The House That Cleans Itself: Creative Solutions for a Clean and Orderly House in Less Time Than You Can Imagine [Paperback]

Mindy Starns Clark (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2007

The House That Cleans Itself is a true housekeeping guide for the housekeeping-impaired! It boldly takes on the reasons behind chronic messiness and why ordinary home-organization books won't work. Using the methods of "horizontal thinking," this book teaches readers how to set up a home so efficiently and logically that it seems to clean itself.

More than a how-to book, The House That Cleans Itself also looks at what God has to say about cleanliness and order, and how He can inspire order in every reader's life in a fresh and unique way. For added fun, some of the tips Mindy uses come from research for her popular novels, The Trouble with Tulip, Blind Dates Can Be Murder, and Elementary, My Dear Watkins.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Mindy Starns Clark is the author of many books, which include the popular Smart Chick Mysteries, Whispers of the Bayou, Shadows of Lancaster County, and Under the Cajun Moon. In addition, Mindy's plays and musicals have been featured in schools and churches across the United States.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (June 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736918809
• ISBN-13: 978-0736918800
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,234 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mindy Starns Clark is the author of many books, which include the popular Smart Chick Mysteries and Whispers of the Bayou. In addition, Mindy's plays and musicals have been featured in schools and churches across the United States.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 48 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A Little Complicated for the Cleaning Impaired September 24, 2007

By whitewave VINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

This book is aimed at people who are cleaning impaired. As someone who struggles with keeping a clean house I knew this book was written for someone like me. I really enjoyed the cleaning tips and especially liked the embarrassing house cleaning stories at the end of each chapter.

However, I do think it is a little complicated of a system for someone who really struggles with keeping a house clean. I personally like Flylady's (Marla Cilley) plan for helping the cleaning impaired as it keeps things simple and helps you to start a small foundation and build upon it until you find your house is running itself. This system starts out with the big picture first and it was too overwhelming to even think about doing all the planning and work it required.

The book was worth reading and it did include useful information on cleaning a house (and keeping it clean).

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensible solutions for the organzationally impaired. January 1, 2008

By L. Boatfield

Format:Paperback

This book makes sensible suggestions that you wish you'd thought of yourself. Thank goodness for the only book that has ever made a difference in my house, and I have a stack of them! The author recommends changing the set-up of your house BEFORE you change your behavior. She further proposes that if you could change your behavior when it comes to organzation and cleaning, that you wouldn't need her book. I highly recommend this for anyone who is drowning and in despair over the state of their house. If you've been embarrassed when someone dropped by unexpectedly, this is the guide for you. Dive in and change your life!

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars For the Housekeeping-Challenged November 30, 2007

By Lee Bostwick

Format:Paperback

Mindy Starns Clark is one smart chick - she's the gifted author of a series of inspirational mysteries and a Christian wife and mother. The Trouble with Tulip (Smart Chick Mysteries, Book 1) She's also one of us "creative types". Like me, Mindy was born "housekeeping-challenged".

This book is geared toward women who do not naturally know how to clean a house. We are hard-working and well-intentioned, but we wok ourselves into a frenzy and the house is still not good enough. If this sounds like you, then buy this book. Mindy will help you analyze what you are doing and re-learn it, step by step. She teaches you how to work smarter instead of harder (you're probably already working hard enough). You will learn to how to keep your house good enough all the time, instead of "very nice" once a month. This book will help you relax and find peace with your own personality. And most importantly, Mindy emphasizes that having a daily relationship with God is the only way to start - because unless the Lord builds a house, they labor in vain that build it... even a house that cleans itself!