Today’s Solutions: May 16, 2024

Homelife

From creative interior design tricks that can improve your wellbeing to strategic plant arrangements that help you reap the most benefits from your leafy friends, this is the place to find everything you need to know to make your house feel like a home.

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This designer supports local farms by making eco-friendly kitchen textiles

Making your kitchen more sustainable goes beyond wasting the least amount of food possible. It also involves ensuring that the products you use on a daily basis in the heart of your home have a minimal footprint on the environment. In a bid to help people make their kitchens more eco-friendly, Read More...

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This beautiful mushroom growing kit aims to help you reconnect with nature

Growing your own food at home can go a long way in helping you live a more sustainable lifestyle, but that can be difficult if you don’t have a backyard garden. In a bid to offer a solution, designers have come up with smaller-scale gardens and growing kits that you can use to supply yourself Read More...

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Play is powerful: How to make the most children’s free play time

Back in November, we shared how children are using play to understand and process the pandemic. Enacting events through play is how children come to terms with change, which means that parents and caregivers can use this to their advantage in helping children process new situations. Focusing on Read More...

Bottle glass of essential rosemary oil with rosemary branch and flower on wooden rustic background.

7 creative ways to use rosemary outside of cooking

The pleasant woody aroma of rosemary often brings thoughts of roast dinners to our minds, however, this Mediterranean herb also has many uses outside of cooking. Here are seven surprising ways to put your rosemary to use. DIY Rosemary essential oil Rosemary essential oil can be used to add Read More...

How to properly clean out cand

How to properly clean out candle jars for recycling and reuse

If you’ve embraced zero-waste living choices, then you already know that reusing jars and bottles is a great way to reduce, reuse, and recycle. However, some containers prove much more difficult to clean out, even if you do want to repurpose them. An example of this is candle jars—many of them Read More...

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Make the most of your skin serum with these application techniques

Skincare is a part of your overall health, so it’s definitely worth shelling out some extra cash for, especially if you’re purchasing a serum as they deliver the most highly concentrated active ingredients and are considered the treatment step in your routine. This means that you’re going to Read More...

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Students invent device so dad in wheelchair can stroll with his baby

A group of high school students has invented an innovative stroller attachment for wheelchairs that allows people with disabilities to safely take their baby for a walk. The invention, called WheeStroll, was developed by a team of students from Bullis School in Maryland, as part of a class called Read More...

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So you’re vaccinated and have been exposed to Covid-19, now what?

So you’re fully vaccinated, but you just got word that someone you interacted with has tested positive for Covid-19. What do you do? In a situation that is likely to become more common as the Delta variant spreads, health officials have a few recommendations for how to navigate this tricky Read More...

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Tips for navigating boundaries with unvaccinated friends and family

Not everyone is comfortable with getting vaccinated against Covid-19... and chances are, someone in your family or social circle has chosen not to take the shot. While this is their personal choice, it can make navigating gatherings tenser, especially as variants continue to surge across the Read More...

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Raise your kids to be spatially aware by letting them roam far and free

Children have a lot less freedom to roam and play unsupervised than they did 50 years ago. A lot of this has to do with parents’ concern over safety, especially in urban areas. Now, the Covid-19 pandemic has further restricted children’s freedoms, which may have a detrimental impact on their Read More...