consumer goods
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How to Survive Sleeping in the Heat When You Don’t Have Air Conditioning
You can make your air conditioner more effective and efficient, you can make a DIY air conditioner, and you can cool your home without an air conditioner at all. But what can you do when you can’t fall asleep because it’s too dang hot?
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The Best Ways to Salvage Your Muddy Sneakers
If your sneakers are extremely dirty but you don’t want to replace them, there are ways to get them back into good shape, if maybe not to their just-out-of-the-shoebox glory days. But with the right tools and materials, you can get pretty close. These are the best ways to restore and revitalize a pair of…
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How to Save Money at the Grocery Store When Food Costs a Fortune
In case you haven’t choked on your own gasps after seeing the price of food recently: Groceries are expensive around the globe right now. The U.S Bureau of Labour Statistics recently reported that “food prices increased 7.9% for the year ended February 2022, the largest 12-month advance since July 1981.” That’s the highest rate of…
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When You Really Need to Replace Your Running Shoes, According to Reddit
You’ve probably heard the advice that running shoes are only good for about 300 to 805 km, and after that, the cushioning is so broken down that they’re an injury waiting to happen. But that’s not always true, and there are more ways to figure out when to throw out your shoes than just counting…