Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

A Taste of the Country

Glamour and the Hostess

Edith Redman

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Recipes for Healthier Families

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Kate Payne

Homemaking advice and tips and make it fun. Wide range of topics highlighted in one of the photos above. 
Perfect clean copy. No writing, dog ears, or tears. Outside page edges clean. Spine intact. Cover shows minimal to zero shelf wear. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Michigan

Decorating, Dining, and the Gratifying Pleasures of Self-Sufficiency--On a Budget!

With The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking, it's possible and even convenient to create an inviting space for living and entertaining on a budget. From unique decor ideas to growing strawberries on your fire escape, Kate Payne shares fun, low-cost (and often free!) creative solutions that will make anyone feel more accomplished in minutes. Inside this savvy motivational guide filled to the brim with small-scale creative home projects, Kate's tongue-in-cheek tone will keep you tuned in to her much-needed advice. In three easy sections, you'll learn how to create a comfortable space while being time- and budget-conscious. Section One, Home-ify Your Pad, features quick, convenient ways to make your place cozier with low-cost, special touches to help you tap into and show off your inner artist. Section Two, Impressive Acts of Domesticity, teaches how to impress others (and yourself) with the gratifying pleasures of self-sufficiency—a first-time guide to cleaning, sewing, repairing, and other previously out-of-the-question tasks. Section Three, Life After Restaurants, frees you to release the take-out menu, avoid pricey bar tabs, and entertain others in the space you've so thoughtfully and gorgeously created. User-friendly "how-to" sidebars, illustrations, and tips and tricks throughout the book offer easy-to-follow recipes and do-it-yourself craft suggestions for making your home hip, comfortable, and inviting. Keep in mind that this is not your grandmother's handbook and it's not the kind of wisdom your mom knows how to impart. Modern women need a modern approach to domestic pleasures—a guide to doing household things on our own terms, because most of this stuff isn't as hard as we've been led to believe. Don't worry, she's not asking you to host Tupperware parties or iron your underwear. But as all beginning home keepers know, a sure fire way to feel bad about ourselves is to consult Martha Stewart. So ditch that 2-inch thick handbook, dust off your pots and pans, and join Kate on this journey to incorporating creativity and self-sufficiency on the home front.

The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Florida

A Crock Full of Recipes for Electric Slow Cooking

 The Unwatched Pot

The fine art of outdoor cooking

Gourmet international barbeque cookbook

Reader's Digest Editors

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

More than four thousand practical household hints include advice on household organization, housecleaning, storage, family life, personal grooming, decorating, clothing care, appliance repair, car care, house exterior maintenance, gardening, pet care, and more

Household Hints and Handy Tips

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Earl Prouly

Pennsylvania

From Stains in the Carpet to Squirrels in the Attic, More Than 1500 Ingenious Solutions for Everyday Household Problems

Provides cheap and easy solutions to everyday household problems

Yankee Home Hints

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How to Clean Practically Anything

Crafting with Potpourri and Other Things of Fragrance

Linda Cobb

Linda C. Cobb

Want to clean a coffeepot in a flash? Unclog a sink with a simple homemade solution? Do away with microwave odors?
Banish those dust bunnies?
LET HER ROYAL HIGHNESS OF HOUSEKEEPING SHOW YOU HOW TO TURN YOUR HOME INTO A SPARKLING PALACE-IN NO TIME AT ALL!
Talking Dirty
with the
Queen of Clean
Step aside, Martha... Here comes the Queen of Clean, and her down-to-earth housekeeping guide for those of us who live in the real world. After all, the Queen has better things to do than be a slave to housework. That's why she has assembled a marvelous collection of miraculous cleaning tips and surprising shortcuts that get the job done quickly and well. Without a lot of fuss, you can solve hundreds of cleaning challenges in every room of your home:
• Remove dust, rust, gum, fingerprints, stains, odors, and mildew
• Clean leather and upholstery, carpets, windows, walls, floors, kitchen appliances, grills, and more
• Deal with damage from flooding and fire
The Queen counts her pennies too-with inexpensive, environmentally friendly cleaning concoctions and ingredients you might never expect, including
Tea—the wood cleaner you can drink!
The amazing rust-removing power of the onion
Lemon juice • Vinegar • Petroleum jelly • Baking soda ... and the five cleaning products you should never be without!
Let the Queen of Clean put an end to drudgery with her hints and solutions that get fabulous results-fast!

Washington

Offers advice on how to clean a multitude of household objects including everything from the kitchen sink to leather car upholstery, and provides tips on how to use tea to clean wood and vinegar to remove rust.

Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean

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Anne Van Roden

In excellent condition except for a few marks on the cover.

Home-Made Breads

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John Dinsley

In a day when the fourth leading cause of death in America is due to adverse effects of properly prescribed drugs (Jounal of American Medical Association - July 2000), many are asking, "Are there not safer alternatives?" Yes there are!! Allow me to introduce to you one extraordinary yet simple natural remedy - Activated medicinal charcoal.Charcoal, What is it?We drink water filtered by it; breath are scrubbed with it; eat food purified through it; wear clothes made with it; preserve things in it; go to war with it; enjoy hundreds of dishes cooked by it; we move mountains with it; we make the night sky sparkle with it; grow our food and flowers in it; we take it with us to the bottom of the deepest oceans and out into space; swim in water washed with it; draw our inspirations with it; record man's history dipped in it: and then we call upon it to clean up many of our environmental mistakes. Not least and not last, medicinal charcoal plays an increasingly significant role in maintaining, restoring and enhancing man's level of health. No wonder we naturally warm up to it."I heartily recomment CharcoalRemedies.com The Complete Handbook of Medicinal Charcoal and It's Applications by author John Dinsley. As a physician, as a mother and grandmother, as a public health educator for the past 41 years, I have come to fully trust the efficacy and safety of charcoal as simple yet powerful home remedy. This book serves not only as a reference book of medicinal charcoal facts, but also brings together a hundred and fifty different charcoal experiences of individuals from around the world. People need this book. EVERY FAMILY, every healthcare worker, every traveler abroad, every health conscious individual needs a copy in their home library." --Agatha Thrast, MD (Co-founder Uchee Pines Institute. Medical Examiner for the State of Georgia)

Charcoal Remedies

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Farm Journal Editors

And so good recipes for cooking with them 

How to Dry Fruits and Vegetables at Home

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#paperback #fiction #homemaking #leematalone

New Jersey

A Novel

"An intricate exploration of family and home, of mother and child, of friends, of women and written with both precision and style."--Weike Wang, author of Chemistry From a talented, powerful new voice in fiction comes a stunning novel about the intersection of three lives coming to grips with identity, family legacy, and what it means to make a house a true home. Cybil is a war child--the result of a brief affair between a young Japanese woman and a French soldier--who at a young age is transplanted to Tucson, Arizona, and raised by an American officer and his rigid wife. After a rebellious adolescence, she grows up to become a successful ob-gyn. Chloe, Cybil's daughter, is adrift in an empty house in the hills of Virginia. Her marriage has fallen apart, and her estranged husband is dying of cancer. Room by room, Chloe makes her new house into a home, grappling always with the real and imagined boundaries that limit her as a single, childless woman in contemporary America. Beau, Chloe's closest friend, is in love with a man he's only met on the internet, who lives across the country. Shepherding Chloe through her grief, he is often called back to his loud, humid, chaotic childhood in Southwest Louisiana, where he first reckoned with the intricate ties between queerness, loneliness, and place. Through each of these characters Matalone weaves a moving, beautiful narrative of home, identity, and belonging. Home Making is a somber, yet hopeful, ode to the stories we tell ourselves in order to make a family.

Home Making

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Edith Stovel

Pamela Wakefield

Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-97

Salt-Free Herb Cookery

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250 Healthful Dairy Dishes

Christina Strutt

Exuberant book with some wear and fading present. Please see pictures. 

Live a Calmer, Healthier Life, Recycle and Reuse, Clean Naturally, Garden Organically

This guide to natural housekeeping is full of helpful advice to help you take a more sustainable path and save the planet for future generations. For example, discover how lemons, baking powder, vinegar, and water can replace the need for nasty chemical cleaning products. The old-fashioned methods described here are complemented by newer ideas and innovations, and applied not only to cleaning but also to restoring furniture and woodwork, and decorating. Also, learn how to grow and use vegetables, fruit, and herbs to make delicious treats, beauty preparations, and herbal remedies.• Follow the advice in Natural Housekeeping and find yourselfliving a calmer, greener life.• Enjoy the special satisfaction of preparing food you have grown yourself-fertilized with home-made compost.• You can live just as well, if not better-and probably lessexpensively-without hurting yourself or the planet.

A Guide to Green Housekeeping

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Guide for the Jewish Homemaker

#paperback #nonfiction #everydayproducts #homemade #homemaking #homestudying #natural #readersdigest 

New York

How-To Make Hundreds of Everyday Products Fast, Fresh, and More Naturally

For the first time in one book, here are low-cost, all-natural replacement recipes for 713 name-brand products that you buy week in and week out at the supermarket, pharmacy, or discount store. Save a fortune making your own everyday cooking, cleaning, and toiletry products! At the same time, you’ll fill your cabinets with fresh, super high-quality products at work or taste great—without all the chemicals and preservatives of store-bought versions. Plus, ‘think green”—you will greatly reduce the amount of useless, environment-damaging waste and garbage—spray bottles, jars, and cans. For cleaning, laundering, and polishing, the compounds are much gentler and less damaging to drains, sewage, and septic systems. The ingredients in most brand-name products account for only pennies of the purchaser’s dollar and rest of what you spend covers advertising, packaging, shipping, and the retailer’s overhead. Try these easy to make recipes: Food Staples: mayonnaise, peanut butter, breakfast cereals, soft drinks, soups, pickles, and jellies—save 50% on homemade salsa Beauty and Health Supplies: moisturizers, facials, lip balm, aftershave, decongestant, foot powder, and PMS tea—save 90% on aftershave Household Compounds: glues, wood stains, ant traps, and houseplant food Cleaning Supplies and Polishes: carpet fresheners, cleaners, mildew remover, dishwasher detergent, and fabric softener—save 95% on homemade bathroom cleaner Pet Supplies: liver snaps, dog shampoo, flea dip, cat litter, pet bird honey treats, and hamster fruit cup—save 73% on cat treats Garden Products: fertilizer, soil conditioners, weed killer, deer repellents, and snail traps And much more Making low-cost, more natural versions of your favorite name brand grocery items is simple when you know the secrets. Homemade is your guide to saving a small fortune by making everyday household items yourself.

Homemade

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Rachelle Blondel

Dottie Angel

Slight spots on cover. Other than that, great condition!

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Kitchen Cures and Household Lore for a Natural Home and Garden

A beautifully designed guide to natural beauty products, home cleaners, health remedies, and other household tips inspired by the techniques of our ancestors.

Using ingredients from your kitchen cupboards, garden, and vegetable patch (or your local supermarket), Forgotten Ways for Modern Days draws on the wisdom of homemakers, gardeners, and crafters of the past, introducing their knowledge and time-tested tips. From brightening your whites by putting eggshells in your washing to making beeswax furniture polish to herbal hair rinses, Rachelle Blondel brings the crafty ways of our grandparents into modern times.

Forgotten Ways for Modern Days

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#tipsandtricks #homemaking #cleaninghacks #lifehacks

Kentucky

Offers cleaning tips regarding appliances, bathrooms, beds, carpets, clutter, doors, drains, dust, floors, furniture, laundry, stains, tiles, windows, and wood floors

The Cleaning Encyclopedia

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#paperback #vintage #homemade #recipes #homeec #homemaking

Tested Methods and Recipes From the Experts Who Run the World's Most Famous Meat Kitchen 

Martha Logan's Meat Cookbook

Book club edition. Hardcover book with dust jacket. It has some wear included gift inscription inside front cover.

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Marie Holmes

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Edith Redman

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Kate Payne

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Gourmet international barbeque cookbook

Reader's Digest Editors

Household Hints and Handy Tips

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How to Clean Practically Anything

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Anne Van Roden

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How to Dry Fruits and Vegetables at Home

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Home Making

Edith Stovel

Salt-Free Herb Cookery

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250 Healthful Dairy Dishes

Christina Strutt

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