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DIY, Crafts, Food & Household Tips

Fake a French Manicure (quick and easy)

Whether you go to a salon or do them at home, French manicures are more expensive and more time-consuming than regular ones. But those brilliant white tips are a very popular look. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to get the look with far less hassle and expense. And it actually looks gorgeous and slightly more

Easy homemade lip balm recipe

Lip balm and treatment products can be really expensive if you go through them quickly because your lips are chronically dry. Making your own balm at home is a great cost-saving alternative, but many of the recipes I’ve found online involve cooking or microwaving. I wanted a recipe I could just whip up quickly by

Used coffee grounds for skin, hair and more

Have you ever noticed that caffeine appears in the ingredients of many beauty products that are supposed to shrink something? Creams that are supposed to reduce cellulite or shrink bags under eyes often contain it. And in my experience, it does make a slight noticeable difference – temporarily. You have to keep using it to

Disposing of old medications

For years, we all got rid of old medication by just throwing it in the trash. Then it turned out that addicts went through trash looking for medications, and kids or animals could get hold of old drugs without even realizing they shouldn’t touch them. We were advised to flush old medication down the toilet

Finding good medical information online

It seems like every time I look up an odd symptom I’m having, the internet tells me I’m dying or need urgent medical attention. I know the internet is wrong, because I haven’t had urgent medical attention in about a million years, and here I am. Why is it less difficult to find sensible, testing

Dealing with people who twist your words

I like a good debate, even if I come to realize I’m wrong. How else do we learn anything? But the quickest way to turn a healthy debate into an unhealthy debacle is to have it with someone who turns your words around until they mean something else. Then he argues that point, completely ignoring

Homemade cough drops

Making your own homemade cough drops is not always a money saver compared to buying a big box store’s generic version of some brand name cough drops. But there are plenty of other reasons you might want to do it: to make use of herbs you grow yourself, to avoid the “what the heck is

Oils for skin care

In an article about making a new body scrub out of an old body wash or lotion, I mentioned in passing that you could always add some essential oils for scent. Eve asked if I knew of a list of oils that worked for various skin types and so on. I decided to compile some

Homemade spray-on leave-in conditioner

You can make your own spray-on leave-in conditioner easily and cheaply at home, and because you can customize the mix, what you make may even be better quality than what’s available at the stores. This is a great way not only to save money, but to create a “custom” product that really meets your hair’s

Cold fighting broth

I have to start this article with a disclaimer: what I’m about to tell you does not cure colds. I can’t even say for sure that it really helps prevent them. But there are some indications that certain foods help reduce or prevent cold symptoms, so maybe it does help. All I know is that