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  • Dandelions and Other Plants You Can Eat

    8 Plants in Your Yard You Didn’t Know You Could Eat

    Wild garlic, roadside asparagus, and chives are well-known for their widespread backyard availability and edible quality. But have you ever looked at the other plants in your yard and wondered if you could eat those too? From flowers to what…

  • Baking staples you can make at home, including sweetened condensed milk, vanilla extract , and pumpkin spice blend.

    Make These 12 Baking Staples Yourself and Never Buy Them Again

    If you have such a well-stocked pantry that you never run out of anything when you’re whipping up a spontaneous batch of cookies, you’re a regular Martha Stewart. For the rest of us normies, we discover we’re out of cake…

  • Two Images of a Loaf of Bread and a Jar of Peanut Butter

    5 Moldy Foods That Are Fine To Eat, and 5 That Definitely Aren’t

    We’ve all been there— you buy a pack of strawberries, raspberries, or blackberries, and within the next 24 hours you open the container only to find there are a couple berries with fuzzy mold growing on them. Now what? Do…

  • Small Companies That Are Really Owned by Really Big Companies

    10 Small Companies That Are Actually Owned By Massive Corporations

    It seems harder and harder to find good independent products. A lot of brands present a “we’re small, but mighty” exterior, and they are certainly mighty, but how many of them are actually small?  Check out these seemingly small companies…

  • Accidental Inventions including microwave ovens, teflon, and velcro.

    Accidental Inventions That We Use Every Day

    Sometimes, the best things happen when you least expect them. While one might think that behind the things that we use every day, there were months, or even years of meticulous planning and experimentation, some of the most revolutionary inventions…

  • How to Garden Even If You Have No Backyard

    10 Alternative and Affordable Ways To Garden When You Don’t Have a Backyard

    FOMFP: the Fear of Missing Fresh Produce. Everyone keeps talking about their gardens, showing off their green thumbs. The farmers market is getting expensive and is just a reminder that you don’t have the means to grow your own goodies.…