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When packing a lunch to take to the office or for your kid to take to school, try this hack to keep your food chilled: Throw in a frozen container of yogurt. It will function as an ice pack to keep your other food cool while also keeping your yogurt cold until it's lunchtime. Yogurt is the perfect food item to freeze; freezing a juice container or thermos of water may work, but both are slow to thaw out. Dairy items like yogurt freeze hard, but thaw quickly. By lunchtime, it'll be the perfect creamy consistency you love.

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Wax paper can do more than just wrap food. Use it to give spotty bathroom fixtures a shine; the residual wax will buff the metal and create a barrier to prevent new spots from forming. You can also use it to unstick a zipper: Just rub waxed paper right over the zipper to lubricate it. And save used waxed paper to use as a fire-starter. The paper-and-wax combo is perfect for creating a slow burn so your fireplace or grill will ignite in no time flat.

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It's no surprise that flying on a plane isn't the most eco-friendly way to travel, but sometimes it's the only way to get where you need to go. One way to help reduce your carbon footprint when you fly is to simply pack less. The more weight from overpacked suitcases on the plane, the more fuel it consumes to fly. If every passenger on a domestic flight packed 5 pounds less stuff, that would save over 60 million gallons of fuel every year. Take out one pair of shoes, a few books and a pair of jeans, and voila! Five pounds gone.

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