The Rummager’s Handbook: Finding, Buying, Cleaning, Fixing, Using, & Selling Secondhand Treasures

The Rummager’s Handbook: Finding, Buying, Cleaning, Fixing, Using, & Selling Secondhand Treasures

Antiquing as a fun and potentially profitable pastime has never been more popular, and this book offers hundreds of tips and ideas for finding sales and auctions, bargaining, determining value, and taking it home.To the tightwad’s favorite poem, “Use it up/Wear it out/Make it do/Or do without,” may be added, not so poetically, “Buy it cheap/Scrub it up/Make it work/And sell it for a profit.” This is the motto of The Rummager’s Handbook, a fascinating little book with tips for smart and thrifty rummage-sale addicts.

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Wash the dishes, do the laundry, mop the floors, scrub the toilets, make the beds, vacuum the rugs . . . the list goes on and on, with little time to stop, breathe, and take in your beautiful surroundings. Now you can. Learn to be at peace and attain enlightenment while doing all the “little” things around the house. Your floors and counters will shine as you become one with your home and gain an elevated sense of being. Zen and the Art of Housekeeping challenges you to put more than elbow grease into your daily routine. You’ll learn how to spirit yourself away during mundane chores as you muse over thought-provoking Zen koans like: If the kitchen is the heart of the home, what is the heart of the kitchen? What is the color of clean? If the purpose of cleaning is to remove dirt, what is the purpose of dirt? What fills empty spaces? Whose footprints are on your floor? With Zen and the Art of Housekeeping, you’ll scrub your way to enlightenment-and a spotless sink.

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