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New Use for Your Tissue Boxes

New Use for Your Tissue Boxes

September 12, 2014

Instead of having plastic produce bags taking up lots of space in a drawer waiting to be recycled or floating…

3 Easy Ways to Keep Your Fridge Bins Clean

3 Easy Ways to Keep Your Fridge Bins Clean

September 11, 2014

Do you hate pulling out those cumbersome fruit and vegetable bins to clean them? So do we! Here's what to…

Clean Your Pewter with Cabbage?!

Clean Your Pewter with Cabbage?!

September 10, 2014

Did you just inherit a beautiful candelabra (or maybe a set of tankards) that looks tarnished beyond repair? Don't despair!…

A Caterer’s Tricks to a Well-Timed Thanksgiving Dinner

A Caterer’s Tricks to a Well-Timed Thanksgiving Dinner

Pat Raitanen | September 8, 2014

Thanksgiving dinner is an exercise in timing—many different dishes need to be ready at the same moment. Is there a…

Don’t Settle for Second-Rate Sound: Get Glorious Room-Filling Music from Your iPod, Smartphone, Tablet, ­Computer, More

Don’t Settle for Second-Rate Sound: Get Glorious Room-Filling Music from Your iPod, Smartphone, Tablet, ­Computer, More

Rob Sabin | September 8, 2014

The speakers built into smartphones, tablets and computers rarely deliver high-quality sound. That reduces enjoyment for people who use them…

Did a Neuroscientist Say Bicycle Helmets Aren’t Lifesaving?
Exercise & Fitness

Did a Neuroscientist Say Bicycle Helmets Aren’t Lifesaving?

John M. Abrahams, MD | September 8, 2014

Imagine that it’s a beautiful day and you are out taking a bicycle ride. You are coasting along a quiet…

Easily Disinfect Your Countertops

Easily Disinfect Your Countertops

September 8, 2014

If you like your countertops and other kitchen surfaces clean and disinfected but don't like that harsh, bleachy smell, here's…

Easy Way to Make Meatballs

Easy Way to Make Meatballs

September 4, 2014

We just discovered this, and it works great. If you are pan-frying a close-knit group of delicate, small food items…

How to Clean Your Fake Flowers

How to Clean Your Fake Flowers

September 3, 2014

We have transitioned from houseplants that need little care (succulents, spider plants) to realistic-looking artificial flowers that need very little…

De-Stink a Lunch Box

De-Stink a Lunch Box

September 1, 2014

No one wants to go back to school with a smelly lunch box! Here's how to brighten up the food…

Easy, Inexpensive Dishwasher Gunk Remover

Easy, Inexpensive Dishwasher Gunk Remover

August 29, 2014

Is there strange gunk on the walls of your dishwasher...or a slightly foul smell emanating from within? Don't seek out…

Sedans Aren’t Boring Anymore!

Sedans Aren’t Boring Anymore!

Karl Brauer | August 28, 2014

The midsize sedan market has been completely remade as carmakers engage in an impressive game of automotive one-upmanship. Until a…

Fruity Face Mask

Fruity Face Mask

August 28, 2014

Are you looking for a natural way to softer, wrinkle-free skin? Go to your fruit bowl for an easy treatment.…

Control Blood Sugar and Keep Fit With Prebiotic Sunchokes

Control Blood Sugar and Keep Fit With Prebiotic Sunchokes

Tamara Duker Freuman, RD, CDN | August 27, 2014

If you’ve never seen a sunchoke, it might at first look like the love child of a potato and a…

The Right Way to Ripen Tomatoes

The Right Way to Ripen Tomatoes

August 27, 2014

We love it when our local farmers' market has freshly picked tomatoes right off the garden vines! Or maybe you…