Review: Good intro...then big let-down
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 3, 2014
I really liked the intro to this book- it was an antecdote from the author's childhood and I really connected with her personal story. However, when it got to the actual "here's what you do" part of the book, I read the first part and some of the second and had to stop. It just didn't fit my lifestyle and how we clean house nor did it offer any new ideas. I figured it would be a walk-through of how to organize you home then tricks to shorten cleaning time to keep it neat and tidy. However, the main idea of the first chapter, which is cleaning the living room is to go from one side of the room to the other, top to bottom in several rounds picking up trash and toys, dusting, etc. Okay, #1 I hate to dust, therefore I don't have much if anything to dust in my house and if I do, it's on a surface that won't show my neglectfulness. #2 I'm not going to drag out a bunch of cleaning supplies every week and go floor to ceiling- this is supposed to be EASY, right? Not manual labor! I really wanted to like this book and recommend it to others, but for me, it just didn't work out.