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Home & Garden > Cleaning Products A guide to green cleaning products and where to find them
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There are two types of environmentally friendly cleaners: ones you make, and ones you buy. Ones you make are easier to find, but ones you buy are also now easy to find. Due to consumer demand, green cleaners are appearing in your local grocery and drugstore. Green cleaners you make yourself If the idea of making your own cle...

Parenting & Pregnancy > Baby Accessories Layette essentials: How to anticipate clothing needs for your newborn
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LAYETTE ESSENTIALS FOR YOUR NEWBORN Baby clothes are irresistible for any expecting mother, grandmother, and friend of the family. They are the sweetest things you have ever seen. Try to restrain yourself: newborns do not need as much as you think they do. Expecting parents can easily put together a small layette with all th...

Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) The importance of recycling and composting in the garden
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For gardeners, composting provides a frugal way to fertilize. But the importance of composting and recycling extends beyond the garden. Gardeners reduces the amount of material in the landfill by composting, and a gardener who uses compost does not need to use potentially damaging chemicals to feed the soil. Compost is parti...

Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Ray Bradbury and the legacy of Fahrenheit 451
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I have an un-censored version of Fahrenheit 451. That's right: editors have actually censored the most famous book ever written about censorship. Ray Bradbury had this to say on the topic: " I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, ce...

Home & Garden > Home Interior Home decorating with house plants
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Decorate with houseplants, and you will add beauty, harmony, and fresh air to your home. Houseplants as decorative accents work with all color schemes. Eyes are drawn to houseplants: there is a contrast created by bringing the outdoors inside. By choosing a houseplant with a striking or sculptural form, such as a bromeliad, ...

Home & Garden > Annuals Choosing self-seeding annuals
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How to choose and care for annuals that come back year after year. Self-seeding annuals a frugal gardener's dream: they come back year after year with no cost to you! But, you have to enjoy a "wild" or "cottage" garden, and you have to take care of them. Prepping the bed Pick a spot that gets at least 6 hours of sun a day, s...

Home & Garden > Home Interior Environmentally friendly interior paint
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Interior paint now comes in a variety of environmentally friendly options. These include low-VOC, no-VOC, and Natural Paints. Regular latex paint is also considered to be more environmentally friendly than oil-based paints. The most environmentally friendly interior paints are Natural Paints like milk paints. Non-toxic and m...

Home & Garden > Home Interior Decorating with mosaics
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Decorating with mosaics adds style and interest to any room in your house. Mosaics come in many forms: they can be made out of broken tiles, pebbles, glass fragments, or any small objects that can be set together in mortar. Incredibly sturdy, mosaics that have survived for a millennium or more are still as beautiful today as...

Home & Garden > Lawn & Landscaping Great organic lawn care products
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You want a great lawn. But you are worried about chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Worry no more! Fido and the kids will be safer and the environment will be better off if you use organic lawn care products.* Build a healthy lawn The first step towards having a beautiful organic lawn is having good maintenance practices. ...

Home & Garden > Home Interior How to hide store brand products so your home does not look cheap
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Having products out with labels on them tends to make a home look cluttered. Whether you buy the most expensive product or the frugal store-brand is really no one else's business. Hiding all products ensures that you and your guests concentrate on your home, not what you have brought into it on your most recent shopping trip...

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