America's best-selling and oldest annual publication is also the most beloved: Its name makes people smile and its contents tickle funny bones. A reference book that reads like a magazine, the Almanac is packed with facts, features, and fun that make every day special.
Find YOUR region's long-range weather prediction in the new 2013 Almanac—traditionally, 80% accurate!
The 2013 Old Farmer's Almanac, which marks the publication's 221st anniversary, also features:
- the most accurate astronomical data under the sun, with the best-viewing recommendations for every month
- gardening advice for growing vegetables and flowers, not to mention worthwhile weeds
- predictions of emerging consumer fads, fashions, and farsighted ideas
- amusing and enlightening articles on topics such as: baking with award-winning baker Ken Haedrich; 56 kitchen tricks, tips, and timesaving ideas; 25 secrets to a hefty harvest; solar activity; epochal occasions; home health remedies; Mother Nature’s janitor; kissing; the perils of parenting; the American farmer; portly pets; hockey penalties; and the Battle of Gettysburg
- the best days to fish, plant, wean, set eggs, and much more
- plus quirky facts, recipes, timeless adages, advice, pithy quotes, profound proverbs, contests, anecdotes, pleasantries, ideas, hints, and charts that provide simple solutions and shortcuts for everyday challenges and much, much more!
Although the Classic Edition of The Old Farmer's Almanac, is offered in four regional editions for quick reference, every edition of the Almanac contains instructions and tables in the section titled “How to Use This Almanac” that allow readers to calculate exact events (sunrise/sunset, moonrise/moonset, moon's place and age, as well as tides and other data) for virtually any location in the United States. In other words, someone in Boston could still use the Western Edition to calculate their exact event times.
If calculating exact event times sounds like something you don't want to do, try our My Local Almanac digital product that does the calculations for you.
Paperback: 256 Pages (80 full-color pages)
No Beanie Babies Here: The 2013 Old Farmer's Almanac Gives Tips on Hot Collectibles
by GingerVaughan
Are you a collector? If so, you’d do well to follow the advice of The 2013 Old Farmer’s Almanac, which offers tips on what items to buy, sell, and make a point of finding.
Sell NOW!
Baby boomers are clamoring for artwork from children’s books. Posters from early horror and sci-fi movies are also fetching a pretty penny.
For example, according to ArtDaily.com, in 2010, a superbly kept 1935 Werewolf in London half sheet movie poster was sold for $47,800. During that same auction, a bidder paid over $38,000 for an oversize poster used in Austrian promotions for the 1933 film King Kong.
BUY! BUY! BUY!
If you happen to stumble upon a classic comic book printed during the 1930s or ’40s, be sure to pick it up . . . especially if it’s in like-new condition.
Easier to find: today’s toys. Make a point to buy some of the hot items from your local toy store and put them aside. You’ll have to keep them around for a few years (in the original packaging, if possible!), but as today’s kids near 40, nostalgia will drive prices up!
If you’re into items that are a bit more, shall we say, eccentric, The 2013 Old Farmer’s Almanac suggests collecting rare fungi and homegrown liquors!
The Next BIG Things
Of course, the best way to make money collecting is by correctly predicting what will sell well in the coming months or years. According to the Almanac, historical significance will drive collectors over the next decade or so. Items you should look to snatch up include:
- Letters or diaries of people who survived a historic event, such as the Civil War.
- Late 19th-century handmade, painted American wooden or metal trade signs.
- Tobacco-related items, such as ashtrays, advertising, and vintage matchbook covers.
While nothing is a sure thing in the world of collectibles, appraiser Noel Barrett from Carversville, Pennsylvania, says, “You have a chance of making a profit. Even if not [profitable], they are a lot more attractive to look at than stock certificates or bank statements from your IRA.”
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Submitted by Marcelle Edwards
I have not looked at an Almanac for some time due to being very most recently with house repairs and family expansion and support...
Today I have not only spent hours of absorption, and delight at my renewed acquaintance - I have also found many articles of interest to share with my teenage students. Articles that pique the curiosity and raise questions, as in the case of weather prediction. These form a great way in to exploration and deeper understanding of issues that are of vital importance today, such as diversity of cultural beliefs.
Taking the valuable, beneficial knowledge from the old and bringing it forward into the present so as to make positive progress through the benevolent use of knowledge: this is - this is the truest sense of the word "conservative".
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I have always loved the OFA. It is a remnant of simpler times.
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As a child growing up in Saskatchewan in the '30's,when we used horses to farm two sections of land and grew ALL our food there were no tractors,combines,electricity,running water, etc, the Farmers Almanac was the 'Essential' life book. I learned the different phases of the moon and how to use them--still use them today and I'm 78.
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