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  • Foods Not to Cook in Foil, including citrus and tomatoes

    9 Foods You Should Never Cook in Aluminum Foil

    While you can use aluminum foil to cook certain foods and prevent them from drying out (and even use foil to clean quite a few things), the hack doesn’t apply to all foods. This is due to the potential for aluminum…

  • Top 10 Home Improvement Projects People Put Off the Most, like plumbing, grout, and weatherization

    Top 10 Home Improvement Projects People Put Off the Most

    It’s famously hard to maintain a home, and if you’re like us, you don’t love spending huge chunks of money at one time. Without question, we’re procrastinators when it comes to spending. Thanks to a report from the home-services website…

  • A row of Tiny Heirloom eXpanses on the bottom left in the mountains at night, a huge starry sky

    DIY Kit Homes We’d Build Right Now

    Did you know you can buy a new house online? For as little as $500 you can buy the plans for a DIY kit home that you can finish to your own specs. If you’ve got more to spend, you…

  • Affordable methods to remove mosquitos from your yard, including citronella plants and mowing the lawn

    Bite Back: 7 Affordable Ways To Rid Your Yard of Mosquitoes Naturally

    Summer is marked by warm weather, long days spent outside, and sunkissed skin — dotted with mosquito bites. Mosquitos are literally summer’s biggest buzzkill and professional lawn spraying services can be pretty pricey, leaving many to stock up on insect repellent…

  • Things you shouldn't put in the washing machine: pet-hair-covered clothing, delicates, leather shoes

    9 Things You Should Absolutely Never Put in the Washing Machine

    Laundry is one of those annoying chores fraught with loads of confusing and seemingly contradictory rules that threaten to shrink, fade, and utterly destroy your clothes if you don’t follow them exactly.  Wash with like colors. Don’t bother separating colors.…

  • Closeup of dead bug on the floor with broom in background

    Getting the Bugs Out: 22 Cheap, Natural Ways to Rid Your Home of Pests

    Fleas, spiders, termites, flies, centipedes, ants, bedbugs, cockroaches … these tenacious intruders won’t give up, so we humans have to fight for our living spaces. In the quest to keep their homes clean and bug-free, many people don’t want to…