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1,001
Old-Time Household Hints: Timeless Bits of Household Wisdom for Today's Home
and Garden
by Yankee Magazine
Paperback: 384 pages ISBN: 0899093981
Publisher: Rodale Books (March 7, 2006) |
| A compendium of tips, recipes, and
sage advice on all aspects of everyday living. The editors of Yankee magazine scoured
scores of vintage books, magazines, journals, and memoirs to find the very best old-time
secrets for preparing meals, cleaning, doing laundry, decorating, repairing the home,
treating common ailments, caring for pets, celebrating the holidays, and gardening
outdoors and indoors. Throughout this treasury the editors suggest ways to adapt
yesteryear's methods using today's technology and materials. |
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The
Accidental Housewife: How to Overcome Housekeeping Hysteria One Task at a
Time
by Julie Edelman
Paperback: 176 pages ISBN: 0345490436
Publisher: Ballantine Books (May 30, 2006) |
| Entertaining and practical household
tips turn mundane chores into fun and easy tasks. Offering real life advice and simple
solutions, the book includes: a stress-free way to clean with minimum effort to achieve
maximum effect; deal with the most common stains using everything from industrial products
to everyday items such as hairspray, shaving cream, and ice cubes; harmonize chaos and
clutter and get energized in the process; uncover innovative ways to balance your
family’s nutritional needs with your desire to let them eat cake. |
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1001
Solutions to Everyday Problems:
The Practical Problem Solver
by Earl Proulx
Hardcover: 400 pages ISBN: 1578661455
Publisher: Galahad (April 28, 2005) |
| If there's a problem in the house or
on the road, the solution's on these pages--1,001 solutions, to be exact. Has the plaster
cracked and the pipes frozen? Is the coffeemaker clogged with mineral deposits? Are pesky
woodpeckers ruining the garden and bugs overrunning the plants? Is the tent zipper
sticking-right when you're in the middle of nowhere? There's a fount of wisdom here,
including six ingenious substitutes for wrapping paper, eight great cleaning agents that
are probably already in the kitchen cupboard, five superb odor eaters, six ways to make a
tiny room seem larger, and hundreds more--even a complete time line for moving. This is
one volume everyone should have on hand. |
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Real
Simple Solutions: Tricks, Wisdom and Easy Ideas to Simplify Everyday
by Editors of Real Simple Magazine
Hardcover: 192 pages ISBN: 1932994122
Publisher: Real Simple; Bk&Acces edition (Sept 27, 2005) |
| Need to remove an ink stain? Fresh
out of toothpaste? From imaginative ideas to innovative tricks to in-a-pinch fixes, Real
Simple Solutions is packed with hundreds of easy and inspired ways to help you live
better. A compilation of hundreds of creative and practical everyday solutions for every
part of your life-encompassing cooking, cleaning, decorating, entertaining, dressing,
grooming, working, and more. |
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Jerry
Baker's Supermarket Super Products!: 2,568 Super Solutions, Terrific Tips
& Remarkable Recipes for Great Health, a Happy Home, and a Beautiful Garden
by Jerry Baker
Hardcover: 376 pages ISBN: 092243350X
Publisher: American Master Products, Inc. (April 28, 2005) |
| Home-improvement guide to solving
common health, home, and garden problems with products found on any supermarket's shelves.
well-known supermarket products have secret lives as health and beauty aids, household
cleaners, stain removers, and bug killers. Learn how to heal a headache with a lime,
unclog a drain with antacids, remove grease stains with mayonnaise, and extinguish garden
pests with vegetable oil, along with discovering the secret power of such supermarket
staples as buttermilk, coffee, cucumbers, honey, oatmeal, tea, and wax paper. |
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