Review of Mary Ellen's Guide to Good Enough Housekeeping (Paperback)

I was a fan of the show until it disappeared from tv.I was hoping for this book to be helpfull, and I read the other review.I even paid extra for quick shipping.But I was very disapointed in my buy.The book was less of a helpfull guide to cleaning and more of just a book.Sure, it's funny.It's written by Mary Ellen!She's hilarious!But the book is less of a guide; it doesn't have a clear set of examples and rules.I was hoping for something more like a thesarus.Something I could I use to look up what I wanted to know and have my information.This book you have to read it from cover to cover to get any information, and then, you are not guaranteed to find out what you want to know.

Product Description
Had enough of experts who make you feel you need a million different cleaning products, loads of time and encyclopedic knowledge to have a clean, comfortable house?

Then you're ready for Good Enough Housekeeping.

Here's the most practical advice ever from Mary Ellen Pinkham, the best-selling helpful hints expert and star of HGTV's "TIP-ical Mary Ellen"-the "good enough" method of getting the job done with little time and little or no help.

"Housekeeping is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.When you get to the end, you just start over," Mary Ellen says."It's overwhelming unless you unless you know where to begin-and when to stop." That's what this book will explain.

Good Enough Housekeeping is cleaning off the handprint without going on to wash the entire wall

Good Enough Housekeeping is sweeping the floor to protect it but not worrying if it's clean enough to eat off.

Good Enough Housekeeping is recognizing that the hygiene standards for a bathroom are not the same as for an operating room.

Good Enough Housekeeping means knowing when the job is done and not spending another second on it.

You're good enough to deserve a break. Start practicing Good Enough
Housekeeping now.


About the Author
Mary Ellen Pinkham's Best of Helpful Hints shot to #1 on The New York Times Bestseller List in 1979 and stayed there for over a year. She now has her own line of cleaning products and stars in "Tipical Mary Ellen" on the Home & Garden TV Network. She lives in Edina, Minnesota.

Dale Burg, Mary Ellen's long-time collaborator, lives in Manhattan.


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Review of Mary Ellen's Complete Home Reference Book (Paperback)

I received this book as a wedding gift, and have found it to be an invaluable reference tool in my life as a homemaker.Any question about how to clean ANYTHING can be answered with this book.The author includes recipes for homemade cleaning solutions that REALLY work, as well as tipsfor "frugal" living and ecological conservation.Illustrateddrawings help teach how to "fix" things that the husband keepspromising he will and never seems to get around to doing.Everyone shouldhave a copy of this book in their home!

Product Description
All the information you need to purchase, maintain, and clean everything you own--now in paperback! "Answers almost every household question you could imagine.--Salt Lake Tribune 50 black-and-white photographs.



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