Barty Phillips

Outwitting Housework

101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Your Housework to a Minimum

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Imprint: O'Mara Books

Publication date: 14/06/2018

ISBN: 9781782439141

Subject: Non-Fiction

Category: Humour

Binding: Paperback

Size: 198 x 129 mm

Extent: 224 pages

Illustration: b/w line drawings

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

Edition Status: Out of Print

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Summary:

Entertaining and packed full of time-saving tips, Outwitting Housework is an essential guide to making your house gleam without breaking a sweat. Household expert Barty Phillips shares her clever tips for avoiding chores wherever possible, revealing her sanity-saving shortcuts and creative advice for keeping those boring tasks to a minimum.

Discover what basic tools of the trade you need and how to use them to bring sparkle, shine and a sense of calm to your home. Learn how to do effective minimal tidying, train errant family members and engage technology to help save you even more effort.

Armed with these cunning and creative stratagems, you’ll soon be drying off those rubber gloves and doing something much more fun instead.

Sales points:

  • Creative advice on how to keep housework jobs to a minimum

  • Advice from every room in the house, particularly those areas with the heaviest traffic

  • How to 'train' your family in an effective way, thus saving yourself more effort

  • The author is an expert in household cleaning and has written widely on the subject for books and magazines

About the Author:

Barty Phillips

Barty Phillips is an RHS trained gardener and designer. She was Home Correspondent of the Observer for sixteen years and now works freelance for several national magazines, including BBC Homes & Antiques. She has written several books on home and garden subjects, including How to Clean Absolutely Everything (Piatkus, 2004).