Good Housekeeping Home Skills: Master Your Domain with Practical Solutions to Everyday Challenges

by Good Housekeeping (Editor), Jane Francisco (Foreword)

A practical and attractive handbook with more than 850 essential life skills to get anything done faster and easier

The editors and scientists at Good Housekeeping and its lab, the Good Housekeeping Institute, share genius solutions and trusted, expert advice in this how-to guide to making life simpler. With chapters on the kitchen, organizing and cleaning, decorating, home maintenance, outdoor living, and entertaining and celebrating, this go-to resource offers step-by-step illustrated instructions, inspiring photos and sometimes surprising but always practical guidance to get things done. Plus, you'll save time and money and even have fun along the way.

The 850+ skills include how
• Store and make your own spice mixes
• Clean your house in 15 minutes
• Seal a drafty window
• Remove water rings from your tables
• Perk up a grocery-store bouquet
• Sew a button
• Plant an outdoor herb garden (and keep herbs fresh after they are picked!)
• Make the perfect boiled egg
• Uncork champagne
• Cure a hangover and so much more!


QR codes throughout the pages offer additional lessons and video instruction. Whatever home means to you, this book is brimming with invaluable know-how to keep your home in tip-top shape and to help you inject more fun and flair into your every day.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Self Help, How To, Cookbooks

224 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 15, 2022

About the author

The Good Housekeeping Institute was created to provide readers of Good Housekeeping magazine with expert consumer advice and delicious, classic and contemporary east-to-follow recipes. These ideals still hold true today. The institute team are all experienced cooks, home economists and consumer researchers. They test the lastest products in purpose-built, modern kitchens, where every recipe published in the magazine and its range of bestselling cookery books is rigorously tested so that you can cook any Good Housekeeping dish with confidence.

Reviews

[K.N. Tristan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maybe i’m older than the target audience or maybe this book should have been thicker - it’s not bad if you have absolutely zero “home skills” to start with, but if you’re not a total novice this will likely be too basic and simplistic to be useful

[Barb · Rating 4 out of 5]

Better than average hits. Nothing too involved. Wide range of skills presented from cooking to cleaning to minor repairs.

[RK · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some decent tips.

[Cheryl · Rating 2 out of 5]

I feel so bad for the people who need this basic advice. But it's easier than getting new parents, and cheaper than reading 'women's' magazines for a couple of years. And each section, page, can inspire some research for more details or for related information.

The only tip I got was how to hang sweaters/sweatshirts. It sounds awkward, but I tried it, and it works. (Though it does take more room in the closet, with the extra layers.) "... fold it in half vertically, matching up the sleeves, then place the hook of the hanger at the armpit. Fold [lay] the sleeves over one side of the hanger and the body over the other. This keeps the sweater from stretching and prevents those annoying little shoulder bumps."

One big no-no, though. Do not use microfiber! Especially for cleaning!! It's plastic. It comes from oil. It is not absorbent. When it is washed, it sheds plastic microbeads into the environment. Whoever invented should be ashamed & embarrassed. And Good Housekeeping really ought to know better than to choose something made from a non-renewable source that is a pollutant and is ineffective as well.

[Calondra M B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good Housekeeping has been an established cornerstone in our homes. Anything from A to Z…..
advice, advice, advice. The answers that we’ve all been looking for everyday fixes.

Great book to have.

[Joanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good collection of useful tips for around the house! The images were pleasant to look at. It's basically a mini home economics textbook. Some of the tips were common knowledge, but there were quite a few I've never heard of that I made note of after reading.

[wayne markley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good Housekeeping Home skills book

Excellent book to read. Had some great information about things around the house to do and how to Take Care of things. Great tips! Would highly recommend to friends and family.

[Trish · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has some helpful tips.

[Carrie · Rating 2 out of 5]

So very random.

[Lauren Kozilski · Rating 3 out of 5]

I already know a lot of what's in this book, but for someone who is just starting out, it might be a help.

[Nancy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh.... It's a book of lists. Short lists. Of things that you mostly already know.

[Beth Polebaum · Rating 4 out of 5]

I finally got the burnt popcorn smell out of my microwave!

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I ran out of time before it’s due date, but this was a handy little reference book that would make a great housewarming gift.

[Gwen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some useful tips, although many don't apply to my current situation. Nice to know for the future!

[Maureen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I took this book out from the library. The information in it was so good, that I ended up buying the book!

[April · Rating 5 out of 5]

Uplifting

Uplifting read with all of the basic home skills needed. Reminiscence of my first apartment or my first home and learning these skills as you go, brings the new feeling.

[Caroline Reid · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun book to read through. Nice design.

[Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

now to put this into action!

[Gillian T · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gifted this to my niece and boyfriend when they bought their first home together this year. Lots of hints, tips and ideas to running a home, but bit USA biased.

[AllBookedUp · Rating 4 out of 5]

This singular book shows you every practical life hack solution to your everyday challenges. There is a section for preventing pests, and what kinds of plants to purchase if you have partial, full, or no sun. It shows you how to arrange a bookshelf, how to hem, solve problems with unexpected household supplies, and the list goes on. They even have "scan Me" for cleaver ways to do something.

A fun read and everything is at your fingertips. Even things you never thought of.