Declutter 15 Minutes a Day—5 Great Tools That Make It Easy:

Your home is filled with clutter of all shapes and sizes. This is why you are unable to keep it clean. You have too much STUFF. All we ask is that you set a timer and spend 15 minutes a day decluttering. That’s it. Anyone can do anything for only 15 minutes, even if you have to break it down into 5 minutes segments. These are the five tools we give you to help you declutter and also make it fun for you!

Via Rebecca’s Pocket.

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Normal Room.

Normal Room shows you interior design and home furniture from all around the globe. Search our image database and explore the differences and similarities in architecture and home decoration between people in different countries.

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Bumper Sticker Removal: three methods.

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HomeEc 101: What You Wish Your Mama Taught You . . . : Here are some of the categories they cover:

• A lesson in frugality
• Be prepared
• Cleaning that mess
• Cook it up!
• Getting rid of stuff
• Laundry Lovin’
• Menu Monday
• Ms. Fix-it
• Pet Problems

My Mom taught me this—I just forgot.

Via Neat New Stuff On The Web.

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If you’re looking for furniture or kitchen gadgets for your house, you might like to check out Cribcandy.

This site features many items for your house filed under numerous categories (such as appliances, heating, pets, doorstops, and eco-friendly).

Here are just a few of the items listed:

• a bent plywood pet dish
• cupcake containers
• pizza fork
• towel warmer
• a chair named “This Chair Forces Me To Read Books”

I didn’t know there were such things as pizza forks.

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According to ABC News International, large sections of Mumbai (Bombay), India are going completely vegetarian.

House buyers can now look for a house in a vegetarian neighbourhood and many house sellers will now only sell to vegetarians. Many grocery stores in vegetarian neighbourhoods have stopped selling meat or fish.

It’s a practice that has been ruled legal by India’s top court.

Via Veggie Way.

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Here’s an interesting browse: Tricks of the Trade: Professional Secrets From Those In the Know.

This site collects tips from a diverse range of professionals (teachers, campers, lawyers, computer programmers, travellers, and many more).

They’re quick and to the point.

Here’s an example of a tip from a paramedic:

To check if someone has had a stroke, do the F.A.S.T. test:

· Face: Ask them to smile. It should be even.
· Arm: Ask them to raise both arms They should be equal in height.
· Speech Test: Ask them to say a simple phrase, perhaps their address. It should be understandable with no slurs.

If they fail any of these checks, call an ambulance immediately. They could have had a stroke, and you may [have] just saved their life.

Here’s a tip from a camper on how to make an omelette while camping:

· boil a pot of water on a fire;
· put eggs in zip lock bag with cheese, meat, peppers or whatever you would like
on your omelet
· boil bag for 10 minutes.
· voila: omelet

Update: here’s an article explaining why the “omelette in a plastic bag” idea may be hazardous to your health–thanks, Bibliophile!

Via Neat New Stuff On The Web.

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Creative Home Engineering is a company that will build hidden passages for your house on a scale that makes me think of James Bond.

Here’s my favourite option: “Twist a candlestick and your fireplace rotates, granting access to a hidden room.”

If, like me, you don’t have a fireplace, you can make do with the hidden-room-behind-the-bookshelf trick: “Pull a favourite book from your library shelf and watch a cabinet section recess to reveal a hidden passageway.”

Access to these hidden rooms is limited to those who can get by the fingerprint scanners, voice recognition systems, and optical imaging.

Their video demonstrations of how the features work are interesting, but I found their site hard to navigate.

Perhaps it’s just the size of my screen (or my eyesight), but I found it difficult to see the writing that indicated links to other parts of their site (from the home page, click on the photos on the upper right part of the screen).

Also, when I clicked on my computer’s “back” button, it didn’t take me to the screen I’d been looking at previously on their site, but instead it took me to the previous web site.

To stick with their site, you have to click on the images on it that are labelled as “features,” “security,” “cost,” and so forth. This writing is in a small font and the colour combination is white type on a black background.

Despite these frustrations, the site is well worth a look; you can check it out here.

Via Boing Boing.

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