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Reader’s Digest Homemade is your guide to saving a small fortune by making everyday household items yourself. Inside you’ll find low-cost, all-natural replacement recipes for more than 700 name-brand products that you buy week in and week out at the supermarket, pharmacy, or discount store. At the same time, you’ll fill your cabinets with fresh, super high-quality products that work or taste great—without all the chemicals and preservatives of store-bought versions.

The cures to everyday ailments are now right at hand with Reader’s Digest Home Remedies. This trusted health book is packed with 1,000+ safe & effective healing techniques that will save you time & money, plus ease your discomfort. From blisters to bronchitis, heartburn to high cholesterol, warts to wrinkles, you’ll discover doctor-approved treatments for 76 common health complaints—remedies that are easy, safe, clever, and effective.

Learn how you can heal safer & faster with Reader’s Digest Kitchen Cures. This comprehensive guide to healing is packed with 1,000+ timeless health solutions from yesteryear that are still trusted to “cure” common ailments today. Plus, every remedy is made with everyday pantry staples and carefully vetted by our medical experts, so you can heal yourself and your family safely & inexpensively.

Find the fun in the ordinary and the ingenious in the everyday...all while saving time & money! You can with More Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things. This handy book puts 1,600+ clever solutions for better living right at your fingertips—all proven solutions from everyday experts you can trust. So, you can count on these amazing hints, tips & ideas to help you get tasks done quicker, easier & cheaper!

Reader’s Digest Quintessential Guide to Gardening brings you the best advice, straight to the point. This comprehensive A-Z guide covers everything from acid soil to zucchini. The hints and tips inside have been culled from leading horticulturists and accomplished home gardeners from all over the country. So, you can trust that these proven methods will work in your garden, too.

Attracting birds and butterflies and bees has never been simpler with the tips, tricks and plant picks in this handy guide, Gardening for Birds, Butterflies & Bees. Plus, you'll help support the dwindling bee population, which is essential to the future of gardening. Whether you're just starting out or are a bona fide green thumb, you'll turn to this can't-miss, birding and gardening resource for years to come.

Whether you want to learn how to grow lemon trees in pots or to create your very own salsa window box with chilies, dwarf tomatoes, scallions, and coriander, Small Is Bountiful will show how! This growing guide teaches you how to use the latest practices of high-density patio gardening to grow a cornucopia of mouthwatering fruits, delectable vegetables, and fresh herbs in large and small plant containers, window boxes, and hanging baskets. With just a few simple steps, you’ll be able to enjoy picking fresh ingredients from your patio almost all year long.

With The Best of Birds & Blooms 2014 in hand, you'll have instant access to all the year's best problem solvers from Birds & Blooms magazine. You'll create the "backyard oasis" of your dreams with 200+ helpful gardening and bird-attracting solutions. Inside you’ll find, how-to garden plans, up-close bird and butterfly photos and common-sense advice for attracting more birds and growing bigger blooms.

With The Best of Birds & Blooms 2016 in hand, you'll have instant access to all the year's best problem solvers from Birds & Blooms magazine. You'll create the "backyard oasis" of your dreams with 200+ helpful gardening and bird-attracting solutions. Inside you’ll find, how-to garden plans, up-close bird and butterfly photos and common-sense advice for attracting more birds and growing bigger blooms.

With The Best of Birds & Blooms 2019 in hand, you'll have instant access to all the year's best problem solvers from Birds & Blooms magazine. You'll create the "backyard oasis" of your dreams with 200+ helpful gardening and bird-attracting solutions. Inside you’ll find, how-to garden plans, up-close bird and butterfly photos and common-sense advice for attracting more birds and growing bigger blooms.

Get ready to make your garden the best it’s ever been! Birds & Blooms Birding & Gardening Secrets offers you must-know advice on topics ranging from how to prep your garden in spring to what foods your local birds will eat during the cold winter months. There are plenty of do-it-yourself backyard ideas to bring your space to life.

Attracting birds to your backyard just got a little easier. The Ultimate Guide to Birding, brought to you by the editors of Birds & Blooms magazine, shows you how! Filled with expert ideas for creating your own bustling bird haven, it shows the top foods preferred by your favorite winged visitors, how to create a safe environment they’ll want to nest in and the very best plants you can grow to keep them coming back.

Master the skills you need to tackle home improvements with Build Your Skills, a hands-on DIY book from Family Handyman magazine. This comprehensive guide gives you the proper tools, techniques and confidence you need to complete any home improvement and repair BY YOURSELF. You’ll find real-world lessons from expert carpenters, plumbers, electricians and more in every home improvement area, simplified for every level of DIYer!

Save time & money on your next DIY project with the year's best fixes, upgrades and more inside Family Handyman Best Tips & Projects 2014. Inside you’ll find 750+ home improvement ideas for every level of DIYer—from beginners to pros—and every room of your home, both inside and out! You'll save hundreds of dollars in home improvements by doing them yourself, with results you'll be proud to show off!

Save time & money on your next DIY project with the year's best fixes, upgrades and more inside Family Handyman Best Tips & Projects 2015. Inside you’ll find 300+ projects & tips for every level of DIYer—from beginners to pros—and every room of your home, both inside and out! You'll save hundreds of dollars in home improvements by doing them yourself, with results you'll be proud to show off!

Save time & money on your next DIY project with the year's best fixes, upgrades and more inside Family Handyman Best Tips & Projects 2019. Inside you’ll find 750+ home improvement ideas for every level of DIYer—from beginners to pros—and every room of your home, both inside and out! You'll save hundreds of dollars in home improvements by doing them yourself, with results you'll be proud to show off!

Save hundreds of dollars in home repairs by doing them yourself! It's easy with Family Handyman Whole House Repair Guide by your side. Inside this comprehensive collection, you'll get 300+ expert solutions for every DIYer—beginners and pros! Plus, it's packed with easy-to-follow directions, detailed photos and valuable advice from experienced professionals that will help take the guesswork out of common household repairs.

Discover how to keep your home running smoothly, extend the life of your appliances and avoid expensive repair bills with Family Handyman Make It Last! Whether you’re a first-time homeowner or you’ve owned a home for years, trust Make It Last to help you complete maintenance and repair projects correctly & confidently. You’ll also get money-saving advice from the pros on how to double the life of your appliances, restore the efficiency of your heating and cooling system and when to replace rather than repair items.

Tackle your biggest storage problems with the biggest organization book from Family Handyman, Ultimate Storage Solutions. Inside you’ll discover 450+ clever projects & tips that will help you manage the mess in one weekend or less!

YOU CAN DO IT! Remove ice from your windshield without a scraper. Save your keyboard after a coffee spill. Clear a blocked kitchen drain. It’s a snap with Easy Fixes for Everyday Things. Inside you’ll find 1,020 practical, no-nonsense solutions for fixing everyday “disasters” yourself using common items already in your house. So, you can count on these inventive tips to put you back in charge of your environment without spending much money or valuable time!