Home hints and timeless tips : more than 3,000 tried-and-trusted techniques for smart housekeeping, home cooking, beauty and body care, natural remedies, home style and comfort, and easy gardening PDF
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Contents Good health . . . naturally Acid reflux Acne Back pain Bladder and kidney disorders Blood pressure Breath problems Burns and scalds Colds Constipation Depression Diarrhea Earache Essential home medicines Eye problems Fatigue Flatulence Foot care Gallstones Hemorrhoids Hair loss Hay fever Headaches Heart and circulation problems Insect bites Joint treatments Muscle pain Muscle sprains Nausea Nervous problems Respiratory disorders Shingles Skin treatments Sleep Stomach complaints Strengthen your defenses Teeth Throat problems Varicose veins Warts Women’s reproductive health Beauty and body care Homemade beauty products Age spots Blemishes Cellulite Deodorants Eye care Facial cleansers Facial masks Foot pampering Hair care Hair coloring Hand care Lip care Moisturizers Nail care Natural perfumes Nutrition for beauty Oral hygiene Relaxing baths Scrubs Shaving Skin care Smart housekeeping Bathrooms Beds and bedding Carpeting Curtains Dishes Doors Fabric dyeing Floors Footwear Furniture Glass and mirrors Glassware Housecleaning Household aids and accessories Ironing Jewelry Kitchen care Kitchen gadgets and utensils Laundry Leather Lighting Odors Pests Pots and pans Sewing and mending Silver, brass and pewter Stain removal Traditional cleaners Upholstery Walls Windows Home cooking Baking, cookies and cakes Bread Cooking tips Drying food Entertaining Flavored liqueurs Food safety Freezing Grains Herbs Jams and jellies Juices Kitchen safety Leftovers Meat, fish and poultry Nonalcoholic beverages Oils and vinegars Pasta and rice Potatoes Preserves Preserving in vinegar and oil Rescues and solutions Sauces, gravies and dressings Seasonal produce Shopping Soups and stocks Spices Sweets and treats Table and place settings Thrift in the kitchen Style and comfort Balconies, decks and patios Beautiful bedrooms Blankets and throws Book care Candlelight Choosing carpets Clocks Colors Decorating Displays Door wreaths Fireplaces and woodstoves Floral decorations Fragrances in the home Fresh, bright bathrooms Furnishing for comfort Heating and cooling Home safety Indoor plants Light conditions Lighting Maintaining your home Natural materials Parties Pictures Pillows and cushions Space saving Storage solutions Table linen and kitchen fabrics Wallpaper Wall treatments Window dressing Gardening with nature Berries and currants Bulbs Climbing plants Companion planting Compost Crop rotation Feeding and revitalizing Flower beds and borders Fruit trees Fruit vines Gardening tools Hedge care Herb gardens Kitchen gardens Lawns Organic pest control Ornamental shrubs and trees Plant diseases Planting for privacy Plant propagation Pot and container plants Roses Season by season Soil Tasks for winter Transplanting Vegetable and salad beds Watering Weed control Photo Credits Yesterday’s top tips for today’s busy lifestyles Almost every day, new—and usually expensive—consumer products appear that promise to make our lives easier and simpler. But are they all really necessary? Despite their initial hype, few of them live up to expectations. Our grandparents’ generation had abundant knowledge about how to solve everyday problems easily, inexpensively and effectively, without running to the store—whether the issue was storing fresh produce, making skin look younger, relieving toothache pain or getting laundry whiter. Wouldn’t it be a shame if all that expertise was lost to future generations? To prevent that from happening and to preserve yesterday’s top tips for today’s busy families, we have gathered a wealth of traditional wisdom to create this book. Home Hints and Timeless Tips is a comprehensive collection of the best time- honored solutions from past generations. From your medicine cabinet to your freezer, your vegetable patch to your morning shower, here are clever suggestions and solutions that show you how to apply the good old ways from the good old days to improve the way we do things now. It’s not about harking back to a nostalgic past, but about presenting old-fashioned ideas in such a way that they can easily be used in today’s world. It makes the wealth of our
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