Want to learn the cold, hard facts about clean? How about cool and convenient ways to save money and energy around the house? With winter fast approaching, how prepared are you and your family to weather the season? While freezing temperatures are far from ideal, there are ways to embrace the cold when it comes to cleaning the home and doing household chores. Best selling author and nationally recognized lifestyle expert ‘The Accidental Housewife’ aka Julie Edelman is here with some surprising and simple tips and tricks to help you maintain a cleaner home, save time in the kitchen and save MONEY, while keeping the environment in mind! Julie will share facts, smart tips and simple solutions, including:

• Cold Clean – Learning to trust your dirty clothes to cold water washing methods.
• Give your conventional oven the cold shoulder – Some alternative ideas for preparing your food.
• Cold Storage – Is your fridge cold enough? Tips for keeping it energy efficient.
• Keep the Cold Out – Money saving solutions for winterizing you house.

“The Accidental Housewife” aka Julie Edelman Author of “The Accidental Housewife: How to Overcome Housekeeping Hysteria One Task at a Time” and “The Ultimate Accidental Housewife: Your Guide to a CLEAN-ENOUGH House”

• Whether the cold while maintaining a cleaner home, your family’s health AND keeping an eye on your wallet and our planet!
• The typical U.S. family spends about $1,900 a year on home utility bills. Unfortunately, a large portion of that energy is wasted. Yet there are ways to waste less even if you already have the most energy efficient appliances out there.
• About 90% of the energy used for washing clothes in a conventional top-load washer is for heating the water (www.energysavers.gov)
• In a high efficiency or HE clothes washer, you can do 3 loads of laundry in cold for the same energy of one load in hot. (P&G)

About Julie Edelman:

JULIE EDELMAN (aka “The Accidental Housewife”) is the TV Personality, Lifestyle / Home Expert & New York Times best-selling author of “The Accidental Housewife: How to Overcome Housekeeping Hysteria One Task at a Time,” and the highly-successful follow-up, “The Ultimate Accidental Housewife: Your Guide to a CLEAN-ENOUGH House.” With her unique take on housework and life as an “Accidental Housewife”, Edelman has fast become the go-to source for sanity saving tips and ideas for conquering chores that bore.  A nationally recognized lifestyle expert, Edelman shares her “Ego n’ Eco Friendly” solutions with millions through her regular television appearances on programs including The Today Show, The Doctors, Fox & Friends and more.  She can frequently be seen in numerous print publications including Redbook, Family Circle and Woman’s World, as well as popular websites, and on the radio.  For more sanity-saving “Ego n’ Eco Friendly” tips please visit: http://www.theaccidentalhousewife.com/index.html