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Use the decorative shopping bags you accumulate for your Christmas gift-wrapping paper!

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As you do your Christmas shopping this year you’ll likely accumulate a collection of decorative paper shopping bags.

You know what I’m talking about. The bags the stores place your purchased items in after you pay for them.

Some of those shopping bags are probably quite nicely decorated with a variety of festive designs, making them a wonderful substitution for store-bought wrapping paper!

There are several advantages to using decorative shopping bags to wrap your gifts instead of wrapping paper: [Read more…]

Planning a road trip? Take along a wide mouth water bottle filled with ice!

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Living (and loving) Life

Are you planning to take a road trip in the not-so-distant future?

If so, you’ll need to make sure you stay hydrated on your trip in order to maintain your health and stay alert while you’re driving.

I take frequent 2-3 hour trips and I often find that I get thirsty along the way. I’m guessing you do as well.

You might be tempted to stop along the way and pick up a soft drink to sip on while you drive, but I have a suggestion for you…

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Here’s an easy way to plant a bunch of flower bulbs

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Are you planning to plant a large number of flower bulbs and have them come up next spring?

Well, as you probably know digging all those holes will be quite a task even if you have one of those handy bulb planting tools.

Luckily, there’s another handy tool that you probably already have in your garage that’ll make quick work of that planting chore.

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When shopping for tools, the kit with the most ‘pieces’ might not be the best deal

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If you’ve ever shopped for a tool kit you know the manufacturers always prominently display the number of “pieces” that are included in the kit.

And why not? All other things being equal, the more tools in the kit, the better. Right?

Well, truth be told, that answer to that question could well be no, depending on what those pieces consist of.

Here’s just one example to illustrate what I mean…

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How to find the right circuit breaker with a single trip to the breaker panel

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Do you ever find yourself needing to turn off a circuit breaker but have difficulty figuring out which breaker to “throw”?

I’ve been in this situation many times over the years, and finding the right breaker can be quite difficult indeed if the breakers aren’t marked and you don’t have a helper to assist you.

Well, luckily there are a couple of simple ways to find the right circuit breaker every time with just one quick trip to the circuit breaker panel: [Read more…]