How to Join the Happy Housewives Club

Darla Shine's Happy Housewives Club is an antidote to the cultural image of housewives as oppressed women who aren't leading fulfilling lives. Instead, the Happy Housewives Club encourages women who are proud to be homemakers to come together in an online community. As long as you're a happy housewife, you're welcome into the community.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

1. Read Darla Shine's book "Happy Housewives" for an introduction to the attitude you'll find in the Happy Housewives Club. In this book, Shine documents her own change from desperate housewife to happy housewife when she learned to embrace her role as mother and homemaker.

2. Visit the Happy Housewives Club website (see Resources below). Apply Shine's guidelines for becoming a happy housewife to better fit in with the philosophy of the happy housewives you'll be interacting with in the club.

3. Browse through the Happy Housewives Club content. Find tips on everything from housework to health and beauty, everything you need to be a happy housewife.

4. Sign up for the Happy Housewives Club newsletter, which the club emails regularly. To sign up, enter your email in the newsletter box on the main page and click "Go."

5. Listen to the daily Happy Housewives Club podcasts by clicking the "Podcast" link on the main page. Then click the podcast you want to listen to.

6. Join other women on the Happy Housewives Club Forums. Click the "Forums" link and then the "Register" link at the bottom of the page. Agree to the forum rules and click the "Register" button. Fill out the information on the next page and click "Complete Registration" to become a member.

Resources

• Visit the Happy Housewives Club.