Lindsey Ellefson
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Everything You Can Clean With Your Hand-Steamer (but Aren’t)
Here’s what to do with your steamer around the house.
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You’re Folding Your Clothes the Wrong Way
We’re well into spring cleaning season, which means disinfecting, organising, and generally trying to overhaul the whole damn house. Before you tackle your dresser drawers, though, take a pause: Let’s do this right. There are loads of hacks out there advocating for various folding methods, but we have the correct answer (and it’s not what…
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You Can Polish Chrome Fixtures With Baby Oil
For years, the internet has insisted that you can use baby oil to polish chrome and faucet fixtures. As someone with disgusting faucets that never seem to be improved by scrubbing, I finally gave in to the pressure. The claims say it will cut through gunk and film, leaving a shiny faucet (or toilet handle…
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Use the ‘REAP’ Method to Study Brand New Information
The way you study something will likely vary depending on how familiar you are with the subject matter. If you’re fairly familiar with the core concepts, you can force active recall by using flashcards to review, or enhance your grasp of a topic by teaching it to someone else, for instance. But what about when…