Quick tips and fun workarounds to solve problems large and small!Did you know that you can turn a bag of chips into a bowl in an instant? Or that you can peel a mango with a glass? Make a speaker with a toilet roll and two plastic cups?This is a collection of 200 clever and useful life hacks, with pictures included, for your home, garden, kids, and much more. Get started and you may find yourself inventing some shortcuts of your own!

"This book will help you own your calendar, block time for what matters most and reclaim your life." —Paula Rizzo, author of Listful Living: A List-Making Journey to a Less Stressed YouYou want more time to spend with family, to achieve big goals, and to simply enjoy life. Yet, there seem to be more and more things competing for your time, and more distractions interrupting your day.Craig Jarrow has spent many years testing time management tactics, t...

The classic international cookbook with " explanations of the origins of spices and how to use them [and] scores of recipes that are of absolute first rank" ( The New York Times).First published in 1964, The Spice Cookbook is an astounding treasury of over 1,400 recipes from around the world. As the title implies, this book contains a wealth of fascinating and mouth-watering information about a huge range of spic...

Over 1,000 Tips for Gardening, Country Cooking, Saving Money, DIY Cleaning Solutions, Home Remedies, and More!This comprehensive collection of practical tips covers all aspects of keeping a country home, from painting a wall to removing wine stains, making perfect pastry to making your own window cleaner. In addition, find advice for cleaning carpets, making jam, wallpapering, knitting, sewing, and more! Woven throughout are poems and proverbs, legends and lore, ma...

You can make dumplings a weeknight staple—and this cookbook will show you how with 40 easy but innovative dumpling recipes from around the globe.Shumai, gyoza, mandu, komber, pierogis: a dumpling by any other name would taste as comforting. The original comfort food in every culture, the humble dumpling takes center stage in this beautiful cookbook. Author Liz Crain offers up beloved staples—with easy, step-by-step instructions for dumpling skins and filli...

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,...

A massive collection of recipes to make breakfast the most important—and most enjoyable—meal of the day.Whatever your morning routine, you'll find just what you need right here. Try grab-and-go recipes, cereal served up in creative ways, classic egg dishes, and fresh ideas for waffles, pancakes, and French toast. When the weekend rolls around, enjoy relaxing brunch dishes such as Puffed Pancake Brunch Casserole and Smoked Salmon Breakfast Squares.You'll wan...

If you'd like to include more meatless dishes in your cooking, this cookbook is for you. And if you want to cook confidently for your vegetarian friends or family, Fix-It and Forget-It Vegetarian Cookbook is full of tasty ideas. Here are slow-cooker recipes as well as stove-top and oven recipes in one handy cookbook.Half of these 500 recipes are for slow cookers. In fact, all of the recipes are easy to prepare and all are made with easy-to-find ingredients. Here are tried ...

The professional organizer and founder of OrderlyPlaces.com offers her expert solutions for saving time, space, and resources at home.Are your mornings spent frantically looking for the misplaced keys or the field trip form? Do you have stacks of things and nowhere to put them? Are you ever too embarrassed by your messy house to invite family or friends for a visit? Perhaps you find yourself wishing there were more hours in the day or having to cancel plans because...

What kind of procrastinator are you? Get to the root of the problem with this practical guide that pinpoints the causes—and the cure.How do you let go of procrastination? First you need to recognize and defuse the feelings that lead to it, which can be very different from one person to the next. Then you can develop the ability to both produce and relax without guilt. In The Procrastination Cure, you'll discover:•The root causes of procrastination ...

Easy one-pot recipes filled with the flavors of autumn, from the New York Times-bestselling author of 101 Things to Do with a Slow Cooker.Autumn Brew, Fall Harvest Chowder, warm Honey Wheat Bread . . . fall is coming, and there's no better time to plug in that amazing kitchen contraption known as the slow cooker. The slow cooker can do what no oven or stovetop burner can—cook flavorful and healthy food while its owner goes blissfully about the busi...

"Honest, transparent, and realistic . . . His approach offers insights, advice, and sensible strategies to stop procrastinating and start writing." —Neil Foote, Principal Lecturer, Mayborn School of JournalismIn his debut title, Write Like You Mean It, award-winning journalist and content writer Steve Gamel dives into his best advice for writers that he has gathered over the years. With stories from his early years and frequent foibles as a journalist, Game...