Great book for this time of year with tons of helpful advice whether you are looking to do a serious deep clean of your home or just get things organized for the new year. Very easy to read and easy to implement - while there are some projects that can be a huge undertaking- this book offers tons of simple ways to organize your space and clean your everyday space to make it enjoyable, clean and functional. I bookmarked a ton of pages to go back to as I get ready for 2021! Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I've been following the Clean Mama on social media for quite awhile and read her other book as well. This book talks in great detail about the process involved in having a clean home. Although it feels like I've read lots of books about organization, I still feel like this book taught me something new and encouraged me to think about my daily/weekly routine and time management. Thank you for the ARC.

I am a fierce minimalist living in a clean organized 400 square feet unlike most people today who live in McMansions and gather, hoard and collect to many belongings. I am not of that mindset and equally so I keep a very clean living space but believe there is always room for improvement. So I was happy to review this book prior to publication . Thank you to the publisher, the author and Net Galley for making this available for me to review. My opinions are my own. I highly recommend this book for everyone out there that needs assistance keeping a clean home and being organized . I truly believe that organization works and it keeps my own living space very peaceful so this book definitely speaks to everyone that wants to achieve organization and cleanliness.

The author has created a exemplary starter manual for everyone who wants to do a better job keeping their home clean and organized. She even includes cleaning receipes that I will be using from now on. I enjoyed reading about how to create a more peaceful home . The journal aspect is nice addition and very useful. I love the theory of getting rid of something that bothers you and keeping another you love. The book overall has the perfect balance of teaching in a helpful fun manner. it would be especially great for those newlyweds and young people living on their own for the first time .

"Clean Mama's Guide to a Peaceful Home" lays out a very liveable approach to whole-house organization. You can tackle one room at a time and re-think how you organize and clean, or get the whole family involved for a whole-house makeover. I love that the author includes recipes for homemade cleaning solutions (like the nightly sink scrub), and a way to make a daily habit of clearing clutter.

This book is so helpful and I appreciate it a lot! I love that this book can be for anyone with a home to maintain. Clean Mama's guide to a Peaceful Home even takes time to address the reader, and what he/she/they/them could be doing to live a more organized, peaceful life. She provides a cleaning schedule that allows you to clean in small doses throughout the week thus being a time saving strategy because you are not deep cleaning everything at the same time. I am a huge fan of Becky and I'm happy for her!

This book has changed the way I clean! Omg the tip about unloading my dishwasher in the morning is a game changer and worth the price of the book!!!! Seriously game changer of a book!

If you're new to Clean Mama, you'll find a lot of great information in this book. This combination of decluttering, organizing, and cleaning is a good resource. If you've been at this for a while and already have a system that works for you or are already familiar with the Clean Mama routines, you won't find a lot of new information here.

I enjoyed hearing about someone else’s systems and learned a bunch of tweaks to my own. Enjoyable, quick read! Thank you to the author, publisher, and Net Galley for the advance digital reader. #NetGalley #CleanMamasGuidetoaPeacefulHome

I have been following Clean Mama online and she has gotten me to actually enjoy cleaning and keeping my house. Yes I actually said that, a sort of messy disorganized person.

This book goes into a bit more detail than her blog and is in a workbook format to try and really help you figure out how best to improve your house. I would definitely buy this and use it often to help, revisit and refresh my inspiration when needed. I love her recipes for cleaning supplies, I look them up all the time - how nice to have them all right here in her book.

I can’t believe someone who was an art teacher is a cleaning expert!

Clean Mama's Guide to a Peaceful Home is a meticulously organized specific guide to creating an oasis (in this insanely upside-down world) and getting control of the everyday tasks which always seem to spiral out of control too easily (at least in my experience). Due out 29th Dec 2020 from Harper Collins on their HarperOne imprint, it's 240 pages (print version) and will be available in paperback, audio, and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately.

I've always struggled to stay organized at home. I don't seem to have the same challenges at work, but for my home life, making lists and staying on time and on task has been really challenging for most of my adult life. My pattern has been that I wind up letting some things slide, they snowball, and then the tasks seem daunting to get "caught up" and wind up taking even MORE time than if I'd stayed on top of them all along.

This book is a practical instruction manual for getting a handle on those tasks: figuring out what they are, figuring out how to perform them, breaking them down into manageable individual smaller tasks, doing them, and staying on top of them in future.

The book has a very logical and accessible layout. The introduction provides a capsule survey of why getting organized leads to less stress overall and other benefits and leads into sections: finding time and creating routines, and implementing these lists and routings in specific areas of the home.

This book is absolutely *full* of workbook samples for filling out (I recommend either printing them out from the electronic copy, or copying the standard forms from the print copy - I confess that I'm not sure how the audio format will coordinate). There are schedules and checklists for every room in the house; for meal planning, bathroom, office +paperwork, the dreaded garage/storage, vehicles, cleaning routines and tips, and a lot lot more.

The appendices contain a lot of useful recipes for cleaning products for different surfaces and a cross-referenced index. There are so many good immediately usable tips in this book that even people (like me) who need to take baby steps can find things to utilize immediately.

Five stars - maybe a little intimidating, but really solid organizational tips and routines.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

If you are like me and your entire house is in complete disarray from being stuck in it for 6+ months with your hoard of children, this is a great guide to get you started. I received a free e-book from NetGalley to review, but I'm buying this paperback so I can actually use the workbook. It's well organized by section of the house and has a wonderful system of tackling "pain points" (what drives you particularly crazy about cleaning a part of your house). In example, when my kids leave puzzles out, it drives me bonkers. Then, she has solutions on how to soothe the pain points to make the other parts of cleaning easier. A great way to organize your thoughts about organizing your house!

I didn't grow up in a home that had any sort of cleaning routines or systems in places, so I have spent a lot of time and effort teaching myself to run a home as an adult. I've tried many systems, but still, things end up spiraling out of control with two kids under five, being a caretaker for my spouse, and working from home. My systems are okay, but something just wasn't clicking.

ENTER Clean Mama's Guide to a Peaceful Home! I loved so much about this book: the journal format, the mindset of not aiming for perfect, and how Rapinchuk REALLY breaks things down to the basics. Veteran homemakers will probably find this too basic for them, but for someone who is lost and overwhelmed, this is the perfect guide! For me, it was a total reset. I was grabbing a journal and pen from the first chapter. The idea of pairing pain points and happy tasks was an "a-ha" moment for me! And I love the nightly sink scrub and bathroom quick clean method!

One anecdote: As I was reading this, I was thinking about this gold bowl on my kitchen island that catches junk. I hate that bowl. It is SUCH a pain point for me. But as I read the book I realized; junk can't go in the bowl if the bowl isn't there! Goodbye gold bowl, hello clean island!

I'm typing this from the clean and cozy home I've always wanted to maintain!

Thanks to NetGalley and HarperOne for this ARC!

I've been following Clean Mama's blog for years, enjoying the amazing photos of a clean, minimalist, and cool color scheme with the Turquoise blue microfiber cloth and appliance and calendars/to-do list pads. I was excited to find out that Clean Mama, Becky Rapinchuk, had a book of her philosophy on homekeeping, which can also be used in other facets of life, like office/business management. I appreciated the Resets, Planning, and the Zone designations so I can use this book as a reference to draw upon whenever I need to revisit an issue in managing my home and children's lives.

I highly recommend this book for lovers of housekeeping, organization, and decluttering. Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for the opportunity to read this book for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley & HarperOne for the ARC of this book.
I wasn't familiar with Clean Mama prior to reading this book, but this is very well written and incredibly detailed. If you thrive on rigid scheduling & systems then this is the book for you! But even if you don't you can pick up some good details.
One idea I like was the Pain Point tasks/Happy tasks--basically combining a task you really don't like with one you don't, to make it more palatable. Like a cookie if you finish your veggies <g>.
I do think this book really needs to be only available as a physical copy, not e-book, since there are multiple lists to fill out.

I've been a fan of the Clean Mama team for years now so when I saw a new book being release I got real excited. Their books & blog are filled with a wealth of tips on how to keep your home clean, running, and overall happy because a clean organized home really is a happy home. This book was just as great as their previous ones, with spaces to organize yourself and to build your own routine, tips on how to keep every part of your home tidy without stressing out about it & easy instructions for DIY cleaning supplies you can make yourself. This is a fantastic book to keep as reference when you're needing a reset & refresher when life is seeming to get a bit cluttered.

This book was received as an ARC from HarperOne in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

I have read so many organizational, cleanliness books and all of them say the same thing, a clean home can lead to a happy, calm, and peaceful life. This book also taught me that there is more than one way to really clean a home and to not be afraid of finding what works for you. Becky Rapinchuk gives great tips and ideas to not only make your home clean and cozy but to make the process less stressful and more fun. Rapchuk also focuses on the fact of the importance of maintaining cleanliness in your house which is key to creating less work for next time. I know our community loves books similar to this and I can't wait to hear their opinions.

We will consider adding this book to our Non-Fiction collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.

For readers who enjoyed Marie Kondo's books, and for anyone who feels overwhelmed at the prospect of keeping a home clean, organized and running smoothly, this book will be your happy place. Like the author, it is perfectly organized and gives gentle, workable suggestions for routines.