Cheaper, Better, Faster Mary Hunt - Baker Publishing Group

IntroductionI was able to stick with a simple filing system for about threedays until I discovered a much easier method: piling—which tookhardly any time at all. And then piles began to grow and spill intoeach other at an unprecedented rate into what I would eventuallyname Mt. Tip.I knew I was headed for trouble the day I spent hours searchingfor one wonderful tip I knew was in there somewhere. And thatwas the day I conceded that I had to either find a way to movemountains or call a rubbish-removal contractor. I couldn’t go onliving like this.First published in 1997 under the title Tiptionary, this bookwas a big hit. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who loved handytips! Readers told me that reading the book was a lot like beingfaced with a bag of potato chips: It was almost impossible to stopwith just one tip.In the years since Tiptionary was released, the world has changeda lot! And that meant this book needed a radical update to make itcurrent. Sections on banking, computers, and travel, for example,needed overhauls.Enter Revell Books. All I had to do was mention the availabilityof a really awesome collection of handy tips to my editor, VickiCrumpton, and the best publishing team in the world was mobilizedinto action.What you have here is a revised and updated, fabulously funcollection of tips—short, to-the-point suggestions for ways to dothings cheaper, better, and faster. Many of these tips are timeless;others we know were current and relevant five minutes ago, butwho knows about next month!Some of the best tips you will read have completely unknownorigins because they’ve been passed from generation to generation,and someone along the line sent them my way. Some tipswere left out because they turned out to be nothing more thanmyths—legends people believe with all their hearts, but when putto the test, fail.8Mary Hunt, Cheaper, Better, FasterRevell Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, © 2013. Used by permission.