Anyone living in tropical climates-from Miami Beach to Cancun to Aruba to Key West to New Orleans to San Juan-needs to know the amazingly useful tips presented in this book. The author, who has lived in the tropics for more than half a century, had to fend for herself in solving everyday challenges. These tried-and-true solutions could save you hours of labor and thousands of dollars over the years-especially since many can be used by anyone living anywhere. The challenges included mosquitoes in gardens, ants in kitchens, mildew in books, clogged drains, wine stains on fine washables, wasps nests, sun-damaged skin, hard water stains, splattered bugs on windshields, tarnished silver, musty scents, raccoons in garbage cans, and hundreds of other problems. The author over decades compiled one remedy after another. Now collected for the first time, this book contains hundreds and hundreds of clever ideas to make living easy and breezy-from gracious entertaining to pet care to beauty tips to maintaining your car and your garden-and much, much more This is an invaluable resource of hundreds of tips that will save the reader thousands of dollars over time. Includes a comprehensive index.