Homemade: A Surprisingly Easy Guide to Making Hundreds of Everyday Products You Would Otherwise Buy [Hardcover]

Reader's Digest (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2006

"From Ketchup to Pretzels, Shampoo to Window Cleaner, Bug Repellant to Cough Drops" Making the things you use everyday is just so much more rewarding than buying them. This guide shows you how fun, easy, and frugal it can be. Start in the kitchen: spaghetti sauce, salad dressing, chicken broth, ice cream all taste better and cost less when you make them at home. Move to the cleaning shelf. Store-bought cleaners are toxic and outrageously expensive! Homemade shows you how to make them at a fraction of the cost, with the same cleaning potency, but safer and more fragrant! Tablecloths, trivets, curtains, toys, wall art -- learn how to make all of these quickly, cheaply, and with flair.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 379 pages
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Assoc.; First edition (2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762107537
• ISBN-13: 978-0762107537
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #256,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!, February 28, 2008

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S. Lynn - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Homemade: A Surprisingly Easy Guide to Making Hundreds of Everyday Products You Would Otherwise Buy (Hardcover)

This is a great book. I have stopped buying cleaning products and almost all personal care products. I don't know how much money I'm saving, but it's loads. It took a little bit of time to re-organize things and find containers for all the products I started making, but it has been more than worth it! If you like doing things for yourself and are tired of paying through the nose for products that don't even work well half the time, you will love this book. My clothes have never been cleaner and I'm paying a fraction of the cost to get the clothes clean. Personally, I haven't looked at the food recipes too closely because I cook from scratch most of the time anyway, but they have some great recipes there as well.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Book Purchases Ever Made, September 19, 2010

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Kayla Skjaret (BEMIDJI, MN, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Homemade: A Surprisingly Easy Guide to Making Hundreds of Everyday Products You Would Otherwise Buy (Hardcover)

Absolutely love this book, have used many times already! Highly recommend for every household, new and old!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars very interesting..., June 17, 2009

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eager reader "creativelyspeaking" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Homemade: A Surprisingly Easy Guide to Making Hundreds of Everyday Products You Would Otherwise Buy (Hardcover)

This is a 379 page book split in three sections: "In the Kitchen", "Health and Beauty Care for You and Yours", and ""Around the House". There ARE alot of food recipes. It's also a fun quirky read, filled with what looks like practical concoctions to make your own cleaning supplies. I admit I haven't used it alot yet, but I've enjoyed reading through it so far.