Practical Problem Solver: 1,001 Ingenious Solutions to Everyday Dilemmas

By Earl Proulx

Book Overview

Here are 1001 ingenious solutions to everyday dilemmas -- covering ideas for everything from houses overrun with paperwork and catalogs, car-chasing dogs and sticky tent zippers, to buggy houseplants, homemade party favors and clogged drains. This book is just brimming with fun, clever, easy and inexpensive ideas for making your life hassle free, including the top ten tools no home should be without; nine items you need to survive a blizzard; nine items that will keep kids amused during long road trips; and six ways to make a tiny room seem larger. More than 2 million readers of Yankee RM magazine love Plain Talk columnist Earl Proulx for his wit, experience and clever solutions -- and this encyclopedia of answers will guarantee that your problems are solved This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578661218
• ISBN13: 9781578661213
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Galahad Books
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Best Place To Turn for Household Answers

Earl Proulux is famous for his fascinating and useful column in Yankee Magazine. Don't have time to search over hundreds of past issues to try to solve a problem? This book is a compilation of helpful advice from the master of ingenious answers. It is divided into appropriate sections such as cleaning, animal pests, cooking, household repairs and many others. Each section can be a great read by itself but it is also useful...

Solutions to unusual household questions --

that were at one time common knowledge. Having read Proulx's column in Yankee magazine for years, it's exciting to find a compilation of his wit and wisdom. Proulx has an amazing and encyclopedic range of knowledge of the repair or reconditioning of almost anything, and also provides information on where to acquire the necessary ingredients and pitfalls to avoid when performing the task. He lends his voice of experience...