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Magnetic Picture Frame Craft – No Mess!
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The easy, no mess picture frame craft activity that will keep kids of all ages busy crafting (with something cute to show for their efforts). Great for parties. We were planning a birthday party and needed an easy craft. Sure, my daughter would have preferred something like painting pottery, making slime, or any one of…
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Oven French Toast For a Crowd
Want to serve a French toast breakfast without the stovetop mess? Try this oven method. It’s great for serving a big family or a crowd. Recently, Between Carpools reader shared her technique for making French toast in the oven. French toast in general is a great basic. It’s that comforting breakfast that’s perfect for Sunday…
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Our Favorite Cosmetic Bags
If you’re traveling, or simply want a great bag to store your makeup/cosmetics at home, these are the top picks at every price point. Come this time of year, you might have organizing on your mind, and if not, you might have travel on your mind. And here is where organizing your cosmetic/makeup bag comes…
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Our Favorite Terry Bathrobes
If you want the coziness you enjoy at hotels every day, one of these bathrobes may be perfect. For some, a thick, cozy bathrobe is a standard, while for others, it’s something they enjoy only on vacation (and only when the hotel supplies one!). But bathrobes are a really practical item to enjoy. They certainly…
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How to Prepare for Your Snow Tubing Trip
Here is everything you need to know for a successful, fun, snow tubing day! Thank you to our readers who contributed their tips, and especially to one whose wit and experience formed the basis of this post. Snow tubing with the kids sounds like a blast-until someone’s yarmulka takes flight, their gloves vanish into the…
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A Guide to Plan Your Pidyon Haben
A first baby boy is born – what do you do next? Thanks to Devorah Weisz who spearheaded this topic when she wrote to us, “I am B”H making a Pidyon Haben for my first grandchild. I checked your website to see if you had any guidance, but this page is missing from your website.…
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A Guide Towards Maintaining Your House
If you’re a new homeowner (and even if you’re a longtime homeowner!) you don’t want to neglect the home maintenance tasks that keep everything running smoothly. This checklist will help. When you are lucky enough to move out of a rental and into a home of your own, you are so excited! You feel like…
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Packing Away the Chanukah Menorah
Wait! Before you pack it all away for next year, It’s helpful to keep one Chanukah bin with all the items you need from year to year. It’s such a pleasure when you take it out a couple days before next Chanukah, and everything you need is already there! But before you pack it all…
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The Top 15 Most Visited Posts of 2024
Which posts received the most hits this year? There are some surprises! The most popular posts on Between Carpools are our recipes, of course. You can view the most popular recipes of the year in this post. After that, the posts that get the most traffic are the shopping posts. That includes those seasonal shopping…
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The Top 20 Products BCP Readers Loved in 2024
There’s both some new and long time favorites in this list, from kitchen and dining staples, to storage solutions, makeup favorites, and great basics. They’re the staples lots of us have come to use and enjoy! When we recommend something, it’s because we really use and love it. If it’s been helpful/useful/enjoyable for us, we…
Filed under: Home & Kitchen
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