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100 ways to embrace the simple life, with step-by-step instructions for keeping chickens, growing vegetables, making beer and wine, arranging flowers, soap making, and more! This is a home-management book for the twenty-first century. Alva Herdevall and Anders Rydell combine traditional methods with modern ideas to show that a higher degree of self-sufficiency is possible for everyone. You will learn the secrets of beekeeping, how to grow your own...
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"Practicing "fridge love" is a roadmap to eating healthier, saving money, and reducing food waste while enjoying a beautiful and harder-working fridge. This book--part organizational guide and part food-prep handbook--is your guide. Author Kristen Hong adopted a nutrient-dense, plant-based diet in an effort to lose weight and improve her health. But amidst the demands of day-to-day life and a busy family, she found it impossible to stick to. The solution?...
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Long before the arrival of the twenty-four-hour pharmacy, folk healers took care of aches, pains, and sniffles with home-grown remedies. Hidden in their kitchens, they had their own bag of tricks used for centuries to treat what ailed them. Growing up, Clementine Holmes Bass learned about many of these home cures from her beloved aunt Dollie, a woman whose wits and wisdom profoundly impacted the author's life. Some of her best days were spent in Aunt...
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Bienvenue dans une aventure o nous reprenons le contrle de nos foyers, un flacon à la fois. Je suis Marie Verdon, passionnée de simplicité et convaincue que nous n'avons pas besoin de nous entourer de produits chimiques pour vivre dans un environnement propre et sain. J'ai grandi dans une petite maison de campagne o ma grand-mère fabriquait tout elle-même. Le parfum du savon maison et le crépitement du vinaigre en action font partie de mes souvenirs...
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A revised and updated bestseller
Revised in coordination with the American Poultry Association
Covers all the essentials of raising and keeping chickens.
More than 75 color photographs and illustrations.
People across the country are raising chickens, whether for food or companionship. You can, too, with this indispensable guide. Straightforward advice and dozens of clear, detailed illustrations gives any future chicken farmer the tools he needs...
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Declutter your home without being overworked or overwhelmed.
Have a home 10 times more clean in only 10 minutes a day!
Lorraine Leet looks at why people clutter and makes it easy to unravel the causes. She gives the Clutterbug permission to be authentic while making progress decluttering.
What if your home was picture perfect?
What you will learn in this book:
• That being a Clutterbug is okay.
• How to eliminate procrastination.
• How...
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This book talks about how a cluttered house or space can cause subconscious stress without you even knowing it.Marie talks about how she has developed several techniques for easy and stress free decluttering and organizing ones space.Her step by step instructions will help you find joy in getting things done and help you relax.This book is unique in that it goes into detail of what the most critical and common issues that many homemakers, mothers,spouses...
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Decluttering our homes can be difficult.Letting go of things can be challenging.Living with less seems impossible.With wit and tough love, Stop Buying Bins seeks to break down the obstacles that tether us to our possessions. Why do we hold onto belongings that no longer serve us? How do we change our perspective regarding our things? And once we've tackled those questions, how do we go about actually downsizing our clutter?Told through individual...
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Get the Summary of KC Davis's How to Keep House While Drowning in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. KC Davis's "How to Keep House While Drowning" reframes care tasks like cleaning, not as moral imperatives but as neutral activities that should not define personal worth. Davis critiques the self-help industry for its reliance on unsustainable willpower and ignorance of individual circumstances. She shares her own struggles...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 You should start downsizing because it will help you get rid of the excess stuff in your life that you don't need. Instead of buying new stuff you don't need, you'll let go of existing stuff you don't need.
#2 The typical American household contains objects that had their moment long ago, but don't fit in today. For example, fragile china sets and heavy, ornate picture...
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#1 We have way too much clothing, and we've been led to believe that we don't have enough. We don't have the right shoes, the trendy coat for the season, the perfect little black dress, or the latest and greatest handbag.
#2 The 333 project is a minimalist fashion challenge where you dress with only 33 items for 3 months. You can either be all in or all out. Don't worry...
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Get the Summary of Dana K. White's ‘How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Do you experience heart palpitations at the sound of an unexpected doorbell? Do you stare in bewilderment at your messy home, wondering how in the world it got this way again? You're not alone. But, there is hope for you and your home.
Managing your home isn't...
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Get the Summary of Christine Platt's The Afrominimalists Guide to Living with Less in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Christine Platt's "The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less" reframes minimalism as a mindset of intentional living rather than a strict aesthetic. It's about authenticity, understanding the deep-seated reasons behind overconsumption, and being a conscious consumer. Platt shares her personal...
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FreeSpaces will change the way you look at organizing whatever space you live in.Rather than a one-time fix-all solution, FreeSpaces approaches organization as a process, one that includes subtle changes in habits, transitions through different stages of life, and options that take both time and space into consideration.While full of down-to-basics how-to tips, like how to reorganize the bathroom cabinet and how to purge and organize kitchen cupboards,...
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Trivia Question: What do hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, typhoons, cyclones, monsoons, earthquakes, rain storms, tropical storms, and floods all have in common? MOLD!Nobody wants to talk about it, right? But the fact is that mold, and its companion mildew, can present major disruptions in our everyday lives. It can invade our homes, businesses, and other domiciles indiscriminately.It affects the lives of millions of people annually with some of the...
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Sometimes the constant hustle and bustle of everyday life gets the best of us. While we are busy focusing on our careers and juggling the long hours and multiple responsibilities with our hectic family and home lives, things can get tossed aside and forgotten about. Bills and other opened and unopened mail can pile up on your counter or be shoved in drawers. Your bookshelves and magazine racks are overflowing and in disarray. Your child's toys are...
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So you want to declutter, but think you do not have the money or the time to get the job done? You are wrong! This book lays out a simple, affordable plan for decluttering your home, your life, and your mind. Do you know the five common mistakes most people make when they start decluttering? If not, read on and make sure you don't waste your valuable time and money making these same mistakes In just a few hours, you will have all the tools necessary...
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Failing the Mary Poppins' snap-the-fingers approach to cleaning, here's the next best thing: an utterly practical handbook that offers lasting results for anyone looking to banish clutter from every room in the house. Home organizer par excellence Meryl Starr offers up her hardworking organizing solutions in The Home Organizing Workbook, a straightforward guide to getting organized. The room chapters begin with targeted questionnaires that help the...
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