Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring For everything in your Home

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	• Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home Martha Stewart Clarkson Potter, 2006 - 752 pages average customer review:based on 151 reviews view larger image
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Great book!

Wow, I'll never make it through this entire book! Tells you everything you need to know about homekeeping and more! So many helpful tips. Great explanations. Every family should own this manual! Very well written and easy to follow!

Modern home care encyclopedia: relevant and necessary for anyone with a home or apartment

In her prologue, Martha discusses her interest and admiration for old books on household management from several countries. Lo and behold, Martha has created this country's home management encyclopedia herself. All joking aside (SNL sketches, anyone?), you gotta hand it to her: she has indeed created this country and this generation's home care encyclopedia. As a city girl who suddenly found herself in a suburban house with a family to care for, I needed a clue about how I could run my home (instead of it running me). I poured over this book. It doesn't go into deep detail on anything, but that is its strength. It is comprehensive, modern and useful. I was anticipating uptight and obsolete practices. (Well ok, just skip the page on devoting a closet to roll and store your antique linens.) Here are just a few sample topics I picked randomly: sealing your limestone floors, different types of heating systems and their care, recommended quantities of linens, seasonal cleaning and maintenance schedules, setting up a WiFi network, take care of cut flowers, fix squeaky stairs, babyproof a home, the different quilting approaches for comforters and which will keep the feathers from migrating to the edges, outfitting a fireplace, different sheet materials and their qualities, how to make your home more energy efficient. It is a great resource for anyone with a house, an apartment, or any space of their own to maintain.

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Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring For everything in your Home

Martha Stewart's Book is like an encyclopedia for caring for your home. However I wish she woould have devoted some tips on cleaning things that can be difficult, like the calcium and lime deposits in your toilet. She does get away from "Abrasive" cleaners. The book is very informative

This is THE book on home-making

I bought this for a friend a year ago and put it on my Christmas list for this year. Santa was a good boy and now I have my very own copy. I've been a home-maker and careerist for 42 years and think I know a lot about running a home, but this book has things to teach everyone, whether you are a new bride or apartment dweller or an experienced home maker. Everything is addressed here, including how to set the table and serve dinner for a formal party, and then how to clean your china, crystal and silver afterward your guests have departed. My own hint, which I don't think Martha included: always count your flatware right after a party so you can retrieve any that inadvertently ended up in the trash. It happens.

I really love her checklists- everyone makes them, but Martha's are a good guide for starting out. I was really impressed with her cleaning schedules- OK,Martha cleans more than I do, but you can look at her lists for daily, weekly, quarterly and so on, and use them as great reminders of tasks that you might overlook.

I'm also pleased to see how 'green' and multi-functional her recommended cleaning products are. Despite heavy marketing by the manufacturers of home toxics, you don't need a separate poisonous product for every finish and surface.

I hope someday to leave this book, along with The Joy of Cooking, to my niece, with perhaps a few notes of my own added.

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A Book for Every Home

I originally purchased this book for a friend as a birthday gift (she is a Martha fiend!) but after I flipped through it ordered another for myself. As is everything "Martha" the steps imply that you have no other life than "good things" but as everyone knows, you can take parts from it and adapt them easily.

Much like everyone else has stated, this is more like an encyclopeida than "handbook" but tells you everything you'd ever want to know. A must for every home. A excellent gift for first time homeowners, brides, etc.

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