Top Tips for Girls: Real advice from real women for real life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307406699)

REAL LIFE MADE EASIER

In today's lifestyle guru-obsessed world, where we all turn to magazines and TV personalities to teach us how to organize our lives, cook, look, and live better, it's refreshing to hear clever, who-would've-thunk-it suggestions from regular women.

In Top Tips for Girls, today's primer for women in the know, Kate Reardon has collected just that--literally hundreds of tips on all areas of our lives, be it raising kids, staying fit, dressing well, planning a wedding, gardening, dating, dieting, traveling, or working. Far from garden variety, the tips you'll find here are surprising--the sort that women used to get word-of-mouth from their own moms, grandmothers, aunts, and best friends. Some of the many helpful, and even hilarious, tips you'll read here include:

-To avoid blisters from new shoes, coat your feet with Vaseline.
-Invest in a certain number of "nice" hangers. When you start having to use the metal ones from the dry cleaner, it's time to clean out your closet.
-Impress guests with homemade-tasting mayonnaise by adding fresh lemon juice and capers or thyme to ordinary mayo.
-Perk up wilted ferns by spraying them once a month with weak tea.
-To find your car in an unfamiliar area, use the camera on your cell phone to take a picture of the nearest street sign.
-Tone up your butt by squeezing it in quick reps of fifty while watching TV.
-To safely dispose of receipts and bank statements without buying a shredder, simply keep a container of water to pop them in and let them dissolve.

And many more

Author: Kate Reardon
ISBN-10: 0307406695
ISBN-13: 9780307406699
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2008
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.93h x 5.26w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Supplements 11/15/2007 pg. 44
Vanity Fair 08/01/2008 pg. 60