A Dorothy Caudill guide · Mountain Household Secrets
You are tired of shelves full of jugs, sprays, and gadgets that do not do the job. This book gives you a short shelf of plain household staples, what each is for, how to use them safely, and what to stop buying.
Plus 1 separate bonus book.Including Before You Buy Another Jug.
One digital bundle. PDF to read or print, plus EPUB for e-readers.
01 · How it helps
These are the moments when another bottle looks like the answer. The book starts with the cause of the problem and a plain way to handle it.
1On laundry day
Why are my white clothes turning pink or orange?
✓The white-basin test: run your laundry tap into a white basin. If the water looks red or brown, use oxygen bleach, not chlorine. Chapter 02
Should I use hot water on grass and mud stains?
✓Stain families: egg, milk, mud and grass are protein stains. Soak them in cold water first, because hot water cooks them in. Chapter 03
2After you cook
Can I use any bleach to clean up after raw chicken?
✓The bleach label check: wash the counter with soap, then use regular unscented bleach whose label shows 5 to 9 percent sodium hypochlorite. Chapter 05
Why does my cast-iron skillet keep rusting?
✓Never air-dry: dry the skillet right away with a rag or paper towel, then rub in a little high-temperature oil, shiny not sticky. Chapter 06
3When pests move in
I put out ant bait. Should I still wipe up the ants?
✓Baits, used by the label: leave the stretch of trail near the bait alone. Wiping or spraying those ants stops them carrying bait home. Chapter 09
Why are there still moths after I put out traps?
✓Pantry moths start in a package: sticky traps draw only male moths. Throw out infested food, wash the shelves, use tight lids. Chapter 11
4Around the house and garden
What should I stuff in the gaps where mice get in?
✓Close the doors they use: plug gaps with steel wool for now, then seal them with metal or concrete, not foam or wood. Chapter 10
Do I pick off every hornworm I find on my tomatoes?
✓The evening hornworm hunt: search tomatoes with a flashlight, but leave any hornworm carrying small white cocoons. Helpful wasps will come out. Chapter 12
02 · What’s inside
Each chapter begins with the household problem people kept bringing back to the hardware counter. Then it turns to the old plain practice behind the job.
03 · Your bonus book
You also receive Before You Buy Another Jug. It gives you a calm way to map damage, name the culprit with a plain field key, answer it cheaply, and check back.
$12 estimated bonus valueIncluded with your $27 book
Check before buying another jug.
A calm garden-pest reset: map the damage, name the culprit with a plain field key, answer it cheaply, and spend two weeks checking back. 29 pages.
Plus, at no extra charge: lifetime updates to the main book.
Individual values are estimates set by Dorothy Caudill, not previous selling prices. No physical books are shipped.
04 · The honest part
Not in this book: A single product said to handle every problem.
I show you how to match a plain staple to the job in front of you.
Not in this book: A way to cover up a smell without looking for its cause.
I show you where to look for the source first.
Not in this book: A claim that every stain, pest, or draft has the same answer.
I show you how to begin with the conditions that brought the problem on.
Not in this book: A long list of new things to put in your cart.
I keep to the few cheap, plain staples worth keeping.
Dorothy
05 · Who wrote it
Dorothy Caudill grew up in a holler outside Hazard, Kentucky, where her grandmother taught her the old mountain ways of keeping a house. She spent forty-three years at the customer service desk of a rural hardware co-op.
She knows what works because she processed the returns: which treatments came back opened once, which products gave out after a season, and which problems people kept paying to solve year after year.
Her grandmother's answers cost little and used materials you can still find or grow. Stop Buying What Fails gathers the ones that still earn a place on the shelf.
06 · The offer
Plus the bonus book included
PDF and EPUB editions to download, read or print.
No subscription. No shipping.
For $27, you receive the main book as digital PDF files and an EPUB for e-readers, along with the bonus. After payment, your download is ready. There is no subscription and no shipping.
Keep it where you can reach for it when a familiar household problem comes up.
What you get for $27:
Individual values below are publisher estimates. Everything is included in your $27 purchase.
The few cheap old staples worth keeping, what each is for, and what to stop buying
A calm garden-pest reset: map the damage, name the culprit with a plain field key, answer it cheaply, and spend two weeks checking back. 29 pages.
Future revisions of this book at no extra charge.
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07 · Questions
You receive Stop Buying What Fails as digital PDF files and as an EPUB for e-readers. You also receive the garden-pest bonus, Before You Buy Another Jug.
The main book is provided as digital PDF files. You can print the PDF files if you want a paper copy to keep nearby.
It is for you if you want plain household solutions for laundry, stains, rust, wood, drafts, kitchen pests, and the garden. It is built around a short shelf of cheap, common staples.
After payment, download the files and begin with the chapter that matches the job in front of you. You do not need to read it in order.
Ask for your money back through Whop within 30 days and every dollar comes back, no questions asked. That is the Read-It-First Guarantee: read the book first, then decide.
No. These are digital files, with instant download after payment.
It covers a calm reset for garden pests. It walks through mapping damage, using a plain field key, answering the problem cheaply, and checking back.
Yes. The main book also comes as an EPUB file, which opens in Kindle (through Send to Kindle), Apple Books, Kobo and Google Play Books. The workbook and bonus books are PDFs, made to read on screen or print.
You do not need another crowded shelf of products that fail. Keep a few plain staples, learn what each is for, and start with the cause.
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