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I love this book! I've always had a sort of romanticism with the past and love books that deal with the old-fashioned way of doing things. My parents are two working people who immigrated to the US. They grew up very poor, so I was never exposed to this way of keeping house. Poor people generally do not have china, multiple wine glasses, and the like. So I found this book helpful as a first generation yuppie kid, who enjoys more financial and personal freedom from my parents at my age, learn how to keep house middle class style. I wish we all lived with a little more traditionalism as it can be perfectly glamorous, like living in a 1930s film.On to more useful knowledge for you: No, this book is not a 101 ways to cut down on the time you spend house cleaning. I feel like some reviewers did not read the book's introduction, because the author says that you DO NOT have to do as much cleaning as she suggests. They are guidelines. I STRONGLY suggest that you take advantage of the "Look inside" feature that Amazon has provided and read the table of contents and the excerpts of the book before making a decision to purchase.This is a housekeeping book in the style of the housekeeping books of the days of yore. I appreciate the detailed discussion of every little thing, even folding, storing food, and organizing a kitchen, because a lot of young people don't know how to do it (spoiled by their parents). It should be noted that you do not have to fold in the way that she tells you if you already have a system of doing so.This book is also not a book who feel overwhelmed by cleaning and need motivation and coaching. She provides a rationale for cleaning, but if you are seriously unmotivated, this might not work for you. There are no steps, a la Fly Lady. This book is written from the author's point of view, there are no scientific facts grounding much of it. If you need a research study, I would not buy this book.I would buy this book for an intelligent young man or lady who is looking to get married. I would buy this book for anyone who wants to know how to set up and run a house. I actually bought this book because I was reading one of Bunny William's interior design books and she said no one knows how to run a house anymore. I thought, "Well, how DO you do it?", a search led me to this gem.I have to address one of the criticisms of this book that I found ridiculous. If you want to learn "green" ways of keeping a house, obviously this is not going to be the book for you as the book's description makes no mention of that. Furthermore, the copyright date for the hardcover is 1999. In 1999, no one cared about being "green", so do not expect it to have a chapter on that. Again, read the table of contents or the index.I haven't read all the way through the book, but I will say an improvement to the 1999 edition, I haven't read the 2003 paperback, would be to include managing a household budget. I didn't see it listed in the table of contents, so I don't believe that this book had a discussion on that. It does talk about creating an inventory of items to be replenished in a home though.Personally, I think if your house is too large to manage effectively in this era of McMansions and getting the biggest house possible, you should downsize or hire help. This book is not going to help you clean a house of 2,500+ square feet in a day, but it will give you some helpful theory about how it should be run and then you can hire help to allow you to accomplish it.Think of this book like Julia Child's first book, or La Varenne Pratique in cooking. It provides a pretty complete foundation for its subject and is full of art and technique. To extend the analogy, if you want a Rachel Ray, "30 min meals"-type book, look elsewhere.