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

948 Pages·2016·32.73 MB·English

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