A popular Reader's Digest how-to is now available in an affordable paperback edition. Designed for easy referenceand entertaining browsingit features substitutes, shortcuts, and hundreds of quick cures, frugal fixes, and tried-and-true do-it-yourself techniques for making life easier. Includes a problem solver's dictionary, charts and checklists, formulas and recipes, uncommon uses of common things, and more. Over 1,100 full-color illustrations.

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Anyone raised on Hints from Heloise who has an eye toward creative, homemade solutions to problems will love this book. The subtitle is "Substitutes, Shortcuts, and Ingenious Solutions For Making Life Easier" and that sums it up quite neatly! With hundreds and hundreds of ideas, diagrams, helpful advice, and economical solutions to everyday problems, any household would benefit by having this book at easy reach.

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