Mary Ellens Clean House!: The All-In-One-Place Encyclopedia of Contemporary Housekeeping
by By Burg, Dale and Pinkham, Mary Ellen
Category: House & Home , Cleaning, Caretaking & Organizing

America's number one household authority, best-selling writer and columnist Mary Ellen Pinkham presents all her expertise in one up-to-date, down-to-earth, and unique reference book for the home.Mary Ellen's CLEAN HOUSE! incorporates all the best information she's uncovered on her own, gathered from the experts and received from the readers of her millions of books and hundreds of columns in print.This information-packed guide is a book you'll turn to time and again. Now, in one place, you'll find practical suggestions for saving time, money, and energy and the answers to the entire range of household questions that come up every single day.Here's where you'll find, for example, how to get raspberries off a shirt, wax off the carpet, grease off the wallpaper, rust off a knife, and white rings off the table; why a yellow gas flame means danger, and what to do about it; how to stop a smoke detector that's ringing a false alarm; what items to include in a renovation contract; which noises don't mean trouble in the dishwasher and which do; how many beverages to order when you entertain a crowd; whether a plaster crack means trouble with the foundation; the safest way to remove a broken light bulb from the fixture; what's involved in refinishing a chair; and which candy store item will keep the weevils out of your pantry.Written with Mary Ellen's customary humor and delightfully illustrated throughout, Mary Ellen's CLEAN HOUSE! is for anyone who has ever had or will have to buy a carpet, clean a sink, do the wash, paint a wall, unclog a drain, hang a picture, remove a stain, eliminate an odor, zap a roach - or hire someone else to do any or all of these jobs.Mary Ellen's CLEAN HOUSE! is for men and women, the newly wed and the newly unwed, renters and homeowners, people in apartments and people in trailer parks, the student leaving home to embark on Life 101, and the experienced homemaker who knows a lot but can't always remember where it's filed.