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How to Clean a Shower Head
Your once-friendly shower head has turned on you. It’s soft rain has turned into a water pick, rocketing a sharp stream of hot water at your bare skin, turning your shower into a torture chamber. Your shower head is clogged. It’s time to clean it. Here’s how: Remove It It is possible to clean your
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How to Make Better Coffee in Your Drip Coffee Maker
Your coffee maker seems to work fine, and you rarely give it a second thought, but — like pizza crusts and clothing — coffee just seems to come out better when you let the profesionals do it. Why is that? Well, there are a lot of reasons for it, and we’re going to tell you
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How to Take Great Photos of Your House
You bought your new house, the furniture is arranged, and those sweet consignment-store finds are arranged just so. You want to show off your new digs on Facebook, and you want to make sure you capture your home in all its natural beauty. Doing that is going to mean taking some really good pictures. Here’s
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How to Negotiate with your Insurance Company
Filing an insurance claim on your house can be one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences about home ownership, or adulthood in general. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the scope of the project and intimidated by adjusters and insurance agents who handle these cases every day, and have an advantage over you. But
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What’s the Best Cooking Show?
Cooking is getting more and more popular in this DIY era we live in. Which means more and more amateur chefs are looking for techniques and ideas to try out in their own kitchens. As a result, there are a bunch of terrific cooking shows on television now. Food Network has some of our favorites,
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How to Dispose of Your Christmas Tree
Sadly, the holidays are over — nobody really counts New Year’s do they — which means if you’re like most people, you’re now trying to figure out what you’re going to do with your sad, lonely Christmas tree that no longer serves as the hub of gifts and mirth. Surprisingly, there are a few pitfalls
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Vegetables You Can Grow Outside in Winter
Most of us don’t think about winter as a prime gardening season. This is because it isn’t. But that doesn’t mean you can’t grow a garden this time of year. Particularly in south Texas, there are a lot of options for growing a tasty, convenient garden in your back yard. Here are some plants to
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The Homeowner’s New Year’s Resolution List
When most people think about New Year’s Resolutions, they think about self-improvement, like losing weight or saving more money. But the new year is also a good time to change some things about the way you treat your home. This time next year, you’ll be glad you did. Whether it’s paying closer attention to your
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7 Reasons You Should Keep Rubbing Alcohol in your Home
Rubbing alcohol sounds like some kind of old-timey health product that never even worked in the first place, but in reality, it’s a really inexpensive solution to a lot of minor problems you may encounter around the house. You won’t need to use it often, most likely, but it’s a good idea to keep a bottle
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5 Old Wives Tales That Turn Out To Be True
Ah, the old wives tale, a bit of passed-down superstition that seems just weird enough it might be true. Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis, swimming on a full stomach causes cramps, shaving makes the hair grow back thicker — this sort of stuff. Most of it is hooey. To the point that calling something “an