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50+ Uses for Citrus Peels

Don't toss those citrus peels just yet! There are so many amazing ways to put them to good use.

The 5 Best Coloring Pens

Add some sharp color to your pages with coloring pens. Just use any of these colored pens and your drawings will be vibrant and beautiful.

How to Find Time for Home-Cooked Meals

Even the busiest people can find time to make healthy and delicious home-cooked meals. Just follow these suggestions.

10 Weird and Wonderful Ways to Use Rice

Did you know that there are over 140,000 varieties of cultivated rice? Besides being a delicious and versatile cooking grain, it has some other very unusual uses.

The 5 Best Floor Steamers

Keeping your floors clean isn't easy, but it can be. Just use any of these floor steamers and your floors will shine bright like a diamond.

Are You Putting Off These 9 Adult Money Moves?

You're not a kid anymore. So get to work on these grown-up financial decisions.

Don't Carry a Balance? Here's Why You Still Need a Credit Card

You never carry a balance on your credit card, so why do you need one at all? Well, there are a few good reasons.

How to Ensure You Use Your Groupons and Other Daily Deals

Daily deals are great...if you remember to use them. Follow these techniques to keep your vouchers from languishing.

A Beginner’s Guide to Frugal Living

The path to frugality has many detours, and even the experts make mistakes. Here are seven things to keep in mind as you find your own road.

How to Sell Your House Despite Your Messy Kids

Kids make a mess. You can still make a quick home sale despite the disarray.

Slow DRIP into investing

My first-ever individual stock holding was a Duke Power (now Duke Energy) share that I acquired through its Dividend Reinvestment Plan or DRIP. [more]

15 Jobs That Capitalize on the Growth in Rich Households

The rich keep on getting richer — which means there are more jobs than ever catering to the 1 percent. Is it time to brush up on your butler-ing skills?

Vacation Safe: 11 Tips for Hotel Safety

You shouldn't have to worry about your safety while on vacation. And, if you follow these suggestions, you won't.

9 Big Companies That Offer Benefits for Part-Time Workers

Part-timers never get perks and benefits, right? Wrong! Find out which employers go the extra mile for their less than full-timers.

6 Breathtaking and Affordable Alaskan Destinations

Alaska is an absolutely gorgeous state, with sights that will take your breath away. Unfortunately, it's also expensive to visit. But don't worry. We got you.

5 Reasons Women Might Retire With More Wealth

Despite shortchanges in earnings, women just may be able to retire with more wealth than men. Here's why.

Best Money Tips: Things You Should Never Pay For

Today we found things that you should never pay for, smart ways to exercise at work, and amazing uses for apple cider vinegar.

4 Coupon Rules That Stores Let You Break

Couponing is an art form. Know how to bend these rules, and watch the savings follow.

5 Ways to Save Water, Energy, Money, and the World in One Afternoon

Saving water is not only good for the planet, it can be a highly efficient way to cut your water and energy bills (energy to heat the water).

The 5 Hardest-to-Kill Houseplants

No matter how black your thumb, these hardy indoor growers will keep green whatever the level of inattention and neglect you care to give them.