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Turn used gift wrap into something crafty, enliven boring storage, or use it as packing material. Here's how get more use out of your wrapping paper.

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Sort through your garden shed before winter. Not everything should be stored in there during the colder months.

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GZ PrintPak, a global packaging company, is expanding its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, facility. The company will invest $7.1 million to produce boxes and offer co-packing services, creating 40 new jobs ...

Pamela is a freelance food and travel writer based in Astoria, Queens. While she writes about most things edible and potable (and accessories dedicated to those topics,) her real areas of expertise ...

“So near and yet so far.” This idiom is attributed mostly to an Alfred Tennyson poem from 1850, an elegy to grief. It is a ...