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
(Book)

First published in 2012 as Home Hints and Tips Tested through the Years by Readers Digest (Australia).

Includes index.

This versatile guide brings together more than 3000 helpful hints, practical tips and remedies from days gone by and shows you how they can benefit your health, lifestyle, home and garden. All have been researched and tested and more often than not youll find the ingredients right there in your cupboard. Did you know you can make wooden platters look like new just by rubbing them with a solution of vinegar? Or that you can get your linen as white as snow by adding a few teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda to the washing powder? That a cold wristband can bring rapid relief to headache-sufferers? Would you like to learn how easy it is to make dried apples, apricots and other fruit without the use of preservatives? This versatile guide brings together more than 3000 helpful hints, practical tips and remedies from days gone by and shows you how they can benefit your health, lifestyle, home and garden. All have been researched and tested for their practical application in todays world and offer simple, effective alternatives to expensive products and those using toxic chemicalsand more often than not youll find the ingredients right there in your cupboard.