Whatever the documents might be, they often find their way to a cedar chest for storage. However, this isn't always the best place for them. The cedar wood will release acids over time that can ...

Dear Readers: If you inherit or have a cedar-lined chest with that awful mothball smell, here’s what you can do to eliminate it. First, open the chest and let it sit outside in the sunshine and ...

Sadie Myers, the Jacksonville, Florida, mother whose 4-year-old twin girls unexpectedly died inside a toy chest ... cedar chests, cedar trunks, cedar boxes, hope chests, blanket chests, storage ...

Dear Readers: If you inherit or have a cedar-lined chest with that awful mothball smell, here’s what you can do to eliminate it. First, open the chest and let it sit outside in the sunshine and ...

New ugly holiday sweaters are now a multimillion-dollar industry, but the most profoundly hideous among them remain the ancient ones that have survived decades of storage in dusty, moth-ridden ...

but sometimes that great cedar smell fades with time. Here's how to refresh it: Using very fine sandpaper, lightly sand the inside of the chest, following the wood grain. Vacuum up the sawdust.

Your closet is almost certainly warmer and dryer than ideal wine storage conditions, which means your bottles will age faster than they should, and the corks might dry out. If you’re able to invest in ...

Dear Readers: If you inherit or have a cedar-lined chest with that awful mothball smell, here's what you can do to eliminate it. First, open the chest and let it sit outside in the sunshine and ...