Outwitting Housework
101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Your Housework to a Minimum
Published on 14. June 2018
224 pages
978-1-78243-926-4 (ISBN)
Description
Entertaining and packed full of time-saving tips, Outwitting Housework is an essential guide to making your house gleam without breaking a sweat. Household expert Barty Phillips shares her clever tips for avoiding chores wherever possible, revealing her sanity-saving shortcuts and creative advice for keeping those boring tasks to a minimum.
Discover what basic tools of the trade you need and how to use them to bring sparkle, shine and a sense of calm to your home. Learn how to do effective minimal tidying, train errant family members and engage technology to help save you even more effort.
Armed with these cunning and creative stratagems, you'll soon be drying off those rubber gloves and doing something much more fun instead.
Discover what basic tools of the trade you need and how to use them to bring sparkle, shine and a sense of calm to your home. Learn how to do effective minimal tidying, train errant family members and engage technology to help save you even more effort.
Armed with these cunning and creative stratagems, you'll soon be drying off those rubber gloves and doing something much more fun instead.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
b/w line drawings
ISBN-13
978-1-78243-926-4 (9781782439264)
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06/2018
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
€11.50
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Person
Barty Phillips is an RHS trained gardener and designer. She was Home Correspondent of the Observer for sixteen years and now works freelance for several national magazines, including BBC Homes & Antiques. She has written several books on home and garden subjects, including How to Clean Absolutely Everything (Piatkus, 2004).
