Household hints

Book Cover: Australian Green Home & Garden

By Robin Stewart

Australian Green Home & Garden introduces green alternatives, solutions to everyday household tasks that are effective, inexpensive and easy to apply. Learn how to protect yourself, your family and our fragile environment by taking the clean and green approach to modern living.

Published: 01/09/2003

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781863953238

RRP: $14.95

Practical Self Sufficiency: An Australian Guide To Sustainable Living

By Dick Strawbridge & James

Practical guidance for making simple changes to your life that will reduce your impact on the planet.

Published: 28/02/2011

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9781740337700

RRP: $59.95

Organic Home: The Australian Guide to Clean, Green Living

By Rosamond Richardson

In The Organic Home , highly acclaimed author Rosamond Richardson challenges the accepted methods of running a home, offering hundreds of tried-and-tested techniques that are not only safe and gentle, but also deliver on performance, are simple to implement, and affordable. Many are just a matter of common sense not letting the water run while cleaning your teeth, for example and cost nothing.

Published: 03/04/2006

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781740334976

RRP: $29.95

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Decluttering

By Regina Leeds

Whether you live in a 20-room mansion or a one room apartment, drive an SUV or a MiniCooper – the stuff we have builds up into an endless stream of clutter. Most people just live with it, pushing it aside in closets or in garages and letting it pile up. But what happens when it gets so bad that it takes over your living space and there's no room for the stuff you really want?

Renowned organizing...

Published: 14/06/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781592576289

RRP: $19.95

Toxic Free

By Debra Lynn Dadd

Today, there is no longer any question that toxic chemicals in consumer products are harming our families. But how do we protect ourselves, and where do we start? In Toxic Free , Debra Lynn Dadd, who has been hailed by The New York Times as the 'Queen of Green,' discusses in easy-to-understand language the hidden toxic chemicals that are already in our homes, their varying degrees of danger...

Today, there is no longer any question that toxic chemicals in consumer products are harming our families. But how do we protect ourselves, and where do we start? In Toxic Free , Debra Lynn...

Published: 07/12/2011

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781585428700

RRP: $19.95

Unstuff Your Life!: Kick the Clutter Habit & Completely Transform Your Life for Good

By Andrew J Mellen

One of the country's most sought-after professional organizers makes his foolproof rescue plan available for everyone

Published: 07/10/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781583333891

RRP: $19.95

Express Housekeeping

By Dorling Kindersley

The indispensible guide to having a clean, well-organised home with minimum effort and fuss.

Express Housekeeping is about getting the job done quickly, with plenty of pictures that show it all. Well-thought-out plans set out how to blitz every type of room, whether it's the kitchen, bathroom or bedroom, in prescribed time slots. Cleaning Kit spreads will show you how to put together an essential kit...

Published: 28/02/2011

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9781405363075

RRP: $24.95

The Concise Guide to Self Sufficiency

By John Seymour

The concise version of Seymour's visionary classic is a key reference title for living off the land, and an excellent starting point for anyone aiming to change to a more sustainable lifestyle. Packed with practical information and invaluable advice from the man who spent most of his life living the dream of self-sufficiency.

This handbook teaches the full range of crafts and skills necessary to producing...

Published: 30/07/2007

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9781405320207

RRP: $35.00

Domestic Goddess on a Budget: How to Save Money and Time

By Wendyl Nissen

Ever thought of cleaning your toilet with nothing but baking soda and vinegar? Making fly spray out of black tea? Or painting your nails with henna?

Writer, broadcaster, wife, mum and grandma Wendyl Nissen knows just how difficult it is to juggle family and career, while saving the planet and living within your means. After lots of research and trial and error, Wendyl has compiled...

Ever thought of cleaning your toilet with nothing but baking soda and vinegar? Making fly spray out of black tea? Or painting your nails with henna?

Writer, broadcaster, wife, mum and grandma...

Published: 01/06/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143011859

RRP: $19.95

Composting: A Down-to-Earth, Water-Wise Guide

Save water and help save the planet, all from the comfort of your own home!

These days everyone is looking for ways to send less household rubbish to landfill, to use less water and, of course, to save money. Composting is a great solution! And anyone can make compost – even of you live in an inner-city apartment you can create a super-efficient natural soil conditioner for you...

Published: 02/03/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143011057

RRP: $19.95

Composting: Penguin Mini

In today's society, where almost everything is designed to be thrown away, waste disposal has become a big issue. Composting is one easy way that anybody can help reduce their personal impact on the environment. Composting not only reduces the amount of waste being added to landfill, but also provides gardeners with an excellent way to nourish and fertilise their soil.

The mini guide to Composting...

Published: 29/08/2005

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143003953

RRP: $9.95

The Cleaning Bible: Kim and Aggie's Complete Guide to Modern Household Management

By Kim Woodburn & Aggie MacKenzie

You watched the TV programme and you bought the book but is your house still a bit dull round the edges? It is time to get Kim and Aggie round to do the spring cleaning – their ultimate Cleaning Bible is the only helping hand you need for all tasks of a domestic nature. Every tip and trick from their combined cleaning experience of about half a century is included, and they always use natural...

You watched the TV programme and you bought the book but is your house still a bit dull round the edges? It is time to get Kim and Aggie round to do the spring cleaning – their ultimate Cleaning...

Published: 19/06/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141027005

RRP: $29.95

Penguin Book of Keeping House

By Cerentha Harris

Published: 04/06/2007

Format: Digital

ISBN: 9781742280493

The Penguin Book of Keeping House

By Cerentha Harris

If you have ever wondered how to fit out your living room without breaking the bank allow light in but block nosey neighbours out wash a feather-filled doona keep your bathroom sparkling, without chemicals get your wardrobe under control make your home safe for toddlers help your pot plants to flourish this is the book for you.

Keeping house is an art that many of us have lost. Our schedules are so...

Published: 04/06/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143001706

RRP: $24.95