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Dry loads of clothing one after another to make use of leftover heat. Loads will dry more quickly this way.
Don’t add wet or damp clothes to a partially dry load already in progress.
Make your own fabric softener. Add a teaspoon of fragrance free natural conditioner onto a cloth and place it in the dryer with […]
Don’t underfill or overfill the washing machine. Make your loads of wash close to machine weight capacity, which you can find either on your machine or in it’s documentation.
Separate colors before washing. Wash like colors together.
One half cup of baking soda added in with your detergent will help boost cleaning power and will neutralize odors.
One […]
If you don’t know how to prepare yourself and your home for the first 72 hours after a disaster, you should visit 72hours.org. 72 Hours is a website run by the City of San Francisco but offers valuable planning tips that would be useful to anyone.
There are two main areas to the site. The first […]
I keep all of the plastic bags that I get when I go grocery shopping. I put all of the bags into one bag and keep that bag in a bottom kitchen drawer. Here are some ideas on how to resue those bags.
Some stores, like Aldi’s and Costco, offer no bags. That’s when the plastic […]
Many people have things in their homes that they no longer use but aren’t sure how to get ride of properly. Old computers for example. No matter if you’ve upgraded to a newer one or are just a pack rat like my Dad, if you’re a hard core computer user chances are you have a […]
