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Alternative Erasers for Dry Erase Board?What can I use for an eraser for a dry erase board besides the traditional erasers? Has anyone used something else successfully?

 

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Making Solution Used in Braun Shaver Cleaning System?Does anyone have a formula for the cleaning solution used in the Braun Electric Shaver Self Cleaning System?

 

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Homemade Dry Eraser Fluid?Does anyone have the chemical recipe to make a batch of dry erase marker fluid? I'm a teacher in Mexico, where the cost of buying dry erase markers is very high.

 

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Mediterranean Fig Fragrance Oil?How do you make Mediterranean Fig Fragrance Oil for catalytic lamps?

 

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Homemade Heat Pack Gets Wet?My son is 11, has Autism and is non-verbal. His para at school has a bean/rice flannel bag that she heats up. He's in love with it! So she mentioned it to me, and that her daughter made it for her years ago at girl scouts. Well I went out and bought dried beans, nice rice, Red Sox flannel fabric and hand stitched it! When I heated it, it got hot but very stinky! Then it began to retain moisture and the flannel began to sweat/feel wet!

 

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Make Your Own White Out (Liquid Paper)?How do you make or reuse old White Out (liquid paper)?

 

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Homemade Swiffer CarpetFlick Cartridges?I just bought the new Swiffer Carpetflick. It's simply a plastic broom with a removable sticky "cartridge" that traps dust, hair, fibers that you then toss. I found it incredibly effective and you wouldn't believe what it removed from my carpet in a two-minute test (pet hair, formerly invisible crumbs).

 

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Homemade Lampe Berger Oil?Can you use a few drops of your favourite cologne/perfume in your homemade lampe Berger oil or does it have to be an oil based fragrance/essential oil?

 

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Effusion Oil Recipe?Is there a recipe for making LaTeeDa monogrammed linens effusion oil?

 

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DIY Recipe for 409 Stone and Steel Cleaner?Hello All, I'm a housekeeper and dearly love 409 Stone and Steel. Stone and Steel just works really well. I'm having a hard time finding 409 and when I do it's very expensive. My question is does anyone have a DIY recipe to share?

 

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Finding Blueprints for a Preschool Classroom Loft?My daughter wants me to build a preschool loft for her daycare. She wants stairs up the side and a market awning on one side. Where can I look at structural blueprints, reminiscent of a corner pulpit?

 

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Using Lysol to Make Disinfecting Wipes?Does anyone know if I could use Lysol laundry sanitizer to make disinfectant wipes? If so how much and what other ingredients? Any other ideas are appreciated.

 

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How Can I Make a Roll Up Puzzle Keeper?I was wondering if anyone has an idea of how to make a puzzle keeper. You roll out the cloth and put together a puzzle on it. You can "roll up" the puzzle and store it to roll it out again later when you want to work on the puzzle at another time. This way, a table or other popular surface isn't taken up and space and be saved.

 

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Ingredients in White Out?Are there any natural resources in White Out? If so, what are they, and how are they used in it?

 

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Making a Wall Holder for an Amazon Echo Dot?Has anyone made a wall holder for an Amazon Echo Dot? It is not always convenient for it to be placed on a flat surface taking up valuable table space.

 

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Homemade Paste Hand Cleaner?I am looking for a formula for making hand paste cleaner for work shops, similar to Jeb's Care Water Based Degreaser.

 

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Making an Adjustable Follower Block?I have quite a bit of DMC floss stored in those floss away bags. I currently am using index card boxes and dividers, but would like something bigger. I would like to store them in a photo box storage. I recently bought 2 from a craft store, but they didn't have the steel adjustable follower block (what you use to make the files stand up straight).

 

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Making White Flower Oil?How do I make white flower oil? I have the ingredients, am just not sure how to mix it. I believe it takes 2 weeks, but I am not understanding why.

 

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Making Adult Wipes?Do you have to use the baby oil? Does that keep them moist longer?

 

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Making Foaming Hand Soap?Can you make foaming hand soap from the regular bar soap?

 

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Making a Grave Surround?How do I make a grave surround for my husband's grave?

 

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Making Dawn Foaming Pump Soap?How can I make Dawn pump foam refill soap?

 

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Protective Coating for a Styrofoam Handicapped Ramp?I am making a small lightweight ramp for a wheel chair. I would like it to be Styrofoam covered with a hard coating. It needs to be outside waterproof, lightweight, and able to take a beating in and out of the car. Coating suggestion needed.

 

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Making a Swan from Bar Soap and Rubber Neck?Who remembers how to put together a swan with vintage rubber swan necks and bar soap and I think yarn. This may have been a craft in the late 70s or early 80s.

 

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Making Perfume Using Essential Oils?I have recently used essential oils to make hand scrubs, but I would like to learn how to make perfume. Does anyone have a good recipe and advice on how to find the best oils and which ones blend well together? I love the idea of making my own fragrance without all the chemicals.

 

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Homemade Refill for Glade Plug-in?Is there a way I can make my own oil to refill a Glade Plug-in container?

 

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Homemade Lavender Perfume?Could anyone tell me the recipe for making homemade perfume? I have the purse size roll-on bottles and lavender essential oil. Now I need the recipe.

 

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Making Softwood Pellets?I am looking at picking up a small pellet mill and have access to free softwood dry sawdust, eastern white pine. I have several questions. Has anyone done this? Other then the sawdust, what else do I need? I keep reading other people's posts about using a binder.

 

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Making Hard Wood Stove Pellets?I bought a small pellet machine and I am having trouble getting good hard wood pellets. Soft wood pellets and also newspaper pellets come out fine. Can anybody tell me how to get good hard wood pellets please?

 

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Using Olive Oil as Lamp Oil?I know there's a proper name for the poor quality, high-acid, non-food use olive oil that's preferred as lamp oil. It would not be sold in grocery stores.

 

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Making Note Pads?Is there an easy way to connect paper on a note pad?

 

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Thinning Liquid Paper?What can I use to thin out liquid paper? I find it gets thick too quickly.

 

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Recipe for Fragrance-free Liquid Hand Soap?Does anyone know a reliable recipe to make fragrance-free liquid hand soap?

 

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Vinegar Dish Washing System?Are you talking about "distilled white" vinegar? I would only assume you don't mean "apple cider" vinegar.

 

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Flushing Homemade Adult Wipes?Are these safe to flush into the sewer?

 

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Homemade Dust and Pollen Mask?I have allergies and should use a mask when I am doing yard work. I found one which received good reviews. Until I purchase this, I would like to be creative and use something that will cover my nose. And, I am very frugal!

 

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Reusable Toilet Paper?I was just wondering, if anyone here, with no children at home, is still using family cloths?

 

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Homemade Bubbles?I've heard there's a homemade recipe for the liquid used for kid's blowing bubbles. Anyone have it? I've heard it's dish washing liquid and water, but what would the measurements be? Thanks.

 

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Making Lavender Water?I've searched this page several times and cannot find a recipe for lavender water. Can someone help?

 

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Refilling a Glade Plug-in?Can you refill a Glade plug in with your own potpourri oil and how do you do it?

 

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Using Dawn Detergent to Melt Ice?What mixture do you use to melt ice with Dawn detergent?

 

Making an ATV Quad Bike Anti Rolling Bar?It's too expensive on the market in Australia, they sell for more than aud$1000! I won't be able to afford to buy one for my kid's GMX 49cc quad bike. The total money I spent on his mini motorbike is only $299. Does any one know I can make one by myself with the cost of materials at less than $100?

 

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Making My Own Personal Grocery Cart?I am wondering how to make my own grocery cart thing, like the kinds our grandmoms used to bring home a lot of groceries. I know I can find them in stores but I think I can make one out of miscellaneous pieces that I have laying around. Any suggestions?

 

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Homemade Hand Scrubbing Cleaner?How can I make hand cleaner, the grit type for grease and grime? I want to make it for resale purposes.

 

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Homemade Dryer Sheets?Does anyone know how to make homemade dryer sheets using vinegar? I don't have a softener bucket in my washer and I am not always around or hear the final rinse so putting it in that way is not really an option.

 

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Homemade Shoe Stretcher Spray?How do I make shoe stretching spray?

 

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Sterilizing Coffee Grounds for Plant Fertilizer?Using coffee grounds without heating for indoor plant fertilizer has produced flies.How long do I bake and what temp is good to sterilize them?

 

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Homemade Dry Shampoo?I need to know the ratio of baby powder and cornstarch so I can mix my own. Thank you.

 

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Olive Oil Versus Lamp Oil?I just purchased several inexpensive oil lamps and I placed them around the house in case of power outage. I decided to do a trial run; I went ahead and lit them, all burning a cheaper Walmart product, Medallion lamp oil.

 

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Homemade Humidifier Treatments?Are there any good home made humidifier treatments?

 

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Making Car Air Fresheners?Can someone tell me how to make car perfume?

 

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Glade Plug-in Doesn't Emit Scent Anymore?Do the Glade Plug-ins with the slide in scent ever lose their capability to emit scent?

 

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Rice Filled Heat Pad Sweats When Heated?I made a heat pad with rice, but when I first got it out of the micro wave it was sweating. Why?

 

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Makeshift Sink Stopper?I need to find a sink stopper what can I use for one?

 

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Making a Cake Stand?How can I make a cake stand using two glass plates?

 

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Making Paper Pellets for Pellet Stove?How do you make pellets out of shredded paper for a pellet stove? We have a new Englander pellet stove and just purchased a Stak pellet mill and are trying to make pellets from shredded paper. When we put paper into the hopper it shreds the paper to dust.

 

Name for a Homemade Hand Sanitizing Lotion?Can you guys help me come up with a name for a product that I'm creating? It's a "hand sanitizing lotion".

 

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Making Your Own Ankle Weights?I am looking for ideas to make ankle weights from anything around the house.

 

Using Papaya Sap in Glue?Can papaya sap be an additive component of glue?

 

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Liquid Hand Soap Recipe Using Oxiclean?I am looking for a recipe for 10 gallons of liquid soap. It used Oxiclean as well as the standard ingredients.

 

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Making Your Own AC Filters?A/C filters are getting costly and mine uses 2. Does anyone have ideas on how to make your own? I thought about using quilt batting, but am not sure if it would be too thick.

 

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Making Homemade Dish Soap?How do you make homemade dish soap? I know it involves baking powder but I don't know what the other ingredients are. Please let me know

 

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Making Lipstick Without Vaseline?Can someone please give me some recipes for making lipstick without any Vaseline?

 

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Mosquito Trap?How do you build a mosquito trap?

 

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Homemade Air Refresher?How do I make homemade air refresher?

 

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Making Lampe Berger Fragrance?What is the correct amount of scented oil you use for 91% alcohol for a lampe berger? My lamp doesn't get very hot or hardly any scent. I can't afford to buy it already made up!

 

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How Can I Make Septic Safe Personal Bathroom Wipes?I would like to know how to make septic safe personal bathroom wipes.

 

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How Do I Make and Preserve Cold Water Starch?I have interest in knowing how to make and preserve cold water starch. I would appreciate to know the items required to make a cold water starch, and also the process and packaging.

 

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Adding Fragrances to Homemade Laundry Detergent?I am looking for fragrances for homemade laundry detergent. What kind should I buy? Where do they have it?

 

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Inexpensive Chair Mat Ideas?I downsized to an apartment that has high pile carpeting. I was told to buy a chair mat for high pile carpeting, but the cost was $120 dollars! Does any one have a suggestion as what I could substitute for a a chair mat or where I could find a more reasonably priced one?

 

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Recipes for Making Household Products?Does anyone have any recipes for cheap, homemade cleaning supplies like cleansers, spray cleaners, etc.? Thanks in advance!

 

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Inexpensive Homemade Liquid Hand Soap Recipe?I would like to make liquid hand soap. I am looking for a good frugal recipe.Thank you.

 

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Making a Bar of Soap from Soap Scraps?How can I remold soap out of old soap scraps?

 

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Homemade Thermos?How do you make a homemade thermos?

 

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How Can I Make a Hand Sanitizer That Doesn't Dry My Skin?How can I make a hand sanitizer that won't dry our skin out?

 

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How Do I Make a Whiteboard?My daughter wants a very large "white board" but the commercially available ones are prohibitively expensive. Does anyone have a suggestion for making one which she can use in her apartment? As a graduate student, she needs a significant space on which to write.

 

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Recipe for Fabric Softener?I have seen many people post about the Dugger's fabric softener and say they love it. Can someone post the recipe please? I would love to try it.

 

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Make Your Own Toothpaste?Does anyone have a recipe for toothpaste?

 

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Homemade Starch?How do you make starch for crisper sheets/laundry?

 

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Making Septic Safe Laundry Detergent?Is homemade detergent safe for septic systems?

 

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How Can I Turn Styrofoam into Glue?How do I turn Styrofoam into glue?

 

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Making Home Fragrance Oils?Can I use the liquid form of candle scents to add to lamp oil?

 

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Handmade Adult Wipes?I am looking for a recipe for adult wipes.

 

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Homemade Liquid Shoe Stretch?How do I make shoe stretcher spray?

 

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Making Oil for Diffuser Lamps?Does anyone know how to make the fragrance that is used in the glass diffuser bottles that have the reeds?

 

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Homemade Sanitary Pads?I'm looking for help in obtaining pattern/patterns for cloth sanitary napkins/pads. My group and I will be submitting the pads to different organizations that need help for girls in Africa.

 

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Frugal Weed Killer?Killing pesky weeds doesn't have to be expensive or harmful to the environment. One common weed that causes problems is ground ivy or creeping charlie. An easy way to rid yourself of the weed, is to spray a solution of household borax on the offending sprout.

 

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Building a Swing Set?I am looking for plans for a wooden swing and playground area.

 

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Making Colored White Out?How can you make colored white out?

 

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Whitehead Remedy?I have a lot of white heads on my cheek. Can someone please help me?

 

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Homemade Damp Rid?How do I make homemade Damp Rid?

 

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How to Make a Jigsaw Puzzle Mat?Does anyone have an idea on how to make a puzzle caddy, the kind that rolls the puzzle up? Thank you.

 

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Dawn Glass Cleaner?When I mix dawn dish soap with water, what size spray bottle should I use for the 2 drops of Dawn. Thanks.

 

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Making a Cup Holder for a Porch Swing?Does anyone have a good idea for a cup holder on the arm of a swing? These arms are not really wide, but I go outside to "swing" and need something to either hold my coffee cup or tea cup? Any simple ideas? Thanks.

 

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Lampe Berger Refills?Can someone please tell me how to make Lamp Berger oil? I have one for it, but will not work.

 

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Homemade Denture Cleaner Recipe?Does anyone have info on making homemade denture cleaner? I'm not interested in bleach; my dentist said never use bleach as it bleaches them out. I've seen homemade everything, but not this. Thank you.

 

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How Do I Make a Time Capsule?How can I make a time capsule that will withstand underground elements for about 15 years?

 

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Refilling Glade Plug-ins?I recently discovered a way to refill a Glade PlugIn. I used a small screwdriver to pry up the the plastic plug that holds the wick, removed the wick, refilled the base with canola and essential oils, then replaced the wick with a piece of wood dowel. I wonder if this is safe?

 

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How Do I Make a Cover for My Metal Porch Swing?I would like ideas on how to replace or remake the cover to the swing on my double metal porch swing set. It once had a plastic "webbing" type cover stitched to its frame, but this rotted away. I want to keep it simple and inexpensive.

 

How Do I Make an RV Awning?Has anyone ever made a new awning for an RV? Any tips I should know about?

 

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Homemade Chalk Recipe?How do you make chalk?

 

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Building a Build-in Bed?How do you build a built-in, full size bed for an adult?

 

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