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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?...

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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...

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...

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...

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 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, or container storage hire, you can...

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...

We’re all locked in a vicious cycle. It’s a cycle that’s costing us a small fortune, expanding our waistlines, reducing the quality of your time spent with your family and making you miserable. It’s robbed you not only of funds but of energy, and left you lurching from one quick...

I was browsing Twitter and found mayochup going viral and Heinz is bottling this age old mix that no one wants to admit they eat. But apparently, 500,000 of us voted "YES!" to getting this bottled.  Do you ever mayochup?? Comment below about how you mayochup?? Is it gross? Have...

Working from home has become a revolution of sorts, with a vast increase in the number of remote workers across the globe over the past decade. In 2017, a study by Flex Jobs found that more people than ever before are choosing to quit their jobs and work remotely, to...

Pexels(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});We all make many decisions during the course of our day. Decisions around scheduling our time, the diet we consume, and hopefully the degree to which we dictate our work/life balance. There are also many other things we take care of without really knowing it. Some...

When the body is deprived of carbohydrates, a certain process occurs. First of all, the body uses up its stored carbohydrates which is called glycogen. It is stored in the liver and in the muscles for emergency use. It is also why you have to replete carbohydrates after major workouts....

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Investment is defined as, "the action or process of investing money for profit". This concept within the realm of real estate can be explained by individuals investing money into a property, speculating its increase in value, and then selling it for a profit. Real estate...

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Retirement can be a bittersweet time for many of us.  Long dreamed of, by the time it arrives we hopefully have planned it so we can indulge all those fantasies we cherished for so long.     The complete change in lifestyle from a routine of work and a regular income...

If you are planning on shifting abroad, or if you are planning on traveling, health & wellness can become a serious issue for you. Adjusting to new places is always difficult, and maintaining your health in an unknown place is even more difficult. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Most of...