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Smart Phones are Smart for Homework Time, Too

When I was growing up, “homework time” looked like this: books and papers spread across the kitchen table, TV turned off and all other distractions kept to a minimum, including phone calls with friends (on the shared family phone with the eternally tangled chord). Mom-enforced. Fast forward several decades. Recently, I went upstairs to check…

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7 Secret Ways To Cut Kitchen Cleaning Time in Half

It never ends, does it? The kitchen is never clean for long. And the sink is never empty. You wish you had a magic wand that could make all the kitchen messes disappear every night. Cleaning up the kitchen is a dreaded everyday chore. You can’t escape it. And if you declare yourself on cleaning…

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Safer Than Plastic – Simple Steps To Smarter Choices

Plastics are a ubiquitous element of our daily lives. Lets face it, theyre everywhere holding the food we eat and the water we drink, constructing the toys our kids play with, the bottles they nurse from, and the sippy cups they graduate to. Plastics house the computers we work on and the remotes that control our entertainment systems. They make up the interiors of the cars we drive. Theyre cheap, versatile, and convenient. Whats not to love? Plenty. Plastic are taking a serious toll on our health and environment. Plastics are made with petroleum, a nonrenewable resource with a host of human and ecological concerns at every stage of its lifecycle, from extraction, through processing and use, to disposal in landfills and by way of incineration. Though seemingly ber-convenient for holding food and drink, plastics have been found to leach chemicals into that food and drink. Lets face it, using plastic is up there with death and taxes in inevitability. But that doesnt mean we have to sit back and take whats being fed to us on a polyethylene spork (that strange hybrid spoon-fork utensil). There are simple skills you can learn to help you pick plastic products more wisely.

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Home Organization Tips for the Kitchen

Kitchen clutter is the bane of homeowners. Perhaps because so much time is spent in the kitchen, it tends to get neglected when it comes to organization. Before you hire a backhoe, step back and take a deep breath. There’s a method to the madness when it comes to kitchen organization, and it’s not as complicated as it looks.