The Housewife's Handbook: How to Run the Modern Home by Rachel Simhon (2007-10-01) - Hardcover

Rachel Simhon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747577501 ISBN 13: 9780747577508

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007

Synopsis

This book is for our 'inner housewife', desperate to learn what housewives everywhere used to know instinctively - how to look after our home well and efficiently, with minimum fuss. Housewifery may be a dying vocation, but generations of wifely wisdom must not be allowed to disappear with it. We need to redefine what it means to be a housewife, for the sake of our homes and for the sake of our sanity. We have become dependent on those 5-in-1 chemical cleaners; we can't seem to wield a Hoover any more; doing the laundry takes days out of our week. We are too busy! We think housework is boring! We are at crisis point! Determined to help us to regain control, Rachel Simhon has compiled this manual on everything we need to know about looking after the home. She reveals how to descale a kettle, polish silver, get scratches off glasses, minimise ironing, store food in the fridge, protect photographs from fading and fold a fitted sheet, and explains how to choose a tumble dryer, manage a roo

About this title

About the Author:

Rachel Simhon is a deputy editor for the Daily Mail, and until recently wrote 'Household plc', a weekly column offering help and advice on running 'the twenty-first-century home'. She lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0747577501
• ISBN 13: 9780747577508
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368