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How to Care for a Natural Loofah

How to Care for a Natural Loofah

A natural loofah is a scrubby delight, but are you scrubbing yourself with bacteria instead of Rain Bath? You might see some click-bait headlines warning you that if you don’t care for a natural loofah properly you’ll come down with some sort of hideous skin disease. That’s unlikely. But it’s a good idea to care for a natural loofah the right way.

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Care for Bamboo Cutting Board

Care for Bamboo Cutting Board

Find out the best way to care for your bamboo cutting board and other bamboo utensils and learn what you must NOT do!

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Home Office Desk Declutter – And I need YOUR help!

Home Office Desk Declutter – And I need YOUR help!

It’s the Home Office Desk Declutter Challenge – And I need YOUR help! Witness my shame and join me on the journey to a truly organized workspace.

Filed Under: How To, Learning the Basics, Organizing, Periscope Tagged With: How-To, organizing, periscope

Keeping your minivan clean on a road trip: My top 5 tips

Keeping your minivan clean on a road trip: My top 5 tips

Keeping your minivan clean while you’re on a road trip is possible! A little planning goes a long way. These are my top 5 tips for keeping the car chaos blues away.

Filed Under: How To, Organizing Tagged With: Cleaning, family life, How-To

How to survive a day trip with your preschooler without losing your mind

How to survive a day trip with your preschooler without losing your mind

How do you survive a day trip with your preschooler without losing your mind? Planning is key but the last tip is one you may not have thought of.

Filed Under: Family Traditions, How To, Modern Family Life, Periscope Tagged With: family life, How-To, parent hacks

How to keep plastic grocery bags neat and tidy

How to keep plastic grocery bags neat and tidy

Home hack: Keeping plastic grocery bags nice and tidy Are your plastic grocery bags multiplying like Gremlins sprayed with a hose? Are they spilling out of whatever you’ve shoved them into? Use this awesome hack to tame those bags and show them who’s boss! Why are there so many of them? We generally take our…

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How to clean burnt milk off a glass cooktop

How to clean burnt milk off a glass cooktop

How to clean burnt milk off a glass cooktop: Four methods compared There are some things I’m not allowed to do. I’m not allowed to buy potatoes (they invariably go rotten before I remember to use them) I’m not allowed to eat thai spice potato chips in bed (apparently the aroma keeps other people from…

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Filed Under: How To, Modern Housekeeping Tagged With: Cleaning, Gross, Kitchen, Modern Cleaning

How to Flash Freeze Virtually Anything

How to Flash Freeze Virtually Anything

Dear Jenny, in a lot of your food posts you mention that you “flash freeze” things. What exactly does that mean and how do you do it? — Frozen in Time   Dear Frozen, Yes, I do talk about flash freezing all the time! So much that I think people are starting to roll their eyes…

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Flash Freeze Ground Beef

Flash Freeze Ground Beef

Did you know you can flash freeze ground beef? It’s super easy to do. Here’s how.

Filed Under: How To, Let's Have a Quickie Tagged With: Cooking, How-To, quickie

Cooking and Freezing Rice In Bulk

Cooking and Freezing Rice In Bulk

Cooking and freezing rice in bulk So you’re cooking. Almost everything is ready. You scream “DINNER IN 10!” through the house. Something is missing though. You look around. Gah! The rice! You forgot to cook the rice! If you eat white rice you’re set back by a good 30 minutes, and if you eat brown…

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