Author:tiffany Pope

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    When you should be replacing household items

    Would you spend your bonus on a new hot water heater or a trip to Cancun?  The sexier option may seem obvious, but sometimes a ‘stay’cation is necessary in order to replace the boring essentials, because the repercussions of waiting too long to do so could be disastrous.  Take a look at when you need to check and replace certain items in your house. What are your thoughts?

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    How to keep your produce fresh for as long as possible

    Whether you’re a regular at the farmer’s market, tend to your own garden, or pick your fruit and veggies from the heaping piles at the grocery store, there’s generally no shortage of fresh food in the summer.  And we’ve all been seduced by heaps of plump fruit or juicy tomatoes, only to bring our loot home and discover we’ll need to invite the entire neighbourhood over for dinner—or a tomato fight, depending on how we feel about our neighbours—to avoid food waste.  But with the following food st

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    Open letter: I used to volunteer in a hospice and now I'm living my last days in one

    As part of an ongoing series, Yahoo Canada is profiling personal experiences in open letters. Our second entry speaks of a young woman’s struggle to love again after coming out of a failed marriage. For more from the series, click here.