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  <description><![CDATA[If you want to be happy, plant a garden]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Give Your Food a Second Life With These Money‑Saving Meal Ideas]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[To be clear: We’re not talking literal garbage. Dumpster-diving “freegans” sometimes rescue perfectly good food that’s been thrown out, but that tactic isn’t for everyone. The “garbage” we’re talking about is food scraps that get thrown away before their time. For example, simmering a rotisserie chicken carcass in a few cups of water creates soup …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Landscaping Mistake That’s Making Your Home a Wildfire Target (And 8 Plants to Fix It)]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The arborvitae hedge lining your fence, the bark mulch you refreshed last spring, and the ornamental grasses swaying beautifully at the edge of your patio are some of the most common landscaping choices in America, and in wildfire-prone regions, they may be among the most dangerous things on your property. It’s not a comfortable thought, …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[15 of the Best Veggies That Grow Well in Containers]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[You don’t need a backyard, you don’t need a plot at the community garden, and you don’t even need to dedicate that much time. Truly, all you need is a pot, some potting mix, a sunny spot, and the right vegetables. Container gardening has exploded in popularity for a simple reason: it works. Whether you’re …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[9 Smart Ways to Hide Unsightly Tree Roots (Without Harming Your Tree)]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Those gnarly surface roots snaking through your yard aren’t going anywhere, and cutting them could cost you the entire tree. The good news is that hiding them well is easier than you think, and a few of these fixes will actually make your yard more beautiful than before. Surface roots are one of the most …]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:00:22 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Raccoon Got Stuck in a Stormy Texas Lake, and Good Samaritans Epically Rescued It]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When you see an animal in need, you should always try to help, as long as it’s safe to do so. Two paddleboarders pulled a struggling raccoon out of Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, during some seriously stormy weather. The pair, Tucker and Owen, were out fishing and filming when they spotted what they …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[‘Crazy Karen’ Terrorizes Neighborhood by Feeding Wild Animals]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[While the idea of getting to spend time enjoying the local wildlife may sound like a dream to some homeowners, one Redditor says that his experience quickly turned into a nightmare after a new neighbor moved onto his street. It all started when the “Crazy Karen” (as dubbed by the poster) bought a house that …]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:00:28 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Deer Crashed Through the Front Window of an Alabama Antique Store and Trashed a Booth]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[What happens when an animal makes an enormous mess of your store? You clean it up and document it for posterity on social media, of course. A deer smashed through the front glass window of an antique store in Dothan, Alabama, on Tuesday, tore through a booth, and left through a door an employee opened …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Property Taxes May Drop for South Dakota Homeowners, If Counties Take This Deal]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[South Dakota homeowners looking for relief may be able to get some soon in the way of a property tax break. The state has passed two bills that will allow local municipalities to decide if they want to forego property tax collection in favor of a sales tax.  The legislation was apparently drafted after issues …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Texas Woman's Pole Dancing Mishap Leads to Several Flooded Apartments]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Pole dancing has become a popular way for many people to keep fit. The workout involves using a floor-to-ceiling pole, building up the strength of your core so that you can swing around the stationary object with ease. But just because it’s gaining traction with those who are looking for a fun way to spice …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Deer Are Taking Over Yards in This Virginia Town, and Residents Want the City to Do Something]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Deer are certainly cute and all, but too many of them can make for a real problem. Residents in Roanoke, Virginia, say a growing deer population is destroying gardens, damaging merchandise, and raising the risk of tick-borne disease. Now they want the city to act. Casey Jones, owner of the Townside Gardens nursery in Roanoke, …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Jacksonville Woman Inherited a Home in a 55+ Community. The HOA Says She Can’t Live There.]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[What if your family left you a house, but you couldn’t actually live in it due to some frustrating red tape? One Jacksonville, Florida, woman’s fight to keep a home she inherited in an age-restricted community raises a very important question: how can someone legally inherit a house but not be allowed to live in …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[12 Ways to Start Rewilding Your Yard and Ditch the Green Lawn]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[American lawns cover roughly 40 million acres of land, an area about the size of New England, and the vast majority of that acreage supports almost no wildlife at all. We spend billions maintaining these green monocultures every year, and in ecological terms, they give almost nothing back. If that bothers you even a little, …]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:00:38 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[8 Beginner Container Garden Mistakes That Are Quietly Wasting Your Money]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most people spend over $100 on their first container garden and watch everything die within six weeks. Not because they lack a green thumb or because container gardening is hard, but because they make the same three fixable mistakes that no garden center will warn them about before ringing up the sale. These failures feel …]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:00:38 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[15 Companion Plants for Squash That Gardeners Have Sworn By for Decades]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Before you plant a single squash seed, make sure that your garden isn’t missing something important. Squash has been grown in communities for centuries, thanks to the Indigenous farming system known as the Three Sisters: corn, beans, and squash planted together in a living ecosystem where each plant supports the others. What those farmers understood …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A New Zealand Couple Found Two Rotting Train Cars in a Field — Now It’s a Stunning Off‑Grid Home]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Two railway carriages that sat rotting in a field have officially been rebuilt over eight years into an off-grid home in New Zealand. Mandy and Daman Groshinski restored the carriages part-time during a project featured by Living Big in a Tiny House. The couple, who had already restored boats and yachts, took the carriages on …]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:23 -0400</pubDate>
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    <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brittany Vincent]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why a Single Sun‑Reflecting Satellite Has Scientists Sounding the Alarm]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Live somewhere that doesn’t get much sunlight? That could soon be changing. The FCC has approved a startup’s plan to launch a satellite that reflects sunlight down to Earth after dark. The company, Reflect Orbital, wants to use a steerable mirror that it would put in orbit to cast a beam of sunlight onto the …]]></description>
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    <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brittany Vincent]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lead Pipes Could Cost Wisconsin Homeowners Thousands, or Their Water Supply]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Aging infrastructure usually falls to city officials to fix. However, one town in Wisconsin is requiring homeowners to take care of a pretty serious problem with the sewer lines. The issue? Lead service lines in Wausau, Wisconsin. The city’s water authority has been working with homeowners to get the pipes replaced, directing them to state …]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:15:59 -0400</pubDate>
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    <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lauren Wellbank]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[New Study Shows Nearly a Third of U.S. Homeowners Pay More for Their Insurance Than Their Property Taxes]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[If you feel like your homeowner’s insurance (HOI) bill is taking a bigger bite of your paycheck than it used to, you’re not alone. That’s because new research from Lending Tree, which was published by Rise Media, says that nearly a third of U.S. homeowners are paying more to insure their homes than they do …]]></description>
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    <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lauren Wellbank]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Las Vegas Woman Takes on a Golf Course After Balls Repeatedly Damage Her Home, Costing Thousands]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When an Air Force Veteran purchased her home in a North Las Vegas homeowners association (HOA), she thought she was setting herself up for a quiet life living next to the city’s golf course. Instead, she says she quickly found out there was a major downside to living so close to the course, since her …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Maryland Family is Devastated After Their Dog Caused a Deadly Housefire]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A family in Maryland is grieving after a freak accident took the lives of several of their pets and destroyed their home. The family’s dog, Bo, managed to set a fire at their Hartford County home when he jumped up on the counter looking for something to eat. Unbelievably enough, the whole incident was caught …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Texas Man Didn’t Get a Water Bill for 5 Years, Now He Owes Hundreds]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Living in your home for five years without a water bill may sound like a dream to many homeowners, but for one Texas man, it’s turning into a nightmare. That’s because a Port Arthur resident says that the local water authority was unable to locate his home’s water meter for years, which kept it from …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[New York Homeowners May Receive Billions in Property Tax Relief This Summer]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Property taxes can be pretty expensive in certain places. But many people are willing to pay a little extra so that they can benefit from all the good that money does, like maintaining public parks and roads or funding schools. Now, some New York homeowners may see some relief after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the …]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Restoring a historic home can be a labor of love for those who enjoy the process. For one homeowner, bringing a historic home back to its former glory was meant to be an investment in the future, after the Monroe man planned to use it to generate some income as a short-term vacation rental property. …]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The annual gardening cycle is expensive, time-consuming, and, when you step back and look at it, a little absurd. You buy seeds or starts, raise them through a season, and then watch them die. Next spring, you do it all over again. Perennial food plants break that cycle entirely. As Eric Toensmeier writes in Perennial …]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Every trip to the nursery carries the same risk: bringing home a problem disguised as a plant. A single infested specimen can introduce spider mites or scale insects to every healthy plant in your garden. A root-bound tree can look fine for two years, then fail slowly and expensively once those circling roots begin to …]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Your garden is half empty right now, and every day you leave it that way is costing you money. Most gardeners assume that once July hits, planting season is over. The tomatoes are in, the peppers are growing, and the rest of the beds sit bare until next April. That assumption is the single most …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Thieves Stole Two HVAC Units in One Month, Costing a Homeowner $20,000]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[As a homeowner, you already know that surprise expenses can arise at almost any time, like having to replace your HVAC system. However, many people don’t have to replace their heating and air conditioning units because they have been stolen. But that’s an experience that one Georgia homeowner said she had to endure twice in …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[20 States Are Now Reporting Air Quality Issues From Canada’s Wildfires]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[If you live in the U.S. and have noticed an orange tint in the air, you’re not alone. That’s because the smoke from the massive Canadian wildfires has drifted down to the U.S., blanketing large parts of the country in a smoky haze. According to The Guardian, 20 states were experiencing the effects of the …]]></description>
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    <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lauren Wellbank]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Lit Cigarette Butt Fell From an Upstairs Balcony and Burned a Reddit User’s Drying Sheet]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[What do you do when your neighbors are unwittingly destroying your property? Take it to the internet for some much-needed advice, naturally. One Reddit user posted a photo of a bedsheet burned by a cigarette butt; they say their upstairs neighbor flicked it off a balcony while the sheet was drying below. The post went …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Virginia Homeowners Are Getting a New Right to Build ADUs on Single-Family Lots]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Houses are expensive, and they aren’t getting any cheaper. A new Virginia law will make it easier for homeowners to build an accessory dwelling unit, such as a backyard tiny house, garage apartment, or in-law suite, on their property. Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed the measure this week, and it takes effect on July 1, 2027, …]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[When it comes to inheritances, things can get a bit murky between family members. One Reddit user has asked for an outside perspective after their mother requested a third of the inheritance coming to them from their grandparents’ trust. The poster, asking the r/Inheritance subreddit, explained that the sum in question could reach roughly half …]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[What happens when your HOA begins to price you out? That’s the question many homeowners in the Magnolia Cove subdivision in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, are facing. They’re staring down a monthly HOA increase from $350 to $1,250, along with a $10,000 special assessment on their property. Several residents, some of them retired, told WSOC …]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[If you have a lot of small pots around that you want to use for something, or if you only have room for small plants in your space, let’s look at the best indoor plants for small pots. While any plant can start small, some will grow larger over time and need bigger pots and …]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oh Rats! Texas Homeowner Says a Commercial Dumpster Is Bringing Rodents to Her Neighborhood]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Talk about unwanted neighbors. A San Antonio woman says that a commercial dumpster has brought a plague of rats into her neighborhood. She shared her story with local Fox News station FOX SA Puro San Antonio, taking reporters on a tour of the parking lot where the dumpsters are located. The problem? The commercial property …]]></description>
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    <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lauren Wellbank]]></dc:creator>
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    <description><![CDATA[One California town is getting tired of seeing the wrong items thrown into the trash. So, in an effort to stop Sacramento residents from mixing their recycling and organic waste, the town is now employing inspectors who will check through residential trash cans to make sure everyone is separating their waste accordingly. The decision comes …]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A permitting mistake made by previous homeowners may cost a Florida woman her home. The Little Havana homeowner has reached out to CBS News for help after she says she was hit with a $55,650 code enforcement lien. Only her attorney says that she should’ve never been hit with the fines in the first place. …]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Out of all of the sounds a homeowner dreads hearing, buzzing may be among the least worrisome noises. However, one Texas homeowner learned the hard way that even buzzing can spell bad news, especially when it’s accompanied by the sight of bees flying into (and out of) the walls of your home. That’s what a …]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most Americans expect to pay more to host a backyard barbecue this summer, according to a survey released by the discount grocery app Flashfood. The poll, conducted by The Harris Poll on the company’s behalf, found that 85% of Americans think hosting a cookout will cost more this summer than it did last year, Supermarket …]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[What would you do if a coyote attacked your beloved pet right out in the open? One Madison County, Alabama, homeowner is warning her neighbors to stay alert after two coyotes attacked her dog in her own backyard. Jennifer Bashore, who’s lived on her property for nearly 50 years, said the animals attacked her 135-pound …]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Power poles can be precariously placed, and many of them are in areas we don’t particularly want them in. But what if the electric company decided it was going to take over your yard and build a brand new one, all without your consent? One Ashburn, Virginia, homeowner could lose roughly a third of her …]]></description>
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