Practical, informative, and great fun to read, Shoes in the Freezer, Beer in the Flower Bed offers hundreds of time- and money-saving tips for preparing, cleaning, organizing, and maintaining your house and garden. And interspersed throughout the pages are folk beliefs and suggestions from every culture: for example, if you eat chocolate right before bed, you'll have romantic dreams; and if a cat appears at your wedding, your union will be blessed.

A PRACTICAL, SAFE, TIME-TESTED, AND EFFECTIVE A-TO-Z GUIDE TO NATURAL HEALING REMEDIES

For years, sisters Joan Wilen and Lydia Wilen have been collecting and incredible home remedies. These range from old treatments that have been passed down for centuries (but forgotten by modern medicine) to methods recently uncovered by doctors and medical researchers. Healing Remedies combines the best entries from the Wilens' Chicken Soup & Other Folk Remedies books, plus a significant amount of new material, including sections on diabetes, osteoporosis, ADD, anxiety, and children's...