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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 149 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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Invaluable Reference Book

Wow, this book has it all! I wish it was around years ago when I first started keeping a home for my family....I plan to give a copy to every bride and groom as a wedding present.

Handy Item to Have

Last Christmas my wife received this book for a gift. She was very impressed that my daughter asked for this gift for this Christmas. A very useful book to have in the house. Buying from Amazon is the way to go. We ordered the book and in 3 days it was delivered to our door. We purchase from Amazon frequently.

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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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

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