Enter Sanger's Virgin Mary, solver of household problems.
We would independently be able to solve countless household problems.
But imagine having to resolve household problems with no access to phones or the internet, and no contact with home.
Yet so many household problems are simple to fix - even if you think a screwdriver is a cocktail.
By Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, June 9, 1951 P. 26 Excerpts from "Housekeeping Made Easy: More Than 2,000 Shortcuts for Daily Household Problems", a book by Linda Marvin, published by Perma Giants, a subsidiary of Double day's.
ALTHOUGH Maxons Restorations, a 76-year-old company with offices in White Plains and other locations in the metropolitan region, usually mops up after catastrophes like fires and floods, it has also been summoned to tackle some of the more ordinary household problems in spring.
Whether it's teaching them how to get red wine out of carpet or how to bleed their radiator — arming your kids with a stack of home grown solutions to basic household problems will save them lots of time and energy — and possibly their deposit.
On the one hand we can eavesdrop on your chats with showbiz pals about the glamorous functions you attend ("@kimwilde i opened Shiplake village fete last week, it's exhausting being famous eh?"), on the other we can see that you have the same household problems as all the rest of us ("I cannot use the hose attachment on my Dyson it sucks so hard, it shortens itself all the time, I need it long !!!!").
The WallyHome System is a new method that uses small sensors to detect water leaks, humidity spikes and other household problems, and will alert you via SMS, email or push notification upon discovery of an issue.
Memoirs and self-help books might do better with a vertical outline; a book of fixes for common household problems will probably come together faster using a web of ideas.
