Author: Editors of YANKEE MAGAZINE
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1632207206
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Wonder what Grandma would have used to clean greasy kitchen walls? Cure a sore throat? Conquer insect pests in her vegetable garden? Wonder no longer! Whatever your grandma did to fix and maintain things around the house and garden, it probably worked. That's because the old ways are often the best ways when it comes to solutions for everyday problems, ideas for saving time, and handy advice for getting the job done. And that's where 1,001 Old-Time Household Hints comes in. Find the best hints, tips, and secrets for everything from cooking, cleaning, and home maintenance to pet care, gardening, and holiday celebrations. You'll also find ways to adapt and improve some old-time methods. Discover an amazing variety of useful and clever ideas, including how to: Clean copper pans, using buttermilk and salt Make real sourdough bread the way the pioneers did Fight wrinkles and create kissable lips Use natural ingredients to repair your hair Create your own unique perfume Organize common space in your home Use ivory soap for polishing silver and insect control Safely separate drinking glasses that have been stuck together And more! With 1,001 Old-Time Household Hints on your kitchen table or nightstand, you're always in the good company of an old-timer who's ready to dispense a helpful hint, encouraging word, or sage secret at the turn of a page. 310 color photographs
1,001 Old-Time Household Hints
Author: Editors of YANKEE MAGAZINE
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1632207206
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Wonder what Grandma would have used to clean greasy kitchen walls? Cure a sore throat? Conquer insect pests in her vegetable garden? Wonder no longer! Whatever your grandma did to fix and maintain things around the house and garden, it probably worked. That's because the old ways are often the best ways when it comes to solutions for everyday problems, ideas for saving time, and handy advice for getting the job done. And that's where 1,001 Old-Time Household Hints comes in. Find the best hints, tips, and secrets for everything from cooking, cleaning, and home maintenance to pet care, gardening, and holiday celebrations. You'll also find ways to adapt and improve some old-time methods. Discover an amazing variety of useful and clever ideas, including how to: Clean copper pans, using buttermilk and salt Make real sourdough bread the way the pioneers did Fight wrinkles and create kissable lips Use natural ingredients to repair your hair Create your own unique perfume Organize common space in your home Use ivory soap for polishing silver and insect control Safely separate drinking glasses that have been stuck together And more! With 1,001 Old-Time Household Hints on your kitchen table or nightstand, you're always in the good company of an old-timer who's ready to dispense a helpful hint, encouraging word, or sage secret at the turn of a page. 310 color photographs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1632207206
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Wonder what Grandma would have used to clean greasy kitchen walls? Cure a sore throat? Conquer insect pests in her vegetable garden? Wonder no longer! Whatever your grandma did to fix and maintain things around the house and garden, it probably worked. That's because the old ways are often the best ways when it comes to solutions for everyday problems, ideas for saving time, and handy advice for getting the job done. And that's where 1,001 Old-Time Household Hints comes in. Find the best hints, tips, and secrets for everything from cooking, cleaning, and home maintenance to pet care, gardening, and holiday celebrations. You'll also find ways to adapt and improve some old-time methods. Discover an amazing variety of useful and clever ideas, including how to: Clean copper pans, using buttermilk and salt Make real sourdough bread the way the pioneers did Fight wrinkles and create kissable lips Use natural ingredients to repair your hair Create your own unique perfume Organize common space in your home Use ivory soap for polishing silver and insect control Safely separate drinking glasses that have been stuck together And more! With 1,001 Old-Time Household Hints on your kitchen table or nightstand, you're always in the good company of an old-timer who's ready to dispense a helpful hint, encouraging word, or sage secret at the turn of a page. 310 color photographs
1,001 Old-Time Household Hints
Author: Editors of YANKEE MAGAZINE
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1626366225
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Wonder what Grandma would have used to clean greasy kitchen walls? Cure a sore throat? Conquer insect pests in her vegetable garden? Wonder no longer! Whatever your grandma did to fix and maintain things around the house and garden, it probably worked. That’s because the old ways are often the best ways when it comes to solutions for everyday problems, ideas for saving time, and handy advice for getting the job done. And that’s where 1,001 Old-Time Household Hints comes in. Find the best hints, tips, and secrets for everything from cooking, cleaning, and home maintenance to pet care, gardening, and holiday celebrations. You’ll also find ways to adapt and improve some old-time methods. Discover an amazing variety of useful and clever ideas, including how to: • Clean copper pans, using buttermilk and salt • Make real sourdough bread the way the pioneers did • Fight wrinkles and create kissable lips • Use natural ingredients to repair your hair • Create your own unique perfume • Organize common space in your home • Use ivory soap for polishing silver and insect control • Safely separate drinking glasses that have been stuck together • And more! With 1,001 Old-Time Household Hints on your kitchen table or nightstand, you’re always in the good company of an old-timer who’s ready to dispense a helpful hint, encouraging word, or sage secret at the turn of a page. 310 color photographs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1626366225
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Wonder what Grandma would have used to clean greasy kitchen walls? Cure a sore throat? Conquer insect pests in her vegetable garden? Wonder no longer! Whatever your grandma did to fix and maintain things around the house and garden, it probably worked. That’s because the old ways are often the best ways when it comes to solutions for everyday problems, ideas for saving time, and handy advice for getting the job done. And that’s where 1,001 Old-Time Household Hints comes in. Find the best hints, tips, and secrets for everything from cooking, cleaning, and home maintenance to pet care, gardening, and holiday celebrations. You’ll also find ways to adapt and improve some old-time methods. Discover an amazing variety of useful and clever ideas, including how to: • Clean copper pans, using buttermilk and salt • Make real sourdough bread the way the pioneers did • Fight wrinkles and create kissable lips • Use natural ingredients to repair your hair • Create your own unique perfume • Organize common space in your home • Use ivory soap for polishing silver and insect control • Safely separate drinking glasses that have been stuck together • And more! With 1,001 Old-Time Household Hints on your kitchen table or nightstand, you’re always in the good company of an old-timer who’s ready to dispense a helpful hint, encouraging word, or sage secret at the turn of a page. 310 color photographs
Thousand And One Household Hints
Author: Packages
Publisher: Packages
ISBN: 9780785818113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Packages
ISBN: 9780785818113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
1,001 Country Home Tips & Tricks
Author: Mary Rose Quigg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510766332
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Over 1,000 Tips for Gardening, Country Cooking, Saving Money, DIY Cleaning Solutions, Home Remedies, and More! This comprehensive collection of practical tips covers all aspects of keeping a country home, from painting a wall to removing wine stains, making perfect pastry to making your own window cleaner. In addition, find advice for cleaning carpets, making jam, wallpapering, knitting, sewing, and more! Woven throughout are poems and proverbs, legends and lore, making this an enjoyable read and a perfect housewarming gift. "Crisp limp lettuce and celery by placing in a pan of cold water for an hour with slices of raw potato." "If an aluminum pan has become discolored, boil some apple peel in it for a few minutes, then rinse and dry." "Tighten up sagging cane seats of chairs by scrubbing both the top and underside with hot soapy water. Rinse in cold salt water." "Sprinkle salt on paths and brickwork crevices to get rid of weeds and grass." "A needle can be threaded more easily if a little hairspray, starch, or beeswax is put on the end of the thread." "Sage tea is a valuable tonic that stimulates the circulation and soothes a persistent cough." Complete with lovely color illustrations throughout, this is a delightful and useful read.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510766332
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Over 1,000 Tips for Gardening, Country Cooking, Saving Money, DIY Cleaning Solutions, Home Remedies, and More! This comprehensive collection of practical tips covers all aspects of keeping a country home, from painting a wall to removing wine stains, making perfect pastry to making your own window cleaner. In addition, find advice for cleaning carpets, making jam, wallpapering, knitting, sewing, and more! Woven throughout are poems and proverbs, legends and lore, making this an enjoyable read and a perfect housewarming gift. "Crisp limp lettuce and celery by placing in a pan of cold water for an hour with slices of raw potato." "If an aluminum pan has become discolored, boil some apple peel in it for a few minutes, then rinse and dry." "Tighten up sagging cane seats of chairs by scrubbing both the top and underside with hot soapy water. Rinse in cold salt water." "Sprinkle salt on paths and brickwork crevices to get rid of weeds and grass." "A needle can be threaded more easily if a little hairspray, starch, or beeswax is put on the end of the thread." "Sage tea is a valuable tonic that stimulates the circulation and soothes a persistent cough." Complete with lovely color illustrations throughout, this is a delightful and useful read.
1000 Plus Household Hints
Author: TANUSHREE PODDAR
Publisher: V&S Publishers
ISBN: 935057201X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
You pride yourself in being a great home-maker.But often you get bogged down by small problems like moss on the kitchen floor, coffee-stains on the shirt,termite on the new wood-work! This book endeavours to provide easy solutions to common Housekeeping problems that crop up from time to time. Designed for the young home makers to help them with the running of the Housekeeping efficiently, it contains more than a 1000 tips on various aspects of home-management. The wealth of this information is sure to come in handy to the readers. Learn how to: * get back sparkle on your utensils * eliminate eggy smellin cakes * demoth your woollens the natural way * light up your interiors * get the gloss back on your diamonds and pearls . Also find tips here on Cleaning, Gadgets, Economy, Recycling(salads/raitas/dals/chapatis/sweets), Storing etc. So get ready to streamline your housekeeping yourself and your family with clinical efficiency. #v&spublishers
Publisher: V&S Publishers
ISBN: 935057201X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
You pride yourself in being a great home-maker.But often you get bogged down by small problems like moss on the kitchen floor, coffee-stains on the shirt,termite on the new wood-work! This book endeavours to provide easy solutions to common Housekeeping problems that crop up from time to time. Designed for the young home makers to help them with the running of the Housekeeping efficiently, it contains more than a 1000 tips on various aspects of home-management. The wealth of this information is sure to come in handy to the readers. Learn how to: * get back sparkle on your utensils * eliminate eggy smellin cakes * demoth your woollens the natural way * light up your interiors * get the gloss back on your diamonds and pearls . Also find tips here on Cleaning, Gadgets, Economy, Recycling(salads/raitas/dals/chapatis/sweets), Storing etc. So get ready to streamline your housekeeping yourself and your family with clinical efficiency. #v&spublishers
Mary Rose's 1001 Country Household Hints
Author: Mary Rose Quigg
Publisher: Taj Books
ISBN: 9781844060078
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: Taj Books
ISBN: 9781844060078
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Household Hints & Handy Tips
Author: Reader's Digest Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
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.
The Editor
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors and publishers
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors and publishers
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Household Hints & Tips
Author: Linda Gray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780091917845
Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Many wonderful little tricks and techniques can be gleaned from old-fashioned knowledge when it comes to keeping a home clean and comfortable with the minimum of effort and expense. This book contains a selection of the most useful hints and tips, including sections on how to clean everything--advice on the essential home-cleaning kit and failsafe tips for keeping every room of the house clean; how to make do and mend--with recycling a virtue once again, these traditional tips are well worth following; good plain cooking--basic cooking skills never go out of fashion and neither will these simple tips; traditional decorating tips--time-honored ways to achieve a professional finish; and gracious living--shortcuts to the "domestic arts" that help turn a house into a home. In addition, Linda Gray reveals the secrets to how to treat valuable and traditional materials, keep pests at bay and care for clothes, and ensure safety at home. A handy pocket reference book you will turn to again and again, Household Hints & Tips is full of great tips to help you maintain a stylish home with minimum expense.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780091917845
Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Many wonderful little tricks and techniques can be gleaned from old-fashioned knowledge when it comes to keeping a home clean and comfortable with the minimum of effort and expense. This book contains a selection of the most useful hints and tips, including sections on how to clean everything--advice on the essential home-cleaning kit and failsafe tips for keeping every room of the house clean; how to make do and mend--with recycling a virtue once again, these traditional tips are well worth following; good plain cooking--basic cooking skills never go out of fashion and neither will these simple tips; traditional decorating tips--time-honored ways to achieve a professional finish; and gracious living--shortcuts to the "domestic arts" that help turn a house into a home. In addition, Linda Gray reveals the secrets to how to treat valuable and traditional materials, keep pests at bay and care for clothes, and ensure safety at home. A handy pocket reference book you will turn to again and again, Household Hints & Tips is full of great tips to help you maintain a stylish home with minimum expense.
Who Knew? 10,001 Household Solutions
Author: Bruce Lubin
Publisher: Castle Point Books
ISBN: 1250108853
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
"Money-saving tips, DIY cleaners, kitchen secrets, and other easy answers to everyday problems"--Cover.
Publisher: Castle Point Books
ISBN: 1250108853
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
"Money-saving tips, DIY cleaners, kitchen secrets, and other easy answers to everyday problems"--Cover.