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Keep Your Cool!

Glass of ice water filled with fresh cucumber slices and green mint leaves on a blue surface.

Cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, and herbs such as mint are good foods to eat to help keep the body cool when

Help For Your Potted Plants

A torn used tea bag with dark brown tea leaves spilling out onto a white background.

Fertilize your acid-loving houseplants (like ferns) with used tea bags. Simply open the bags and work the used tea leaves

Fresher Herbs

A sprig of fresh green herbs resting in a glass jar partially filled with water.

Keep herbs fresh in a jar or vase of water as you would fresh-cut flowers. Just snip off what you

Easy Plant Markers

A wooden chopstick holding a pepper seed packet stuck into a mound of potting soil.

Disposable chopsticks are very handy in the garden!  Simply stick them the ground and place seed packets over top for quick identification of

Thrifty Sponge Tip

Four colorful rectangular sponges in purple, yellow, blue, and green stacked on a white background.

To save money, cut your sponges and scrubbers in half when you first buy them. They’ll still do a great

DIY Toilet Cleaner

White round tablet fizzing and releasing bubbles as it sinks through bright blue water.

Guests coming over and you don’t have a lot of time to clean? This easy, homemade toilet cleaner can help:

Keep Moisture Out

Silica gel desiccant packets with warning labels scattered on a bright pink textured surface.

Save those silica gel packets you receive with various purchases and reuse them to keep moisture out of boxes of

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