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Welcome to our Healthy Habit Challenge! Instead of focusing on (impossible-to-keep) New Year’s resolutions, we challenged four writers to start a new healthy habit. These challenges aren’t about cutting out sugar or going on a diet, or focused on the negative. They’re about doing something new and good — and making it second-nature. Here’s how they went.

Several weeks ago, I set out to transform my cluttered, chaotic kitchen into a clean, organized, zen space where I could work, prepare meals, and hang out with guests without stressing about the mess.

With zealous ambition I planned to take every single thing out of the kitchen and start totally fresh. That included every last fork, bottle stopper, and bag clip. Once everything was back in place, I’d get on a schedule to keep things shiny and happy.

So, how did it go? While it didn’t go exactly according to plan, I still consider this challenge a success.

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The only problem with buttery movie-style popcorn at home? The fact that it has a tendency to lead to greasy fingerprints on the sofa. Warm, crusty bread spread with a creamy pat of butter? There’s almost always a glob that falls off the knife onto your shirt. And tender lobster dunked into melted butter? A tablecloth’s worst nightmare.

The points is, that buttery deliciousness we love almost always come as a stain-removal cost. “With butter, it’s the oil aspect that makes it so tough,” says Meg Roberts, president of Molly Maid. “It seeps in and sticks pretty quickly, and seems like an instant stain.”

But act fast and use the right tools, and you’ll save your clothing and home furnishings from evidence of your decadent eating habits.

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The French have such a sensible attitude towards breakfast: Chocolate is perfectly acceptable under the right circumstances. Probably the most famous of these acceptable chocolate-for-breakfast situations is the iconic chocolate croissant.

But there’s yet another way that you can embrace chocolate at the breakfast table, thanks to the French: chocolate clafoutis.

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From Apartment Therapy → 5 Unexpected Things Happy People Have in Their Homes

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There’s nothing wrong with setting out a bunch of mismatched plastic cups and bottles of soda during a dinner party. In fact, we support it. But sometimes you want to class things up — just a bit.

That’s why we played matchmaker with these pitchers and glasses to help with whatever you’re serving. Pick one that fits your style and then get back to party planning.

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