1 001 Old Time Household Hints

Author : Editors of YANKEE MAGAZINE
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781632207203

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1,001 Old-Time Household Hints by Editors of YANKEE MAGAZINE Pdf

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

Author : Ottilie Victoria Wolff Holstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Formulas, recipes, etc
ISBN : OCLC:49432223

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1001 Household Hints by Ottilie Victoria Wolff Holstein Pdf

Author : Yankee Books
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0899093973

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My Favorite Yankee Miracles by Yankee Books Pdf

Contains over a thousand long-standing household tips, covering such aspects as cleaning, decorating, repair and maintenance, holiday celebrations, health, beauty and body care, pet care, houseplants, and kitchen and flower gardening.

Author : Mary Rose Quigg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781510766334

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1,001 Country Home Tips & Tricks by Mary Rose Quigg Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Waggoner
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781613122532

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Classic Household Hints by Susan Waggoner Pdf

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.

Author : Gill Davies
Publisher : Raincoast Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1897035071

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A Thousand and One Household Hints by Gill Davies Pdf

Author : Ottilie Victoria (Wolff) Mrs [Holstein
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1359981047

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1001 HOUSEHOLD HINTS by Ottilie Victoria (Wolff) Mrs [Holstein Pdf

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Author : Mary Rose Quigg
Publisher : Taj Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Home economics
ISBN : 1844060071

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Mary Rose's 1001 Country Household Hints by Mary Rose Quigg Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : OCLC:38352760

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1001 Handy Household Hints by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joan Parish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Housekeeping
ISBN : 1841931411

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1001 Household Hints by Joan Parish Pdf

Author : Roger B. Yepsen
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Gardening
ISBN : UVA:X004174220

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1001 Old-time Garden Tips by Roger B. Yepsen Pdf

Timeless bits of wisdom on how to grow everything organically, from the good old days when everyone did Old-time gardeners were ahead of their time! Their ideas for wildflower gardens, children's gardens, organic pest controls, decorating with houseplants, healing with herbs, and more are at the forefront of modern gardening trends. Take a look back to the future of gardening with this incredible collection of gardening advice from successful 17th-, 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century gardeners. Early gardeners knew what they were doing--they had to, since they depended on their plants for food, medicine, home decorations, and recreation! Whether you're growing vegetables, flowers, herbs, fruits, trees, shrubs, wildflowers, houseplants, or lawn grass, these old-time tips will help you get the most out of your plantings. Do you want a lusher lawn? How about more beautiful flowerbeds or hints for making your yard look bigger? You'll find all that and more in 1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips. Learn how to read weather signs, improve your soil organically, hide landscape eyesores with ease, decorate your home with flowering vines, and soothe sore joints with herbal remedies. Discover creative ways to landscape your home with fanciful topiary tree houses or practical hedges and windbreaks. From fruits to nuts and artichokes to watermelons, you'll find recommendations for healthier harvests--not to mention recipes for unique and tasty side dishes, drinks, and herbal seasonings. Plus: hundreds of organic techniques that have been proven effective by generations of great gardeners! Look for these special features and more: * "Old-Time Wisdom" boxes present early gardeners' best planting notions. * Tried-and-true recipes from early kitchens will tickle your tastebuds. * "Strange but True" boxes reveal weird, wacky, and wonderful gardening techniques. * A source list makes it easy to locate wonderful old-time plants. * Authentic old-time illustrations take you back to a time when garden tips were on everyone's lips. * A "Recommended Reading" list guides you to more great ideas from the past.

Author : Linda Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Home economics
ISBN : 0091917840

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Household Hints & Tips by Linda Gray Pdf

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.

Author : Reader's Digest Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Home Economics
ISBN : PSU:000013667894

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Household Hints & Handy Tips by Reader's Digest Association Pdf

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.

Author : Kusum Burman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8176930938

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1001 Household Hints by Kusum Burman Pdf

Author : Margaret Malone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-17
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0754813487

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1001 Home Hints and Tips by Margaret Malone Pdf

Includes freatures on perfecting essential home-making skills from cleaning and coooking to caring for houseplants.