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We've all got a few good tips to make life easier, passed on by a friend or family member, or things we've picked up on our own . . .hints like always keeping floss in our backpacks in order to avoid the dreaded Spinach Teeth Look. But, wouldn't it be nice to be able to go to one place and find a whole slew of helpful advice?

Kate Reardon has done it for us in this nice, handy book. She collected tips from many people at her extremely popular website, toptipsforgirls.com. (You can still contribute ideas to her website, in fact.)

TOP TIPS FOR GIRLS is divided into sections with funny subtitles. The sections include:

HOME, or Martha Stewart, eat your heart out

DIETS, or Anything you eat standing up doesn't count, and broken cookies don't count, because all the calories leak out.

CLOTHES, or I'm a chic and fabulous woman, and then I wake up.

RELATIONSHIPS, or Even my shrink says it's your fault.

This book makes for a fun afternoon of browsing. Why, you're apt to learn "how to get over him", "how to gain control of your time from e-mail, etc", "how to guard your handbag in a public restroom", and "how to really clean out your closet" -- and that's in a few random page flips.

Humor plus help in one handy volume? Who can resist it?