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Banish Plastic Wrap Forever and 9 Other Creative Uses for Beeswax

I've been experimenting with a variety of natural materials over the past year. Of all of them, I like beeswax best for its versatility. You can get a pound of beeswax for around $10, and there are so many possible uses for it, like these 10.
1. Candles

Melt beeswax and pour into a container...

These 6 Costco Items Will Easily Cover Your $55 Membership

Is Costco really worth the $55 annual fee? If you're on the fence about joining the warehouse club, this is undoubtedly a question you've asked yourself many times. While Costco can contain spending traps for undisciplined shoppers, the store also provides many unique ways to save money. Money...

Technology and games to encourage kids’ organizing skills

Suggestions for helping children to build their organizing skills in fun and productive ways.

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4 Branding Secrets from Eminem

In 1996 we were a world in transition. From Osama Bin Laden being expelled from Sudan, Mad Cow Disease outbreak in Britain and turbulent economic times in the US, our news was flooded with woes. But quietly that summer an obscure underground rapper whose flow nearly defied his ethnic background hit...

4 Times It's Okay to Borrow From Your Life Insurance Policy

Borrowing cash from your life insurance policy can be better than getting a traditional loan. There's no credit check and you're not obligated to pay back the policy (although not repaying the policy reduces the death benefit paid to your beneficiaries). If you do decide to pay it back, the...
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15 Easy and Delicious Ice Cream Substitutes

My grandmother had two favorite ice cream methods. The first involved cream, sugar, egg yolks, and fresh vanilla, combined with just-picked peaches. The second one was to scoop vanilla ice cream into a bowl and top it with Metrecal. She knew it defeated the purpose, but she said it "made...

8 Ways Your Savings Account May Be Costing You

A savings account is an essential tool of money management. It'll enable you to save for emergencies and financial goals, and you might even get a little bit of interest income along the way. But not all savings accounts are the same. Some are extra-stingy on interest. Some have high fees. And...

4 Ways to Feel More Loved

Every school day, mere seconds after the lunch bell would ring, my peers and I would pile into long tables in the cafeteria and…

Happiness Is…Taking a Vacation.

Farewell — I’m off on a family vacation.

It’s time for an “island of leisure,” as William Edward Hartpole Lecky put it:

“Pleasure is a jewel which will only retain its luster when it is in a setting of work, and a vacant life is one of the worst of pains, though the islands of leisure...