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Wood Butter...a recipe for your wooden utensils, cutting board, and bowls! Make your own and shine that wood!

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Use baking soda and vinegar to fix funky towels. Over time, and with many washes, your bath towels will build up detergent and fabric softener residue, leaving them both unable to absorb as much water and smelling kinda funky when they do. Rather than give Target another lump sum, run them through the wash once with hot water and a cup of vinegar, then again with hot water and a half-cup of baking soda, as wikiHow suggests. That strips the residue from them, leaves them smelling fairly fresh again, and makes your post-shower experience a dryer one,

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When your dishwasher doesn't clean well, fix it yourself following these simple steps and avoid the expensive professional service call. A simple cleaning often solves the problem. I need to try this!!

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Nest Learning Thermostat: "This gorgeous, intelligent gadget learns from your habits, programming itself in about a week and using its colorful display to help you learn more energy-efficient and money-saving habits, while sensors keep track of whether or not you're at home, and a Wi-Fi connection makes sure every Nest in your home is aware of the other and the weather outside, so it can understand how the changing temperatures affect your heating and cooling needs." Coming soon for $250; via Uncrate.

Glass cutting with only yarn and fingernail polish remover: 1. Wrap the cotton yarn around your bottle 5-6 times, tie and cut ends. 2. Slide yarn off of the bottle 3. Dip in nail polish remover 4. Slide the wet yarn back onto the bottle (the bottle will be cut at whatever angle you have the yarn at) 5. Light on fire (only the wet yarn will be lit on fire and the flame is very well controlled) 6. Rotate bottle in circles as the yarn is on fire for about 20 seconds so that all parts of the bottle warm evenly. 7. Submerge in cold water and watch the bottle parts separate. 8. Use sand paper to smooth rough edges.

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Slip-proof your rug: To give an area rug some traction, flip it over, and apply lines of acrylic-latex caulk every 6 inches or so. Once dry, you can safely put down your rug; the rubbery strips will hold it in place...via Martha.

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Southwest chicken burritos - nice to have in the freezer for emergencies, and not super processed like store-bought frozen burritos

Crown Molding Shoe Shelves- perfect space saver storage. Total Cost $20 AMAZING!!!! $8- 8' base pine base molding and $9- 8' crown molding + white spray paint. Wood glue crown on to base molding, finish nail to hold in place while drying, spray paint, install w/ 2 screws onto wall studs. This is must...

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...how to replace a cracked iphone screen for under $10.00... Just in case I ever need to.

drip dry without the mess... do this for rain/snow season......brilliant.....

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Blessing Bags to keep in the car for those in need - I have never thought of this but I love it.

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GENIUS. this is a magnet strip in the medicine cabinet for bobby pins to stick on.

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Use a towel bar and shower curtain hooks to organize scarves!

sock hair curling, clever . . . I must try

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Lavender Homemade Laundry Detergent

I hear it's amazing Martha Stewart's Tub Scrub--works better than any other cleaning product to get off hard water and soap residue

Reusable swiffer dusters! Made from micro fleece, works even better than the disposables and they can be washed and reused over and over.

Turn a Clorox wipe container into a grocery bag dispenser.

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