Household Hints & Handy Tips

Household Hints & Handy Tips

Author: Reader's Digest Association

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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A handbook for everyday life with more than 4,000 time saving and cost saving tips for the home. Its pages are packed with shortcuts, practical advice, ingenious ideas, how-to information, and more than 1,000 illustrations. Includes over 70 how-to projects--accompanied by step-by-step illustrations--and more than 275 special features.


Classic Household Hints

Classic Household Hints

Author: Susan Waggoner

Publisher: ABRAMS

Published: 2014-10-31

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1613122535

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An illustrated, nostalgic how-to guide to achieving a clean, organized, and happy home—with over 500 retro tips and tricks! Return your household to the simpler times of yesteryear with this delightful guide full of time- and money-saving tips on everything from cleaning and organizing your home to buying and handling food. Even in an age of endless new household products and devices, these old-fashioned, tried-and-true methods can help any homeowner keep a cleaner, happier home. A thoroughly researched compendium of the best American home life tips from the 1920s through the ’60s, Classic Household Hints is filled with useful information, full-color illustrations, fascinating sidebars, and quotes—providing practical help as well as fun for housekeepers and neat freaks everywhere.


Handy Household Hints from Heloise

Handy Household Hints from Heloise

Author: Heloise

Publisher: Rodale Books

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 160529117X

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Do EVERYTHING Around the House • Better • Smarter • Faster Heloise is America's most recognized name for household advice, and she shares her innovative solutions for your most-pressing dilemmas. Whether you need shortcuts for everyday tasks, delicious ideas for quick meals, or ingenious tricks for the spills, accidents, and clogs in your day, just turn to Handy Household Hints from Heloise. You'll learn how to: • Clean a keyboard with a used dryer sheet. • Remove hot pepper seeds with a grapefruit spoon. • Lift scuff marks with plain, white paper. • Corral electrical cords with a ponytail holder. Discover Heloise's most creative ideas and tips for cleaning up, entertaining with ease, making repairs, getting organized, taking care of yourself, coping with nuisances, and keeping house. Filled with up-to-the-minute hints, you'll turn to this handbook whenever you've burnt the rice, stained your shirt, or splattered paint on your hands.


Reader's Digest Home Hints & Timeless Tips

Reader's Digest Home Hints & Timeless Tips

Author: Reader's Digest

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 1621454916

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This versatile guide brings together more than 2,000 helpful hints, practical tips and remedies from days gone by and shows you how they can benefit your health, lifestyle, home and garden. All have been researched and tested and more often than not you’ll find the ingredients right there in your cupboard. Did you know you can make wooden platters look like new just by rubbing them with a solution of vinegar? Or that you can get your linen as white as snow by adding a few teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda to the washing powder? That a cold wristband can bring rapid relief to headache-sufferers? Would you like to learn how easy it is to make dried apples, apricots and other fruit without the use of preservatives? This versatile guide brings together more than 2,000 helpful hints, practical tips and remedies from days gone by and shows you how they can benefit your health, lifestyle, home and garden. All have been researched and tested for their practical application in today’s world and offer simple, effective alternatives to expensive products and those using toxic chemicals—and more often than not you’ll find the ingredients right there in your cupboard. The book includes: Safe, time-honored remedies to treat or prevent health problems Homemade cosmetics and traditional beauty tips to help you look your best Clever, environmentally friendly cleaning techniques to keep your home in tip-top condition Traditional advice for preparing great-tasting, nutritious food economically in the modern kitchen Tried-and-trusted principles of decoration and organization to make your home a welcoming haven The proven know-how of generations of gardeners to help you create a green space that is safe and chemical-free For each of the six areas of life covered in the book, topics are presented in an A-Z format with special features on topics of interest, such as essential home medicines, natural cleaning products, and a season-by-season guide to gardening.


The Ultimate Book of Household Hints and Tips

The Ultimate Book of Household Hints and Tips

Author: Cassandra Kent

Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781405349338

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Handy hints and tips for a happy homeThe key to running a home is organization. Learn how to keep clutter to a minimum, establish a cleaning routine that you can live with and learn how to make time for regular repairs and maintenance. Packed with common sense solutions, expert advice and traditional tips that will help you do things quickly and easily – so you have more time to enjoy yourself at home! Dip in and out for quick reference and inspirational tips!


Household Hints

Household Hints

Author: Heather Rodino

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1627889310

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It’s amazing what you can do with these four simple ingredients from your kitchen . . . Looking for simple, affordable, and effective home products you can count on? Trying to avoid all those harmful chemicals and find safe, natural solutions instead? Household Hints has hundreds of tips, techniques, and recipes—and many are made from the wholesome ingredients already in your kitchen: vinegar, lemon, salt, and baking soda. Inside this book you’ll learn about: cleaning solutions and scrubs * pet care * natural pest control * tips for gardens, yards, and garages * DIY beauty * food and cooking hacks These recipes and tips for the home are organized by use for easy reference with this colorfully illustrated guide. With these ingredients you can do almost anything—the possibilities are limitless!


1,001 Old-Time Household Hints

1,001 Old-Time Household Hints

Author: Yankee Magazine

Publisher: Rodale

Published: 2006-03-07

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780899093987

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A compendium of tips, recipes, and recommendations for everyday living, collected by the editors of the popular New England periodical, covers a wide range of topics, from baking bread using traditional methods and simplifying household chores to celebrating the holidays and caring for a garden. 15,000 first printing.


Clean & Green

Clean & Green

Author: Nancy Birtwhistle

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2021-01-21

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1529049733

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Simple swaps and innovative ideas for cleaning and maintaining your home that won't cost the Earth. Learn how easy it is to make simple swaps in your cleaning and tidying methods for a more eco-friendly home. This beautifully illustrated black and white guide with 101 hints and sustainable, natural cleaning tips and hacks will help you take small steps that have a massive positive environmental impact. In Clean & Green, Nancy Birtwhistle shares the simple recipes and methods she has developed since making a conscious effort to live more sustainably, many of which are faster and easier than the go-to products and methods most of us use now. From everyday cleaning and laundry tips to zero-effort oven cleaner and guidance on removing tricky stains from clothing and furniture, these economical, practical methods are perfect for anyone looking to reduce their use of plastic and throwaway products. Nancy shares her tried-and-tested recipes for all-purpose cleaners, replacements for harmful chemicals that will keep both your home and the planet clean and green for future generations.


Heinz Distilled White Vinegar

Heinz Distilled White Vinegar

Author: Christine Halvorsen

Publisher: PIL Kids

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781412712125

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This handy book provides more than 100 hints and tips for using vinegar throughout the house to save time and money. » The quick and simple ideas in this book will help with cooking, cleaning, and many other household tasks. » Heinz Vinegar is in everyone's pantry. Give these tricks a try . . . you'll be glad you did.