Is this the right book for me? Save Energy and Cut Your Bills offers you straightforward and achievable strategies for reducing your energy bills and living a more environmentally aware life. With lots of useful tools to assess your energy and carbon use, it gives practical advice on everything from heating your home to managing teenage consumers. The book comes with: - Energy-saving actions categorized into 'no cost', 'low cost' and 'investment' actions - Detailed installation costs and savings help you to make more effective decisions - Topical issues, such as HIPs and smart metering - Guidance on the most effective ways of generating your own power - Suggestions for green driving and being more sustainable in the garden - Resource sections for further investigation and assistance Save Energy and Cut Your Bills include: Chapter 1: Background to energy use Chapter 2: How much energy are you using now? Chapter 3: Developing a strategy for action Chapter 4: Saving energy in the house Chapter 5: Generating your own energy Chapter 6: Saving energy in the garden Chapter 7: Saving energy on the road Chapter 8: Future trends Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and added features: Not got much time? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. Author insights Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. Test yourself Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. Extend your knowledge Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of how to save energy. Five things to remember Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. Try this Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

The name Heloise is synonymous with household hints. Today, more than 40 years after the original Heloise began her newspaper column, her daughter has carried on the tradition for dispensing reliable and practical advice, garnering a whole new generation of fans.

Now for the first time, Heloise's hints for getting and staying organized have been assembled in one easy-to-read volume.

From shopping and home bookeeping to travel and entertaining, Heloise covers every aspect of a busy lifestyle to give her readers the kind of guidance that millions of fans have come to expect.

Where there are trees, there are squirrels, and where there are squirrels, there are ripped garbage bags and ruined attics. And there are trees everywhere.
Help arrives in Monte Burch's Solving Squirrel Problems. Burch, a lifelong hunter and observer of the natural world, reveals long-stored acorns of wisdom about defeating one of Mother Nature's wiliest and most persistent pests. In clearly written, succinct chapters, he shows how to turn your bird feeder into an impregnable fortress, friendly only to winged creatures. He also discusses battening down the attics, barns, and other areas of interest to squirrels. And he talks about why squirrels do what they do, and how to outthink them.
For anyone who lives within sight of a tree, Solving Squirrel Problems is a vital necessity.

The book includes hints on how to clean a dirty clothes-line, remove paint from window panes and get rid of a whole host of stains, from rust and indelible ink to blood and mildew. This delightful little volume also reveals how to rid yourself of those annoying household pests, including ants, beetles and flies, remove odours from your hands and use natural products to clean floors, windows and cooking utensils. Fowler also shows the twentieth-century housewife how to perform miracles in the kitchen, from making pastry extra flaky to the quickest way to peel carrots and how to remove burns from a cake.

Inexpensive, indispensable, and easy-to-use, transparent tape can be found in nearly every home. With her trademark flair for pragmatic creativity, popular helpful hints expert Vicki Lansky offers ingenious ways to use tape in the kitchen and car, for home maintenance and personal hygiene, with pets and with plants. In her down-to-earth style, Lansky shows how to use tape to create an instant bird feeder with a sticky-side-out loop dipped in bird seed, cover a watch crystal when painting to keep it paint-free, secure small bundles of fresh herbs to a cutting board before chopping, prolong the life of crayons by reinforcing them around the middle, and much more. This new edition also includes many tips shared by readers of the first edition. Including a brief history of tape's serendipitous invention, "Transparent Tape" is a practical and fun guide to making the most of a product that most people wouldn't know how to live without.