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Top Four Best Places to Buy and Sell Antiques

If you’re up for the travel and antique shipping, here are four places to start your search for the best place to buy and sell your antiques away from home.

Dollar Stores: The One-Stop Shop for Home Decorating?

Forget about Ethan Allen, or even IKEA. The hottest way to outfit nearly every room in your home is by scouring for treasures at dollar stores. OK, so maybe that's overstating things. But dollar stores are on quite an amazing run.

Woman's mission of helping needs help

The pantry is growing crowded, and can’t help as many people. They need space - and more volunteers.?

Cheaters Guide to Re-Upholstery |

So, I admitted during the Young Modern Vintage Bedroom that I had one project in particular that totally stalled the makeover. It was the big, navy velvet elephant in the room. Literally, this chair sat in the corner with the fabric draped over it for almost a year. I finally started work on it in …

How to Find Designer Brands at Thrift Stores

How to find designer dresses when shopping at thrift stores.

Here's What Goodwill Actually Does With Your Donated Clothes

What Not to Donate: Thrift Store Donation Guidelines

Every thrift store has different rules, but these items are commonly turned away at donation centers. Call ahead to see if your local store can accept them.

Nutrition Labels 101 Selecting Nutritious Foods with Confidence

There is so much information on food packages, it’s often hard to understand if the food is healthy or why it’s a good source of calcium.

Healthy choices: How to help kids make sense of nutrition labels

On our constant quest for better health, reading nutrition labels certainly can be a drag. Calories, sodium, fat, fiber, carbohydrates … so many numbers, so many benefits, so many drawbacks.

How to Read Nutrition Labels

Grocery stores can be overwhelming, but healthy choices start when you choose what to put in your cart! These 5 nutrition label tips will help you efficiently determine which foods are better for you.

You Can't Go To The Grocery Store Until You Pass This Nutrition Facts Quiz

*Eats entire package. Finds out it was actually three servings*

Lifestyle Choices for optimising health: exercise, nutrition, sleep

By Dr Nicky Keay Lifestyle factors of exercise, nutrition and sleep are vital for optimising health. As in the illustration shown, ideally we should be in the green zone – representing a balance between these lifestyle factors. Slipping into the peripheral red zone represents an imbalance: either too much or too little of any of these [...]Read More...

What Our Food Choices Really Say About Our Beliefs

Best-selling author and food expert Michael Pollan says that food is an important link to other people, from those we dine with to those who produce what we eat. In light of that connection to others through food, Michael says mealtime is an opportunity to express what you believe in and learn about others' values as well.

Burning Question: Which foods would we refuse to give up?

Healthy Choice of the Week: CUCUMBER!

Healthy Choice of the Week: CUCUMBER! Treat toothaches and your gums with cucumber! Did you know periodontal disease can be effectivel...

5 foods that help your body age well