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A review by sphynxreads
How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by KC Davis
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
3.5
I'm probably not the type of person who needs this book the most, but I like how it challenged my thinking about cleaning, home organization, and productivity in general. It's almost funny reading this back-to-back with Atomic Habits. Both are gentle in their own way, but the approaches and motives are vastly different. I liked how this book made me question the parts of my life where I feel I could do better—not just in terms of keeping house—and evaluating where that pressure is coming from. If anything, I think this book helped me realize I need to be nicer to myself. If something in my life is functioning well enough, there's no moral imperative to keep improving it. Anything that warrants improvement should be driven by necessity and function, and not by any other unrelated form of merit.