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Milk & Honey Home

It's less about Israel and more about the guidebook for what Living Simply looks like in real time, you see. Yes, in Milk & Honey Home's work I have found my decor doppelganger-- if I was a designer, and had any designs of my own, and so I guess by doppleganger we just mean I really like their designs, which they conceived of their own genius and which I will now fawn over publicly. Let's ...
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The Zippered Bed-Linen Bag

You know those thick plastic bags, slightly boxy in shape with zippered closures? The ones bed sheets and comforters come in. Yeah, well I'm a big fan of them. They are, in fact, the one type of container/bag/box to which my usual ruthlessness doesn't extend (more on guidelines regarding those regulated supplies here). Whereas I wouldn't even begin to entertain your argument on why you needed to keep those sixteen Neiman Marcus bags, I would actively ...
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How To Organize Board Games

Board games are one sector of plaything that just doesn't show signs of going out of style; they're equally as pleasurable for the actual age range targeted (children) as well as adults seeking the simple pastimes of yesteryear, or clinging to the obligatory hosting of a "game night" among their couple friends. Let's talk, then, about how to keep your board games in tip top shape. 1. Get rid of any games no longer being played. ...
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Product Review: Time & Temperature LCD Night Light

Hi campers. Just a bitty review today for you all. It begins with the declarative statement: I like a nightlight. Perhaps it's a preference born from habit-- growing up in a house that was perpetually aglow with the pathetic light emitted from many mini bulbs. There is just something soothing about a nightlight, and it has less to do with being afraid of the dark than it does not wanting to blind oneself but also wanting to ...
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Monday’s Meditation: On Family

Family is one of life's great inventions. Family is a wide-reaching term, and for the purposes of this post I use the word both to refer to those individuals with whom you share lineage as well as to those people who, merely by closeness of association, become honorary family members. After all, there are circumstances when one must divorce one's own family by blood, and create instead, a family by heart. Familial links, like all ...
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