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How to keep the pesky ants away from your home

Springtime arrives, and so do these pesky ants! Tiny as they may be, they have the most unique ways to enter your home and kitchen in bulk-loads. Prevention seems to be a better way to keep them away, and here are some additional curative measures to get rid of them...

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Top 5 Gardening Apps

If you are a gardening enthusiast and need help and advice about the how's and whys of tending to your trees and plants, here are 5 great gardening apps that will do the job for you. Garden Compass: this app makes your smartphone your gardening companion! This free...

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How to make compost faster

The "Berkeley method" or hot composting method helps in making the fastest compost- in the range of 14-18 days or 2-3 weeks time span. As compared to cold composting that takes months to convert to usable form and leaves big pieces behind, this method gives smooth...

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Most unusual ways of using Coca Cola

Coca cola being a very favoured cold beverage is found practically all across the world. It is widely used and promoted as one of the popular beverage brand. Did you know that you could keep your house clean and get other chores done using Coca-cola? Here's how…...

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Clean glass without leaving streaks behind

Clean and streak free glass windows, table tops, windows and doors make you and the world look at each other differently. These were a few tricks to get that spotless glass furniture that you dreamt of! 50-50 water and vinegar solution: this is an age old remedy to...

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Cleaning glass with newspaper- Really?

You have always wanted those spotlessly clean, streak-free glass windows or doors or furniture and have tried every trick in the book to get the desired results? You wanted to impress your guests with that great looking glass furniture and instead greeted them through...

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Maintaining cast iron cookware

Cast iron cookware is heavy, durable and long lasting as compared to most other cookware in the market. Here's how it can be made to last longest: Wash your cookware only once with soap: before the first use you can safely use soap/soapy water to wash the cookware as...

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5 Best Chore Management Apps

Today the lives of people have turned out to be so busy that they may forget the most essential chores at home though they may seem mundane and routine tasks. You may feel that these tasks can be put off for another time and that time never really comes by. These...

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Time on spring clean your kitchen pantry

When you make a trip to the supermarket, you generally have an idea what you require for the week or month- staples, spices, fresh breads and cakes maybe, sauces and ready to eats. But what many don’t have an idea of, is what they have in the pantry already, used and...

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How to organize spices in your kitchen

Space constraints, child-safe storage, optimum space usage et all make storage of spices such a tasking job! Here's a Pandora's Box of ideas that can help to set your DIY spirit rolling to set your kitchen space: Use the inside space on cabinet doors to install racks...

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Garage Organization Tips

Garages are one of the most complex boons a house comes with. Ideally meant to park our Cars in, we use it for almost everything else alongside a Car. It's often used as a basement, not that there's anything wrong with that. As long as you can keep the place neat and...

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Lawn Spring Cleanup Tips

Lawns, one of the high maintenance beauties of a house. They are one of the most troublesome maintaining tasks especially in spring when the lawns all over are full with dead leaves and other debris. Keeping it clean is a hectic job but well rewarding. A neat lawn...

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