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	<description>Common Sense Homesteading:  Using sound judgment to be more self-reliant.</description>
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		<title>Quackgrass – Weekly Weeder #41</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 03:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Today’s featured plant is Quackgrass, Elymus repens. Quackgrass is also known as couchgrass, dog grass, quickgrass, quitch, quitch grass, scutch, twitch, wheat grass, cough grass, quake grass, chandler&#8217;s grass, durfa grass, durfee grass, Dutch grass, Fin&#8217;s grass, devil&#8217;s grass and...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Common Sense Preparedness Link Up #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 03:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Life goes on, and preparing should, too.  We had a serious shake up last week when my husband was involved in a car crash during rush hour traffic.  Thankfully he was only banged up, but my heart just about leaped out of my chest when he called and I couldn&#8217;t tell if he was okay [...]
The...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>PurifiCup Water Filter Review and Giveaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.commonsensehome.com/?p=5714</guid>
		
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[As part of our ongoing preparedness discussion, this week we&#8217;ve got a review and giveaway featuring the PurifiCup® water filter. What is the PurifiCup® Water Filter? The PurifiCup water filter is a compact, easy to use water filter for personal use. Each orange tap water filter provides up to...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Essential Oil Pendant Review and Giveaway</title>
		<link>http://www.commonsensehome.com/essential-oil-pendant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 03:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CommonSenseIdea</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Jana Strahan of The Essential Homestead sent me a lovely handmade essential oil pendant from her Etsy shop, Strahan Pottery, for a review and giveaway.  I&#8217;m not a big jewelry person, but I&#8217;ve recently started experimenting with essential oils, and these pendants are very handy for...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Household Traditions Powered Dish Detergent Review and Giveaway</title>
		<link>http://www.commonsensehome.com/household-traditions-powered-dish-detergent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working my way through the Tropical Traditions product line.  Next up for review is their Household Traditions Powdered Dish Detergent, ultra-concentrated, chlorine free dishwasher detergent with enzymes. We have hard water and I skip the heated dry to save energy, so spots in the...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Common Sense Preparedness</title>
		<link>http://www.commonsensehome.com/common-sense-preparedness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[My husband and I are working on a book titled Common Sense Preparedness.  There&#8217;s been quite a bit of attention given to extreme prepping (like the folks in the Doomsday Preppers show), but much less publicity given to everyday emergencies that are much more likely (see Odds of Everyday...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Getting Started With a Home Grain Mill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Many people know the advantages of storing staple foods like rice, wheat, and beans or of growing these foods for yourself on your homestead.  After all, in an age of industrially-produced factory foods, getting back to the basics and eating food that you prepared yourself with clean ingredients is...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Win a Lilla Rose Flexi-clip</title>
		<link>http://www.commonsensehome.com/win-a-lilla-rose-flexi-clip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little something to brighten your day &#8211; you can win a Lilla Rose flexi-clip (or two)!  Some of you may remember last year&#8217;s review of the Lilla Rose flexi-clip.  Jill Wright from Paths of Wrighteousness has once again offered to give away to one lucky Common Sense...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Stop Birds Hitting Windows</title>
		<link>http://www.commonsensehome.com/stop-birds-hitting-windows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CommonSenseIdea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.commonsensehome.com/?p=5646</guid>
		
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[This spring (maybe because of the crazy weather),  I&#8217;ve had two robins take to flying into the windows (mainly the kitchen windows).  Thankfully they haven&#8217;t hurt themselves, but they are quite noisy and I didn&#8217;t want them to keep at it until they did injure themselves. ...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>How to Identify Liver Problems and Improve Liver Health</title>
		<link>http://www.commonsensehome.com/improve-liver-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CommonSenseIdea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Natural Health]]></category>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[How to identify liver problems and improve liver health.  Learn how healing a toxic liver could free you from excess weight, depression, skin problems and so much more. Your liver Does More Than You Imagined The liver is responsible for over 200 functions in the body and is the largest internal...]]></content:encoded>
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