[Stella Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book as an appendix to How To Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind (which is the only way to get your hands on this book now)
It's a short, amusing read, and while it seems overly simple if you just follow these daily steps it will have a huge impact on your home.

[Dawn (Kat N Hat) · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Nony, and her slob brain, we may have been separated at birth.

So I read the whole book in one night but plan to re-read again in the next 28 days one page at a time as she says.