Yesterday’s top tips for today’s busy lifestyles

Almost every day, new—and usually expensive—consumer products appear that promise to make our lives easier and simpler. But are they all really necessary? Despite their initial hype, few of them live up to expectations.

Our grandparents’ generation had abundant knowledge about how to solve everyday problems easily, inexpensively and effectively, without running to the store—whether the issue was storing fresh produce, making skin look younger, relieving toothache pain or getting laundry whiter. Wouldn’t it be a shame if all that expertise was lost to future generations?

To prevent that from happening and to preserve yesterday’s top tips for today’s busy families, we have gathered a wealth of traditional wisdom to create this book. Home Hints and Timeless Tips is a comprehensive collection of the best time- honored solutions from past generations. From your medicine cabinet to your freezer, your vegetable patch to your morning shower, here are clever suggestions and solutions that show you how to apply the good old ways from the good old days to improve the way we do things now.

It’s not about harking back to a nostalgic past, but about presenting old-fashioned ideas in such a way that they can easily be used in today’s world. It makes the wealth of our

collective experience—built up over generations—accessible to people who need a helping hand today. It’s advice that is proven, timely, economical and environmentally friendly.

And all these clever solutions, useful hints, practical tips and helpful remedies from days gone by have been researched and tested for their practical applications in the 21st century. They can offer alternatives to expensive products or the use of chemical additives and you’ll often find the ingredients close at hand in your kitchen cabinets.

Organized into six chapters that focus on health, beauty, home management, cooking, home decor and the garden, this book is packed with more than 3,000 practical hints and tips that our parents and grandparents trusted and relied on. Every tip is guaranteed to help make life easier as well as less expensive. And each entry is presented alphabetically within each chapter, making the solutions easy to find.