DIY Life

If you're a coupon-clipper, you'll know the challenges:

• how to keep those bits of paper, plastic, and cardboard from taking over your purse or the drawer in the kitchen,
  
• and how to develop a system that ensures they get used before they expire.

The super-helpful people at Tipnut have put together a list of suggestions that pretty much guarantee you'll find the system that will work for you, whatever your organizational style -- or lack thereof! You like the casual efficiency of envelopes? You can do that! You prefer an accordion file or a wallet, a card file or a binder? It's all there!

Newspapers serve as a snapshot of time, recording the world as it stood on a specific day in history. You might be saving an article about your grandfather, or your child's birth announcement. Maybe you won the science fair, or had a record time in the relay race. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long before the paper starts to look brittle, and not much longer until it's coming apart.

Makestuff.com has these instructions on how to preserve newspaper clippings. All you need it one magnesia tablet and club soda. Here's how they suggest you make the preservation solution.