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After a bath or a shower, it’s refreshing to pull open your dresser drawers or closet doors and enjoy the fragrance of scented liners, sachet envelopes, cedar blocks or candle tarts. Problem is, all of these luxury solutions tend to be costly. Why spend more when you can add scents to your home for less?
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Most of us know that common household items can wear many hats. Wallpaper becomes a shelf liner or a bookmark; newspapers get their second wind cleaning windows and ripening tomatoes; and coffee filters become great dusting cloths or grease strainers.
Today, we’ll consider new uses for muffin pans. They are easy to find and inexpensive to buy, whether new or secondhand. Their obvious purpose is to make delicious muffins and cupcakes, but why stop there?
Whether you’re deciding to keep or toss an item, trying to get organized, are …

When I was a kid, I never paid attention to how my family made burgers. Some were burned on the outside and pink on the inside. Some ended up as charred UFOs, and all the toppings invariably oozed out when I tried to eat. I remember cutting open and inspecting the hard-as-rock beef hockey pucks just to decide whether I wanted a hamburger or a hot dog.
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DEAR SARA: I’m looking for small ways to save. I’m already frugal, and I don’t think I can cut much more. Do you have a list of little ways to save so I can see if there is anything that I’m not currently doing? — D.B., via e-mail
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