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The Cleaning Ninja: How to Clean Your Home in 8 Minutes Flat and Other Clever Housekeeping Techniques | Courtenay Hartford
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Imagine having your house clean in eight minutes flat. Yes, it is possible! Courtenay Hartford is all about working smarter, not harder. She shows readers how to get their homes that kind of sparkly clean that theyve only dreamed about and do it with time leftover for all the real life-living that you want to do. Courtenays tips and tricks help readers make their lives easier with clever shortcuts and daily, monthly and super-mega all-inclusive deep cleaning checklists. These tips help with actual real-life cleaning situations that you face everyday like how to rescue a messy house in 8 minutes flat (hint: there are only a few surfaces in your house that really matter here!) as well as which steps in your laundry routine you really can skip to make tackling Mount Dirtyclothes so much speedier and that you really dont need most of the cleaning products in your cupboard. Tackle your toughest cleaning jobs in some of the dirtiest rooms in your home with quick, helpful, realistic tips with this fun, easy-to-read guide.
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Lizpixie
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A bigger shot of the library plus the two loungeroom bookcases. It‘s such a great feeling to have it clean. I‘ve told @Ciara_Rosey she needs to start her own business doing organising & cleaning, her near OCD skills are phenomenal!

marleed It looks great! 2y
Ruthiella Beautiful! 😍 2y
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Lizpixie
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Day10 of The Great Library Clean and we are DONE!! Finally. It looks and feels so good now, no clutter, no dust, no books jammed onto shelves wherever I could find room. And you can see the floor! I ended up culling 3 large tubs plus four bags of books and another bag my daughter took and a whole trailer full of rubbish went to the tip. Without @Ciara_Rosey I would‘nt have managed it, she‘s an absolute organising Angel. Love her so much❤️

Blackink_WhitePaper Wow 🤩 😍😻 looks amazing 2y
AmyG Wow! I want to come visit and check out all those books! 2y
TheAromaofBooks I'm always amazed, whenever I do any kind of clean-out, how much TRASH I find! I cleaned out the junk drawer and threw away multiple pieces of literal trash! Why did I put it in the drawer to start with!? The human mind is a mysterious thing 😂 Your new library looks gorgeous - I hope you have lots of down time coming up so you can enjoy the fruits of your labor!!! 2y
Lizpixie @Blackink_WhitePaper thank you! @AmyG anytime lovely🤗 @TheAromaofBooks I know right? The daughter was finding stuff, looking at me and saying “what the hell were you keeping this for??” I‘m SO grateful for her, it would‘ve stayed like that till I died without her help. Believe me, I‘m enjoying the hell out of it😍😍😍 2y
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Lizpixie
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Before & After! Day9😱of The Great Library Clean and we only have one more genre of my TBR to sort & we are done🎉🎉🎉Only problem? That one bare shelf is the only space I have left & there‘s currently 6 knee high stacks of crime/thriller on the floor.Whoops. Guess who‘ll be trying to talk the hubby into another bookcase🙋🏻‍♀️

AmyG Looks great! What a difference. 2y
TheAromaofBooks You deserve one after all this hard work!! 2y
TrishB Looks lovely ❤️ 2y
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marleed Look at you go! 2y
KristiAhlers I love your space! 2y
Avanders Looks amazing! 🤩 2y
Simona Looks beautiful and calming❣️ 2y
BarbaraBB Love this 😍 2y
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Lizpixie
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End of Day8😳of The Great Library Clean & we have my special editions, series & just pretty books organised and on shelves. And we have half of my #MountTBRShelvesOfDoom dusted & sorted into genres. I decided on genre then alphabetical for the TBR books to make it easier for my mood reading. Probably another day, maybe a half again and it will be done! And I will NEVER let it get this out of hand again🤦🏻‍♀️ #itsnothoardingifitsbooks📚📚📚📚📚

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Looking good Liz! 📚 2y
TheAromaofBooks It's looking amazing!!! You have so many gorgeous editions!!! 2y
MaureenMc 👏👏👏 2y
marleed Gorgeous! 2y
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Lizpixie
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End of Day6 of The Great Library Clean and my Read books are done!!🎉🎉🎉Plus my Potterverse⚡️shelves(3 of them now😱)& my Dame Agatha shelf. Woot woot✨ Now it‘s onto my Classics, Kids & Middlegrade, then we get to tackle my #MountTBRShelvesOfDoom😬😬😬😬

Cinfhen OMG!!! UH.MAY.ZING 😍🎊🙌🏻 2y
Clwojick I love how bright your walls are! 💛 2y
julesG 😍😍😍 Amazing job. 2y
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SeaToSkyes #librarygoals 😍😍😍 2y
Lizpixie @Cinfhen Thanks lovely!😘 @Clwojick I wanted it to feel bright & sunny in here, the window faces west so in the afternoons it‘s so warm & comfy☀️ @julesG the daughter is one in a million for sure, she deserves all the credit @SeaToSkyes 🥰😘❤️ 2y
TheAromaofBooks Such a wonderful feeling!!! I love it!!! 2y
Soubhiville I love the color! What a way to make a cheery space. 2y
Lizpixie @TheAromaofBooks me too! It feels so much more calm in here now, and I‘m not sitting here fretting about how on earth I‘m gonna clean it all! @Soubhiville thanks! I tried to go for the brightest yellow I could find, it turned out great💛💛💛 2y
AmyG Wow! They look amazing. 2y
PageShifter Wow, great work! 2y
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Lizpixie
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End of Day5 of The Great Library Clean(the daughter had to leave early)and I have 3 tubs of books to go to Little Free Libraries, 2 stacks to go to my father & the daughter took home a full tote bag. And we‘re still not even finished the Read books, there‘s also two large bookcases of TBR books that are double stacked & 4 stacks on the floor. I‘m having a book crisis!! #itsnothoardingifitsbooksitsnothoardingifitsbooks

Ruthiella You are making good progress! 👍 2y
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Lizpixie
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Lunch break of Day4 of The Great Library Clean & we have two culled & clean bookcases! With two full cartons of books to give away already🙌 My daughter is being ruthless so I‘m trying really hard to let go but god it‘s hard😢Now we‘re onto the library shelves😱

TheBookHippie I just did this! It feels really good when it‘s all done. ♥️ 2y
Ddzmini I couldn‘t … and yet I should at least get rid of the books I have 2 of 🤦🏼‍♀️ I have a couple of little libraries that will get those 2y
TheAromaofBooks I just wish I lived next door to you so I could be sorting through the books in your giveaway box! 😂 2y
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Lizpixie
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Moving into Day4 of The Great Library Clean & am soooo grateful for my daughters near ocd organisational skills! I knew that because of my illness things had been accumulating but I didn‘t realise how bad it had gotten till now. At least it‘s all organised and we are finally on the books. Wish me luck!🍀

slategreyskies Best of luck! You‘ve got this!! :) 2y
TheBookHippie 🎉🤞🏻 2y
LeahBergen It‘s looking good! You‘ll be so pleased when it‘s all set to rights again. 😊 2y
MaureenMc 👏👍👏 2y
Ddzmini Good luck hope your better 🤗📖 2y
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erinreads
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I had to come into the office today because I‘m getting a new work laptop and had to move some stuff off my desktop and I decided to clean my very cluttered desk while I was here as well. And look what I found! I thought I had lost this bookmark to some random book on my shelf or one I had given away, but here it is! The magic of a clean desk! 🙌🏻

Reagan That bookmark is amazing! Where did you get it? 4y
erinreads @Reagan I got it off Etsy maybe like 5 years ago? 4y
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Reggie Lolololol 4y
MyNamesParadise Lol, love it!! 4y
Reagan @erinreads thank you! 4y
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Moony
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Panpan

Mhh. The eight steps are very simple and only few pages of the book. The rest are tipps for Grooming. Many tipps are very simple...

Moony @julesG I like the book by Marla Cilly. She is a little bit crazy like Marie Kondo but the method is good and helpful. 5y
julesG Interesting and stacked. Here's to hoping that my flat will be less cluttered and more clean in the future. 😉 5y
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Moony
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Good morning littens! For me the saturday begin with an audiobook and cerials. Than I have to go shopping and cleaning the flat. I hope my looong To-Do-List will get smaller.
While doing all this thing I'll hear Audiobooks for #24B4Monday

I borrow all my audiobooks. #onleihe

Have a great day!

julesG I need!!! to know whether speed cleaning works. 6y
Moony @julesG yes I'll tell you! 6y
julesG Truly appreciate it. Marie Kondo didn't really help with uncluttering, nor cleaning (autocorrect made Kondom out of her name 😂😂😂) 6y
Moony @julesG 😂😂😂😂🤣 yes I like the system by kondo for clearance of junk but not for cleaning the house. 6y
julesG I don't like Kondo's approach to "decluttering books" - she's Japanese, she should know the art of Tsundoku. 6y
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BookFreakOut
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These ex-library books each had 2-3 stickers but now I can‘t even tell. Picked them off w/fingernails, then used Goo Gone wipes to get stickiness loose. These wipes feel dried out, but they‘re not, which is perfect for books where you don‘t want to unleash more greasy cleaner than necessary. Used a combo of standard cleaning wipe, damp paper towel & dry paper towel to get Goo Gone residue off. Worked on glossy and softer texture covers!

ThatBookishGal How did I not know about goo gone wipes?? 6y
MarriedtoMrT @ThatBookishGal I was thinking the same thing! 6y
BookFreakOut @MarriedtoMrT @ThatBookishGal I didn‘t know about them until I complained to my mom about how greasy and wet the spray was and she got me these! Fact: All good things in my life come from my mom. 😄 6y
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Cortg
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Thursday morning I woke up and decided to clean the storage room. Working counter clockwise I finished at the door to boxes of books for the LFL. After a stop at Goodwill, I busted a move to Ikea for a bookshelf. After assembling the bookshelf, I decided I should paint the wall & trim before mounting. After the paint dried, I got the bookshelf all set up. Whew. Now I need to paint the other 3 walls!

BookMaven407 Way to get it done! 🙌 6y
Eggs You are on fire 🔥 6y
[DELETED] 3803335244 Have you ever read, If you give a mouse a cookie? Because that is you, only your title would be, If you give a booklover a bookcase! Lol 😂 6y
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jbhops @ForeverNerdy 😂yes! 6y
Cortg @ForeverNerdy Yes! That sums up the project perfectly! 6y
Cortg @BookMaven407 @Eggs @ForeverNerdy @jbhops All or nothing! I have to say, it feels good to get things accomplished! 6y
AceOnRoam Good days work. I'm very impressed. 6y
Cortg @AceOnRoam Thanks! It‘s good to feel accomplished some days! 6y
AceOnRoam I have a grand plan each night when I go to bed, but then just spend the day reading... and eating 🙂 6y
Cortg @AceOnRoam That‘s a great plan. I would love to have a day to read and eat (though I eat pretty much all the time!) I‘ve read a total of 4 pages since people (family) walked in the door and continuously, I mean CONTINUOUSLY, talk to me, 2 hours now 😞 6y
AceOnRoam Oh dear @Cortg that's hard. I'm retired so it's easier for me to do nothing but read, but yesterday I had a marina bbq to attend and I just couldn't stop thinking about whether or not to continue reading The Blind Assassin or to bail. They were all talking and I was smiling, nodding and pretending to listen 😂😂 6y
AceOnRoam I hope you get some reading time tomorrow to make up for it 📖 6y
Cortg @AceOnRoam I hope so! I have to read at least 40 pages/day to finish before vacay b/c I‘m not taking any physical books, just my kindle! I‘m determined! 6y
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