 | New In Paper! For the first time in nearly a century, a sole author has written a comprehensive book about housekeeping. This is not a dry how-to manual, nor a collection of odd tips and hints, but rather an eminently readable explanation for both beginners and experts of all the domestic arts—choosing fabrics, keeping the piano in tune, caring for books, making a good fire in the fireplace, ironing and folding, keeping surfaces free of food pathogens, and everything else that modern people might want to do for themselves in their homes. List Price: $ Price: $13.96   |
 | An irresistible compendium of tips, recipes, and sage advice on all aspects of everyday living, rediscovered from an earlier age—a glorious celebration of our heritage of ingenuity! The editors of Yankee magazine scoured scores of vintage books, magazines, journals, and memoirs to find the very best old-time secrets for preparing meals, cleaning, doing laundry, decorating, repairing the home, treating common ailments, caring for pets, celebrating the holidays, and gardening outdoors and indoors. Throughout this treasury the editors suggest ways to adapt yesteryear’s methods using today’s technology and materials, giving readers the best of both the old and the new. As readers explore these pages, they’ll discover: how to mix a stain for wood furniture from coffee and salt how to make real sourdough bread the way the pioneers did how to air condition a hot, stale room without relying on electricity how to fashion a beautiful garden trellis from twigs With this book by their side, readers will always be in the good company of an old-timer who is set to dispense a helpful hint, encouraging word, or sage secret at the turn of a page. List Price: $ Price: $10.77 |
 | Off-the-wall, money-saving uses for ordinary supermarket products. What do antacids, baby shampoo, and vodka have in common? They are all super powerful, money-saving solutions described in this home-improvement guide to solving common health, home, and garden problems with products found on any supermarket's shelves. Aside from their traditional usage, these and other well-known supermarket products have secret lives as health and beauty aids, household cleaners, stain removers, and bug killers. Readers will learn how to heal a headache with a lime, unclog a drain with antacids, remove grease stains with mayonnaise, and extinguish garden pests with vegetable oil, along with discovering the secret power of such supermarket staples as buttermilk, coffee, cucumbers, honey, oatmeal, tea, and wax paper. Conveniently organized by shopping item, from aluminum foil to vegetable oil, this book has aisle after aisle of supermarket shopping tips and includes features such as Remarkable Recipes, Trash to Treasure, and Jerry's Fun Facts. List Price: $ Price: $19.76 |
 | How to correct mistakes, undo what you wish you hadn't done, presented with Heloise's practicality & Dr. Ruth's humor. Some recipes. List Price: $ Price: $7.16 |
 | Finally, here's the only book that shows you how to achieve a sparkling clean home faster, cheaper, and easier--and with a cleverness that will surprise even the experienced home manager. Start with the unique ZAP top-to-bottom cleaning system--the Zone Attack Plan, which breaks your home into four zones. ZAP shows you how to completely clean one zone before moving on to the next, resulting in a spick-and-span house, Designed by cleaning specialists and used by professionals, this system: Gives you a complete step-by-step plan for weekly housecleaning Provides time-saving cleaning ground rules Outlines needed cleaning tools and products Helps you avoid duplicating your cleaning efforts, extra trips around the house, and counterproductive moves like wiping dust onto a floor you just vacuumed. In addition, these authoritative pages are filled with detailed instructions on how to clean more than 300 common objects, from pans to pianos, and from washing machines to winter coats. You'll also find complete information on how to cope with stains, spills, mishaps, and other cleaning crises as well as a stain and laundry guide and the 10 golden rules of cleaning. This is the one book you need to help you clean from top to bottom. Price: $11.16 |
 | For the first time in nearly a century, a sole author has written a comprehensive book about housekeeping. This is not a dry how-to manual, nor a collection of odd tips and hints, but rather an eminently readable explanation for both beginners and experts of all the domestic arts—choosing fabrics, keeping the piano in tune, caring for books, making a good fire in the fireplace, ironing and folding, keeping surfaces free of food pathogens, and everything else that modern people might want to do for themselves in their homes. List Price: $ Price: $28.00 |
 | Boost the flavor and nutritional value of nearly any meal. A comprehensive guide to making homemade herbal vinegar, this resource includes a wide selection of delicious recipes for mustards, chutneys, salsas, preserves, and marinades. Explaining how, in addition to its culinary qualities, herbal vinegar can be used for medicinal and cosmetic purposes, readers also benefit from cost-cutting tips and advice for adding rich flavor to salads, meats, soups, stir-fries, sauces, fruits, and vegetables. A section on preparing and giving herbal vinegars as gifts is also included. Dixie Anderson and Tami Feulner are the developers of a successful seminar business that teaches women how to make herbal vinegars and use them in recipes, cosmetics, and home applications. They both live in Sandy, Utah. List Price: $ Price: $10.46 |
 | Baking soda gets its due in this fun collection gathered by Vicki Lansky and her readers over more than twenty years. From making an omelette extra fluffy or deodorizing those musty household smells, to improving flossing and mouth freshness or washing clay flower pots without leaving residue, the book offers hundreds of tips for making the most of this environmentally friendly and inexpensive product. List Price: $ Price: $7.16 |
 | Even if you live in a huge city, the air in your home is more toxic than the air outside. What's the filthiest object in the average home? Your kitchen sponge, of course. Where do most inhaled allergens come from? Your mattress. And did you know that the chemical glycol is used in perfumes, moisturizers, soaps, shampoos, cosmetics, deodorants, antifreeze, and brake fluid? Enter Organic Housekeeping, the must-have home care book of the twenty-first century. With wit and passion, author Ellen Sandbeck has written the book on organic housekeeping that covers how to clean and maintain every part of the home--from living room to septic tank--and suggests simple remedies (try using baking soda rather than a chemical bomb to scrub that bathroom sink); quick preventative measures, as well as the most effective organic products on the market to get the job done. List Price: $ Price: $20.69 |
 | Whether your home is small or large, an apartment in the city or a country cottage, it is a space that should be at once beautiful and livable. The key to that is managing the upkeep without feeling flustered. Until now, there has never been a comprehensive resource that not only tells how to care for your home and everything in it, but that also simplifies the process by explaining just when. With secrets from Martha Stewart for accomplishing the most challenging homekeeping tasks with ease, this detailed and comprehensive book is the only one you will need to help you keep your home looking its best, floor to ceiling, room by room. In Martha Stewart’s Homekeeping Handbook, Martha shares her unparalleled expertise in home maintenance and care. Readable and practical–and graced with charts, sidebars, illustrated techniques, and personal anecdotes from Martha’s decades of experience caring for her homes–this is far more than just a compendium of ways to keep your house clean. It covers everything from properly executing a living room floor plan to setting a formal table; from choosing HEPA filters to sealing soapstone countertops; from organizing your home office to polishing your silver and caring for family heirlooms. Martha Stewart’s Homekeeping Handbook is organized for clarity and maximum practicality: Room by Room covers the upkeep of the appliances, tools, furnishings, and surfaces found in each room, from the entryway to the kitchen, from the attic to the laundry room. Throughout the House instructs the reader on the proper ways to routinely clean and periodically maintain everything in the home, including dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, polishing, scrubbing, waxing and much more. Comfort and Safety focuses on techniques to ensure your home is running properly and safely, such as recognizing when to clean vents, fixing a leaky faucet, and eradicating pests. A-to-Z Materials Guide provides an invaluable resource that explains the unusual materials that many favorite objects are made of–from abalone to zinc– and how to care for them so they last. Encyclopedic yet friendly, Martha Stewart’s Homekeeping Handbook is a seminal work–a must-have for everyone who wants a well-cared-for home that will endure for generations. List Price: $ Price: $27.00 |