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Give Your Guest Bedroom and Bathroom a Holiday Glow
When overnight guests descend for the holidays, in addition to doing the usual cleaning, straightening and emptying of wastebaskets, you may wish to incorporate design touches to amplify that cosy holiday feeling for your guests, and facilitate convenience for you both. (This is helpful if you don’t want your mother-in-law to ask you for a…
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The Fastest Way to Skin an Almond
You never thought the day would come. You need skinless, blanched almonds, and you need them now. You could rush over to the grocery store and pray that they have blanched almonds on the shelf, but what if they don’t? You can easily de-skin regular almonds at home in record time with a few common…
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9 Things You’re Not Cleaning in Your Washing Machine (but Should Be)
Washing machines — is there anything they can’t do? Just kidding: There are plenty of things you shouldn’t wash in your machine. Plus, the machine itself has to be washed, which is tedious. Still, there are some surprising uses for yours, even if it’s not usable for every situation. Here are a few ways you…
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14 Things You Should Always Have on Hand for Overnight Guests
There are two types of overnight guests: planned and unplanned. The planned guests tend to be family and friends on vacation or in town for the holidays. The unplanned tend to be drunk friends and/or hookups. (Friend can be hookups of course, but not all hookups are friends.) In either instance, it pays to have…