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Check out this week's highlights from Quick and Dirty Tips. Don't forget to connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.     17 Surprising Second Uses for Toothpaste Shine Brass Shining the brass hinges and knobs of your doors is easier than you think! Apply a white, nongel toothpaste (a mild abrasive) to door fittings with a soft cloth, then rub. Use a fresh cloth to wipe clean, and your brass will sparkle! To protect brass between cleanings, apply a light coating of olive or lemon oil. ...Read More 11/22/2016 10:05am View What to Say to a Climate Change Skeptic In the US, we celebrate Thanksgiving this week, which for many of us means dining with family and friends we have not seen in a while. Given the current tumultuous political climate, some people are likely to be passing more than just the potatoes. ...Read More 11/22/2016 12:43am View Productivity Products That Make Perfect Holiday Gifts Products! I just loveproducts! I really do! Without products, we wouldn’t have anything to spend our money on. So we wouldn’t have to run up credit card bills, and our corporate overlords wouldn’t be able to take as much of our souls in interest payments. It would be a shame if they all starved to death. ...Read More 11/22/2016 12:43am View When Does Biohacking Fitness Go Too Far? Lately, I’ve been “called out” quite a bit about my fringe, nerdy, technology-obsessed biohacking shortcuts to achieve body and brain performance. See, a common problem in our era—even among the Paleo, Primal, ancestral, natural living community—is a growing obsession with self-quantification, biohacking, biomarker-exploring, Bluetooth-sporting, brain-zapping and beyond. ...Read More 11/21/2016 8:05pm View 7 Essential Perfume and Cologne Tricks You Should Know Perfume Buying Trick When shopping for perfume, cologne, or other scented products, our noses get easily overwhelmed, making it hard to fully smell each. Luckily, there’s a way to trick your nose into properly taking in each fragrance: Just bring a cup of coffee with you! After you sniff one perfume, smell your coffee (or take a sip). ...Read More 11/21/2016 3:05pm View     EXPLORE THE QDT STORE   Get ready for school with one (or several!) of Grammar Girl's books. Whether you're tackling a grammar conundrum or simply need advice on crafting effective e-mails, you'll want Grammar Girl at your side. Check out Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, The Ultimate Writing Guide for Students, or one of the other many titles available. Visit the store today.                 Best Wishes, QDT Editorial Team                 Want more tips?  If this was forwarded to you by a friend and you'd like to receive future tips, you can sign up here. Please don't use the subscribe/unsubscribe link at the bottom of the page because this will overwrite your friend's subscription. (If this came directly to you, you can use the subscribe/unsubscribe link below to manage your subscription.)                 SHARE THIS EMAIL

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