Dictionary of Discards: How To Make Useful Things of Scrap by Frank M. Rich

$18.00

Avenel Press, 1952. Cloth, dj, 143 pp., illustrated throughout. Some light creasing to edge of dust jacket with sunning to spine. Very good overall.


Don't want to buy weird plastic Halloween costumes this year? Time to think about keeping household materials out of landfills and put them to good use. Like, an old sponge into a fake beard? Sounds good by us.

There are a surprising amount of interesting and useful ideas in this book (the list for rubber tires is about 100+ things), and some strange ones (not really gonna make "splatter print monograms" out of leftover Alphabet soup noodles), that if nothing else spark some creativity before the term upcycle was even in our lexicon.

Avenel Press, 1952. Cloth, dj, 143 pp., illustrated throughout. Some light creasing to edge of dust jacket with sunning to spine. Very good overall.


Don't want to buy weird plastic Halloween costumes this year? Time to think about keeping household materials out of landfills and put them to good use. Like, an old sponge into a fake beard? Sounds good by us.

There are a surprising amount of interesting and useful ideas in this book (the list for rubber tires is about 100+ things), and some strange ones (not really gonna make "splatter print monograms" out of leftover Alphabet soup noodles), that if nothing else spark some creativity before the term upcycle was even in our lexicon.