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Classic Household Hints
From the creators of Vintage Cocktails and It's a Wonderful Christmas comes a book full of household hints and wonderful full-color vintage art. Classic Household Hints goes back to the tried and true tips of yesteryear and offers the reader hundreds of hints on everything from cleaning and organizing to buying and handling food. Picking Avocados: Ripe avocados are soft to the touch. Unfortunately, so are bruised avocados. To tell the difference, try flicking away the stem button (at the narrow end of the fruit) with your finger. If it falls off easily, the avocado is ripe. If the avocado is soft but the stem doesn't come off, it's probably bruised, and you should pass it by. Want the freshest eggs in the store? Pick the ones whose shells feel roughest to the touch. Is that expensive floor wax remover you bought laying down on the job? Simple ammonia will do the trick. In addition, advertisement quotes (If your husband comes home in a bad mood, delight him with a clean house and a sandwich.) are also included making it a fun to read gift book as well as a practical guide to a sparkling home.
As with the authors' previous books, the colorful art is from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Author:
Susan Waggoner
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc
ISBN: 9781584795728
Format: Hardback Book
List Price: $29.95
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Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures
Stop bleeding with Krazy Glue(R)?
That's amazing!
Find the cure for what ails you in the kitchen!
And it's only one of the 1,150 astonishing ideas in Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures! Discover more remedies that are hiding in your favorite household products as Joey reveals that you can:
* Beat a backache with Adolph's Meat Tenderizer(R)!
* End insomnia with Aunt Jemima Original Syrup(R)!
* Cure a cold with Gold's Horse Radish(R)!
* Stop arthritis pain with Heinz Apple Cider Vinegar(R)!
* Get rid of headaches with Gatorade(R)!
* Prevent allergy attacks with Dannon Yogurt(R)!
* Arrest acne with Colgate Toothpaste(R)!
* Soothe aching feet with Alka-Seltzer(R)!
The next time you're facing a late-night bout of sickness and can't reach a doctor-- get a cut, scrape, or bite-- or just want to save money-- reach for the brand-name products in Amazing Kitchen Cures instead of medications. You'll find that they're just as effective, and some are even better!
* Stop sunburn with Cheerios(R)!
* Clean your teeth wuith McCormick(R) Food Coloring!
* Soothe a sore throat with Hershey's(R) Syrup!
* Calm allergies with Endust(R)!
Author:
Joey Green
Publisher: Rodale Press
ISBN: 9781579546441
Format: Paperback Book
List Price: $27.95
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The Handbook of Essential Home Hints and Household Tips
This is a comprehensive illustrated home-reference manual for everyone who wants to manage a comfortable, clean, tidy, safe home with the least expense and effort. Thousands of tips, hints and useful projects show you step-by-step how to plan and maintain your home or apartment how to prepared for any kind of problem and respond to any kind of emergency and how to add those perfect finishing touches that make the difference between a functional living space and a true home.
Author:
Margaret Malone
Publisher: Anness Publishing
ISBN: 9781844764174
Format: Paperback Book
List Price: $24.95
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Unclutter Your Home
A self-help book which offers advice on achieving a calm and simplified life by sorting, evaluating and disposing of unwanted items in the home, whilst efficiently storing those items which are wanted.
Author:
Donna Smallin
Publisher: Storey Books
ISBN: 9781580171083
Format: Paperback Book
List Price: $17.95
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Clean in a Minute
The best of Don's professional cleaning secrets boiled down to under a hundred pages. Great for those faced for the first time with cleaning (a college dorm room, apartment, or military housing), or anybody who wants just the facts.
Author:
Don Aslett,
Craig Lagory
Publisher: Marsh Creek Press
ISBN: 9780937750018
Format: Paperback Book
List Price: $11.95
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Organizing from the Inside Out
A completely revised and expanded edition of the New York Times bestselling guide to putting things in order
Getting organized is a skill that anyone can learn, and there's no better teacher than America's organizing queen, Julie Morgenstern, as hundreds of thousands of readers have learned. Drawing on her years of experience as a professional organizer, Morgenstern outlines a simple organizing plan that starts with understanding your individual goals, natural habits, and psychological needs, so that you can work with your priorities and personality rather than against them. The basic steps-Analyze, Strategize, Attack-can be applied to any space or situation.
In this thoroughly revised edition, Morgenstern has incorporated new information in response to feedback from her clients and audiences. These changes include
- new chapters on living or working with someone who is disorganized
- new chapters on organizing photographs, handbags, briefcases, and travel bags
- an expanded program for organizing your kitchen
- a new guide to getting started
- a fully updated resource guide
Author:
Julie Morgenstern
Publisher: Owl Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780805075892
Format: Paperback Book
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Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean
NOW UPDATED WITH MORE EASY, TIME-SAVING TIPS FOR TURNING YOUR HOME INTO A SPARKLING PALACE!Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean(R) The down-to-earth housekeeping guide that brought the Queen of Clean(R) into your home is now better than ever! As always, her marvelous collection of tips and shortcuts gives you the keys to conquering dust, rust, stains, gum, clogs, odor, mildew, smudges, scratches, allergens, pet problems, and water damage. And she works her magic with the hidden cleansing powers of natural, inexpensive ingredients such as baking soda, lemon juice, petroleum jelly, tea, vinegar and more. Now, the Queen expands her domain with: More penny-saving tips... Thrifty hints for frugal living. Waste not... Don't trash it! The Queen finds fun, creative uses for everyday products. An ounce of prevention... Foil common household problems?before they begin. The Queen's favorite tales... Happy endings to the most unusual and daunting cleaning challenges! You'll also find handy sidebars, an updated index, and a revealing cleaning quiz to help you measure your status as a domestic diva. Never be a slave to housework again! Includes Helpful Hints From The Royal Guide To Spot And Stain Removal!
Author:
Linda Cobb
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780743490405
Format: Paperback Book
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The Urban Homestead
The Urban Homestead is the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. Rejecting both end-times hand wringing and dewy-eyed faith that technology will save us from ourselves, urban homesteaders choose instead to act. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, they are planting seeds for the future of our cities. If you would like to harvest your own vegetables, raise city chickens, or convert to solar energy, this practical, hands-on book is full of step-by-step projects that will get you started homesteading immediately, whether you live in an apartment or a house. It is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point you to the best books and Internet resources on self-sufficiency topics. Projects include: How to grow food on a patio or balconyHow to clean your house without toxinsHow to preserve foodHow to cook with solar energyHow to divert your grey water to your gardenHow to choose the best homestead for you Written by city dwellers for city dwellers, this illustrated, smartly designed, two-color instruction book proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community, and our planet. Authors Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen happily farm in Los Angeles and run the urban homestead blog www.homegrownrevolution.org.
Author:
Kelly Coyne & Erik Knutzen
Publisher: Process Media
ISBN: 9781934170014
Format: Paperback Book
List Price: $27.95
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File Don't Pile!
Explains how to decide whether to save newspaper and magazine articles, demonstrates a system for organizing clippings, and suggests ways to maintain a personal or business file.
Author:
Pat Dorff
Publisher: Saint Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312289317
Format: Paperback Book
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The Cleaning Encyclopaedia
This is the ultimate all-in-one guide to the art of cleaning. Top-notch professional cleaner Don Aslett shares the secrets of the pros as he leads you through basic training -- over 600 alphabetized entries dealing with specific problems, with a comprehensive reference for everything from the anatomy of housekeeping to safe storage of cleaning chemicals and tools.
Author:
Don Aslett
Publisher: TBS The Book Service Ltd
ISBN: 9780440235019
Format: Paperback Book
List Price: $12.95
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Haley's Cleaning Hints
Over 2,000 of the most extraordinary MONEY & TIME SAVING uses for ordinary household items...at your fingertips! Over a million Haley's books sold...Discover the gold mine you have in your home--ordinary items and products with extraordinary time-and money-saving uses. Includes a comprehensive easy-find index to help you find the exact solution you need--fast!
Author:
Graham Haley & Rosemary Haley
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780451211910
Format: Paperback Book
List Price: $23.95
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The New Woodburner's Handbook
Concerns about air quality and global warming are increasingly important. Fortunately, there are new, high-tech stoves on the market that burn far more cleanly and efficiently than the old models. This book is filled with tips on selecting and installing the right stove for any home, and brings the age-old practice of wood heating into the modern age.
Author:
Stephen Bushway
Publisher: Storey Books
ISBN: 9780882667881
Format: Paperback Book
List Price: $20.95
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It Works!
Mary Ellen showcases some of her very best tips using items found in every home. From A to Z, this book covers everything from Alcohol to Zest. It Works! will not only save you money, it is fun to read and features illustrations by Jonathan Richards.
Author:
Mary E Pinkham
Publisher: Pinkham Publishing
ISBN: 9780941298124
Format: Paperback Book
List Price: $20.95
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1001 Home Hints
Includes freatures on perfecting essential home-making skills from cleaning and coooking to caring for houseplants.
Author:
Norma Macmillan & Janice Murfitt Mike Lawrence,
Angela Nilson, Sarah Maxwell & Jan Eaton
Publisher: Anness Publishing
ISBN: 9781844764891
Format: Paperback Book
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All New Hints from Heloise
Hundreds of quick, economical, and simple solutions for hundreds of household problems-----at the touch of a fingertip. From one of America's most trusted names, a home reference that will be used again and again, featuring tried-and-true, money-saving, stress-reducing, time-saving advice on:
a--Organizing, cleaning, and repairing everything in the home
a--Setting up and running a home office
a--First aid and safety
a--Household budgeting
a--Stain removal
a--Entertaining for special and everyday occasions
a--Traveling for fun or work
Author:
Heloise
Publisher: Perigee Books
ISBN: 9780399515101
Format: Paperback Book
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Better Basics for the Home
A compendium of practical information--recipes, tips, and guidelines--for building a simple, comfortable, healthy, environmentally safer lifestyle.
Author:
Annie Berthold-Bond
Publisher: Random House Publishers
ISBN: 9780609803257
Format: Paperback Book
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1001 Do-It-Yourself Hints and Tips
Tackle common household jobs smartly, quickly, and safely with the easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions found in this must-have resource. Full-color photographs throughout.
Author:
Katherine G Ness & Cinda Siler Tracey Harden,
Ian Worpole
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN: 9780762109067
Format: Paperback Book
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Vinegar, Duct Tape, Milk Jugs & More: 1,001 Ingenious Ways to Use Common Household Items to Repair, Restore, Revive, or Replace Just about Everything
Author:
Yankee Magazine Guidebook
Publisher: Rodale Press
ISBN: 9780899093857
Format: Paperback Book
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