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February 21, 2013
5-Minute DIY: Balloon-Covered Mason Jars
If you’re hosting a brunch or an Oscar party this weekend, why not try using Mason jars as your drinking glasses, and make them easy to tell apart with this quick trick from Brit + Co. All you have to do to get these seemingly dip-dyed jars is to cut the ends off of regular latex balloons and stretch them [...]
Today’s Thought
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February 20, 2013
Wednesday Trivia: How Seniors Can Extend Their Lives
If you’ve made it to 75, you may think: What harm can a little ice cream, TV-watching and smoking do? But if you want to live longer than your peers, it’s essential to live healthfully—even if you’ve never been big on these habits before. Why? A recent study published in the British Medical Journal showed that seniors can add an average of 5.4 [...]
Look for the Roast Date When Buying Coffee Beans
What’s the first thing you should look for when you’re buying gourmet coffee? The roast date. It’s not exactly a “sell-by” date, but it’s the closest thing you’re going to get on a bag of your favorite beans. To be sure you have the freshest most aromatic cup of coffee you can get look for beans that have been roasted [...]
Help Me Help All of Us
Has it really been two months since the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut? Why does it still feel like it happened yesterday? Maybe because—and this is a good thing—the debate about what to do to prevent gun violence has taken, if not center stage, at least a place somewhere on stage. Finally. If you visit realsimple.com or read Real Simple magazine, [...]
Don’t forget! Show Us Your Organized Medicine Cabinet
Consider this your five day warning! You have until the end of the day on February 25th to submit your photo of your freshly organized medicine cabinet on Instagram for a chance to be featured here on Simply Stated and win one of our Real Simple organizing products. Get all the details, contest rules, and some help getting started here. [...]
Adding Design Interest to a Neutral Room via Apartment Therapy
Patterned wallpaper and/or fabric used to line the inside of bookshelves is something that I am seeing a lot of these days. Is this design feature on the up and up or am I just late to the game? Either way, I really like it. According to a recent post from our friends at apartmenttherapy.com, DC designer Marika Meyer uses soft details to jazz [...]
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February 19, 2013
Smart Product: DuWop Reverse Lipliner
Say the word lipliner to me, and I immediately conjure up images of darkly outlined lips with paler lipstick inside. What can I say, I’m a child of the 90s. Thankfully that trend hasn’t come back to haunt us, but now that I wear makeup everyday and enjoy bright lipsticks (get more tips on wearing those here) I have a [...]
Are You a Shoes On or Shoes Off Household?
Did you know that 80 percent of the dirt in your home is tracked in on your shoes? That makes a pretty compelling case for having family members and guests remove their shoes at the door. But if you don’t want to make people walk around sock-footed, put a rough bristled mat outside each entrance. Those mats are most effective [...]
