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Getting Your Home Ready for a Newborn (Nesting)

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Bringing home your newborn is a thrilling and slightly terrifying experience for most new moms. In this video, Amanda Edwards gives you a quick rundown of what you’ll need to create the perfect nest for your brand new bundle of joy.  For…
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How a Working Mother Organizes Household Chores

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UPDATED August 1st, 2016 As a full-time working mother of three young kids, I often feel like I can’t keep up with the household chores, such as cooking, cleaning, laundry and making sure my family’s needs are taken care of. Putting…
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4 Tips to Find Privacy in a Small House

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Our home is 1,144 square feet. I always have trouble visualizing just exactly what those figures mean, so let me put it another way—my house is smaller than your average two-bedroom apartment. The house is one story, has no basement, no…
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Household Uses for Vodka

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According to this great infographic, vodka is an amazingly multi-purpose and multi-talented beverage. Whether you need to control unsightly dandruff and greasy hair, rid your home of pesky insects, treat a blister, or just kick back with a cocktail…
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10 Tips for Extreme Couponing

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Most of us have seen one of those extreme couponing reality shows on TV—the ones where the shoppers walk out paying pennies for 10 carts full of goods. Seems too good to be true, right? While I don’t know for certain whether the show…
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How to Clean Your Home in 20 Minutes

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If you have kids, a messy house is just a fact of life. But of course, you don’t really want to receive your in-laws when your home looks like burglars broke in. So, what to do if they phone to tell you they’re in the neighborhood and…
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How to Make Money with a Garage Sale

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It happens to the best of us. For me it’s sometime after Easter, when I’m still finding plastic “grass” all over the house. I start looking around and realize just how much stuff my family has accumulated over the winter. That’s…
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Organize Your Life Using Pizza Boxes

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In case you didn't know, you may organize your life using pizza boxes in a creative way. I'm like my mother, I keep everything. And then on top of that, I'm a crafter—so I have lots of crafting tools: scissors, scrapbooking paper, rubber…
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Teaching Boys to Cook and Clean

I'm teaching my son to cook and clean. While this might not sound outrageous to you, it probably would have seemed completely ridiculous to my grandparents in Cuba. To them, “I'm teaching my son to cook and clean” would probably have…