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My daughter's room recently became home to a batch of fruit flies. No matter what I tried I could not rid her room of these pesky insects.

Until I tried this:

•Put a little cider vinegar in a small bowl or jar, along with a piece of fruit (I used an apple core but others have used banana peels with the same success)

•Cover it tightly with a piece of plastic (I used an old bread wrapper) and poke a few small holes in the plastic with a toothpick.
The flies will be attracted to the smell… Continue

Last winter, after trying every allergy medicine on the market, both prescription and non-proscription, without feeling any relief my husband finally gave in and tried The Neti Pot.

Have you heard of The Neti Pot?

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I have tried very hard to reduce the amount of plastic that my family uses, specifically the amount of plastic bags we use.

We pack lunches in reusable containers, we save and reuse glass jars as storage containers, we shop with reusable bags (including reusable produce bags), when possible we wrap items in aluminum foil, and we save and reuse plastic bags that items (such as grapes) come in.
As much as we have reduced our plastic bag consumption we have not eliminated it all together.

This is… Continue

If you are familiar with the green blogging world chances are that you have heard of Skoy Cloths.

The earth friendly, reusable, 100% biodegradable, washable, 100% natural cloth that you use to clean with instead of paper towels and sponges.

Yup, that Skoy Cloth.

When Karen, co-owner of… Continue

TerraCycle one of my favorite companies! I think that it is ingenious how they keep millions of non-recyclable items out of landfills by turning them into usable items; from cookie wrapper to shower curtain, from drink pouch to backpack, from breakfast bar wrapper to bag.

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