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Helping You Help Yourself #15

Rachel —
Oct 19, 2015
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Of all the rooms in your house that are hard to keep clean (but also really regrettable to have dirty), the bathroom is really up there on the list. Here’s some suggestions for keeping it clean in only five minutes a day.

Remember when you were seeing those pressed-flower iPhone cases everywhere? Here’s how to make your own, just in time to keep some summer bounty around for winter. (OR how great would this look with tiny fall leaves? So great.)

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I’ve wanted to do this project for YEARS and haven’t, so if one of you wants to use fabric as a temporary and renter-friendly wall covering or decoration and then come here and tell me about it, I would really get a lot of vicarious satisfaction out of it. Just saying. I feel like this could also be really cute on desks or small tables!

Do you have an enormous pile of mail by your front door that you occasionally remember you should look through to make sure there aren’t bills or any live animals in it? Me too. Here are some suggestions for how we can get our shit together.

10 ways to make small spaces feel bigger.

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Are you cooking for other humans this Thanksgiving? Are you nervous about it? Here’s the simplest, easiest way to cook a turkey.

I can’t really help you with pumpkin spice lattes because I don’t think I’ve ever had one, but here’s how to make Western coffeeshop-style chai syrup at home if you’ve been dropping five bucks a day on chai lattes. Combine with black tea and steamed milk for a classic (Western) chai; try heating up with drip coffee and milk for a cheater chai latte.

HEY did you know that even though Amtrak sort of says that you can’t get a refund on train tickets you don’t end up using unless you paid for the “flexible” ones and the travel insurance, you can usually call their customer service number and tell them you didn’t use the ticket and often they’ll give you the full amount of the ticket in an e-voucher that you can apply to another Amtrak trip later. Hooray!

If you live in the part of the world where it’s about to get real cold, here’s what to do with your potted plants.

You’re running out of time to make matching Cara Delevigne and Annie Clark pumpkins with your boo. Here are some pumpkin carving tips to help.

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