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Making The Best Use Of Your Freezer

Copyright (c) 2012 Nick Vassilev A large freezer or deep freeze is a great investment, especially if you like to buy items in bulk or have a vegetable garden. However, they can take up a lot of space and they can chew through the electricity if not use... Read >

Prevent Food Poisoning

During the warmer months, we tend to be more relaxed when we eat. Instead of formal candlelight dinners with floral centrepieces, we have informal picnics in the sun surrounded by fresh, living flowers. We have barbeques. We take a picnic hamper to the be... Read >

Natural Grooming Products For Men

I know, I know. Most average guys would shy away from slathering their faces in a mask made from avocado pulp, oat meal, olive oil and ground almonds, or admitting to using hand lotion that smells delicately of roses. The occasional metrosexual type might... Read >

Gift Wrapping: Green Ideas

Birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, any occasion at all… Gifts are always welcome with anybody at any time. However, as your mother probably told you the very first time you set off to a part with a gift, having pretty wrapping is part of the etiquette o... Read >

Caring For Cut Flowers And Houseplant

Cut flowers and houseplants are easy and cheap ways to bring a bit of nature inside your home (or office). They brighten the room up, often smell delicious and, in the case of houseplants, freshen the air in a room. However, you will need to care for hous... Read >

Advice To The Lady Maid

Having your very own lady's maid seems like the ultimate luxury for many modern women that is now totally out of reach. The closest we'll ever get to living out this fantasy is at a health and beauty spa where you get groomed and pampered within an inch o... Read >

Quirky Storage Solutions

When most of us want to store things away, we look for the good old favourites. We put clothes in the wardrobe, towels and sheets in the linen cupboard, medicines in the bathroom cupboard and everything else in cupboards and drawers. If we don't live in a... Read >

Tackling Hell-Holes: The Toilet

Call it what you will: the necessary, the powder room, the loo, the lavatory, the thunderbox, the jakes, the euphemism or other terms that aren't quite so printable, the toilet is one part of every house that is unpleasant to clean. It's unpleasant to cle... Read >

How to Clean and Maintain Marble

Marble is a beautiful stone. It is also expensive and, being a soft stone, susceptible to damage. Marble can add glamour and sophistication to a home or office, but if it should not be maintained properly, its look will deteriorate and the end result will... Read >

The Uses Of Acid In Cleaning

Already, I can hear those with an environmental conscience gasping. Acid? In cleaning? Mental pictures of acid rain and its catastrophic effects spring to mind, alongside visions of yet more industrial strength acid being tipped down drains to poison poor... Read >

Green Babies

You can start being green as soon as you are born - if your parents are environmentally minded, that is. If you're a new parent, you've got a lot to think about and take responsibility for, so caring for the environment may seem a little lower on your pri... Read >

Moving Into Your Own Place - What You Need

So you've made the decision to move away from Mum and Dad and set up house on your own - or at least with flatmates. Congratulations! But what are you going to need to set up house? Kitchen: Flats usually come with an oven. Bare necessities are two... Read >

The Perfect Cup Of Tea

The novelist George Orwell (famous for his political novels such as Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four) was picky about his cups of tea and tried to lay down the law about how to make the perfect cup of tea. His landmark essay published in the Evening S... Read >

What Not To Throw Out When You Are Decluttering Or Downsizing

Some things you will never regret getting rid of when you're decluttering, downsizing or throwing out stuff for whatever reason. Clothes that are far too big or far too small, broken appliances that you're going to fix one day when you get around to it, t... Read >

How To Compost

Studies show that a large percentage of the household waste that reaches landfills, contributing to all the disadvantages and hazards that landfills bring, is composed of kitchen waste. Speaking as someone who's always had a compost heap and can't imagin... Read >