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They’re holding up your shower curtain if you have one. You probably even have some old ones lying around in your junk drawers. How big was my surprise when I found out that shower curtain rings and hooks are incredibly useful for all around the house… not just in the bathroom! At only a couple of bucks per dozen rings (for the cheap ones, of course), the rings can easily become an essential tool in your home organization arsenal. Here’s a list of 16 surprising ways to use shower curtain rings in your home. 16 Surprising Uses for Shower Curtain...

If you’d like to reduce your energy use or costs, drying your clothes outside rather than in the dryer is a great way to do so. Sunlight is a natural sanitizing and bleaching agent, and line drying keeps your clothes in better condition than drying them in a machine. An added bonus is the sweet smell of sun-dried clothing fresh off the clothesline! [Edit]Steps [Edit]Creating a Space to Dry Your Clothes Check your local regulations. In some places, clotheslines are forbidden on balconies and in backyards because the sight of clothes hanging out to dry is considered "unsightly" and liable...

Welcome back to Fall Organization Week on One Good Thing By Jillee where we are sharing a room-by-room round-up of some of our favorite organizing tips and tricks to get your home in top-top shape before winter settles in. So far we’ve covered the Kitchen, and the Family Room…today we’re taking a peek into your Bedrooms! ;-) We hope you will join us all week and, more importantly, that you will join in the conversation and share YOUR ideas as well! (So far the comments have been AMAZING!) Everyone who leaves a comment this week will be automatically entered to win a...

Mother's Day is coming soon, and you need some ideas - or some things for your kids to do? Well, how does free sound? The Night Before Mother's Day Happy Mother's Day-- Julia Ward Howe was the first to proclaim Mother's Day in 1870. Her Mother's Day Proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908 when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in America. She then began a campaign to make Mother's Day a recognized holiday in the United States. Although...

  When I was younger and an active Mormon, I saw abortion as a “one size fits all” thing. It was bad. Black and white, dualist thinking was my perspective of choice — or programming, rather. I didn’t care as much about the mother’s bodies as I did this “poor baby” that was being killed. I mean, it’s half her fault, right? And this is what her body was meant to do, right? I watched movies about it. I saw the techniques (rather graphic ones) of how doctors killed the babies. I saw almost full-term babies being sucked out of...