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HGTV Magazine is about real life at home. In every issue you'll find money-saving mini makeovers, simple ways to conquer clutter, smart DIY solutions, time-saving cleaning tricks, and so much more. Plus--see how the HGTV experts really live!

2) Good Housekeeping

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Good Housekeeping

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Good Housekeeping - Home of the Good Housekeeping Seal and your best source for saving time, money, and hassle.

3) Family Handyman

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Family Handyman

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When it comes to home improvement, you need information you can trust. Inside each issue of The Family Handyman, you’ll find see-and-solve expert repair techniques, a variety of projects for every room and step-by-step, do-it-yourself photos.

4) Country Living

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Country Living

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Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print, Playaway

Rooms that invite you to linger. Vintage collectibles displayed with love. A colorful easy-care garden. A porch that says "Come sit!" All yours in the pages of Country Living!

5) The life-changing magic of tidying up: the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing

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Kondō, Marie

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

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.

6) One year to an organized life: from your closets to your finances, the week-by-week guide to getting completely organized for good

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Leeds, Regina

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Offers tips and ideas for organizing each room of the house in a week-by-week guide that focuses on large and small projects, including creating routines, preparing for holiday guests, and cleaning out storage spaces.

7) Let it go: downsizing your way to a richer, happier life

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Walsh, Peter

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The need to downsize often arises at a momentous life change, whether you're an empty nester, a newlywed blending households, or cleaning out your parents' property after they've moved into assisted living. Walsh knows that making decisions about mementos and heirlooms creates strong emotions and sometimes sibling rivalries. But he believes it should be a freeing, rejuvenating process. Here he presents tips and practical takeaways to help you identify...

8) The buy nothing, get everything plan: discover the joy of spending less, sharing more, and living generously

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Clark, Liesl

Pub. Date

2020.

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In 2013, Clark and Rockefeller discovered that the beaches of their community in Puget Sound were spoiled by a daily influx of plastic items and trash washing on shore. They launched the first Buy Nothing Project group, and developed an environmentally conscious program to buy less, give more, and live generously. They share their program to help you declutter your home without filling landfills, shop more thoughtfully and discerningly, and let go...

9) Martha Stewart's very good things: clever tips & genius ideas for an easier, more enjoyable life

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Stewart, Martha

Pub. Date

2021.

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

"Hundreds of clever tips, solutions, and easy ways to elevate every day, from America's most trusted lifestyle authority, in one must-have handbook"--

10) The secret history of home economics: how trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live

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Dreilinger, Danielle

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"The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken cakes. But obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists,...

11) Country living simple country wisdom: 501 old-fashioned ideas to simplify your life

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Waggoner, Susan

Pub. Date

c2009

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224 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

12) Marie Kondo's kurashi at home: how to organize your space and achieve your ideal life

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Kondō, Marie

Pub. Date

[2022]

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223 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

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"From the #1 bestselling sensation and Netflix star comes her guide to designing not just the home-but the life-of your dreams, fully illustrated with more than 200 photographs from inside the Marie Kondo lifestyle"-- Kondo encourages you to visualize your ideal life, from the moment you wake up until the end of each day. This mental picture becomes a touchpoint for helping you make conscious, mindful choices: from how you use every corner of your...

13) Simply living well: a guide to creating a natural, low-waste home

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Watkins, Julia

Pub. Date

2020.

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Book, eBook

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For every area of your household, Watkins shows you how to eliminate wasteful packaging, harmful ingredients, and disposable items. Practical checklists outline easy swaps and sustainable upgrades for common household tools and products. Watkins also shares rituals, recipes, and projects for living simply and sustainably at home. -- adapted from back cover

14) Martha Stewart living

Pub. Date

1990

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v. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.

15) Haley's hints green edition

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Haley, Graham

Pub. Date

2009

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224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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The "New York Times"-bestselling author team returns with a budget-friendly, time-saving collection of Earth-friendly tips and ideas to apply around the house.

16) Real simple: 869 new uses for old things

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c2010

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192 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

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From accordion folders to zippered plastic bags, this book provides useful ideas for using common household objects in new and interesting ways.

17) CraftFail: when homemade goes horribly wrong

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Mann, Heather

Pub. Date

[2014]

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169 pages : color illustrations ; 17 x 19 cm.

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"Celebrates the creative process, but from the other side. This is the stuff that gets the A for Effort and LOL for outcome. But once the laughter dies down, it also inspires a warm feel-good respect for crafters who aren't afraid to fail. After all, even if there's not a mortal alive except Martha who can make a waxed heart worthy of hanging in your window to catch the sun, why shouldn't many try?"--Amazon.com.

18) Mrs. Meyer's clean home: no-nonsense advice that will inspire you to clean like the dickens

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Meyer, Thelma

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When Thelma Meyer tells it to you, she tells it straight: Clean the kitchen daily! Don't waste anything (not even the water leftover from those potatoes you just boiled)! Always work hard! This philosophy meant that when Thelma's daughter Monica founded Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day products (named after her mom), the products were designed to work hard for you.
Now for the first time, Thelma's sage advice is being made available in this revolutionary...

19) The useful book: 201 life skills they used to teach in home ec and shop

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Bowers, Sharon

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"A modern and energetically designed encyclopedia of DIY with everything you need to know to roll up your sleeves and cook it, build it, sew it, clean it, or repair it yourself. In other words, everything you would have learned from your shop and home ec teachers, if you had them. Features practical projects and how-tos, with step-by-step instructions and illustrations, relevant charts, sidebars, lists, and handy toolboxes. There's a kitchen crash...

20) Little house living: the make-your-own guide to a frugal, simple, and self-sufficient life

Author

Alink, Merissa

Pub. Date

[2015]

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xi, 306 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

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