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When we attend celebrations involving family and relatives, we are requested to or many times feel the necessity to provide gifts for the whole family. Whether the celebration is a baby shower, a birthday party, or marriage, it's hard to decide what present to get. Should the gift be expensive?...

Picture the scene. You’re ready to start the day. You’ve got plenty of things planned for today. But as you get out of bed, suddenly you notice an excruciating pain in your knee. It’s painful to move, and you really don’t like the idea of putting pressure on it just...

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Somehow, budgets just seem to come naturally to some people. They manage to breeze through their expenditures, wanting for nothing other than what they have, yet possessing the ability to purchase anything that they might want.  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Others seem to struggle with keeping money in the...

Most Americans waste about $40 worth of food a month. That might not sound like a lot, but for some families, it’s a whole weeks worth of shopping. A recent study found that globally we throw away around 1.3 billion tons of food every year, which is around a third...

Photo Credit When you have been living in a place for a long time, it is only natural that you want to improve the scenery to make the environment a little more interesting. The same also goes for your garden. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to completely overhaul...

Somehow, budgets just seem to come naturally to some people. They manage to breeze through their expenditures, wanting for nothing other than what they have, yet possessing the ability to purchase anything that they might want.  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Others seem to struggle with keeping money in the...

Image Credit: Pixabay The prevalence of screens in our family homes has made getting together as a group much more difficult. The little ones just want to watch cartoons, the teenagers seem to be glued to their phones and the parents are just as bad (though we never admit it!)....

It is one of the most effective ways that we can help the environment as individual consumers: avoid plastic shopping bags and switch to reusable ones. Why are people so reluctant to make this change? Here are eight reasons why you should be getting reusable shopping bags as part of...

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You are what you eat’ is a phrase that we have all heard about. However, how many of us give importance to this? Owing to the lack of time and the busy work schedules that most people follow, nobody cares much of what goes into their body, and eat almost...

When you’re thinking of family-friendly vacations, Savannah may not appear at the top of your list. But, that may be because you aren’t aware of all the wonderful activities that families can get involved in while staying there. If you’re looking for somewhere that’s child friendly but still provides entertainment...

It has always long been a stereotype that men went to work and women stayed home to care for the house and children. Well, in today’s fast paced and busy world this is no longer the case. In fact, many women are rising to the top of the corporate ladder...

Ever since the days started getting longer, the mornings started getting brighter and the seasonal sense of goodwill and cheer that are synonymous with spring started to pervade in your household you’ve been itching for an excuse to bust out the barbecue. After all, we’re shaking off the after effects...

A lot of people think that the food you eat has a strong relationship with the mood that you have. If you think about it, this is kind of true. If you eat a very sugary doughnut then you will get a sugar spike followed by a very sudden and...

Mexican food is a rich part of the culture and traditions of Mexico just as much as any cuisine is to the respective culture or country from which it originates. Mexican food marries a blend of old and new world ingredients and methods in totally unique ways, but still maintains...

If the kitchen is the hub and heart of your household, it will be a space that you utilize to cook and bake delicious meals, and double-up as an area to enjoy the food with your family and loved ones. Often, when a kitchen has been decorated and renovated, there...

If you’ve got a small house, you’ve probably ran into the big issue of where to put things. Depending on your unique situation, the type of items you’ve ran out of room for may differ. With a little ingenuity, rearranging, and a self-storage unit, you can solve your space issues....

You’re bound to go through a time in your life like this at some point. Nobody can go through life without feeling down every now and then. There’s just too many things that could go wrong at any point that would mean you’re feeling low. Feeling low can then lead...

Photo Credit Though you may wish that you could spend more time in the kitchen preparing your meals, in the modern world, this is not always a possibility. We all live such busy lives these days, and it can be easy for frozen food and takeaways to become the norm....