When life happens, an Insta-worthy organized closet is not worth striving for…but, your home can still be your soft place to land. Karissa Barker (@karissaathome) loves to pore over aesthetic home organization and décor books. But to be perfectly honest, none have ever given her the tools to change the way things work in her home. Most are little more than a motivational speech with pretty pictures. When she was new to keeping house and life got extra busy or overwhelming, she wished she had someone to hold her hand and give her not just a visual guide, but habits and strategies for a better, easier path to an organized home. After years of experimentation and finding out what works, Karissa offers just that in The Home Reset. This indispensable guide collects the essential strategies and skills you can rely on to make any space—apartment, condo, or house—cleaner and better organized on a daily basis. Moving through each key room or space, Karissa outlines everything that even the busiest of families can do, always starting with key resets and then exploring the habits and techniques for that space: Kitchen and Dining: Short and long resets, how to join the clean sink club, countertop strategies, how to involve kids, creating easy cleaning stations, considering organization and flow, eliminating clutter, how to clean countertops based on material, how to clean flooring, tips for dishes/pots/pans, creating storage in challenging spaces Living Room: Full living room reset and nightly resets, key habits to keep the living room livable, toy management and storage, functional furniture, special items (remotes, books, etc.) and storage, how to clean carpets and rugs, how to clean couches and chairs, how to keep ceiling fans (and lights) clean Bedroom: Morning and quick resets, habit stacking in the bedroom, creating organization systems that work based on your closet considerations, how to wash bedding and mattresses, how to make a bed, how to fold clothes, a closet reset, how to maximize space in a small closet, closet systems, closet habits Bathroom: Quick reset and nightly reset, habits for wiping and clearing, how to involve kids in the clean bathroom battle, caddies and undersink storage systems, special section on kids' toys, makeup and personal care storage, how to organize toiletries, how to clean showers and baths, disinfecting vs. cleaning Entry Spaces: Quick and weekly resets, habits for shoes/keys/entry objects, shoe and coat storage with and without a closet, considering entry flow, mail storage, backpacks and special considerations, how to rotate clothes and shoes Laundry and the Laundry Room: The laundry room reset (or the laundry space reset depending on your area), habits to keep laundry from taking over, key products and items for doing laundry, laundry basket options, weekly strategies, how to clean the washer and dryer, DIY laundry detergent recipe, stain removal guide, how to wash different items Kids’ Spaces: Resets for parents and kids, helping kids create habits for a cleaner room, morning and nightly routines, creative toy storage, bedding options, cleaning up kid-centric messes, toy rotation, problem areas, how to clean and sanitize toys Additionally, you’ll find a chapter of core skills, hacks, and tips for extra-challenging seasons of life. And a robust appendix, complete with many of Karissa’s popular checklists and printables, provide reusable material week after week. So ditch the frustration and jump in with a home reset!

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The Home Reset is a digestible, room-by-room guide to cleaning and organizing—with realistic expectations and a sense of humor.

Shares tips, techniques, and shortcuts to using the iPhone 5, covering such topics as synching, using Siri, and configuring the phone.

Master the skills and knowledge to plan and execute a deployment of iPads that will suit your school and your classroom. This book helps you evaluate your various options for deploying iPads—from configuring the tablets manually, through using Apple Configurator for imaging tablets, to subscribing to the heavy-duty Apple School Manager web service—and then shows you how to put your chosen approach into practice. Step-by-step instructions and practical examples walk you through the key questions you need to answer to get the most from your IT investment and then show you how to turn your decisions into deeds. The iPad is a wonderful device for helping students to study more comfortably and learn more quickly. Apple’s popular tablet enables you to put in each student’s hands a full-power computer that enables her to access resources both on the school’s network and on the Internet; communicate via email, instant messaging, and video chat; and create digital content that she can submit effortlessly to your online marking system. Students love using the iPad—perhaps even more than teachers do! What You'll Learn Plan your iPad deployment and choose the right iPad models, accessories, and apps Image, configure, and deploy iPads in your classroom Review tips, tricks, and techniques for managing iPads and keeping your digital classroom running smoothly Who This Book Is For Teachers and IT administrators at schools or colleges, and administrators and organizers in other bodies that need to deploy iPads en masse to conference attendees or hotel visitors

The perennial iPod and iTunes bestseller returns—completely updated! The popularity of iPods is not slowing down—so you need to keep up! Now in its eighth edition, iPod & iTunes For Dummies is the ideal companion for getting started with the iPod and Apple’s iTunes service. Bestselling veteran author Tony Bove helps you get comfortable with using the iPod as more than just a digital music player. You’ll learn to shop at the iTunes store, surf the Web, rent movies, buy songs, send and receive e-mail, get directions, check finances, organize and share photos, watch videos, and much more. Plus, the new and expanded content touches on the latest iPod models, including the iPod classic, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPod touch, and the newest version of iTunes. Serves as the latest edition in the bestselling lineage of a helpful, easy-to-understand guide to the iPod and iTunes Offers straightforward coverage of using your iPod as the ultimate digital music player and shows you how buy and download songs from iTunes, create playlists, share content from your iTunes library, burn CDs from iTunes, play music through your home or car stereo, and more Details how to import music, videos, audiobooks, and podcasts; find cool content in the App Store; choose the right accessories; sync your iPod with your Mac or PC; and more Reviews updating your iPod, troubleshooting, and maintaining the battery life iPod and iTunes For Dummies, 8th Edition guides you through all the latest updates and enhancements so that you can start enjoying your iPod today!

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