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Never Keep These Things In a Storage Unit
Storage units can be a temporary fix during a move or help keep your clutter — holiday decorations, out-of-season clothes, sporting equipment, and so on — to a minimum. But there are some items that shouldn’t be kept in this kind of space. While a storage unit might seem similar to a garage or basement,…
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How Bad Is a Leaky Faucet, Anyway?
The drip-drip-drip of a leaky faucet can be annoying, to be sure. And it’s certainly not going to do any favours to your water bill (or the environment). But beyond that, how big of a deal is it, really?
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All the Stuff You Should Clean on the First of the Month
The first day of every month should be for planning and getting your shit together, but most of us aren’t planner-toting wunderkinds. Still, there are a few things that most of us can do to keep the month going smoothly: Specifically, household items that need to be cleaned once per month. Clean them on the…
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The Easiest Ways to Open a Can Without a Can Opener
1One basic rule of life is that everything is easy with the proper tools, and nearly impossible without them. A great example of how this works is the can opener: Although we’ve had the pull-tab design since 1962, you can still somehow find plenty of canned goods on the grocery shelves that lack this simple…