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One of my all time favorite books
Great then, and great now

Guide To Easier Living
Russel Wright , and Mary Wright
Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1586852108

Book Description

Time is a valued commodity in our modern world, and everyone struggles to make the most of each minute. Russel and Mary Wright recognized decades ago that finding time to organize their lives and homes would become a priority for modern men and women. In their groundbreaking book, Guide to Easier Living, the Wrights offered simple ways to achieve a comfortable, well-designed, and organized living environment in any home for any family. Originally published in 1950, Gibbs Smith is proud to rerelease Guide to Easier Living, and to reintroduce the Wrights' time-tested and proven methods for maintaining an inviting and efficient home. From ways to make household chores as fast and painless as possible, to how to organize a room for maximum living space, the Wrights pioneered a new informal way of living for a newly suburban American public. The Wrights' ideas revolutionized American living and the way everyday people dealt with the unending job of keeping a home in order. These methods and ideas are just as relevant-if not more so-today as they were a half-century ago. Russel and Mary Wright were prominent and successful designers who pioneered the fusion of modern design and informal living. Most importantly, they were known for their tabletop designs. The Wrights' most famous tabletop design, American Modern, was the best-selling dinnerware in American history and has just been rereleased by Oneida Ltd.

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One of my all time favorite books.......2004-11-16

I bought this book when it had just come out and I was newly married. Ive used it so much that it is in tatters, but I still treasure it. The information and illustrations of storage closets, kitchens, general home layouts, etc. are still as useful and inspiring today as they were back in the 1950s. Their sections on choices and care of products for the home: floors, etc are still valid. Their discussions of time and motion techniques in cooking, house cleaning, bed making, etc. are outstanding. I still refer to it frequently. This book is like a dear old friend and has influenced my life for 50 some odd years. It is one of the 9 or 10 most influential and treasured books that I own.

Great then, and great now.......2003-11-21

Written during the height of the best of Mid 20th Century consumer progress, this reprint is full of still-valid ideas, with the remainder for just looking in wonder at times gone by. In this book, Russel and Mary went to great lengths to explain everything that they believed was important to orchestrating successful home engineering and economics. It's fun to read, and the original illustrations are stylized and tongue-in-cheek. It's fantastic that this book has been reprinted, so its wisdom and guidelines can educate and possibly downscale some of the pseudo-modern pretentiousness of our contemporary lifestyles, via the true modernism of the past that is expressed in the Wright's text. For instance, the mainstream 21st Century over-stuffed attitudes of living in contrived luxury, look bloated and phoney compared to the Wrights' explanations of pared-down but comfortably designed home decorating and economics; i.e., think modern, lightweight, artistic, and easy to maintain -- not necessarily "cheap" or severely spare. Their message was to have fun, make your house look beautiful, and do it intelligently with as little extraneous pomp and flounce to clean as possible. Great advice for the 21st Century!

A Guide to Easier Living (tips not taught in school)

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A Guide to Easier Living (tips not taught in school)
Joseph De Levie
Manufacturer: Lulu.com
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1411671007

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"A Guide to Easier Living" is a short and concise guide for 18 to 30 year olds. This guide is for you, young people, who are slowly but surely discovering that life is an ocean of struggles, and need to meet each challenge by asking the difficult questions that schools didn't provide the answers. You have very little 'equipment' for the road ahead. This short guide includes a selection of practical advice and useful tips that I've collected throughout my life. A good tip or piece of advice at the right time can steer thought in useful directions and reveal simple solutions to complicated and stressful problems. The basis of a successful life starts with our baptism of fire in areas that serve as guideposts in our lives: How to prepare for a job interview; How to achieve sexual satisfaction; Whether to be self-employed or not; How to make money... Yours, Joseph De Levie

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Guide to Easier Living
Mary and Russel Wright
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KTU8US

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Guide to Easier Living
Mary & Russel Wright
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SC1X2Y

The source book for the disabled: An illustrated guide to easier and more independent living for physically disabled people, their families, and friends

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The source book for the disabled: An illustrated guide to easier and more independent living for physically disabled people, their families, and friends
Glorya Hale
Manufacturer: Paddington Press : distributed by Grosset & Dunlap
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

MARY AND RUSSEL WRIGHT'S GUIDE TO EASIER LIVING

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MARY AND RUSSEL WRIGHT'S GUIDE TO EASIER LIVING
Mary and Russel Wright
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HMHDVA

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Arizona,: A guide to easier living
Joseph Stocker
Manufacturer: Harper
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007DXVSI

The wheelchair in the kitchen: A guide to easier living for the handicapped homemaker

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The wheelchair in the kitchen: A guide to easier living for the handicapped homemaker
Joseph Chasin
Manufacturer: Paralyzed Veterans of America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006WVNGC

The user friendly home: Older Nevadans share ideas for easier living

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An exceptional collection by an exceptional writer

The user friendly home: Older Nevadans share ideas for easier living
Barbara A Gunn
Manufacturer: Geriatric and Gerontology Center, University of Nevada
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006DIKZS

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An exceptional collection by an exceptional writer.......2003-09-14

I had the pleasure of taking a poetry workshop from Moya Cannon in Allihies, Cty. Cork, Ireland in the summer of 1999 and was truly inspired by her work. "The Parchment Boat" draws its name from the mendicant priests and monks who made small rafts from animal skins and set off on the ocean throughout Ireland and the British Isles to spread the gospel. Similarly, Cannon explores the everyday, shared experiences that draw us together. She, seemingly effortlessly, makes us relate to those ancient monks, a breastfeeding mother, the mythic Tristan and Isolde. She finds wisdom in something as mundane as scrubbing hazelnuts, and her work is at once modern and timeless.

As she says in "Hunter's Moon": "There are perhaps no accidents/ no coincidences / When we stumble against people, books, rare moments / Out of time / These are illuminations." Moya Cannon's poetry is one of those illuminations. The simplicity, directness, and power of her words will surely endure this age.

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