No Time to Clean: How to Reduce and Prevent Cleaning the Professional Way

by Don Aslett

Book Overview

Experts say Americans spend an average of five years of their lives cleaning and maintaining their households. That's a lot of time, and that's why Don Aslett wrote this new book. In it, he provides... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937750220
• ISBN13: 9780937750223
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Don Aslett's Cleaning
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.9"

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Highly recommended if you want to clean faster, better, and cheaper!

Don Aslett is THE guru when it comes to cleaning. His books on cleaning, time management and "decluttering" are as enormously popular as they are entertaining and educational. (I also really like his books on other topics too). "No Time To Clean! How To Reduce & Prevent Cleaning The Professional Way" is Aslett's new approach to cleaning for a new day. The book is written in Aslett's easy to read and entertaining style and is accompanied by the artwork many of his texts are know for. I personally find the style, layout, and artwork enhance the reading experience, but make no mistake about it; Aslett's books contain a lot of meat with that sizzle. His down home practical advice is right to the point. This book on cleaning is just under 200 pages long and contains 10 chapters. They include: Intro: No Time To Clean! Aslett knows you don't have time to clean, so he points out that he will show you how to prevent cleaning as well as other strategies to solve your "no time to clean" worries. One: Modern Cleaning's Biggest Mystery: The Time to Do It. Three page chapter with the focus of if you are cleaning more than a couple of hours a week, you are cleaning too much or inefficiently. Quick motivation to get started now! Two: Adjusting Our Standards and Schedules. If it isn't dirty, don't clean it. Among the great tips in this chapter include advice on how clean things really need to be and how to set standards rather than cleaning by charts or schedules. Three: Cleaning on the Run. Aslett shares some "whys" regarding cleaning and some tips on doing things before they become bigger. You might also be surprised at what you can get done in a very short amount of time, and the chapter shows you how to clean faster and ways to make things stay clean longer. Four: The Best Way of All to Cut Cleaning: Prevent It! This chapter is all about preventing those down-the-road problems. Aslett provides some great suggestions on how to do just that. Five: Too Much = Too Much Time Cleaning. Aslett is known for getting rid of junk. This is a very short chapter because he focuses on this topic in several other books. "Clutter's Last Stand" and his other clutter books are great if you need more help with clutter. Six: Do Your Housework With a Hammer. This is an interesting chapter on designing your house, or parts of it, to make it easier to clean. Seven: Other Hands That Can Help. If you are going to hire others to help you clean, you will benefit from reading this chapter first. Aslett provides some good advice regarding getting others to help with your cleaning needs. Eight: The Big One: Getting Kids to Help Clean. Aslett suggests this might be the most important topic in the book. Besides the help you get cleaning your home, it will help young people late in life. He has some very good suggestions for getting kids to help out. Nine: Quick Cleaning Room by Room. Tips and strategies for cleaning every room in th

Good Advice for Streamlining Housework

"...cleaning is a necessity, but for most it remains a hard sell."(page 19, @2000 Marsh Creek Press) I have never enjoyed cleaning. Not that I hate it intrinsically, I just hate the time it takes away from more fulfilling activities. I have read several of Aslett's books and I enjoy his enthusiasm, his desire to motivate, and his honesty that some parts of cleaning are just hard work. There is a peace of mind benefit to having a clean, organized environment. Throughout "No Time to Clean" the author advises; preventing cleaning with good habits and good materials, lowering your standards if they are too perfectionistic, including the kids in cleaning, and not rotely cleaning what is already clean. The books real strengths are the suggestions on getting kids involved in housework and on detailing the types of cleaning products and their uses, so you are buying fewer products that are doing more of the work for you. Aslett is a public speaker and it shows in his peppy writing style. There are a lot of motivating asides and due to the illustrations you can easily flip to the part you need. If you are looking to streamline the tedium of housework, this is a good book to have in your home libary.

A bible for cleaning

Easy to read, straightforward, and illustrated well. This is a must have for every household. It's also very inspiring. I've used the techniques in the book to really reduce the cleaning time in my home. I've read a lot of Aslett books and they are great. Literature? No. But if you want to get stuff done, keep it clean, and do it quickly - he's the guy to follow.