Yankee Magazine's Now That's Ingenious Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is very comprehensive, covering health and beauty, home improvements, food, entertaining, gardening, and much more. That's part of its problem, I think. It's just too broad to be of much use. Another problem is they've consulted various experts in each chapter and, inevitably, one person's advice contradict's another's (hang everything in your closet including sweaters to keep it neat; never hang sweaters -- they'll get those pointy things on the shoulders).
Some advice was kind of nifty, such as hints on how to use natural items for cleaning. Some was rather obvious, such as suggesting you run cold water when you run your garbage disposal. Some was just goofy: I'm not going to put avocado in my hair and then rinse it down the drain! I'd need the plumbing section to help me out of that mess!
Check the book out of the library if you're interested. I found a couple of things I could use, but I mostly found it quaint.

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Use your car's brake fluid to dry-clean your clothes? Banish back pain with a toothbrush? Get pencil marks off your wallpaper with rye bread? Now That's Ingenious! Now, for the first time ever, you'll find years of hard-won wisdom from 95 of America's hands-on experts distilled into one book. Our experts know their stuff, too--because they use it every day to make their living. From kindergarten teachers to professional recyclers, from chefs to hat designers, these everyday experts give you effective, practical solutions for every house and yard problem, including: * A "kool" cure for toilet-bowl stains * The nail polish remover rescue for melted plastic * A cleaning expert's secret ingredient * The fabric-softener solution for stiff paintbrushes * A "beer-ly" believable quick fix for that ugly white coating on old bricks * The ultimate cure for dry, cracked skin: bananas * And hundreds and hundreds more! Now That's Ingenious! is brought to you by the editors of Yankee magazine, where ingenuity has been honed to a fine art. Each month, more than two million readers turn to Yankee magazine for its clever advice and traditional Yankee wisdom.

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