'Koselig' Isn't the Same as 'Hygge'

Each summer, Europe’s Nordic countries—which consistently rank among the world’s happiest—reap the benefits of their geographic position, with daylight stretching into the night. Then, come winter, the opposite is true, and darkness creeps into daytime.

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The Easiest Way to Clean Cooking Grease

Broadly speaking, there are two ways to deal with messes in the kitchen: Everyday tidying up—like after cooking, eating, or spills—and then, the type of deep cleaning typically reserved for when people you want to impress are coming over, or you’re trying to get a security deposit back before moving.

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Don't Wait to Return Your Unwanted Holiday Gifts

During the last two holiday seasons, many national retailers extended the window of time customers had to return or exchange their unwanted gifts. This move, some experts suggest, was a way to encourage spending during an economic downturn—especially at a time when COVID-19 restrictions and illnesses likely changed…

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The Many Metaphors of Metamorphosis

Not every transition must be a caterpillar into a butterfly, or a solitary trek through terror and pain. The natural world has other models of transformation.

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What is 5G? The Complete Guide to When, Why, and How

Here’s everything you need to know about the spectrum, millimeter-wave technology, and what 5G means for you.

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Emotional AI Is No Substitute for Empathy

Artificial intelligence will try—and fail—to grasp the subtleties of human expression.

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You Should Get In on Wesson's $3 Million False Advertising Settlement

There are certain kitchen staples that many people tend to buy and use without giving them much thought—including some types of cooking oils. Sure, we may pay more attention to olive oil, and whether it’s virgin or extra-virgin, or where it came from, but when it comes to vegetable and canola oils, that’s not…

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You Don't Need a Separate Stain-Removing Spray for Your Laundry

When it comes to laundry supplies, the number of products we have, verses the ones we actually need don’t necessarily match up. And with storage space in our homes often in short supply, it makes sense to pare down the collection of products we’ve accumulated over the years.

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The Best Free and Cheap Food for New Year's Day

Well, 2022 was another one for the books. After making it through the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with countless other challenges, treat yourself to some free or cheap food on New Year’s Day. Here are a few of the available offers.

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How to Start (and Keep) a Healthy Habit

Whether you want to run a marathon or learn to play the guitar, here's how to set yourself up for success.

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10 Best Wireless Earbuds for Working Out (2022)

Rock your inner jock with a pair of sturdy, sweatproof, and tangle-proof headphones. Here are our favorites.

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22 Things That Made the World a Better Place in 2022

From spinal implants that allow paralyzed people to walk to smashing an asteroid off course with a rocket, this wasn’t just a year of negative headlines.

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You Should Make an 'Old Year's Resolution' Instead

The whole concept of feeling pressured to come up with a signifiant goal or project to take on when the calendar year changes has some major flaws—many of which we’ve covered at Lifehacker over the years (including earlier this month).

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The Easiest Ways to Clean Up Your Christmas Tree's Sap and Needles

Now that Christmas is over and 2023 is nearly here, many people are taking their holiday decorations down, and putting them away for the year. But for those who opted to bring a live Christmas tree into their home, it’s not only a matter of removing it and figuring out how to repurpose, recycle, or dispose of it: They…

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Get One-Way Flights for $19 During Frontier's Latest Sale

Do your plans for the new year include traveling more? If so, you may want to pay a quick visit to Frontier Airlines’ website, where some one-way flights are currently available for fares starting at $19 (plus taxes and fees). Whether you’re fortunate enough to be able to work remotely and have the flexibility to…

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Hotwire Your Broken Thermostat in a Weather Emergency

Something that’s often neglected, even by proactive folks who actually check on the heat before the first frost, is the humble thermostat. That tiny appliance on your wall—whether it’s an old-timey mechanical thermostat, a modest battery-powered programmable version, or one of those smart thermostats stealing all your…

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Allow Me to Troublechoux’t Your Cream Puff Problems

Like many foundational items in pastry, pâte à choux is made from a few simple ingredients, and the technique required is straightforward, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to make perfect choux every time.

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LastPass Data Breach: It's Time to Ditch This Password Manager

The password manager's most recent data breach is so concerning, users need to take immediate steps to protect themselves.

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Here's How to Actually Get Closure From an Ex

You and your partner have broken up. You’ve made arrangements, gotten your stuff back, cried, grieved—basically ran the gamut of emotions—and now you want what most people want after a breakup: closure.

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14 of Lifehacker’s Best Bakes of 2022

This year turned out to be an exciting year for me over here at Skillet. Mostly because I fully jumped on staff with culinary dynamo Claire Lower, and with her unequivocal support, I was able to let my mind wander the weird “what-ifs” of baked goods. You’ll see both sweet and savory on this list, and each of them is…

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How to Chop Like a Chef

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Nine Changes You Should Make on Your iPhone Before the New Year

Just as you’d service your car to keep it running smoothly, an annual review of your iPhone can prevent a lot of issues in the long run. Phones accumulate a ton of digital cruft, and since a more organized device works better for longer, take the start of a new year as your opportunity to clear it all out. Your iPhone…

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How Much Hair Is Normal to Lose in a Day?

We like to think of our hair as permanently attached to our head, but that’s not exactly how it works. Each hair goes through its own cycle of growing, waiting around, and then falling out. So that explains why you’ll find hairs in your hairbrush. But how do you know how much is too much?

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Your Intense Co-Dependency Might Be a ‘Karmic Relationship’

If you’ve ever experienced one of those “can’t live with you, can’t live without you”-type of relationships, where your connection feels hot and heavy but is also rife with challenges and intensity, chances are you were in a karmic relationship.

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Don't Waste Money on Food Allergy Tests (and What to Do Instead)

It happens to a lot of people: You start to notice a pattern of unpleasant symptoms, and they seem connected to your diet, so you begin to wonder if maybe you have a food allergy. Fair enough—and good on you for paying attention to what your body is telling you.

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How Training a Puppy Improved My Parenting

I got a pandemic puppy to complete my pandemic bingo, I joke, after my pandemic divorce and making that whipped-up coffee. I had never had a puppy, so I had to learn how to train her, an 8-month-old rescue with some attachment issues. Meanwhile, I was pandemic parenting two kids post-divorce, so I was navigating those…

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All the Ways You're Annoying Your Server Without Knowing It

Food service is physically demanding, requiring a person to be on their feet for long periods of time, carrying carefully-balanced and heavy trays of food. It’s psychologically demanding, because they have to deal with a wide range of, uh, personalities. So when you go out to eat, restaurant servers deserve your…

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You Don’t Need to Fear a World of Eight Billion Humans

Some environmentalists argue we should prioritize a world with fewer humans, but maybe we need to rethink our approach to rising populations.

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New Materials Will Bring the Next Generation of Quantum Computers

This technology is primed to become faster, more versatile, and—thankfully—cheaper.

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An Online Safety Bill Is Coming to the UK—But It’s Not Enough

The long-awaited bill is set to pass next year, but its many limitations make it ineffective. It might even set a dangerous precedent for free speech.

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Hacktivism Is Back and Messier Than Ever

Throughout 2022, geopolitics has given rise to a new wave of politically motivated attacks with an undercurrent of state-sponsored meddling.

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Classic WIRED Covers—Regenerated by AI

We asked some of our favorite artists to re-create their work using new image generators.

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19 Best After-Christmas Sales and Deals (2022): Vacuums, Phones, and Board Games

Put those gift cards to good use with these discounts on everything from tech to toys.

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Use These Phrases to Sound More Credible at Work

For something that most of us have to do on a daily basis, navigating workplace communication can be tricky: There’s often a fine line between being assertive and aggressive, helpful and pushy, and arrogant and credible.

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How to Overcome 'Overwhelm Freeze' and Get Stuff Done

With the busiest part of the holiday season behind us, many people are now looking towards the future—including tackling their constantly growing to-do list. But why is it that the more you have to get done, the harder it is to actually start?

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7 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Elgato Stream Deck (2022)

This LCD control panel is a popular tool for streamers, but you can use it to get real work done.

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The 12 Best Books of 2022

From sea creatures to a Station Eleven follow-up, these are the best books we read in 2022.

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Bev by Black & Decker Cocktail Maker Review: Let the Robot Tend Bar

This product adds booze of your choosing to pre-mixed flavor pods, sort of like a Keurig machine for alcoholic drinks.

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This Year’s Epic Fantasy Face-Off Had No Winners

House of the Dragon and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power battled for the hearts of fantasy audiences everywhere.

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The Best Places to Catch the Northern Lights in 2023

After a few years of limited international travel, people are more eager than ever to take their bucket-list trips to far-flung destinations—and we’re not getting any younger.

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You Should Get In on T-Mobile's $350 Million Settlement

Back in July, T-Mobile agreed to pay out $350 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a number of the company’s customers over a 2021 data breach. At this point, it’s still possible to claim a piece of the payout, but time is running out. Here’s what to know.

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These Cities Are Expected to See the Biggest Real Estate Growth in 2023

Whether you’re a seasoned real estate pro, or someone who casually scans the listings from time to time, you’ve probably noticed that the 2022 housing market has been a little hard to follow at times. Like 2021, most experts have indicated that this year has largely been a seller’s market, but what’s in store for 2023?

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What Music Did You Stream in 2022? Here's How to Find Your Recaps

From Spotify Wrapped to Apple Music Replay, these are all the services that will tell you what songs were on the soundtrack of your year.

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A New Computer Proof ‘Blows Up’ Centuries-Old Fluid Equations

For more than 250 years, mathematicians have wondered if the Euler equations might sometimes fail to describe a fluid’s flow. Now there’s a breakthrough.

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25 Best Online Co-Op Games (2022): Playstation, Xbox, PC, Switch

Make some long-distance connections. These cooperative multiplayer titles let you play together over the internet.

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How to Use Voice Commands on Your TV (2022): Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, and Roku TV Voice Commands

Control your television with virtual assistants or the mic on your remote using these handy tips.

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The Difference Between Knobs and Pulls on Kitchen Cabinets, and When to Use Each

More than almost anything else in your kitchen, the cabinets can make the room feel outdated—especially if you painted them a color that was trendy one year, but not as much after that. Fortunately, giving your kitchen an updated look doesn’t necessarily mean you have to replace your cabinets completely. Instead, many…

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Use a Candle to Find Mystery Air Leaks in Your House

With temperatures around the country plummeting over the past few days, any air leaks in your home have likely become particularly noticeable. Perhaps you knew these cracks and crevices were there, but hadn’t gotten around to dealing with them yet. Or maybe, you did take the time to properly seal your home, and…

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Stop Donating at the Cash Register, Already

Whether you shop primarily online or in person, you’ve likely been asked to make a donation to some kind of charitable organization as you’re checking out. Sometimes it’s rounding up the total of your order to the nearest dollar, and donating the change. Other times, you have the option of donating $1, $2, or another…

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This Christmas, It’s ‘Firmageddon’ as Climate Change Hits Oregon

More than a million acres of state forest contain trees that have succumbed to stressors exacerbated by a multiyear drought

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The 15 Best Movies of 2022—and Where to Watch Them

Yes, Top Gun: Maverick made the list. Yes, we’re as surprised as you are.

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Get Free Popeyes Chicken Sandwiches for the Rest of the Year

As 2022 comes to a close, and yearly budgets have been stretched beyond their limits, any type of discount or freebie is appreciated. And if you like your free food in the form of Popeyes chicken sandwiches, you’re in luck, because the fast food chain has a promotion offering precisely that. Here’s what to know.

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Not All After-Christmas Sales Start on December 26

Between ongoing product shortages, supply chain issues, and stores left with excess inventory, 2022 has been unpredictable when it comes to retail. So what does that mean for the traditionally deep discounts offered at the end of the year? Here’s what to know about 2022's after-Christmas sales, including when they…

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Use These Canned Responses to Answer Nosy or Inappropriate Questions

No matter where it happens—whether it’s at a family holiday gathering, the office, or among friends—being on the receiving end of a highly personal question can be jarring. Sure, the person asking the question could be well-intentioned, but their request for information that you’d prefer not to share can catch you…

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Twitter Is No Longer a Creative Haven

Elon Musk's changes have been most destabilizing to the very people who made the platform's unique culture.

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Where to Get Emergency Ice on Christmas Day

When making my Christmas (shopping) lists and checking them twice, I often forget to consider ice, which makes some amount of sense. Depending on where you are in the world, ice is probably not at the forefront of your mind in the days leading up to Christmas, especially if you’ve been shoveling snow, driving through…

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Where to Get $400 Worth of Xbox Gift Cards for Only $320

Right now, Costco is selling Xbox gift cards for 20% off, and you can get a maximum of $400 worth of them per member (or more if you have other authorized members on your membership). That means you can get $400 worth of gift cards for a total out-of-pocket cost of $320, which you can use for anything from the

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10 of Lifehacker’s Favorite Home Safety Tips of 2022

Keeping your home clean and welcoming for other people is all fine and well, but doesn’t really matter much if your house isn’t safe. From burglars to fires, there are safety threats all around our homes, and this year, we worked hard to help you identify and avoid them. Here are our best home safety tips from 2022.

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45 of Lifehacker's Favorite iPhone Hacks of 2022

From iOS 16 to the iPhone 14, the iPhone had a big year. We started 2022 with iOS 15.2, which gave us features like Apple Music Voice and legacy contacts, and end the year appropriately with iOS 16.2, with Apple Music Sing and end-to-end encryption for iCloud backups. In between, we discovered a lot of hacks that make…

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Please Prepare Now for This Incoming Arctic Freeze

A huge winter storm is making its way across the country this week, bringing with it heavy snow, high winds, and single-digit temperatures as far south as Louisiana. Conditions are expected to significantly affect holiday travel, and similar storms have recently challenged power grids and other infrastructure even in…

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You Should Add Eggnog to Your Christmas Morning Pancakes

Eggnog is as Christmas as chunky, colorful lights–it’s not for everyone, but some households are all about it. Whether you have a yearly event concocting your family’s secret recipe, or buy liters of the store bought variety, try adding it to your pancake mix and make the most Christmassy breakfast of your life.

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The Six Best Ways of Finding a Job Without LinkedIn or Indeed

You’re likely familiar with the usual way to look for a job: Type the job title you want into a career site like LinkedIn or Indeed, add few details, and then spend hours scrolling down a list of thousands of potential jobs. When you finally get to the bottom, more load in. It can often feel like a numbers game, just…

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8 Myths About Christmas That Some People Really Believe

Traditions surrounding the Christian religious holiday of Christmas may seem to be age-old and time-honored, but many are newer than we’d think. What’s even more surprising is that the stories we tell each other about the traditions are also, themselves, a bit mixed-up. Read on for several myths about Christmas…

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What's New on HBO Max in January 2023

It seems like just yesterday we were anticipating all the high-profile video game adaptations coming to movie theaters and streaming services in 2023, and one of the biggest is already almost here: HBO Max’s The Last of Us, based on the 2013 PlayStation post-apocalyptic zombie-adjacent survival adventure...thing.

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How to Calculate Your FIRE Number to Retire Early

When most people plan for retirement, they’re making plans around their 67th birthday. Proponents of the FIRE movement, however, believe that retirement can be achieved decades earlier than the official retirement age. Here’s what to know about the elusive promise of Financial Independence/Retire Early and what it…

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11 Rapid At-Home Covid-19 Tests—and Where to Find Them

How accurate are over-the-counter swabs? Does your insurance cover them? We have answers.

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You Can Visit a National Park for Free on These Days in 2023

With more than 400 national parks scattered across the United States, it can get pricey to try to visit them all. While some are free, about a quarter of them charge from $10 to $20 per person to enter, which can add up for a family. But if you’re planning to hit up the parks next year, there are several days when…

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Plan Your 2023 Travel Around These Long Weekends

As one year end and a new one begins, there’s always the resolution to vaguely “travel more.” I’ve never known anyone to resolve to “travel less,” but when it comes to sticking to your resolutions—including those related to travel—specificity is key. If you’re going to “travel more,” you need to plan ahead now and…

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How to Always Find Free Wifi

The rise of unlimited data plans means fewer of us are desperate for wifi. Mobile hotspots make it easy to pass a smartphone’s data plan over to wifi-only devices, but that isn’t the case for everyone: Wifi is still important for many of us. Not all of us have unlimited data plans, and cell reception also isn’t…

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This Is the Best Free Scanning App on iPhone

There’s a pretty nifty document scanner built into your iPhone’s Notes app. It’s great at automatically figuring out the edges of your doc, and it will even detect text for you. But the problem is, the scanned text will save to the note itself as a PDF, meaning you have to then manually export the document to do…

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10 of the Biggest Video Game Adaptations Coming in 2023

I predict 2023 will be the year video game adaptations get good. Narratives based on games have been on a rocky road since the first major film based on a game, 1993’s Super Mario Bros., was released, and there have been way more misses than hits along the way.

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The Best iOS 16.1 Features You Might've Missed

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12 Unexpected Ways to Use Bubble Wrap Around the House

Bubble wrap is the best. It can obviously help you move to a new place without breaking stuff, and of course it’s fun to play with. But it can also do so much more than you might think. Put it in the category of things like vodka, hair conditioner, dryer sheets, and nail polish remover, which all have one stated…

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15 Delayed Movies That Are Finally Coming Out in 2023

In addition to being a global disaster in many ways that matter a good deal more, COVID took a wrecking ball to the film industry, and Hollywood is still cleaning up the debris. Countless films have been re-edited, delayed, and outright cancelled as a result of necessary COVID restrictions, illnesses, financial…

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What's New on Prime Video in January 2023

The first season of Prime Video’s Hunters, a late-’70s action drama about a group of Nazi hunters tracking down surviving members of the Third Reich, premiered in late February 2020. I used to walk by the subway ad for it every day while dropping my kid off at school. Then the school shut down, along with everything…

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Five Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Indoor Garden

Even as we move into gardening seasoning outside, I am keeping all of my indoor gardens going through the summer months. I've been surpr...