Another Use for ...101 Common Household Items - Softcover

Lansky, Vicki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916773302 ISBN 13: 9780916773304

Publisher: Book Peddlers, 1991

Synopsis

A thoroughly practical and entertaining guide to recycling, reusing, and respositioning ordinary household items. Both trivia buffs and devotees of household hints will have a field day with this handy little book.

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Review:

Here's another fun book from Vicki Lansky, famous for giving her expert advice in the pages of Family Circle Magazine and such classics as Baking Soda: Over 500 Fabulous, Fun, and Frugal Ideas You've Probably Never Heard Of. It takes a certain kind of creative mind to gaze over the common objects of everyday life and figure out ways to reuse and recycle materials as inventively as Lansky does, but she is a real pro. Here are just a few of the hundreds of creative uses outlined: use a waxed milk carton as a charcoal lighter by filling it with charcoal and lighting the box; protect bows on wrapped presents for shipping by covering them with those little plastic berry boxes; use a baster to suck up a dropped egg; use a paintbrush to dust houseplants; use carpet scraps under typewriters and printers to muffle their noise; use a bottle cork as a drill stop; use crumpled newspapers to dry freshly washed windows instead of expensive paper towels; use a king-size pillowcase as a cover for baby's changing table; use large rubber bands to keep covers on casseroles and pots transported to a potluck; use old socks on ladder tops to keep them from marring walls. Add hundreds more ideas for everyday household articles and you've got another winner from Vicki Lansky! --Mark A. Hetts

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Peddlers
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0916773302
• ISBN 13: 9780916773304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144