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Why Your Towels Stopped Absorbing, and How to Fix Them
If your towels have stopped drying you, the towels are probably fine. Something is coating them. I spent a long stretch buying replacement towels every couple of...
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From Marissa
Do the ten minutes you can finish.
I write down what worked in my own house, in the order I did it. If a system needs a label maker, a matching bin set and a free Saturday, it is not a system. It is a project, and projects stall.
So every piece here starts with the part you can finish today, then tells you what to keep once the novelty wears off.
Marissa Duplantis
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