Cleaning up the Clutter: Easy Ways to Keep Your Family Organized

by Emilie Barnes

Most women feel overwhelmed as they juggle raising a family, pursuing a career, and keeping a home.  Emilie Barnes comes to the rescue in Cleaning Up the Easy Ways to Keep Your Family Happy, Healthy, and Organized. Emilie shows readers how to... Helpful organizational tools and charts add to the usefulness of Cleaning Up the Clutter.   Readers will be able to sort through the chaos to discover more hours in each day as they create a positive home environment. Formerly titled Simply Organized.

Genres: Nonfiction

176 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2004

About the author

Emilie Barnes was the bestselling author of more than 80 books, including 101 Ways to Clean Out the Clutter, Five Minutes in the Bible for Women, and 15 Minutes Alone with God. Sales of her books have surpassed 6 million copies worldwide. She and her husband, Bob, founded the More Hours in My Day time-management seminars.

Emilie’s heart was always to help others in practical ways as they managed their busy homes and lives, but even more, her beautiful spirit made a connection with readers that was both lovely and timeless. Her words remain as inspiring today as when they were first published.

Reviews

[Lori · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not sure why this book is called "Cleaning up the Clutter" when half of it is recipes. A good helpful book for homemakers, but it wasn't what I thought it would be.

[Janet · Rating 2 out of 5]

Technology has changed the way we do things now as opposed to 20 years ago when this book was written. Many of the suggestions were good for the late 1990's, but are now accomplished on the smartphone, tablet, or computer with already designed apps. There is no way to tell from the title that almost half of the book is recipes. An easy read, but not much usable for this retired grandma!

[Barbara Ab · Rating 2 out of 5]

Its target readers is women with a family. It helps to organize a lot of lists and gives advice on meals and children. I didn’t appreciate the part with recipes as it was not a necessary addition in my opinion.

[Mary Lou · Rating 1 out of 5]

NO. Much too anal to help anyone.

[Efrain Guzman-Rosario · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well, I do not suggest you get this book as an "Anniversary gift"...

[Jeanette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of ideas. Good book when you are trying to organize and improve your life and home.

[Dorena · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had a couple of tricks/ideas, but I was mire pleased with the recipes in the back.

[Marcie Lovett · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book spends more time on cooking and cleaning than organizing. Half of the book is recipes.