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A lower maintenance lawn can be beautiful, more affordable and more environmentally friendly.

Junk mail is an overwhelming nuisance. You have enough paperwork in your life without having to sort through piles you don’t even want. And some of it contains so much personal information that you really need to shred it. Here’s a complete 8-step plan for how to stop junk mail and keep it stopped.

No one wants to deal with a home burglary. These 12 home security tips will not only make your home harder to break into – they’ll also help you make your home less tempting to burglars.

There are a lot of services that create disposable email addresses you can use when signing up for web services where you’d rather not give out an email address at all. Some are free, or have a free option – others cost money but also save all your spam so you can tell who’s giving …

I decided to do my taxes on Sunday. I thought it would take two hours because even though I have a schedule C and some 1099-Divs, TurboTax has always made it fairly easy in the past. This year, I tried TurboTax online rather than downloading the software. You set up an account, do your return …

Peeling cooked potatoes is time consuming and annoying – one of those tasks most of us would prefer to avoid if possible. A friend recently forwarded me a link to a video in which Dawn Wells (yes, the actress who played Marianne on “Gilligan’s Island”) shows you a really simple way to peel a cooked …

I never thought of putting my clothes into my closet in any particular way – other than hanging them carefully so they wouldn’t wrinkle – until a few years ago, when someone suggested arranging them by type of garment, then color. It sounded like a lot of work, and the first time it did take …

Bulk cooking saves you time and money, which makes having a healthy home cooked meal every night easier than ever.

If you constantly bring home clutter, you constantly have to declutter or find yourself in a mess in no time. Who has time to declutter 15 minutes a day, or an hour a week? If you do, you’re lucky. Ways clutter can sneak into your home It sounds simple, but clutter is sneaky. It masquerades …

Unclutterer has an old post about buying no-iron clothes that you really never have to iron so you can eliminate that annoying chore from your daily list. If you want to go completely iron-free and still look as immaculately groomed as anyone else, there are a few things you need to do. If you can’t …