The Complete Household Handbook

The Complete Household Handbook
Author:
Publisher: Hearst Books
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2005
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9781588164032

The best ways to clean, maintain, and organize your home. Includes laundry and clothes care, food and the kitchen, storage and home office solutions, and safety.

The Complete Household Handbook

The Complete Household Handbook
Author:
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2007
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9781588165961

This comprehensive volume offers the Good Housekeeping Institute's expert advice on everything homeowners need to know, from cleaning a floor to fixing a leaky gutter to keeping a yard looking great.

Household Hints For Dummies, Pocket Edition

Household Hints For Dummies, Pocket Edition
Author: Janet Sobesky
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2010-12-07
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1118042859

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

Home Comforts

Home Comforts
Author: Cheryl Mendelson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 900
Release: 2005-05-17
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0743272862

A classic bestselling resource for every household, Home Comforts helps you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. “Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food.” —USA TODAY Home Comforts is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. It is a lively and readable guide for both beginners and experts in all the domestic arts. From keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains, folding a fitted sheet, cleaning china, tuning a piano, lighting a fire, setting the dining room table—this guide covers everything that people might want to do for themselves in their homes. Further topics include: making up a bed with hospital corners, expert recommendations for safe food storage, reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical guidebook to the art and science of household management.

Complete Book of Home Preserving

Complete Book of Home Preserving
Author: Judi Kingry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2006
Genre: Canning and preserving
ISBN: 9780778801375

From the experts, the definitive book on home preserving. Bernardin Home Canning Products are the gold standard in home preserving supplies, the trademark jars on display in stores every summer from coast to coast. Now the experts at Bernardin have written a book destined to become the Bernardin "bible" of home preserving. As nutrition and food quality have become more important, home canning and preserving has increased in popularity for the benefits it offers: Cooks gain control of the ingredients, including organic fruits and vegetables. Preserving foods at their freshest point locks in nutrition. The final product is free of chemical additives and preservatives. Store-bought brands cannot match the wonderful flavor of homemade. Only a few hours are needed to put up a batch of jam or relish. Home preserves make a great personal gift any time of year. The 400 innovative and enticing recipes include everything from salsas and savory sauces to pickles, chutneys, relishes and, of course, jams, jellies and fruit spreads. You'll find such treats as: Mango-Raspberry Jam Crabapple Jelly Green Pepper Jelly Pickled Asparagus Roasted Red Pepper Spread Tomatillo Salsa Brandied Apple Rings Apricot-Date Chutney The book includes comprehensive directions on safe canning and preserving methods, plus lists of required equipment and utensils. Specific instructions for first-timers and handy tips for the experienced make the Complete Book of Home Preserving a valuable addition to any kitchen library.

The Cleaning Bible

The Cleaning Bible
Author: Kim Woodburn
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: House cleaning
ISBN: 9780141027005

You watched the TV programme and you bought the book but is your house still a bit dull round the edges? This work helps you with various tasks of a domestic nature. It features tips and tricks and uses natural products where possible.

The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris)

The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris)
Author:
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801462118

In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society, in the almost certain event of her widowhood and subsequent remarriage. The work also provides a rich assembly of practical materials for the wife's use and for her household, including treatises on gardening and shopping, tips on choosing servants, directions on the medical care of horses and the training of hawks, plus menus for elaborate feasts, and more than 380 recipes. The Good Wife's Guide is the first complete modern English translation of this important medieval text also known as Le Ménagier de Paris (the Parisian household book), a work long recognized for its unique insights into the domestic life of the bourgeoisie during the later Middle Ages. The Good Wife's Guide, expertly rendered into modern English by Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose, is accompanied by an informative critical introduction setting the work in its proper medieval context as a conduct manual. This edition presents the book in its entirety, as it must have existed for its earliest readers. The Guide is now a treasure for the classroom, appealing to anyone studying medieval literature or history or considering the complex lives of medieval women. It illuminates the milieu and composition process of medieval authors and will in turn fascinate cooking or horticulture enthusiasts. The work illustrates how a (perhaps fictional) Parisian householder of the late fourteenth century might well have trained his wife so that her behavior could reflect honorably on him and enhance his reputation.

Martha Stewart's Organizing

Martha Stewart's Organizing
Author: Martha Stewart
Publisher: Harvest
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2019-12-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1328508250

How to organize everything, from America's most trusted lifestyle authority, with color photographs throughout and hundreds of ideas, projects, and tips

How to Keep House While Drowning

How to Keep House While Drowning
Author: KC Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2022-04-26
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1668002841

If you're tired of staring at the same mess every day, but struggling to find the time and willpower to clean it, you probably have a very good reason: anxiety, fatigue, depression, ADHD, or lack of support. Designed by therapist KC Davis, this revolutionary method of cleaning and organizing helps end the stress-mess cycle. After KC Davis gave birth to her second child, she didn't fold a single piece of laundry for seven months. Between postpartum depression and ADHD, she felt numb and overwhelmed. She regained her sanity--and the functionality of her home--after one life-changing realization: You don't work for your home; your home works for you. In other words, messiness is not a moral failing. A new sense of calm washed over her as she let go of the shame-based messaging that interpreted a pile of dirty laundry as "I can never keep up" and a chaotic kitchen as "I'm a bad mother." Instead, she looked at unwashed clothes and thought, "I am alive," and at stacks of dishes and thought, "I cooked my family dinner three nights in a row." Building on this foundation of self-compassion, KC devised the powerful practical approach that has exploded in popularity through her TikTok account, @domesticblisters. The secret is to stop following perfectionist rules that don't make sense for you--like folding clothes that don't wrinkle anyway, or thinking that every room has to be clean at the same time--and to find creative solutions that accommodate your needs, pet peeves, daily rhythms, and attention span. Inside, you'll learn exactly how to customize your approach and rebuild your relationship with your home, including: -How to stop seeing care tasks as a reflection of your worth, but rather as kindnesses to your future self -How to use calming rituals to keep you from feeling overwhelmed when you look at a big mess -How to stagger tasks that are easy to procrastinate throughout the week and month -How to quickly transform a room from messy to fully functional through the "5 Things" tidying method, and other shortcuts requiring minimal energy Read this book to make home feel like a sanctuary again: where you can move with ease, where guilt, self-criticism, and endless checklists have no place, and where you always have permission to rest, even when things aren't finished.

The Complete Personal Legal Guide

The Complete Personal Legal Guide
Author: American Bar Association
Publisher: Random House Reference Publishing
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0375723021

Presents thousands of United States laws and legal questions involving all aspects of life, including marriage, estate planning, disabilities, and consumer credit.