How to Fix Just About Anything

by Reader's Digest Association

Gives advice on how to fix a variety of things both inside and outside the home. Easy-to-follow instructions show how to unblock a drain, put up a curtain rail, repair a bicycle wheel and other such DIY jobs. Each job featured comes with a time guide.

Genres: Reference

416 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 1996

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

[Capn]

True story: the Polish international moving dudes who blocked up our entire street for 12 hours on a 3 hour job found this in the back of their extended lorry (with a full-sized trailer on the back, too - goodness knows why) and insisted we take it as well as a random mop, presumably so they could off-load evidence of negligence. (They also took a knife to our beanbag chair, for reasons I will never fully comprehend).

It's definitely from the 90s, but it's already proven its worth (it was free) several times over.

I usually use it to show my husband the RATIONAL AND NORMAL WAY one would go about a simple home DIY job, before he or the house gets seriously injured.

And then later, I use it to go and fix the mess he made. ;) It's a good thing ONE of us is handy. (Where does this expectation that all males must be handy come from?! I don't think it's healthy - let it go, lads! You're either good with a hammer or you aren't. Unless you're a joiner or carpenter, etc., this doesn't have to reflect on your self-worth, ever. Consider yourself off the hook.).

[Hendrik Borginon]

Pretty pictures and a wonderful time capsule.