Download or read book Good Household Items written by Sophia Rodriguez and published by Publifye AS. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Good Household Items"" unveils the hidden potential of everyday objects, offering a fresh perspective on home management. This comprehensive guide explores the versatility of common items, innovative cleaning techniques, and sustainable practices, empowering readers to create more efficient and eco-friendly living spaces. The book traces the historical evolution of household items, providing context for their enduring usefulness and relevance in modern times. Readers will discover unexpected uses for common products like vinegar and baking soda, learning how to repurpose these items for various cleaning and organizing tasks. The book's unique approach combines scientific insights, expert interviews, and practical case studies to support its arguments, making complex concepts accessible to a general audience. It challenges readers to rethink their relationship with everyday objects, encouraging creativity and mindfulness in home management. Structured in four main sections, the book progresses from introducing key concepts to exploring hidden potentials, innovative techniques, and practical applications. With its holistic view of household items and their environmental impact, ""Good Household Items"" offers valuable insights for anyone seeking to maximize efficiency, reduce waste, and create a more harmonious living environment. The inclusion of ""Try This"" sections throughout encourages hands-on experimentation, making this book an engaging and practical resource for sustainable and efficient home management.
Download or read book The Elements of a Home written by Amy Azzarito and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elements of a Home reveals the fascinating stories behind more than 60 everyday household objects and furnishings. Brimming with amusing anecdotes and absorbing trivia, this captivating collection is a treasure trove of curiosities. With tales from the kitchen, the bedroom, and every room in between, these pages expose how napkins got their start as lumps of dough in ancient Greece, why forks were once seen as immoral tools of the devil, and how Plato devised one of the earliest alarm clocks using rocks and water—plus so much more. • A charming book for anyone who loves history, design, or décor • Readers discover tales from every nook and cranny of a home. • Entries feature historical details from locations all over the world, including Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa. As a design historian and former managing editor of Design*Sponge, author Amy Azzarito has crafted an engaging, whimsical history of the household objects you've never thought twice about. The result is a fascinating book filled with tidbits from a wide range of cultures and places about the history of domestic luxury. • Filled with lovely illustrations by Alice Pattullo • Perfect for anyone who adores interior design, trivia, history, and unique facts • Great for those who enjoyed The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Rick Beyer, An Uncommon History of Common Things by Bethanne Patrick and John Thompson, Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
Download or read book Homemade written by Don Earnest and published by Reader's Digest Association. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to make hundreds of everyday products you would otherwise buy.
Download or read book Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London written by Katherine L. French and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Death that arrived in the spring of 1348 eventually killed nearly half of England's population. In its long aftermath, wages in London rose in response to labor shortages, many survivors moved into larger quarters in the depopulated city, and people in general spent more money on food, clothing, and household furnishings than they had before. Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how this increased consumption reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London's merchants and artisans for years to come. Grounding her analysis in both the study of surviving household artifacts and extensive archival research, Katherine L. French examines the accommodations that Londoners made to their bigger houses and the increasing number of possessions these contained. The changes in material circumstance reshaped domestic hierarchies and produced new routines and expectations. Recognizing that the greater number of possessions required a different kind of management and care, French puts housework and gender at the center of her study. Historically, the task of managing bodies and things and the dirt and chaos they create has been unproblematically defined as women's work. Housework, however, is neither timeless nor ahistorical, and French traces a major shift in women's household responsibilities to the arrival and gendering of new possessions and the creation of new household spaces in the decades after the plague.
Download or read book Home Comforts written by Cheryl Mendelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic bestselling resource for every household, Home Comforts helps you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. “Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food.” —USA TODAY Home Comforts is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. It is a lively and readable guide for both beginners and experts in all the domestic arts. From keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains, folding a fitted sheet, cleaning china, tuning a piano, lighting a fire, setting the dining room table—this guide covers everything that people might want to do for themselves in their homes. Further topics include: making up a bed with hospital corners, expert recommendations for safe food storage, reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical guidebook to the art and science of household management.
Download or read book The Beauty of Everyday Things written by Soetsu Yanagi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and simple, sturdy and safe - the aesthetic result of wholeheartedly fulfilling utilitarian needs. They should, in short, be things of beauty. In an age of feeble and ugly machine-made things, these essays call for us to deepen and transform our relationship with the objects that surround us. Inspired by the work of the simple, humble craftsmen Yanagi encountered during his lifelong travels through Japan and Korea, they are an earnest defence of modest, honest, handcrafted things - from traditional teacups to jars to cloth and paper. Objects like these exemplify the enduring appeal of simplicity and function: the beauty of everyday things.
Download or read book Fly Tying with Common Household Materials written by Jay Fullum and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novice fly fisherman start fly tying with a predictable set of materials. Their benches are neatly arranged with small bags of elk hair, pheasant feathers, stray pieces of chenille and yarn. But eventually they find that not only are these materials more expensive than they need to be, they are also largely unnecessary. And so they starts making substitutions, using trial and error to gradually build up a bench of funky, personalized materials that work just as well as what the “experts” recommend. For the first time, here is a book that truly demystifies fly tying, making it accessible to any fisherman with a vice, a hook, a few dabs of glue, and a handful of twisty-ties. Tying legend Jay “Fishy” Fullum brings together a lifetime of substitution experience to give invaluable advice on appropriate substitution materials. He describes how to find them and make them tier friendly, and how to turn them into flies that are practically guaranteed to catch fish.
Download or read book Joint Committee on Taxation s General Explanation of Tax Legislation Enacted in the 109th Congress written by Joint Committee on Taxation and published by CCH. This book was released on 2007 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Blue Book prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on taxation in consultation with the staffs of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance, provides an explanation of tax legislation enacted in the 108th Congress. Officially titled, General Explanation of Tax Legislation Enacted in the 108th Congress (JCS-5-05), it is prepared so lawmakers, tax practitioners and other interested parties have explanations in one volume of the final tax legislation enacted during the 108th Congress.
Download or read book Shipping Your Household Goods written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dangerous Household Items written by David Orr and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “David Orr is an authentic iconoclast. His criticism is exuberant and original. Dr. Johnson, my critical hero, urged us to clear our mind of cant. Orr has cleared his. He will enhance the perception of his readers.” —Harold Bloom “A poetry critic and poet himself, David Orr’s work often explores a gray area of literary professionalism and process. A columnist for the New York Times Book Review. . . . Orr shows himself to be a reader interested in cutting through noise, particularly with the realities of writing and publishing in a popular culture.” —Ploughshares In his wry debut collection of poetry, celebrated critic David Orr ponders the dark underworld of the ordinary, as he traverses the suburban gothic landscape of modern America. Orr finds and names what’s at the core of being human: sorrow, kindness, familial love, and memory. The poems are playful, fashioned of fables, familiar objects, and the supernatural, inviting every reader to enter in. From “The Abduction”: . . . Later, he would wake each night screaming In helpless confusion, but at the time There was just the sun, the beach, the sun, the saltwater And dark forms being kind. Only a month After the incident, having lost the skill Of knowing what was real, he walked Into headlights he had thought were his wife. David Orr teaches at Rutgers University in addition to serving as the poetry columnist for the New York Times Book Review. A native of South Carolina, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Download or read book Personal Bankruptcy Laws For Dummies written by James P. Caher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With tips on understanding -- and surviving -- the new bankruptcy laws If you're considering bankruptcy, you need straightforward answers and reliable advice. This handy guide covers it all -- so you can get your finances in line and your life back on track. This updated new edition covers everything you need to know about the new bankruptcy law and includes even better resources. Don't get desperate -- get out of debt instead! Discover how to * Weigh the consequences of bankruptcy * Manage your spending * Find professional help you can trust * Decide on the right type of bankruptcy * Pass the means test * Keep more of your stuff
Download or read book The 100 Thing Challenge written by Dave Bruno and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reading this will lead you to a better life.” —Dean Nelson, author of God Hides in Plain Sight In The 100 Thing Challenge Dave Bruno relates how he remade his life and regained his soul by getting rid of almost everything. But The 100 Thing Challenge is more than just the story of how one man started a movement to unhook himself from consumerism by winnowing his life’s possessions down to 100 things in one year. It’s also an inspiring, invigorating guide to how we all can begin to live simpler, more meaningful lives.
Download or read book Oversight of the Household Goods Transportation Act of 1980 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things written by Cy Tymony and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original, practical guide that offers readers “a chance to become real-life MacGyvers” with “sections on gimmicks, gadgets and survival techniques” (Publishers Weekly). Do you know how to generate battery power with simple household items? Or how to create your own home security system? Science-savvy author Cy Tymony does. And now you can learn how to create these things—and more than 40 other handy gadgets and gizmos—in Sneaky Uses For Everyday Things. More than a simple do-it-yourself guide, this quirky collection teaches you how to transform ordinary objects into the extraordinary just a few minutes. With more than 80 solutions and bonus applications at your disposal, you will be ready for almost any situation. Included are survival, security, self-defense, and silly applications that are just plain fun
Download or read book Classic Household Hints written by Susan Waggoner and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated, nostalgic how-to guide to achieving a clean, organized, and happy home—with over 500 retro tips and tricks! Return your household to the simpler times of yesteryear with this delightful guide full of time- and money-saving tips on everything from cleaning and organizing your home to buying and handling food. Even in an age of endless new household products and devices, these old-fashioned, tried-and-true methods can help any homeowner keep a cleaner, happier home. A thoroughly researched compendium of the best American home life tips from the 1920s through the ’60s, Classic Household Hints is filled with useful information, full-color illustrations, fascinating sidebars, and quotes—providing practical help as well as fun for housekeepers and neat freaks everywhere.
Download or read book Fast Fixes and Simple Solutions written by Gayle K. Wood and published by FC&A Publishing. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is filled with over 2,000 easy ways to solve common problems using items you probably already have on hand.
Download or read book Every Nonprofit s Tax Guide written by Stephen Fishman and published by Nolo. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential tax reference book for every nonprofit Nonprofits enjoy privileges not available to other organizations. But these privileges come with obligations: Nonprofits must comply with special IRS rules and regulations to maintain their tax-exempt status. Practical, comprehensive, and easy to understand, Every Nonprofit’s Tax Guide explains ongoing and annual IRS compliance requirements for nonprofits, including: • a detailed explanation of Form 990 • requirements for filing Form 990-EZ electronically • how to file Form 1099-NEC • conflicts of interest and compensation rules • charitable giving rules • unrelated taxable business income rules • lobbying and political activity restrictions, and • nonprofit bookkeeping. Whether you are just starting your nonprofit or are well established, you’ll find all the information you need to avoid the most common issues nonprofits run into with the IRS.
