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Pill Popper: Why You Need A Sweater Stone

January 5, 2012/3 Comments/in FASHION, Goods & Services, HOW-TO KNOW-HOW, View All Fashion Stories, View All How-To Stories /by Editor

The best device ever for removing pilling from fabric is on sale right now.

SALE ALERT | This is hardly the time to suggest that you rush out and buy stocking stuffers with another 354 shopping days left until Christmas, but we’ve decided to do a little pre-Christmas shopping at Eddie Bauer this week because they’re having a sale on our all-time favourite Christmas stocking gift, the Sweater Stone and we plan to stock up. If you’ve ever put one of these tools to work, you’ll know why we’re excited; if you haven’t, you might want to listen up. Read more

How To Deep Down Clean Your House

January 3, 2012/0 Comments/in Home & Garden /by Editor

How to keep your house deep down clean year round—without a live-in maid.

CLEAN SMARTER | Have you ever noticed there are two kinds of house dirty? The first is surface dirty. This is what most of us deal with on a weekly basis, doing the dusting, vacuuming and general tidying that keep our homes looking presentable.

The second is deep down dirty. This kind of dirty creeps up on you while you’re religiously attending to the surfaces. Deep down dirty is the leather sofa that never gets conditioned, or the back of the insides of bottom kitchen cupboards that become magnets for grunge, or the dust and gunk that gathers on baseboards behind bedroom dressers that seldom if ever get moved.

Deep down dirty can make even a tidy house feel unclean. Read more

Wrap Stars: H&M’s Reusable Gift Boxes

December 6, 2011/2 Comments/in Goods & Services, Holiday, HOLIDAY /by Editor

Why don’t more stores follow the H&M lead and minimize their logo on good looking gift packaging so shoppers can reuse it year after year?

FREE & FABULOUS | Too bad other big brands and major retailers don’t adopt Swedish fashion megabrand H&M’s approach to gift-wrapping, because if enough of them were to do it, gift givers would be able to wean themselves off wasteful wrapping paper in no time flat. Read more

Find Eco Friendly Christmas Trees

December 1, 2011/0 Comments/in HOLIDAY, Holiday, Home & Garden /by Felicity Stone

Here’s our 2011 guide to finding the eco-friendliest Christmas trees in and around Metro Vancouver.

HOLIDAY 2011 | While artificial trees come in hues to match your decor, real Christmas trees are green in more than colour. They are a renewable crop often grown on land unsuitable for cultivating much else, they remove carbon from the air while they’re growing, and they can be chipped for mulch after use. Here are three ways to get an eco-friendly green tree this Christmas. Read more

Cheesecakes in Jars - My Baking Addiction

Awesome Ways To Put Weck Jars To Work

November 23, 2011/1 Comment/in BUY THIS. MAKE THAT., FOOD, Food & Drink, Tools & Techniques, View All Food Stories /by Editor

You needn’t be an ace with a canner to find awesome ways to put gorgeous Weck jars to work.

BEAUTIFUL & EASY | “Now this is a full-circle moment,” said my friend Anne, pointing to the Weck canning jars prominently displayed in the chi-chi San Francisco kitchen shop we cruised through last week. “I was so happy to get away from these things when I moved here from Germany and to discover canning jars with screw-top lids. They’re much easier and more convenient to use.” Read more

Canada’s Full Of Gilt (.Com)—And Loving It!

November 16, 2011/0 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Fashion & Beauty, Shops & Shopping, View All Fashion Stories /by Editor

The website that pioneered members-only time-limited shopping now ships to Canada. Woo Hoo!

SHOPPING AROUND | With its crazy good deals on coveted designer products like the Hunter boots pictured here, Gilt used to be one of my favourite online shopping destinations.

But then the trouble of getting my purchases home—Gilt only shipped within the United States—eventually got to me. Besides, we Canadians finally got our own flash shopping sites (CLICK HERE for our story). Still, I’d wistfully check Gilt every so often if only for inspiration. Read more

Is Bleach Superbad For The Environment? You?

November 9, 2011/6 Comments/in BUY THIS. MAKE THAT., Cleaning & Maintenance, Goods & Services, HOME, View All Home Stories /by Editor

Is common household bleach a threat to the environment? Can it kill you?

BACK TO BASICS | Call me a freak, but putting on rubber gloves and plunging my hands into my own toilet bowls to clean them with a scrubbing sponge doesn’t bother me at all. What does bother me is that no matter what cleaning products I use, the bowls of my newish toilets look dirty again in days. Frustrated by the ineffectiveness of Vim, Ajax, Lysol et al., I turned to cheap, common household bleach. Read more

Aeroplan Miles: Use Them Or Lose Them

November 2, 2011/3 Comments/in Goods & Services /by Editor

Aeroplan miles don’t accumulate forever. After seven years, they take them back.

WASTE NOT | I used to use my Aeroplan miles all the time. Then my son graduated from university so I no longer had to fly him and us between here and Montreal, my husband stopped taking business trips that I would accompany him on, and there was no longer any urgency to travel. Read more

What Virtual Assistants Can Do for A Business

October 13, 2011/1 Comment/in Goods & Services /by Editor

When time and money are tight, hiring highly experienced virtual personnel could make good sense for your business.

SAVE TIME + MONEY | Although Canada has not experienced anywhere near the economic downturn that has occurred in the U.S., businesses here are on the lookout for ways to save money. One way is to include virtual assistants (VAs) as part of the employee mix. Read more

Yesss! OxiClean Is A Miracle Stain Remover

October 11, 2011/6 Comments/in BUY THIS. MAKE THAT., Cleaning & Maintenance, Fashion & Beauty, HOW-TO KNOW-HOW, View All How-To Stories /by Editor

We’re kind of obsessed with clothing stains around here, and guess what? We’ve finally found the perfect—and easiest—way to remove them.

PROBLEM SOLVED | At Frugalbits we’re suckers for expert advice so last spring, when we wanted to know how to remove perspiration stains from white tee shirts, we contacted Madame Paulette in New York City, an international expert in fabric care. The company president graciously shared Madame Paulette’s DIY stain removal formula with our readers (CLICK HERE for the story), and although it is good and useful, we’ve recently been introduced to an even simpler solution that’s equally effective and no work at all. Read more

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