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Organizing Your Home? A Trip To The Dollar Store Can Help I love a good dollar store organizing hack, because I think about organization more in terms of function than form. I love the look of gorgeous, high-end organizing systems as much as the next gal, but I’d rather spend money on something fun than spend it on bins, baskets, and other organizing tools I can find at any dollar store. Since most of us homemakers have a budget to consider, it’s important to remember that getting organized doesn’t have to cost a fortune! That was the motivation behind a...

As we begin to plan summer travel, we’re impressed by these cool duffel bags that are great for traveling light A weekender bag is a duffel bag with vibes. It’s also a great way to travel light, especially in the heat of the summer. By Angela Lashbrook Updated by Justin Krajeski Travel has a fair number of stressors to accompany its long list of lessons and benefits, and chief among them is the nightmare of the checked bag. Dragging myself from my tiny economy seat upon landing, only to discover that the airline has somehow lost my roller bag, and...

Our headlamp beams reflected off the dirty white snow, and my heart sank. Late-season snow drifts were blocking what we thought would be a snow-free approach to our ridge scramble peak ascent. That meant a lot of post-holing on the way out once the snow softened. An issue to deal with later, in the now much-longer day.  I was sporting the new La Sportiva Aequilibrium Top GTX boots and felt confident that a few hours of post-holing wouldn’t ruin my day of ridge scrambling. I was mostly right.  For about three-quarters of the year in the high mountains of Colorado,...

Overlooked areas in your home can be transformed into mudrooms with IKEA’s AXSTAD cabinets. You’ve recently moved into a new home and are very eager to remodel using IKEA cabinets. Great. Maybe you’ve already renovated your master bathroom using IKEA materials and were pleased with the results. Now you’ve set your sights on building an IKEA mudroom in the only underused room in your home. However while you know you want the mudroom to complement the aesthetics of the home (especially the abutting kitchen), you also need time to acclimate to the mudroom space and make sure you understand all...

When I realized my house, a 100-year-old home, was already set up with a gas line, the decisions began about whether to go with electric vs gas stoves. There are definite advantages with both, and things to consider either way. There are cooking advantages with a gas stove, for example, but then you’re also dealing with open flame, which can be worrisome for parents with young children. Nonetheless, families have been using gas stoves for centuries. But electric provides some interesting pluses, too. Eventually, we decided on a dual fuel oven that has gas burners on the stovetop and an...