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Your Home: clean, calm, peaceful, zen-like tranquility, it’s every busy moms dream. Stephanie O’Dea has given us a book that attempts to help us all achieve our dream. Totally Together is a book of down-to-earth, easily achievable tips for streamlining your daily routine, combined with a dated journal containing suggestions to keep you on track.
Spiral bound, slim and small enough to fit in a bag, it’s perfect for everyday use. The calendar in the back contains tips and reminders to help you get and keep your home and yourself “company ready” in thirty minutes. By providing a daily 7 checklist to help keep your home tidy, these are the 7 chores that anyone in the family can do in just minutes. You will also find a holiday checklist containing tips and to-do’s spaced at manageable intervals, specifically designed to help you have the most relaxing and enjoyable holiday possible. Also included are helpful reproducible forms such as: a grocery list, meal planning chart with a sample meal plan, quick to prepare recipes, chores for each season, month, week and day, all broken down into easily do-able chunks.
Totally Together is basically an action plan designed to help you keep your household on track and company ready in 30 minutes or less. If you, like me, struggle with keeping your home tidy and clutter-free, you won’t be disappointed with the tips presented throughout the book and planner. My favorite? Her suggestion to wipe down the bathroom every evening as your child bathes, using their dirty t-shirt to wipe up the floor around and inside the tub after they finish. Quick, simple and extremely do-able – Now why didn’t I think of that?
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About the book:
Title: Totally Together: Shortcuts to an Organized Life
Author: Stephanie O’Dea
Publisher: Berkley Trade Paperback Original
ISBN: 978-0-425-24162-9
SRP: $15.00
TOTALLY TOGETHER (Berkley Trade Paperback; August 2, 2011; $15.00) is the indispensable guide to organizing a busy household so anyone can have a tidy and tranquil home in just minutes a day. New York Times bestselling author and popular mommy blogger Stephanie O’Dea provides a practical, how-to guide in a weekly calendar format to make home organization and time management a snap.
Stephanie has developed the “clean less, play more” method, which allows you to fly through all the chores and minutiae in minutes a day so you can move on to what you really want to do: spend time with family and enjoy living life. Using a weekly organizational planner format, Stephanie spells out exactly what chores are essential and how they should be tackled to maximize time and minimize effort including:
• Seven daily chores that anyone in the family can do in just minutes
• Yearly, seasonally, monthly, and weekly chores divided into bite-sized chunks
• Household tips and cleaning shortcuts
• Guide for setting up meal plans
• Fun, fast recipes
• Reproducible grocery list with check boxes
• An action plan for keeping the entire family organized
• And much more!
Stephanie’s book is ideal for both working and stay at home moms and even those with no children who want an organized home but don’t want or have the time to spend hours cleaning.
About the Author:
Stephanie O’Dea is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning blogger, and mother of three. Before becoming an author, Stephanie ran preschool centers for underprivileged kids. She has appeared on “The Rachael Ray Show” and “Good Morning America” and has been featured in publications such as Real Simple, Woman’s World, Prevention, the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly. For more information on Stephanie and her organizing tips, visit her websites at Stephanie O’Dea, Totally Together Journal, her facebook page set up and maintained by a fan and twitter @stephanieodea.
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