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How to Make Homemade Slime

Her other favorite thing to say was: "Use your imagination." This occasioned much eye-rolling and complaining, at least until it became clear that she wasn't interested in our whining. Then we'd imagine, loudly, what it would be like to have a mom who wasn't so mean, while she stifled hysterical laughter in the next room.

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What to Do With Stale Bread

However it got there, I want to use it up. It kills me to throw things away, even when they're growing penicillin cultures.

• How to Make Bread Pudding in a Crockpot
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7 Steps to Get out of Debt

It's easy to get into debt, and not so easy to get out. For one thing, getting out requires effort and planning, while getting in is a natural talent for most of us.

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• The High Cost of Using Credit Cards

How to Make Candy Monsters

Occasionally, my sister would be bored and I'd be otherwise occupied. Then she'd explain to Mom that she couldn't use her imagination, because she didn't have one. "Jen has all the imagination, and she won't play," she'd complain, as if I were hoarding marbles or crayons and wouldn't share.

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Readers Share Their Uses for Stale Bread

My vote, always, is for bread pudding. Just in general. I'd make bread pudding sandwiches if I could.

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Day-Old Bread Recipes

Prior to the mold culture stage, there's a lot you can do with that leftover bread.

• Allie Prudhomme Fonterot's Bread Pudding
• Tuscan Summer Bread Salad Recipe

5 Ways to Reduce Your Debt Payments

Step two was less fun, and that was actually paying down my debt. There's always a catch.

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How to Make a Plan to Get out of Debt

You need to make a plan. Step one of my plan was to take up with a guy who thinks credit cards have germs and will give you a horrible disease if you use them. Something boogery that shows on your face.

• How to Read Your Credit Report
• The 6 Worst Things for Your Credit Report

How to Dress 10 Pounds Thinner

And don't get me wrong: I don't actually think I'd look better if I lost half my body mass. However, I do admire a few things about the stars - namely, their access to professional stylists, and their ability to pose.

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10 Ways to Foster a Child's Creativity

It was pretty clear to us that the problem was ours, and that we didn't want to turn it into Mom's. Otherwise, she was liable to cure our boredom with an exciting round of chores, and no one wanted that.

• Travel Games and Crafts for Kids
• Forum: How to Foster Creativity in Kids