Helping You Help Yourself #35

Rachel
Sep 19, 2016
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Four things to do with your microwave besides heating up your leftovers. Like keeping your kitchen sponge clean!

If you’ve never let go of your childhood dream to finally beat all those carnival games and win the big prize, it’s your lucky day.

I hope you never need this link, but if you do, our prayers are with you: three non-toxic ways to get rid of roaches.

Getting all those burn and scorch marks off your pots and pans.

If you really enjoy the feeling of a perfectly made fancy hotel bed, you’ll be into this very detailed guide to making your bed at home just like a hotel’s.

As someone who feels constantly busy, I was really interested in this article about “cognitive bandwidth,” and how the fact that most of our to-do lists are constantly refilling as we check items off makes everything, including productivity, feel futile!!! The article claims the solution is to intentionally make non-work time, time where you “close the email tab, move away from the desk, and unplug,” to combat feelings of time scarcity.

Are you the kind of person who will make a trip to Home Depot and spend an afternoon constructing this so you can watch your dog play with it forevermore? I hope so, and I hope you send me videos.

Always end up killing your plants, no matter what? Apartment Therapy thinks it’s found one that can survive you.

This article about self-care and pleasure, and how sometimes self-care involves indulging in pleasure but sometimes the relationship is inverse, and necessary self-care actions feel terrible in the moment, really resonated with me!

Want to build good credit but don’t really want a credit card? Here are three other suggestions of ways to do it.

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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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