Las Animas - Bent County Library District

From estimating start-up costs and finding clients to how to stay profitable even in slow economic climates, this book takes you through every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based professional organizing business. Whether you're just starting to explore your options for a home-based business or are an organizing wizard looking to be your own boss, each chapter will guide you on how to build your own successful organizing business....

Offers hints and tips for using natural and organic alternatives to home and personal care products often made with synthetics and chemicals, covering decorating and furnishing, cleaning, washing and laundry, recycling, food, remedies, pet care, and other topics.

Provides homespun advice from how to cure the common cold to when to plant peas. Includes photographs, etchings, American folklore, and history.

Never Done is the first history of American housework. Beginning with a description of household chores of the nineteenth century-cooking at fireplaces and on cast-iron stoves, laundry done with wash boilers and flatirons, endless water hauling and fire tending-Susan Strasser demonstrates how industrialization transformed the nature of women's work. Lightening some tasks and eliminating the need for others, new commercial processes inexorably altered...

This enduring classic is still the key reference to living off the land. Packed with practical information, tried-and-tested tips, and invaluable nuggets of advice, Seymour's visionary handbook explains how to reap the harvest, respect the land, stay healthy, and waste nothing.