Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
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Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

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Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping HouseThe classic bestselling resource for every American home. Choosing fabrics, cleaning china, keeping the piano in tune, making a good fire, folding a fitted sheet, setting the dining room table, keeping surfaces free of food pathogens, watering plants, removing stains Home Comforts addresses the meanings as well as the methods of hands on housekeeping to help you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to modern domestic dilemmas, and enhance

The classic bestselling resource for every American home. Choosing fabrics, cleaning china, keeping the piano in tune, making a good fire, folding a fitted sheet, setting the dining room table, keeping surfaces free of food pathogens, watering plants, removing stains -- Home Comforts addresses the meanings as well as the methods of hands -- on housekeeping to help you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to modern domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home.
Further topics include: Making up a bed with hospital corners, Expert recommendations for safe food storage, Reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), Keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, Home safety and security, A summary of laws applicable to the home, including privacy, accident liability, contracts, and domestic employees and more in this practical, good-humored, historic, philosophical, even romantic, guidebook to the art of household management.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 05/17/2005
ISBN: 9780743272865
Pages: 896
Weight: 2.65lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.60w x 1.60d

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 108
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Excellent set of leveling blocks
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These leveling blocks work very well for our Airstream interstate 19. They pack very compactly and seem to stay in place when we are upon them. I would recommend they be purchased if you need a set of leveling box
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Leveling blocks
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I used these on my first RV camping trip. I was on a not very level site and these worked well to level my camper. They worked so well I ordered another set. The handle is great at keeping the blocks together.
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Bought these at the start of our camping season. I really prefer these to the ones you drive up on that are like a ramp. Besides leaving out under your wheels they can be used for your stabilizer feet as well or your hitch. Quality is great I have not had one crack, I was worried these would be too big to pull my tires over easily but that wasn’t a problem at all. The size allows you to group them together like legos to do what you need to get level. They come in a bundle with a handle that secures them all together in a nice lightweight block that’s easy to store. I actually bought a second set for my fifth wheel after buying the first set. I got them both on sale and am very very happy with them.
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