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mTip: Wrapping Holiday Gifts in Reusable Fabric

| Economical, Gift Wrapping, Green Living, Holidays, Home, How-To, mTIPS, WholeHome
December 22, 2011

Save the planet one gift at a time by wrapping holiday packages in reusable materials, like fabric and waxed linen. Purchase a fabric that coordinates with your holiday decorations so it can be used for years to come. Or, get creative with items from around your home, like old jeans...
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mTip: Clip Your Wicks!

| Free, Green Living, Holidays, Home, Homekeeping, How-To, mTIPS, WholeHome
December 9, 2011

This holiday season, keep candle flames under control by clipping your wicks before you light.Cut new candles with scissors to about 1/4 inch, and pull used wicks off with a tissue to about 1/2 their length.This curbs flame size, reduces smoke and diminishes soot buildup. Burn ’em safely y’all.Happy Holidays!
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mTip: Oversummering Holiday Evergreen Trees

| Design, Economical, Free, Garden, garden, Gardening, Giving, Green Living, Holiday Containers, Holidays, How-To, mTIPS
December 2, 2011

A Fraser Fir purchased LAST YEAR for holiday decoration,oversummered in our kitchen garden.This holiday season it is being reusedto create a festive entry to our greenhouse. Dont toss out those cute little ‘live’ evergreen trees when the holiday season comes to a close. Oversummer it and reuse it the next...
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mTip: Plant-CPR

| Economical, garden, Green Living, Home, How-To, Interior Plantscape, mTIPS, WholeHome
November 4, 2011

REVIVE an unconscious, droopy green friend with simplePlant-CPR!(Care, Place in water, Resuscitate)Place plant in a bowl of water overnight and let the rootsdrink at their own pace.Come morning, your little green friend will be full of life withfirm, happy leaves.Saving a LIFE, it’s not a bad way to start a...
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mTip: Creepy for Cheapy Halloween Urns

| Design, Fun, Garden, garden, Gardening, Holidays, mTIPS
October 24, 2011

The Wicked Witch flies by sometimes, and with a strike of her wand, renders even our best-planned gardening endeavors, DEAD.Don’t be so quick to kick SLAIN trees or shrubs to the curb.Breath life back into them by making a creepy cheapy Halloween urn (or two), instead. Needed:Urn/s, soil to hold limbs in place,...
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