Helping You Help Yourself #14

Rachel —
Oct 5, 2015
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Are all the fresh herbs in your fridge wilted and weird? Yeah, mine too. Here’s how to bring them back to life.

Floor plans are useful for more than just would-be interior designers! They can help if you’re thinking about rearranging a room, deciding whether you have room to get a certain piece of furniture, or planning a move into a new space. Here’s how to make one!

This is a pretty basic #liphack, but lately I’ve been busting out some of the lipsticks that I bought when I was imagining myself as Fairuza Balk and that I never wear out and mixing them with some Vaseline or Aquaphor on the back of my hand to make tinted lip balm/stain that’s super wearable and also really moisturizing.

NYX's Feline ready to make an offering to Mabon on the left and ready to go to the grocery store on the right.
NYX’s Feline ready to make an offering to Manon on the left and ready to go to the grocery store on the right.

Yvonne wanted me to tell you that if you get a splinter from an avocado pit in your finger, don’t try to pull it out with your other finger. It will not work.

Pomegranates are so great but also can be so intimidating to figure out how to eat! Here’s how to get the delicious seeds out relatively easily.

Make a soy candle from just about anything.

A Gmail tip! If you want an easy way to categorize emails from a certain place or kind of communication, you can append a word onto the end of it with a plus sign, like this: youremailaddress+aword@gmail.com. The emails will still go to your inbox as absolutely normal, but it’s easy for you to set up a filter for them if you’d like. For instance, if you have services where you need to give them your email address to sign up but you know you don’t want to ever actually see anything they send you, you could give your email address as youremailaddress+spam@gmail.com, and then set up a filter for everything sent to that specific address to go straight to the trash. Or if you’re big on subscription boxes, you can sign up for those with youremailaddress+subscriptionbox@gmail.com, and then send all your emails about all your boxes to the same label or place.

Whether you’re trying to impress a libation-loving ladyfriend or just want to get more knowledgeable about Kabinett, maybe you’ll enjoy this infographic about what type of wine glass is the best match for different types of wine.

via Wine Folly
via Wine Folly

HEY do you know about this app myGardenAnswers? You can show it pictures of plants and it will help you figure out what plants they are! Probably shouldn’t be your only source of information if you’re trying to figure out if something is poisonous or edible, but if you’re trying to figure out whether that plant growing on the side of the pathway is stinging nettle, it’s pretty useful (spoiler alert: it was stinging nettle).

I made a bunch of dumplings this weekend and I’m still pretty bad at this particular dumpling fold but the little progress I did make in learning how is totally due to this video.

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Just letting you know that you can watch every episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway for free online. Just FYI.

What goes on your countertop and what goes in your breadbox and what goes in your fridge? Does anyone own breadboxes anymore? Why does your roommate keep refrigerating the peanut butter? Answer many, although maybe not all, of those questions here.

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Rachel is Autostraddle’s Managing Editor and the editor who presides over news & politics coverage. Originally from Boston, MA, Rachel now lives in the Midwest. Topics dear to her heart include bisexuality, The X-Files and tacos. Her favorite Ciara video is probably “Ride,” but if you’re only going to watch one, she recommends “Like A Boy.” You can follow her on twitter and instagram.

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