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This best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing.

Literal-minded Amelia Bedelia does household chores and gets dinner ready.

"The information in this booklet is taken primarily from the "Rehabilitation Techniques in Homemaking Class" presented by Ms. Julia Judson at Colorado State University. This useful information is compiled in a way that it is hoped will be helpful to anyone helping handicapped people to become more independent."--Introduction.

"After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she'd make of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer, her world is suddenly awash in possibility--no mean feat for a servant in 1884. In 1985, Bailey Camden is desperate for new opportunities. Two generations...

There are eight of us to move at will. We protect our king from any ill. What are we? Open a window into the mind-bending world of riddles with this wonderful collection. Containing over 60 riddles, logic puzzles, tongue-twisters and silly puns, this book will leave young readers much to puzzle over. Each page features cute cartoon illustrations, which may point to the solution... ABOUT THE SERIES: Riddle Me This is packed full of clever riddles...

Francine Jay pioneered the simple living movement with her self-published bestseller,The Joy of Less. In this fully redesigned and repackaged edition-featuring never-before- seen content-Jay brings her philosophy to more readers who are eager to declutter. Rather than the "crash diet" approach found in other tidying up books, Jay shares simple steps to cultivate a minimalist mindset and form new habits, paving the way to lasting success. Her easy-to-follow...

"From the immensely popular blogger behind Little House Living comes a motivational homemaking book, inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, featuring creative, fun ways to live your life simply and frugally"--Book jacket.

After their mother sets up a new list of household chores for them to do, Sophie and her siblings argue about housekeeping and finally go on strike.

"From the authors of The New York Times bestseller The Home Edit and The Home Edit Life and hosts of the Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit, comes a guide to the most important phase of getting organized: staying that way. It's one thing to get organized, but how do you make those systems stick? The Home Edit Stay Organized takes the intimidation and hesitation out of the maintenance involved to prevent you from abandoning your once-tidied...