Reader's Digest How to Do Just about Anything

by Reader's Digest Association

From home and auto repair to health and beauty care, from gardening and cooking tips to financial and legal advice, an AZ guide to 1200 ideas, techniques and innovative solutions for getting everything done faster, better, and cheaper.

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Self Help, How To

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. is a global media and direct marketing company based in Chappaqua, New York, best known for its flagship publication founded in 1922, Reader's Digest. The company's headquarters are in New York City, where it moved from Pleasantville, New York.

The company was founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace in 1922 with the first publication of Reader's Digest magazine, but has grown to include a diverse range of magazines, books, music, DVDs and online content.

Reviews

[Jard]

Alles waarvan je niet wist dat je het nodig had. Echt genieten dit.

[Foxtower]

While it's impossible to actually create a book that tells you how to do "everything", this book does introduce a little bit of a great many things. Enough so that if you are curious, as tonite when I was wondering what the beginning stitches were for knitting, you might just find the answer.

And as books go, the incredible variety of topics just make for fun browsing. After all not many books tell you both how to play hide and seek, and then how to deal with severed limbs and fingers! (Just in case you decide to play hide and seek in a saw mill)

[Lisa Proulx]

I refer to this book quite often and have always found what I was looking for! :)

[Foxtower]

While it's impossible to actually create a book that tells you how to do "everything", this book does introduce a little bit of a great many things. Enough so that if you are curious, as tonite when I was wondering what the beginning stitches were for knitting, you might just find the answer.

And as books go, the incredible variety of topics just make for fun browsing. After all not many books tell you both how to play hide and seek, and then how to deal with severed limbs and fingers! (Just in case you decide to play hide and seek in a saw mill)

[Paula Montgomery]

There are so many little things that one does not how to do like fixing a zipper or removing certain stains. This book provides over 1200 solutions. This is a ready reference in many ways. You can go to it looking for the solution to one problem and end up reading much more. Great fun and helpful.

[Sarah Ehinger]

Jack of all trades, master of none. If you want a quick high level summary of how to do or solve over 1000 things, this is a fun book. I don't know that it will be useful in practice, but I like the concept. The big challenge, from my perspective, is that the internet means that I won't be looking in a book for my random questions.

[Venkata Mekala]

nice book

[Dan Stern]

Very useful hints and tips around the house and travelling toO

[Pat Silberberg]

Learning how things work, and how things are put together is something that I can not get enough of. My grandparents gave me my first tools, and I've been building things ever since. This book helped me understand how to just about anything that piqued my interest.

[Digvijay Katoch]

Growing up, this was my favorite reference guide. Always had it re-issued from the library. Has useful info about anything you want to do. Must have for any kids who have the inquisitiveness to know how to do just about anything.

[Cws]

643 Rea

[Abraham Ray]

I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
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[Lynda Dunn]

Good Reference

This book does provide fairly simple solutions to a myriad of
daily issues in an easy to read manner. Also provides instructions to several excerises.

[J Crossley]

This book provides many, many techniques to improve your skill-set.

[Charles Cianfarani]

very helpful and can be helpful if you need to fix something or do something.