Category: Home and Garden
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Home Ec Memories
Exploring Home and Family Fleck, Fernandez and Munvez 1965 This book showed up in a book donation and I had a blast flipping through the pages. From what I could tell, it is a refugee from a high school and it is practically showroom new! WorldCat shows holdings in mostly…
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(Good?) Housekeeping
The Good Housekeeping Complete Guide to Traditional American Decorating Good Housekeeping 1979 Submitter: This book came in on a hold. Published in 1979, our records show that it’s been out 14 times since 2002 and it’s one of two copies in our system. I think it should be weeded. Lol. Holly: They…
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Weeding in the gardening section
Make Friends with Your Fruit Trees Baker 1973 Submitter: I just found another awful book for your page, this one is the PITS!! Well, it’s about fruit trees so “the pits” is probably a great way to refer to it… The part I really liked is the list of books…
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Furniture that makes sense
Nomadic Furniture Hennessey and Papanek 1974 Submitter: I’ve been enjoying the posts on your blog, and have recently come across a little gem of my own in my collection: Nomadic Furniture by James Hennessey and Victor Papanek (1973). The early-70’s designs and the difficult-to-read handwritten text are bad enough, but…
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Party’s Over
The Betty Betz Party Book: The Teen-Age Guide to Social Success Betz 1947 Submitter: After thumbing through this book, I understood why our library has held on to it all these years. It’s absolutely essential for all teenagers who are preparing to throw a swell shindig like the ones Betty…
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Home Ec-50’s style
Young Living Clayton 1959 This could be a fun book to browse…at a museum or archive of some sort. Sadly, there are quite a few public libraries listed in WorldCat that still have this book on their shelves. I love the page that this submitter scanned from the book. Now…
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