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    How to Pick a Unique Wedding Gift

    How to Pick a Unique Wedding Gift

    Wear some comfortable shoes and be well rested. We’re hitting the antique malls today in search of the perfect wedding present for an eclectic couple. If you decide to go off the reservation and not buy from the registry then you’re in for a lengthy search but isn’t it worth it? It’ll take about six [...]

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    The Best Cheap Candles

    The Best Cheap Candles

    Feeling the need for a little Frida Kahlo in your life? Candle budget shrinking after the Christmas spend-a-thon? One of my favorite – and cheap looks – is the Mexican religious votive, a tall candle poured into glass, emblazoned with garish religious scenes or pictures of the Virgin of Guadeloupe. Available at many local supermarkets, [...]

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    Add Instant Patina to Garden Ornaments

    Add Instant Patina to Garden Ornaments

    Want to add some instant age to a garden ornament or plaster piece? If that bright spanking white surface is making your eyes flicker, bring it down by sponging on paint. Use a neutral taupe color and a very wet sponge. With broad strokes, wipe the object down with watery paint. Don’t evenly coat if [...]

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    How to Get out of Debt with Debit Cards

    How to Get out of Debt with Debit Cards

    Perpetually, I used credit cards for convenience and routinely carried balances out of perverse laziness. Then, at a certain magic point, usually at the 8 or 9 hundred-dollar range, the balances would suddenly leap forward and mushroom crazily out of control into 2k, 3k, 4k and up. I always wondered how this mysterious alchemy occurred. [...]

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    How to Fill Your Home with Fragrance

    How to Fill Your Home with Fragrance

    I walked into an antique store the other day and nearly swooned from the heavenly fragrance that filled the air. Whoa – the gents were piping it in by the gallon, hypnotizing the haus fraus into buying. As I rounded the corner past French ormolu, I came to the culprit: a table loaded with hundreds [...]

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    How to Start Knitting for Stress Relief

    How to Start Knitting for Stress Relief

    Why did I start knitting? Because my mind was doing back flips from work-related stress that I couldn’t escape and I had a desperate need to feel as if I was accomplishing something concrete while I freaked out. So I signed up for a knitting class at my neighborhood knitting emporium (now a Starbucks!). I [...]

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    Throw a Toy Night Party for the Ladies
    Throw a Toy Night Party for the Ladies

    May 23, 2007 | Discuss

    On April 1, a group of women descended on a satellite location of Condom Sense, owned by my good fri…

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    How to Get out of Debt with Debit Cards
    How to Get out of Debt with Debit Cards

    May 28, 2007 | Discuss

    Perpetually, I used credit cards for convenience and routinely carried balances out of perverse lazi…

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    How to Pick a Unique Wedding Gift
    How to Pick a Unique Wedding Gift

    May 28, 2007 | Discuss

    Wear some comfortable shoes and be well rested. We’re hitting the antique malls today in searc…

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    How to Survive Halloween in Salem Massachussetts
    How to Survive Halloween in Salem Massachussetts

    May 23, 2007 | Discuss

    A week out from our New England getaway and I feel I’ve finally recovered enough to put some t…

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    How to Start Knitting for Stress Relief
    How to Start Knitting for Stress Relief

    May 28, 2007 | Discuss

    Why did I start knitting? Because my mind was doing back flips from work-related stress that I could…

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