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Buying houseplants to add to your home can feel like an investment, so you'll want to make sure to start off on the right foot. Whether you picked them up from a garden center or ordered online, many types of plants will need a little extra love to help them adjust to their new digs. You'll want to keep an eye out for any wilting or yellowing foliage, for starters. Sometimes a drooping fiddle leaf fig or pothos shedding leaves just needs something simple like a big drink of water to perk up again.

When you're shopping for the person who insists they don't need anything, or maybe you forgot about an event and need a last-minute present, a gift card is a great way to go. Unfortunately, when some stores, such as Pier 1 and JCPenny, close you or someone you know might have some unused gift cards. At first, you might be bummed that you let it go to waste, but before you throw it away, there a few solutions.

Everyone experiences memory gaps or the inability to concentrate and maintain focus occasionally. Sometimes it’s just stress or being distracted, but other times it can be an early symptom of a more serious disease like Alzheimer’s or dementia, which includes several different disorders all involving a decline in brain function. In July of 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded that 1 in 9 adults experience memory loss or confusion.

When weeds pop up among your flowers, it can ruin the whole show. However, you can’t just go roaring in with a weed eater and buzz all the greenery to the ground or spray everything with an herbicide. The trick is to remove weeds as soon as you see them because they will only get bigger and harder to deal with as they grow. But if you miss them when the weeds are just seedlings, the next best thing is to make sure you get rid of them before they flower and go to seed.

When staring at the overwhelming number of options in the bread aisle, there's a good chance you'll find a few loaves containing 100% whole grain or sprouted whole grain. There might even be a selection of sprouted whole grains (such as Ezekiel bread) in the freezer section. If you're seeing more of these products sprouting up at the store, now's a good time to get acquainted with them.

You might think that reproductive hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone) affect only, well, reproduction. But that's not actually the case. Hormones are very important in regulating your body. They do many things and can influence your mood and your brain, heart, and bone health, just to name a few. As we age, and our body changes, so do our hormone levels.

If your face has been looking like you're a teenager again, with bumps, redness, and blemishes, you're not alone. Many people are experiencing mask acne—aka "maskne"—due to wearing a face mask. (Especially if you're a healthcare employee or essential worker and you have to wear one for the majority of the day.) Mask wearing, especially in warmer and more humid climates, can lead to increased sweating.

When you think of roses, a garden full of velvety, dew-covered blooms may come to mind, looking like they often do in a magazine photo. That vision can quickly turn into frustration when the roses you're trying to grow don’t quite live up to the ideal. But with a few tweaks during planting and maintenance, you can absolutely have picture-perfect roses. The first step is adopting a balanced mindset.

Taking a trip to a peach orchard? Maybe you can't pass up those juicy fruits in the produce section once summer weather hits. No matter how you acquire your peaches, it's good to know just how to determine whether a peach is ripe enough to pick and when the fruit is at its prime.

One of the benefits of people deciding to stay at home in the past few months is the increase in pet fosters and adoptions.

If you're looking to buy a home this summer, it's likely you'll have to act fast. Homes are currently flying off the market at their quickest pace in the past two years, according to a new report from Zillow.

Spring isn't the only season for planting your veggies, especially if you use succession planting to plan out your garden.

Summer usually means it's time for getaways with your family to explore new places and enjoy the warm weather, but this year is different.

With shelter-in-place and social distancing guidelines in place by the CDC due to the coronavirus pandemic, it makes sense that most Americans are spending more money on groceries this year.

It's hard to have compassion for weeds, but they're just plants growing in places where they're not wanted (some weeds are even edible!).

It's a sad day when you spend a lot of time whipping up the ingredients for that chocolate cake you've been craving only to find the cake is too dense or rubbery when it comes out of the oven.

Every well-planned party should offer a banquet of tasty treats for guests to enjoy, and the same goes for a hummingbird fiesta.

For many, wearing a face mask is now a part of daily life, but keeping it clean is key to its effectiveness.

With so much going on in the world right now, taking care of yourself might be low on your priority list.

If you've been storing furniture and home decor you no longer use or want, now is a great time to start clearing out that extra stuff. Before you set that old sofa or antique dresser on the curb, however, consider the potential resale value of the piece. You'd be surprised at what you might be able to sell, says Natalie Angelillo, vice president of community at OfferUp, an online marketplace.