Household Hints For Dummies, Pocket Edition


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Clean your homethe easy way! The best ways to clean today are different from what they were even a few years ago. It's not just that you have to know how to use new products and new equipment. The surfaces in your home and the fibers used to make clothes and furniture have improved. Plus, the time you have to clean has shrunk. Inside you'll find easy-to-follow information on stain removal and a room-by-room guide to cleaning up everything from counters to carpets. You'll cut down on expensive cleaning bills and still maintain your home. Open the book and find: The basics of having a clean house The right tools for the job Methods for busting dust Tips on cleaning floors and carpets Guidance on caring for your kitchen and bathroom Hints on doing your laundry




The Ultimate Book of Household Hints and Tips


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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!




Handy Household Hints from Heloise


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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.




Household Hints & Tips


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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.




The Best Way - A Book Of Household Hints & Recipes


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Originally published in 1915, this is a practical household guide written `for housewives by housewives'. This book is absolutely packed with advice and hints that will still be of much practical use today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Vintage Cookery Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include Soups Fish Dinner Dishes Vegetable Cookery Pastry and Puddings Sweets and Creams Savouries Breakfast Dishes Cold Meat Cookery Invalid Cookery Cakes and Candies Sauces, Pickles, and Preserves Beverages Cookery Crumbs Bread, Buns, and Tea-Cakes Notes for The Home Doctor Care of Clothes Household Hints and Helps for the Housewife Nursery Notes Toilet Hints What a Housewife Ought to know




Household Hints & Handy Tips


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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.




Household Hints


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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!










Haley's Cleaning Hints


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The authors of the bestselling Haley’s Hints tackle household grime, goo, and garbage. In these pages are dozens of “Household Heroes” you already have in your own home. Ordinary household products and items that perform extraordinary cleaning tasks—ready to come to your rescue in time of need. You’ll be amazed at how much money you can save by not having to buy those expensive cleaners, deodorizers and “wonder” products. Learn the inside scoop on the amazing multiple cleaning properties of your very own “Household Heroes,” like shaving cream, toothpaste, vinegar, mayonnaise, baking soda, salt, hand cleaner, pantyhose and many more. Over 1,000 clever, inexpensive solutions help you clean, deodorize, unclutter and organize your home—from kitchen to bathroom, furniture to floors, windows to walls. Terrific tips on stain removal, laundry, space-saving, and even outdoor clean-up turn everyday chores into dirt-busting adventures.