Advice, tips, and techniques on health, fitness, food, self improvement, parenting, home management, maintenance, gardening, landscaping, retirement, and travel. This handy reference shows the best way to accomplish a multitude of tasks while saving time and effort.

Presents time-saving techniques for growing healthy fruit and vegetable gardens, including tips on tools, composting, and watering

1,027 tips and techniques that help you save time, save money, and save work every day!

Gardening's most successful secrets revealed by great gardeners across the country.

Presents thirty-one projects for constructing "scrap" quilts--a style which utilizes as many as several hundred different fabrics--and offers sewing tips, quilting ideas, and timesaving cutting charts

Creator of The Food Network's Ultimate Recipe Showdown best cookie recipe pulls together more than 800 of her scrumptious recipes that all start with a roll of refrigerated cookie dough, box of cake mix, brownie mix, or ready-to-eat cereal.

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