Barbara Flanagan (1) (1952–)

Flanagan selects 98 essential household items, large and small, and recommends specific types and brands, with current prices and sources.
Some of her recommendations seem quite appropriate or even superior to standard items and practices; she highlights some products new to me which I found potentially useful.
She prefers linen and microfiber (an interesting juxtaposition), values high-quality and expense where warranted and accepts cheap and easy where that's good enough; has bought the hype on CFL bulbs; and takes no positions on organizing papers or closets.

However practical the book is in parts, her suggestions work best overall if you follow her own example: lose the spouse and kids, ditch their debris, and buy what you like to live alone with.… (mere)