6 Items to Simplify Your Life

August 29, 2014
Levi Brown
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Beater Whisk

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When it comes to saving space, you can’t beat this Danish-designed number. With a quick slide of the outer ring, it collapses to three-quarters of an inch wide—ideal for fitting inside tight kitchen drawers. Available in eight colors.

To buy: $18, gretelhome.com.

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Expandable Snack Container

amazon.com

This accordion-style, BPA-free plastic container extends to hold carrot sticks and pretzels, then flattens for storage. And, unlike plastic bags, they’ll keep crackers from turning into crumbs.

To buy: $15, amazon.com.

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Topper Chopper

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Crank up the fun in your next bowl of ice cream: The grinder’s stainless-steel mechanism turns cookies, candies, and nuts into crushed sprinkles.

To buy: $25, prepara.com.

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ecycler.com

ecycler.com

Recycling water bottles is easy. (You know you have to toss the caps first, right?) But what about the one-offs: a printer, a computer monitor, or an answering machine? Type in what you’re looking to dispose of on this site and you’ll receive a list of independent collectors who can salvage your stuff for free. (The collector’ incentive is also green: They can receive cash payments from recycling centers.)

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Networking Assistance

itunes.com

Take a photo of a business card and this free app will transcribe the information so that it can be added to your phone’s contact list. It makes fast work out of keeping in touch.

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Letschipit.com

letschipit.com

They say art imitates life—but sometimes you would really like your life (or at least your home) to imitate art. So when you find a painting or a photograph with a color scheme you admire, upload the image to this site by Sherwin-Williams. It will search a database of 1,500 paint colors to produce a palette of up to 10 choices that match the image.

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