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How to Rid Your Secondhand Furniture of That Thrift Store Smell
While some people have always loved vintage (i.e. secondhand) furniture, others are new to the thrift store, flea market, and yard sale game, thanks to current furniture shortages and shipping delays. But shortages or not, there are many benefits to buying secondhand furniture and other items for your home, including the cost, unique designs, durability,…
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How to Get the Smell of Garlic Out of Your Wooden Cutting Board
If you own wooden utensils or cutting boards, you’ve probably noticed they have a way of retaining certain pungent odours. As much as we love our wooden kitchen tools, they are also porous, so they easily absorb strong smells — and then transfer those smells to foods we’re preparing later (garlic watermelon, anyone?).
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How to Get That Funky Smell Out of Your Sheets
When I put the question of how to remove dank odour from one’s bedsheets to my trusty WhatsApp mum chat, one mum replied, “WTH. Don’t do things in your sheets that make them smell!?”
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Solve Ingredient Shortages With These Common Baking Substitutes
A couple weeks ago, I was craving chocolate cake. The problem? I had no eggs, butter or milk in the house. I hadn’t been shopping in a while — blame the grocery-delaying habits I developed during the pandemic — which meant I was low on just about everything you need to bake. Luckily, baking isn’t…