Section 2:
Inspiring Kids to clean
Section 3:
Teen Clean Machines
Section 4:
Spouses cleaning Houses

Sandra Phillips and Don Aslett's groundbreaking book to help with those hectic back-to-school schedules. A Clean Break offers timesaving principles that will keep your home clean and running smoothly! With home design ideas that reduce cleaning, and effective ways to involve kids, teens and spouses in household upkeep, A Clean Break will help you create an orderly home in a fraction of the time. If you.re tired of working 24/7 just to keep your home clean and organized, you need this book!

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This book highlights what dozens of the most successful people do to keep far away from the drips, drenches, and dousings of life in the toilet.

How do you rank on the ladder of success?

• My relationships are solid and satisfying
• I'm in sync with the legal and moral laws
• I have time to do all I want
• I'm happy with how my body looks and feels
• I don't worry about money

Implementing these ideas will lift anyone.s life to a higher level.

Maybe you've already let Don Aslett help you with housework. Now let him show you how to minimize it.

This new edition of Make Your House Do the Housework shows you how to take advantage of new work-saving products, materials and approaches to help you make your house keep itself in order.

Don Aslett and his daughter Laura offer page after page of practical, enviornmentally friendly new ideas and methods for cutting cleaning and maintenance out of your home routine, including:

• Information on new easy-care products, such as synthetic-front kitchen cabinets, easy-to-clean window treatments, new types of uses for solid countertop surfaces, low-maintenance lighting and stain-proof paint
• an expanded and updates section on flooring and how to keep it clean
• New tips on storage space

• how to stop dirt from entering your home
• what colors - for carpet, tile, flooring, upholstery, countertops, fixtures - will look clean longer
• what wallcovering and furniture will help keep kids' rooms neat and clean
• why you should never carpet your bathroom or kitchen floors
• low-maintenance features to look for in the furniture you buy
• how to have the "perfect kitchen" without moving to a new home
• and much more!

Make Your House Do the Housework includes charts that help you compare quality and durability in floor coverings, exterior finishes, windows, and other materals and equipment.

You'll also find suggestions for approaching everything from simple do-it-yourself projects to remodeling jobs of all sizes to help you turn your house, apartment or condominium into your dream home.

This book presents the radical new idea of PREVENTING HOUSEWORK!! Shows you how to take advantage of work-saving products, materials and approaches that will make your house keep itself in order. Full of ideas, suggestions, and instructions for eliminating unnecessary work-hundreds of exciting ways to redecorate, remodel, design or build cleaning and maintenance out of your home. Don Aslett and his daughter Laura offer page after page of practical, environmentally friendly new ideas and methods for minimizing home cleaning and maintenance.

We want the peace and comfort of a clean, neat home more that ever these days, but the time for accomplishing this seems to be harder and harder to come by.

What's the answer? A new approach to cleaning, for a new day.

You'll find it in these pages, and it includes all of the following, and more:

• Use time-saving professional products and techniques
• Clean everything faster, yet better
• Make the most of the time you do have to spend cleaning
• Speed-clean every room in your home
• Prevent, reduce, and ELIMINATE housework
• Make cleaning last longer
• Find ways to fit housework into a hectic modern schedule
• Get some HELP - from household members and others
• Even get the KIDS to help
• Reduce clutter to cut cleaning
• Design, build, and redecorate housework out of your house
• Banish the "guilt trips" that just add to your cleaning stress
• Like cleaning enough to get around to it

If it seems you have no time to clean, or it is getting in the way of some of the better things in life, Don.s new cleaning book offers a solution: you can prevent most of it. And do the rest of it so fast and well it will be fun. This handsome volume is chock full of tried and tested professional secrets that cut cleaning time so you can spend more time doing the things you really enjoy.

This is the handy all-in-one volume you've always wanted: the ultimate guide to the art of cleaning. Top-notch professional cleaner Don Aslett shares the secrets of the pros as he leads you through basic training - over 600 alphabetized entries dealing with specific problems, with a comptrehensive reference for everything from the anatomy of housekeeping to safe storage of cleaning chemicals and tools.

• Clean quickly with maximum results and minimum effort
• Find the best products for the job, including the top supermarket products, professional products, specialty items, mail-order sources and more
• Choose the right vacuum cleaner and get the most out of it
• Extend the life and beauty of your furniture and carpets - including a compete carpet maintenance program
• Preventy clogged drains
• Control dust
• Clean fabrics, including spot cleaning
• Enhance and preserve jewelry
• Wash windows and mirrors without streaking
• Clean painted surfaces
• Get rid of junk and clutter - it's easier than you think!
• Get help - enlist your family or hire the best professionals
• And prevent housework - tricks of the trade to save time, money, and elbow grease.

Don Aslett shares the secrets of the pros in every one of over 600 alphabetized entries that tell you how to clean just about every appliance, furnishing, and material you find in the modern home.

This amazing chart shows you the techniques and products to remove almost every stain imaginable.

In these pages Don aslett inspires and instructs you with the how, why, and WHEN of reducing the "too much" all around you - junk and clutter. Cutting clutter will also reduce that harried, helpless feeling of "too busy," and put you in control of your things and your life. Lack of time, stress, and lack of space are three of our biggest complaints today, and all of these will be immediately relieved by decluttering.

Follow the prescriptions of this DO IT NOW book and watch not just your surroundings, but your life satisfaction change drastically for the better!

If you knew that only one single thing would:

• Cure depression
• Up your self-esteem
• Make you much more efficient
• Give you more space (physical and emotional)
• Save you money
• Bring you peace and relaxation
• Help you become more spiritual
• Gain the respect and confidence of others
• Cut your cleaning time 40 percent or more
• Give you back hours - days - years worth of time (And it wouldn't cost you anything.)

Would you do it? That's what this book is about!

A jump starter for decluttering. Just reading this motivational guide will have you feeling lighter right away as Don shows how less junk leads to lower stress. Fun, inspiring, and packed with practical advice, quick techniques and easy solutions you can apply to your life immediately. Includes a field guide to the most common kinds of clutter.

With America's #1 Cleaning Expert Don Aslett at your side, you'll set forth or a de-junking journey that will transform your life as well as your house!

You'll learn how to de-clutter from the master - sifting, sorting, and getting rid of anything and everything that's junking up your life - at home and at the office.

Inside this completely revised and updated classic, you'll find:

• A Junkee Entrance Exam that rates and ranks junk problems of every kind
• "101 Feeble Excuses for Hanging Onto Junk" that are as funny as they are right-on
• Detailed guidelines for evaluating and eliminating junk - yours, mine, and ours
• Take-no-prisoner advice for de-junking and de-cluttering
• Storage strategies and solutions that really work
• And much, much more!

Clutter's Last Stand, 2nd Edition is all you need to get organized! Prepare to remake you space, be it large or small, into a serene and organized enviornment that fosters productivity, creativity, and even personal growth! All you need is this book - a little Don Aslett magic!

The book people say belongs on the shelf right beside the Bible, the book they read over and over, and give to their friends-CLUTTER.S LAST STAND. This is the bold, unique volume that first put the finger on one of the major causes of depression and inefficiency in modern life-junk and clutter! With good reason CLUTTER.S LAST STAND has been called .the book that convinces you to declutter.. With a nonstop sense of humor and hundreds of hilarious illustrations, it lays out the case for dejunking, dramatically demonstrating how clutter invades and affects every area of our homes and lives.

Writing, wanting to write more and always wanting to write better is your goal - your dream. There's no good reason you should be stopped fom reaching it.

But the phone's ringing, dishes are stacked in the sink, laundry's in the dryer, and your desk is barely visible under a pile of birthday cards to be sent out and bills to be paid. How, and where, can you find the time to write? Clearing out the clutter in your creative jungle is what you need to do, and here's some expert help to get you writing again right now. Don Aslett, author of twenty-eight organization books that have sold millions of copies worldwide, and Carol Cartaino, editor and author for thirty-plus years, have compled their best methods and strategies for getting started, staying organized and creating a writing program that will work for you - no matter what!

Being creative isn't license for a laissez-faire life; you need a plan for success. You'll find one as soon as you open this book: "Hope and intentions won't do; organization will." Help yourself with the coaching and insight you need to overcome the hurdles that keep you from writing.

• Trouble with time management and prioritizing?
• Not sure of what tools you need to do the job?
• Difficulties in getting started and staying motivated?
• Worried about how to market your work once it's complete?

These are just a few of the areas for which you'll find real solutions inside. You'll learn to change the way you think about writing and, more important, how you go about writing and getting published. Today is the day to start the turn-around; regardless of what kind of writing you do, this book will immediately improve your work.

A guide for those who have wanted to write, but have never managed to get started. Blast away procrastination with strategies to put you firmly on the path to being published.

You've thought about writing a book, dreamed about it. Here's all you need now to get YOUR book off the "to do someday" list and into reality!

The author, Don Aslett, has forty published books, many of them bestsellers. He didn't start writing books until he was in his forties, and he's a professional cleaner by trade. He is living proof that you don't have to be an English major or full-time writer to write books that succeed!

Here Don tells you, in his highly readable style, how to do it, step by step, the easy way. He shares all the secrets he's leared in more that twenty years on the front lines of writing and selling books, including:

• The critical first step: picking a winning subject.
• How to write and publish a book within your budget
• How to get your book written without quiting your day job
• Finding titles that catch reader...and editors.
• Book material collecting strategies that will silence that fear in back of your mind: "But how can I fill up a whole book?"
• Making the big choice: publish with a publisher or self-publish?
• An insider's guide to book contracts.
• A short course in self-publishing (and avoiding the common mistakes of self-publishers).
• How to create a book that looks as good as it reads: illustration and design.
• Master of the media's secret of promoting and selling your book.