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Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills
Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills
by Raleigh Briggs
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Raleigh Briggs collects her zines, illustrations, and thoughts around what it is that makes a great DIY householdahomemade cleaning solvents that aren't made from poison, herbs that will heal you, and how to setup a great garden. These tips and tricks... (read more)

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How to Sew a Button: And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew
How to Sew a Button: And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew
by Erin Bried
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Waste not, want not with this guide to saving money, taking heart, and enjoying the simple pleasures of life. Nowadays, many of us outsource basic tasks. Food is instant, ready-made, and processed with unhealthy additives. Dry cleaners press shirts... (read more)

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Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home
Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home
by Martha Stewart
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Combining professional expertise with the author's signature style, a comprehensive home care handbook takes readers step by step through the upkeep of every room in the house, covering everything from removing stains to replacing a window pane, and... (read more)

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No Hassle Housecleaning
No Hassle Housecleaning
by Christina Spence
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Cleaning Made Fast and Easy Cleaning doesnat have to be a chore if youare armed with the proper tools and know-how needed for the job. No Hassle Housecleaning equips you with both so you can effectively clean each room and surface in your home. Youall... (read more)

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Houseworks: Cut the Clutter, Speed Your Cleaning, and Calm the Chaos
Houseworks: Cut the Clutter, Speed Your Cleaning, and Calm the Chaos
by Cynthia Townle Ewer
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America's leading house-keeping expert shows you how to de-clutter, organize, and clean your home, with easy-to-remember tips for every job, from keeping your bathroom clean and doing the laundry to sorting out paperwork and organizing the family photo... (read more)

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One Thing at a Time: 100 Simple Ways to Live Clutter-Free Every Day
One Thing at a Time: 100 Simple Ways to Live Clutter-Free Every Day
by Cindy Glovinsky
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Simple, effective ways to put things in their place Those piles of papers, clothes, and other things you thought you'd successfully de-cluttered have returned, and this time they brought friends. What's the use of trying to fight the clutter? Is there a... (read more)

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Organic Housekeeping: In Which the Nontoxic Avenger Shows You How to Improve Your Health and That of Your Family, While You Save Time, Money
Organic Housekeeping: In Which the Nontoxic Avenger Shows You How to Improve Your Health and That of Your Family, While You Save Time, Money
by Ellen Sandbeck
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Longing for a kinder, gentler world? As the old saying goes, everything begins at home, and odds are, if you live in the all-American household, the air inside is more toxic than the air outside, even if you live in the most polluted of cities. You... (read more)

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Real Simple: The Organized Home
Real Simple: The Organized Home
by Real Simple Magazine
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Whether it encourages a fine-tuning or a complete makeover, this lush hardcover bookQbuilt upon the incomparable world of "Real Simple" magazineQhas useful step-by-step advice for everyone. Practical, inspirational, this guide assists readers in... (read more)

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How to Open Locks with Improvised Tools: Practical, Non-Destructive Ways of Getting Back into Just about Everything When You Lose Your Keys
How to Open Locks with Improvised Tools: Practical, Non-Destructive Ways of Getting Back into Just about Everything When You Lose Your Keys
by Hans Conkel
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Practical, real-world solutions to lockouts. Learn to open doorknobs, deadbolts, car doors, padlocks, handcuffs, et cetera. This book sold out as Lock Bypass Methods, and has proven to be the best manual on keyless entry available. Since your resources... (read more)

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Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things: Featuring Vinegar, Baking Soda, Salt, Toothpaste, String, Plastic Cups, Mayonnaise, Nail Polish, Tape, and Mor
Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things: Featuring Vinegar, Baking Soda, Salt, Toothpaste, String, Plastic Cups, Mayonnaise, Nail Polish, Tape, and Mor
by Reader's Digest (edt)
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Over 350 full-color illustrations and clear, step-by-step instructions for using common items in exciting new ways. Easy-to-use, A-to-Z reference guide, packed with hundreds of sidebars full of extra tips and informational ideas.... (read more)

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It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
by Peter Walsh
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The organizational guru of TLCs hit show "Clean Sweep" shares his proven program to help readers let go of emotional and physical clutter, get organized, and simplify their homes for a happier, more stress-free life.... (read more)

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Living More with Less
Living More with Less
by Doris J Longacre
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Doris Janzen Longacre provides a pattern for living with less and a wealth of practical suggestions from around the world in chapters on money, clothing, homes, transportation and travel, celebrations, and recreation.... (read more)

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This Green House: Home Improvements for the Eco-Smart, the Thrifty, and the Do-It-Yourselfer
This Green House: Home Improvements for the Eco-Smart, the Thrifty, and the Do-It-Yourselfer
by Joshua Piven
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Just the thought of "going green" can make you feel blue. Trying to live sustainably sounds like a whole lot of work and a whole lot of deprivation. Well, Josh Piven aims to both shrink your carbon footprint and soothe your eco-anxiety. In a guidebook... (read more)

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10-Minute Clutter Control: Easy Feng Shui Tips for Getting Organized
10-Minute Clutter Control: Easy Feng Shui Tips for Getting Organized
by Skye Alexander
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Patterned after "10-Minute Feng Shui," this book offers hundreds of ways to use the ancient Chinese art of placement to clear the detritus of a busy life and create a calm, harmonious environment.... (read more)

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Let Go of Clutter
Let Go of Clutter
by Harriet Schechter
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Almost everyone struggles with clutter.Overflowing desks at work…overstuffed closets and piles of mail at home…overwhelmed minds all the time.… No wonder so many people say they are “drowning in clutter.” In Let Go of... (read more)

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Checklists for Life
Checklists for Life
by Kirsten M. Lagatree
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A Handbook For An Organized Life If you've ever wished for a class in Coping 101, or a guide to living more efficiently and with less stress, this book is for you!  Over 100 sensible checklists offer quick tips and expert advice to make your... (read more)

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Scaling Down: Living Well in a Smaller Space
Scaling Down: Living Well in a Smaller Space
by Judi Culbertson
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"Scaling Down" not only offers terrific nuts-and-bolts strategies for paring down one's belongings to only the best and most meaningful items, it also addresses the emotional aspects of streamlining the complicated relationship people have with their... (read more)

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Real Simple Cleaning
Real Simple Cleaning
by Real Simple Magazine
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With room-by-room strategies and tips, this edition guides readers through what to do and when to do it, culminating in one cleaning calendar. With this resource, the dirty work, truly, can be done.... (read more)

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1,001 Old-Time Household Hints: Timeless Bits of Household Wisdom for Today's Home and Garden
1,001 Old-Time Household Hints: Timeless Bits of Household Wisdom for Today's Home and Garden
by Yankee Magazine
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For this collection, the editors of "Yankee" magazine scoured scores of vintage books, magazines, journals, and memoirs to find the very best old-time secrets for preparing meals, cleaning, repairing the home, treating common ailments, gardening outdoors... (read more)

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The Queen of Clean Conquers Clutter
The Queen of Clean Conquers Clutter
by Linda Cobb
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When it comes to freeing your home of clutter (let's face it -- we all have it), The Queen of Clean really spells things out for you: Question Unpack Evaluate Eliminate Neaten up! It's a foolproof sorting system for even the most devoted packrat... (read more)

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