Dr. Douglass echoes the very sentiment my Mother had: if you don’t close the lid before you flush, you’re inviting all sorts of bacteria to be present on your toothbrush, your hair brush and most every surface. So be a sweetie, put down the seatie!

Via: amy-newnostalgia.blogspot.com
Why didn’t I think of that?! We guarantee you’ll be uttering those words more than once at these ingenious little tips, tricks and ideas that solve everyday problems … some you never knew you had! (Above: hull strawberries easily using a straw).
Via: apartmenttherapy.com
Rubbing a walnut over scratches in your furniture will disguise dings and [...]

We’re all probably cutting down on plastic bottle use, anyway. But when you do use a plastic bottle, its cap often can’t be recycled. Do you pitch it, or put it to a new use? Here’s one idea that will have you saving the cap to use time and again:

Cut up a disposable water bottle [...]

From our friend Irina Wardas, HHC

Gluten Free Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Creme Sauce Beauty Recipe
Ingredients:
2 ½ cup walnuts
1 pinch salt
10-12 medjool dates
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/3 cup cacao powder (unsweetened)
2 TB. coconut oil
2 TB. maple syrup
2 TB. water
Directions:
Place walnuts and salt in food processor and process until finely ground. Add dates, vanilla, cacao, coconut oil and [...]

Lisa Katayama

Japan is well-known for its Urawaza — clever, do-it-yourself tricks for using household products to solve common problems. Here are strategies that have worked for others — and may just work for you…
HEALTH REMEDIES
Cure the hiccups with a Q-tip. Briefly touch one end of a Q-tip to the small piece of flesh that dangles in [...]

From Dr. Al Sears
There’s now another reason to avoid margarine. It can make you stupid.
According to researchers at the University of Auckland, children who ate margarine    every day had significantly lower IQ scores by the age of three-and-a-half than those  who did not.1
And children who were underweight at birth had scores that were even lower [...]

By Melissa B. Williams
Confession: When I was a little girl, I used to sneak into the garden and eat all the carrots—and I mean all of them. It was no secret who did it: I was only about 4, and I’d leave the telltale carrot tops lying around as evidence of my [...]

Girls, are you feeling lonely tonight? Let this cozy Boyfriend Pillow warm your heart.  It is well worth the money, well, unless you already have the real thing.
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This information was in The New York Times several weeks ago as part of their “Spotlight on the Home” series that highlighted creative and fanciful ways to solve common problems.

1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, [...]

Do the planet, and yourself, a favor and get your name off direct mail lists. We use 100 million trees and 28 billion gallons of water to produce junk mail for just one year, according to greendimes.com.
You can stop 75% of all junk mail by registering for the Mail Preference Service on the Direct Marketing [...]