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Recommend an Old Style Book?

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  • squeaky
    squeaky Posts: 14,129 Forumite
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    Any book that has sold almost forty MILLION copies...

    ..oh... that'd be the Be-Ro book then :)


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  • spendaholic
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    squeaky wrote:
    Any book that has sold over forty MILLION copies...

    ..oh... that'd be the Be-Ro book then :)
    Or the bible ... that's quite a nice, old style book ... :D
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  • spendaholic
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    Are you on a commission?
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  • squeaky
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    Just a mission :)
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  • spendaholic
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    Mrs Beeton's book is quite a good one too. And "Victorian Household Hints: useful hints & tips to keep a well managed household". (Don't you just love a snappy title?)
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  • competitionscafe
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    And anybody who gets an organic veg box will appreciate Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book which has loads of ideas and recipes for all the weird and wonderful veg you get in your weekly box:
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140273239/
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  • Chipps
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    I have to agree wholeheartedly with the "More with Less" cookbook, and also the Tightwad Gazette. I know what raeble means by there being a lot that is not relevant to international readers, but it was the principles of how to look at things that I found so helpful, rather than individual tips as such, and to be fair, I think that is how Amy Da-whats-her-name intended it to be used.
    Can I also recommend "Kitchen in the Hills" by Elizabeth West. She & her dh lived on a very primitive smallholding in Wales in the 1960s and she wrote a book about their adventures called "Hovel in the Hills", and this is the recipe book giving some of the recipes she used. I don't know if it is still in print or not.
    And of course, as spendaholic said,
    Or the bible ... that's quite a nice, old style book ...
  • spendaholic
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    There was another that I couldn't remember the name to, but I've found it now: The Compleat Housewife. That one carries government-type warnings not to try to the tinctures and cures without proper medical advice, but it's still a nice "cosy" book to have on the shelf.
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  • Aril
    Aril Posts: 1,877 Forumite
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    Just a few more
    John & Irma Mustoe, The Penny Pincher's Book [some v gd tips and some are awful like hanging up a dead bird in your garden as a scarer,#. Ugh!!] Available through the library
    Jasmine Birtles A Bit On The Side [unusual ways to boost your income]
    Delia Smith, Frugal Food [haven't actually clapped eyes on this one]
    Regards
    Aril
    Aiming for a life of elegant frugality wearing a new-to-me silk shirt rather than one of hair!
  • sunsetgirl
    sunsetgirl Posts: 78 Forumite
    Ive just got this handy hardbacked book today from our town discount bookshop

    Natural Cleaning - products & methods by Sarah Green (march 2005)
    It contains 'cheap,effective enviromentally friendly soloutions for your household'
    uses for borax, bicarb, essential oils, soda crystals etc.

    It was only £2.00 but says £4.99 on the back.
    If anyone wants me to get them a copy and post it on I'd be happy too as there was about 4 copies left. (70p to post) just pm me!
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