You’re Not Changing Your Toothbrush Often Enough

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Home is the place we feel the most like ourselves—where we kick off our shoes, share our meals, and make memories. We’re taking our love for all things home and bringing it to Instagram. Follow along at Home52 and make yourselves—well, you know.


So, you still have the toothbrush with your dentist’s phone number on it? The one that came with the the goodie bag (Floss! Travel-sized Crest!) they sent you home with, after your cleaning? That’s fine, but let me ask you: When was the last time you got a cleaning? Considering most people only get their teeth cleaned every six months to a year, it might well be time to refresh that toothbrush.

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Memorize This Handy Trick to Get Red Wine Out of Clothes

On a recent Friday night, I ventured to a BYOB restaurant for dinner with a group. After waiting in line for 30 minutes to place our orders, we sat at a picnic table and started to uncork the bottles of wine we’d brought. I was pretty jazzed about my 2…

On a recent Friday night, I ventured to a BYOB restaurant for dinner with a group. After waiting in line for 30 minutes to place our orders, we sat at a picnic table and started to uncork the bottles of wine we'd brought. I was pretty jazzed about my 2017 Les Heretiques, a natural, French Carignan, so I carefully poured healthy servings into flimsy plastic cups and set the open bottle down in the middle of the table. I took a sip and was delighted to find the red table wine was just to my taste—tannic, medium-bodied, and full of dark fruit.

My cup quivered ominously.

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11 Organizers So Clever You’ll Wonder How You Lived Without Them

Home is the place we feel the most like ourselves—where we kick off our shoes, share our meals, and make memories. We’re taking our love for all things home and bringing it to Instagram. Follow along at Home52 and make yourselves—well, you know.

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Home is the place we feel the most like ourselves—where we kick off our shoes, share our meals, and make memories. We’re taking our love for all things home and bringing it to Instagram. Follow along at Home52 and make yourselves—well, you know.

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How to Make Scented Candles From Scratch

Home is the place we feel the most like oursevles—where we kick off our shoes, share our meals, and make memories. We’re taking our love for all things home and brining it to Instagram. Follow along at Home52 and make yourselves—well, you k…

Home is the place we feel the most like oursevles—where we kick off our shoes, share our meals, and make memories. We're taking our love for all things home and brining it to Instagram. Follow along at Home52 and make yourselves—well, you know. 

At some point in the 2000's, candles went from nice-to-have-around to a home decor status symbol, thanks to the onslaught of luxury perfumers and candle-makers. Since then, there's a lot of conflicting opinions about whether or not upwards of $50 is an appropriate amount to spend on something that lasts a collective 2-and-a-half days. Apartment Therapy even categorizes this phenomenon as "Questions We All Have," because so many of us are astonished by the cost involved in candle procurement. 

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A One-Minute Trick to Get Rainbow Stains Out of Your Pans

It’s sparkly. It’s gleaming. It’s perfect. You can’t stop admiring that stainless-steel cookware you made dinner with for the first time, and we don’t blame you. Then, suddenly, you notice—cue the Twilight Zone theme—a rainbow tint on the interior.
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It’s sparkly. It’s gleaming. It’s perfect. You can’t stop admiring that stainless-steel cookware you made dinner with for the first time, and we don’t blame you. Then, suddenly, you notice—cue the Twilight Zone theme—a rainbow tint on the interior.

First of all, the good news:

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I Thought I Had My Closet Figured Out—Then I Met These Hangers

I’m a pretty organized person. My overflow beauty products are categorized into baskets, the top drawer of my dresser is devoted to trinket dishes of jewelry, my socks are all paired up, and my shoes have specific slots on the shoe rack. My friends and…

I’m a pretty organized person. My overflow beauty products are categorized into baskets, the top drawer of my dresser is devoted to trinket dishes of jewelry, my socks are all paired up, and my shoes have specific slots on the shoe rack. My friends and family might tell you I take it too far...but I just like things a very precise way.

Recently, I was given some new hangers to try. The brand, MAWA, I was told, has been on a mission to manufacture the world’s best clothes hanger since 1948. My first reaction was, “psh, I don’t need better hanging organization.” But even I am big enough to admit when I’m wrong.

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7 Reasons to KonMari the Heck Out of Your Home This Holiday

It’s been almost a year since Tidying Up with Marie Kondo exploded into our living room. The Netflix show, in which the queen of decluttering uses her signature method to help families pare down their homes (and lives), suddenly became what everyone wa…

It’s been almost a year since Tidying Up with Marie Kondo exploded into our living room. The Netflix show, in which the queen of decluttering uses her signature method to help families pare down their homes (and lives), suddenly became what everyone was talking about. Between the eight television episodes and Kondo’s bestselling books, the KonMari Method managed to turn even the messiest folks into decluttering evangelists.

But if you’ve never given KonMari a whirl, or you’ve just accumulated some joyless items since the last time you simplified, the holidays are actually the perfect time to try a seasonal cleanse. The way I think of it, you’re likely going up to the attic or out into the garage to retrieve boxes of ornaments, decorations, and other komono (Japanese for small, miscellaneous items) anyway, so you might as well sort through those and the rest of your packed away items while you’re there.

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How *Not* to Kill Your Plants This Winter

Winter days in New England can be brutal, and sometimes I wish I could just curl up under a blanket until the sun decides to come back. It turns out that our plants feel exactly the same way!

A lot of plants—especially outdoor ones—enter a period of d…

Winter days in New England can be brutal, and sometimes I wish I could just curl up under a blanket until the sun decides to come back. It turns out that our plants feel exactly the same way!

A lot of plants—especially outdoor ones—enter a period of dormancy during the winter. This is basically a temporary state of metabolic inactivity where plants do the bare minimum, using their stored-up food supplies to stay alive and not giving the slightest thought to stressful things like growing. It’s basically a season-long nap, and I am more than a bit jealous.

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How to Start a Fireplace Fire (& Keep It Going All Night)

It’s fireplace season, everyone, and you’re lucky, because I’ve got a ton of experience with building strong, steady flames to warm even the coldest ski-trip nights. Even though I currently live in a one-bedroom rental apartment in Brooklyn, I tend to …

It’s fireplace season, everyone, and you’re lucky, because I’ve got a ton of experience with building strong, steady flames to warm even the coldest ski-trip nights. Even though I currently live in a one-bedroom rental apartment in Brooklyn, I tend to visit my parents in my childhood home of Stockbridge, Massachusetts each winter (not this year, of course!)—and on a cold Berkshires night, there's nothing quite as comforting as making a fire in their fireplace. And by a night, I obviously mean every night.

Starting a fireplace fire can be intimidating, but by keeping in mind the three foundational elements of a strong one (fuel, fire, and air) and adjusting your process to nurture those three, your fire-starting skills will become fail-proof.

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The Ultimate Guide to Getting Rid of Every. Single. Holiday. Stain.

As a kid, there was nothing I cherished more than the day we decorated the house for the holidays. My dad would carry boxes from the basement filled with candles, garlands, slightly odd-looking but well-loved ornaments that my sister and I made in pres…

As a kid, there was nothing I cherished more than the day we decorated the house for the holidays. My dad would carry boxes from the basement filled with candles, garlands, slightly odd-looking but well-loved ornaments that my sister and I made in preschool, and—my favorite—mugs that lit up with tiny lights on the outside when you poured hot chocolate into them. The ritual of readying the house was the first sign that the holidays were coming, and with them, festive family get-togethers and cozy evenings by the fire. It’s a tradition I try to recreate now, even in my tiny apartment, with a Charlie Brown tree and cedar-scented candles.

But between hosting houseguests, throwing cocktail parties, cooking Thanksgiving feasts, and welcoming in-laws and kids, the holidays can take their toll on a home. Come January, you can find yourself taking down the decorations and discovering stains of every sort: wine on your new throw, candle wax dripped on the good tablecloth, grease splatters on your apron, mascara smudged on the guest room pillows.

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