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‘Tis The Season - For Lice?

November 17th, 2006 · No Comments

Yesterday I was reading a post on [tag]BlogHer[/tag], one of my favorite sites. Lisa Stone had written about how she had gotten to experience having lice, and that she’d gotten her hair cut short because of it.
She also wrote how the first thing she did was go to the drug store near the school [...]

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Tags: Bathroom · Family · Home · Kids · Personal Care · Pest Removal

How To Make Your Own Coffee Pods

November 10th, 2006 · 37 Comments

The other day as I was browsing online, I read about some wonderful coffee. As I remember it, this brand of coffee is roasted just before being shipped to you so that it is at its premium, instead of getting stale sitting on the store shelves waiting for you to buy it. And it’s organic, [...]

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Tags: Appliances · Kitchen

Loofah-art Natural Loofa(h) Scrubbers

October 31st, 2006 · 2 Comments

Anybody who knows me well (and now you ) knows I just love fruity things. There’s just something about the look (and smell) of fruit that I find beautiful. I’ve even given my kids fruity nicknames.

So I found these [tag]loofa[/tag] scrubbers quite adorable. [tag]Loofah-Art[/tag] says that their naturally grown [...]

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Tags: Cleaning · Home · Kitchen · Personal Care

Tissue Ring

October 30th, 2006 · No Comments

A tissue ring? What’s a tissue ring?

Wellllll, it’s a [tag]stainless steel ring[/tag] that’s “carefully engineered” to be a perfect balance of weight and size to allow one tissue through the hole at a time, while staying firmly planted on the stack of tissues.

Besides just being really cool and unique (wouldn’t you have fun [...]

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Tags: Home

Sylvania DOT it Lights

October 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment

It was the fact that these lights use LEDs (you can read more about LEDs here) that first interested me in them (and, okay, that they are available in my favorite color - purple ). But after reading more about them, I kept coming up with more and more ways these cute [...]

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Tags: Hacks · Home · Kids · Safety