About Handy Ande

Read about Handy Ande's Work Ethic. Also read our Founder's Philosophy.

HANDY ANDE is Andrea Reynolds, nicknamed "Handy Ande" as a child in Erie, PA because she could take care of a home from the age of 6. The nickname Ande - female version of Andy - stuck through high school. Then she studied Family and Consumer Sciences (Home Economics Education) at Kent State University and became a home economist for Sears, McCall Pattern Co., and Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Self-employed since 1977 her varied side jobs have included wardrobe counseling, a concierge service, pet-sitting, home and business sitting, appliance demonstration, radio and television broadcasting, commercial voice-over work, newsletter and column writing, book publishing, bed & breakfast hosting, public relations and publicity, investigative journalism, and author-publisher of a number of practical how-to books.

WestCountyJournal
Article printed in Girard PA newspaper.

She created Handy Ande in Girard PA and took it with her to St. Catharines Ontario where she lived for 3 years. She is presently re-establishing HandyAnde.com in Erie PA.

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