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The Ultimate Accidental Housewife: Your Guide to a Clean-Enough House

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The Ultimate Accidental Housewife was absolutely fabulous. Thank goodness I read this book! I am a busy woman and cleaning is not one of my favorite things to do. I learned many helpful and simple tasks that can make my house look cleaner and more organized in minutes. The author even included products and techniques to be more eco-friendly, which is certainly a bonus. She was definitely thinking about mothers when she wrote this book. There are solutions to everyday jobs included in the text that my children can help me with. They don't even know they're cleaning! I would recommend this book to any housewife, accidental or not.

The Ultimate Accidental Housewife: Your Guide to a Clean-Enough House is an amazingly detailed and useful book packed with information to save you, in the long-run, tons of time and money in the maintenance of your home. The approach is defensive cleaning and organizing dividing the house into Toxic Zones and Not So Toxic Zones.

Wether it's mold, dust, stains, odors or other cleaning issues, Julie Edelman will inventively take you through it all with an eye to having you do much less to maintain that cleanliness.

This author trys way too hard to be cute, unfortunately this becomes exhausting and whatever good information is in this book is lost.

Good book, a little disappointed...I was looking for more tips and recipes for non toxic cleaning items.
Overall, it's a good starter book for cleaning tips.

I had high hopes that this book would help me develop a better plan of attack for keeping my house cleaner and more organized. Instead, the author does little more than explain the obvious, while trying to be humorous. If it were funny, the book might have some merit, but the author is not particularly funny, and in some cases her attempts at humor are especially painful. The book seems to be more of an attempt to establish herself as a humorist than as a household organizer and she fails miserably at both. I take solace knowing I bought it on sale, but it wasn't even worth the reduced price. Don't waste your money!

The author made a HUGE error on KLG & Hoda this morning! She referred to Indian Meal Moths as mealybugs!! Whoa!! Two entirely different critters. Mealybugs are a houseplant/garden pest, NOT a moth! And yes, you can remove them with a Q-tip dipped in alcohol. Her advice for Indian Meal Moths is way off the mark too - they'll get thru sealed ziploc bags, and wiping your cabinets with alcohol won't help either; they'll breed elsewhere. What *really* works is pheromone-baited "sticky traps", I get them mailorder from Gardens Alive but you can probably find them in stores. Another bad one - in the "description" for her first book, she recommends feather dusters. Wrong - unless you spray them with something, they'll just scatter the dust, but "swiffer" type dusters are *awesome*! I don't like to be unkind, but I suspect the author was hoping to sell enough books to hire household help. Unfortunately, she seems to have no real experience, and hasn't gotten gotten much advice from mom, yakking with friends, or reading the "greats" of the past - like Heloise!

This is a very valuable read on how to keep and maintain your home! I absoluetly love this book and am so happy I sent for it! It is very funny and and extremely helpful! It is a wonderful source for maintaing a green home! It also covers all housekeeping tips from A to Z! Get this book!!

We believe we taught them well during their growing years, yet their homes have layers and layers of dirt, dust and grime! This book gives tips to help simplify their lives as far as house cleaning goes, and I have even implemented a few myself.

This was purchased for my daughter and she found it to be humourous and helpful

Good title, but that's about it. It's a "How-To" house-cleaning guide which boasts that it will provide tricks to help you make your house "clean enough" and "blend eco-friendly habits into everyday routines". I diagree that the author has accomplished either of these feats. In my opinion, there are not enough hours in the day to do all of the house cleaning that she recommends. Also, the "eco-friendly" claim is a stretch because although she does recommend vinegar and baking soda to clean many things, disposable disinfecting wipes are not eco-friendly. Besides, I'm sure you can find all of this information for free on the internet.
In an attempt to be humorous, the author suggests a number of martini recipes to try while you scour the toilet. The part I don't appreciate is the promotion of the morning after pill. Yes, it's true. You will find it on page 202. I quote "Keep these items handy in case you need them: Band-Aids, Flashlight, Fresh batteries, Morning-after pill". What???
I found that part unnecessary and offensive.
My guess is that most readers wouldn't make it as far as page 202 anyway.