QuickieChick's Cheat Sheet to Life, Love, Food, Fitness, Fashion, and Finance---on a Less-Than-Fabulous Budget [Paperback]

Laurel House (Author)

Book Description

Release date: May 22, 2012

Based on the popular QuickieChick website (www.quickiechick.com), lifestyle expert Laurel House’s new book QuickieChick’s Cheat Sheet to Life, Love, Food, Fitness, Fashion, and Finance on a Less Than Fabulous Budget (St. Martin’s Griffin/May 2012) offers quick  tips for smart, sassy, independent chicks. This is the essential manual on life’s lessons delivered in fun, snappy, and instantly-gratifying bites of information. Beyond a fab pair of stilettos, a big shot mentor and a go-to ab workout, QuickieChick reminds us that what every chick really needs are the 3Gs: Gumption, Grace, and Guidance.

 

QuickieChick is filled with professional advice from business entrepreneurs, exclusive tips straight from celebrities, insightful anecdotes from real women who have “been there and done that,” end of chapter cheat sheets that simplify the steps to success in concise and actionable advice, and fun quizzes that help you find out who you really are. This is the perfect rescue handbook for post-grad girls about life and how to live it…fabulously on a budget.

 

QuickieChick features practical solutions that guide you through:

 

• How to ace the job interview

 

• How to gain financial independence, move out of your parents’ place, and avoid roommate drama

 

• Quickie workouts for every location: in bed, at the office, on an airplane, in the kitchen, and more

 

• How to get a boost of confidence by wearing “power panties”

 

• 1-ingredient refrigerator facials: how to get fab skin by using ingredients found in your fridge

 

• Dating and dumping: when to leave, when to stay, where to meet guys, and how to keep them hooked

 

• Work party protocol: how to dress, what to say, and how to act

 

• How to throw a fab cocktail party on a budget…with no stress

 

• Finding a mentor

 

Editorial Reviews

Review

Advance praise for QuickieChick's Cheat Sheet to Life, Love, Food, Fitness, Fashion, and Finance on a Less Than Fabulous Budget:

“QuickieChick is like the cool, wise big sister you always wanted...in a book. She knows exactly what you need to know and tells it to you straight, all the while cheering you on and reminding you that you are also one really cool, wise chick.” —Christine Hassler, author of 20-Something, 20-Everything and 20 Something Manifesto 

“Laurel’s quickie solutions for whatever life throws your way are more than helpful—they scream for immediate inspiration and implementation! Laurel House has done us all a huge favor by sharing her wisdom, experience, and humor with quickie solutions that only a young-hearted, but clever old soul could do.” —Nancy Spears, CEO/founder of genConnect.com and author of Buddha 9 to 5

“QuickieChick is filled with need-to-know insight on renting, roommates, saving money, and spending within your means but feeling like you’re living beyond them. Chicks will use this book as a cheat sheet to life. Dudes should use this book as a cheat sheet to chicks.” —Josh Altman, from Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing

“Life’s coveted cheat sheet, QuickieChick offers immediately gratifying, valuable nuggets of wisdom with actionable tips to find your passion, define your dreams, and be true to yourself…while remembering to have lots of fun along the way!” —Sean Aiken, author of The One-Week Job Project

“We all know accessories are some of the best statement-makers when it comes to expressing your uniqueness...but one can not live on bling alone. QuickieChick teaches the basics on how to develop your own personal style, while adding that 'GODDAMN!' factor you need to stand out in a crowd.” —Brian Burkhardt, winner of Lifetime’s Project Accessory

About the Author

LAUREL HOUSE is best known as QuickieChick and provides fast, simple workouts and advice for every day girls. This three-time published author and lifestyle expert has written hundreds of articles that have appeared in national and online magazines including in Women’s Health, Men’s Journal, LA Daily News, and more. She currently contributes regularly to Yahoo!Shine and Discovery’s Planet Green.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (May 22, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312564562
• ISBN-13: 978-0312564568
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #188,987 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

At 23 I left the corporate world to work for myself, basically getting paid to be me and do what I love. It also gave me the opportunity to explore who I am and who I want to be. At 32 I reinvented myself, a mid-course correction that was seriously scary, but a necessary life changer. I never looked back...

My name is Laurel House and I'm a Relationship and Lifestyle author, expert, personal trainer and the "QuickieChick." No, not the late night booty call kind of quickie, my "quickies" are all about making the most out of every moment- whether it's a saddlebag-burning "Quickie Workout in Bed," a metabolism-boosting "Bites with Benefits" meal, or how to get a $150 spa-quality skin peel out of a $1 tomato and lemon at-home Refrigerator Facial. My YouTube videos have received over 7 million views and now you can get even more Quickie Tips in my new book "QuickieChick's Cheat Sheet to Life, Love, Food, Fitness, Fashion and Finance on a Less than Fabulous Budget" (St. Martin's, May 2012).

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Yvonne June 12, 2012

By Yvonne

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I love this book! I originally bought this book for my daughter who is in College but after reading it, I decided to buy my own (and for my sister....we are both in our 50's). I love all the helpful everyday ideas from quick exercise tips when I don't have time for a full workout...who can tell I'm exercising while I am cooking dinner, or sitting on a chair in the office (lol), her helpful ideas from how to eat healthy, how to be the perfect hostess and how to stay on a budget while we can still spoil ourselves. I also like the fact that it's a book that I don't have to read from the beginning but can go from chapter to chapter until I find what I'm looking for. She has really put so much advice into this book that I truly believe it is a great for anyone who is ready to go out on their own or to those of us who have families and careers who just need helpful hints and positive motivation to keep our days less hectic.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars "Things Mom Would Have Told Me, If I'd Asked. May 24, 2012

By Theresa M. Boyle

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I was delighted that I had just read a review of this book and there it was on Amazon!! You guys are the BEST! Seriously. Back to the book. This is the kind of book everyody wishes the had. It's like listening to that
friend / older sister / parent / the-lady-on-line-at-A&P who is "There for you" all the time. Laurel thinks of everything & offers great advise. Easy reading & enjoyable. I'm so glad I ordered it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This book helped me SWIM, INSTEAD OF SINK! May 23, 2012

By Jva327

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I recently graduated from college and I received this book as a gift a few months prior to graduation. I did not know, how little I knew before reading this!

This book brings up so many points that we just never have the time to think about during college, about post college life. It made a lot of the dynamics about being a new "grownup" that could have been a HUGE surprise (and that I've seen BE a huge surprise for many of my friends recently) MUCH easier to handle.

This book felt like my little best friend while making the transition into post-college life! Definitely turned to it amidst a melt down or two!