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Ever had broken crayons, or you want to make something unique for your child, try making your own crayons!
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There are tonnes of free online games for your kids, forget about buying games from your supermarket there are so many free ones out there!
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Growth Charts are lots of fun, encourages kids to eat better, see how far they have grown!
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Get your child ready to blow the candles out!
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Make some paper airplanes and try different games.
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Try these tips to give your child hours of fun!
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Improve your child's language and observation skills with this ageless guessing game.
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Whether you are concerned about preservatives, making your play dough can be lots of fun. Did you know you can make different types? Cooked, non-cooked, edible, with and without preservatives
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Blowing bubbles can be lots of fun, toddlers love to chase, catch, blow and just watch them in awe. Try some of these tips to make or blow bubbles!
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Take a blanker outside and lie down to watch the clouds. Try to make out different shapes, animals, objects, people.
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Kids never get bored of going to zoo, entertain your kids for hours. Try some of these tips to get more from your visit!
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Make your own inexpensive colorful bottles. Teach your kids about colors, light, physics!
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Instead of using a paint brush you might want to try using a straw instead for a different effect
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Tissue art is a great way for your child to make colorful pictures and can be lots of fun!
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Gardening can be a great way to introduce your child to nature, here are some practical tips to get started.
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After some showers look out for a rainbow, or try to make your own by using a garden hose.
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Try keeping the balloon up in the air by hitting with you hands, or using a ping pong ball or badminton racquet.
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You can use flash cards, a deck of cards or even photos. It's a great way to learn different words and improve your child's memory
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Try getting two mirrors together and find out how many images you can see!
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Try throwing balls into a bucket or basket!
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Tie a ribbon to the end of the stick and get your child to wave your ribbon wand around to make beautiful shapes
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You'll be surprised the sounds you hear outside, just lay a blanket outside lay down and listen!
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Buy some window paints, some wash out with soap, others let's you peel them off, whatever the choice it's great fun for your child!
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Even if you are out on a short trip make your child draw a picture and post it home!
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Tricycling is a great way to encourage your child to explore and build coordination skills!
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It's amazing what you can find to spin, blocks, CDs, coins almost anything that looks like a pyramid or disk can be spun.
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Libraries are great ways to entertain your kids. Don't forget to check out events and activities at your local library as well.
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Science museums are are great way of teaching your child new experiences.
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Depending on the part of the world you are in, try going to different parks and playgrounds. You'll be surprised how many you will find around your home!
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Jigsaw Puzzles is a great way to challenge your child, and start small.
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One of the easiest thing to do is increase your internet speed. If you browse twenty pages of a reasonable size (200k) per day you could save 2.5 days a year! And if you are going for a higher speed internet that could mean another 6 hours savings a year.
Set the right atmosphere by having a clean bathroom. Here are some tips to make your bathroom shine:
Have fluffy towels handy, use softeners. If you do have a towel robe, use softeners on that too. Make sure your exit is as enjoyable as your bath time, and give yourself the option of sleeping straight away or taking a nap after your relaxing bath.
If it is cold put them on a towel heater if possible and be careful about fires.
Don't you hate lying down on porcelain, buy an in-expensive travel pillow, best ones are the ones that are inflatable and water resistant. That way you'll make sure that you lean your head back and relax in the bath for longer!
If you can try investing in a bath pillow, they are more suited for bath tubs and come in a large arrays of shapes and sizes. Click this link for same examples of bath pillows: Bath Pillows from Amazon.com
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Lighting is very important for the mood. Pamper yourself and get some scented candles, but make sure you don't have clashing scents. Floating water candles can also be nice as long as you're not bothered about your hair catching on fire, which is very unlikely.
Generally the less lighting the better, make sure that you turn off the lights and if it's bring close the curtains. It's nice just looking at the candles flicker against the walls and through the water.
Music is a great way to set the atmosphere and your mood. Find your favorite music and make sure you have enough music for your bath session. Nothing is worst than having to get up to change the music. Best is if you had a remote, but be careful not to use mains power or get your player wet!
Generally I prefer softer music, but go with whatever you like. Or buy special bathtub music and yes there is a section just for tub music- click on this link for some examples: Bath Tub Music from Amazon.com
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Consider using bath oil, bath milk, bath salts, bubble baths, fizzling bath balls. If you haven't tried all these combinations try them and find out which one suits you. Also consider putting in a few drops of essential oils like lavender, eucalyptus, rose, jasmine and bergamot.
If you have some flowers handy try adding in petals, soft rose petals are nice. Just make sure that you strain them out after your bath to avoid clogging your pipes.
Having a hot tub is nice, but most people don't have the luxury of the space or time to install a new hot tub or spa tub. Consider buying a spa mat, that goes into your existing tub. Before you buy note that some brands can be loud, do your research and this could be a relatively inexpensive way to feel like you're in a spa tub.
Here are some bath mats you might want to consider: bath mats from Amazon.com
Turn off your phones both your land lines and your mobile phones. If you have pets feed them and put them outside if possible. Tell the rest of the household (if any) that you are going to relax in the bath for a couple of hours and make sure you clear your appointments. If time is really short, set an alarm to tell you when you need to get up, nothing is worse than looking at your clock every few minutes!
Bring in your favorite book and a glass of wine with you. Wine can help relax you, but be careful not to fall asleep. Reading in the bath can be fun as well, you'll not even notice the hours pass by!
Long baths can open up your pores and remove oil from your skin, so after your bath remember to put on moisturizers like cocoa oils, moisturizer butter to ensure that your skin doesn't dry out. If possible try putting your creams next to your bath or heater to make sure they aren't cold to the skin.
Dip the tip of the cotton bud in a soapy solution and squeeze dry, then use the tips of the buds to clean around the window and the corners of the frame.
The best times to clean the windows are in the morning or at night. That's when the water off your windows will evaporate less and leave nasty streaks, even better is when it's cloudy or after the rain when the humidity is higher.
Using newspapers, brown papers, chamois, or any hard papers that won't flake and leave lints can be handy and useful for cleaning windows. Especially those that are too small for normal squeegees. But note that sometimes these can leave the windows statically charged and may attract more dust. You might want to use gloves if you are dealing with newspapers to avoid getting prints on your fingers.
This may also be useful if you use squeegees to remove any stray streaks.
Microfiber cloths are great to use along edges between the window and the edges. Make sure that the cloth is slightly damp and wipe carefully around the edges. Try not to use softeners when cleaning the cloths as it may reduce the absorbency and the effectiveness.
These can be great to get right of dirt from your window frames and sills.
The last thing that you want is to shift dirt and potentially scratching your window. Before washing it with soap make sure that you wash any lose dirt off your window first with a hose.
Invest in a good squeegee, all professionals use this, especially for large windows. Firstly notice the width of your windows, make sure that if you have small windows you might want to consider to get two sizes or just one to handle all your needs. Note that for small windows you might want to use clothes or paper.
Test the rubber, make sure that it's soft and not hard, some squeegees allow you to adjust the tension and change the rubber, you might want to consider that when you buy. Also remember how high your windows are, if it's pretty high then you might want to invest in a longer handle.
A sponge applicator is vital to ensure that the soap solution is spread evenly. The best applicator is the T bar sponge. Although you can use a rag or sponge can do the job, these can make your life easier.
Note that natural sponges are best as they are softer than man made ones.
Here are some tips in using the squeegee you might not have tried:
Here are some recipes for window cleaning solutions, that can work just as effectively as purchased solutions:
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Try a few drops of dish washing liquid in a bucket of warm water.
Over time hard-water runoff from your tiles or rain falling through metal can leave stubborn mineral stains on your glass. To get rid of these try using extra rubbing alcohol with your solution, or you can use cleaners that use oxalic acid.
You might also want to try to use polymer coatings to help put a layer of coating on top of your glass to help stop minerals to directly coat the glass again, but you'll have to apply these regularly.
You might not want to change all your existing windows, but you might want to consider these for new windows. Their self cleaning windows, these windows have titanium dioxide in them, which when exposed to UV light creates a chemical reaction to dislodge dirt from your windows. For more details.click on this link.
Going west is better than going east, so if you are planning multiple stops or planning your vacation keep this in mind. Experts say that it can take 50% more time to get use to get lag if you are going east rather than west.
Keeping fit and healthy is important to improving your ability to adjust to new timezones. It also helps protect you from any germs that might be on the plane. All planes have HEPA air filters, but if you're stuck with someone that's sick next to you air filters may not help that much!
Consider how long your trip is, is it for a day or a meeting? Is it worth it to get use to your new timezone, instead of just resting up well the night before. Sometimes if you're going for a short trip, you might not want to just to jet lag twice. The first thing is to work out when and how long you need to be awake in your timezone, then work out how much extra sleep you will need. Note that if you plan to sleep on the plane you can subtract that time to the sleep you need.
While it's always best to eat a balanced diet and get all the vitamins you need naturally, you might want to consider taking some vitamins to help boost your health especially for a long trip. Some vitamins that you might want to consider are B12 to help boost your energy and C which can help boost your bodies resistance to infection.
Use sleep mediation wisely or not at all!
If you decided to adjust to the new timezone, try to keep awake during the day. Here are some things you might want to do to fight of fatigue: take a walk, explore new surroundings, eat (if it's close to mealtimes), call home or talk to someone, take a shower, exercise (gym, swimming, sports), go shopping. If none of these works for you take a short nap make sure it's no more than 30 minutes, 15 minutes is ideal, but never push your body too far you don't want to lower your immunity down too low and get sick from the lack of sleep and needing another holiday for your trip!
The best thing to do to fight jet lag is to sleep at your destination's timezone. It can be difficult if your body tells you that night is day, but try to sleep as much as possible. Not only will this improve your immunity, but also reset your body clock to your new timezone.
Some tips to force yourself to sleep include, using ear plug if it's noisy, turn off all the lights, and using aromatherapy.
If you're eating away at your destination's night time, force yourself to sleep on the plane, here are some tips to ensure that you sleep well on the plane. Reduce or mask the noise out by using ear-plugs, noise canceling headsets, or just play calm music. If possible get those travel pillows that goes around your neck. Also most seats have wings at the top of the seats, pull those out so that you have something to rest your head against. Most importantly turn on your do not disturb or tell you attendant to put a do not disturb sticker on your seat.
Caffeine can dehydrate you, disrupt your sleeping schedules, and increase even more anxiety that you might be feeling traveling to an unfamiliar destination.
Try to also avoid alcohol that can cause dehydration and cause you to be nauseas on your trip.
Combat poor circulation and lethargy on your flights by:
If you're not going straight to a business meeting wear something comfortable, t-shirts, shorts, skirts, shoes. Avoid items that pinch or constricts, and keep in mind the temperature of your destination.
One of the best ways to get into the timezone is to eat at your destination's timezone. Eat a hearty meal at dinner, most people naturally feel sleepy after meals and will help fool your body into moving into the new routine. Fruits are also a great way to make yourself regular and provide you will the vitamins that you need,
Sun light is a natural caffeine fix and helps reset your body clock. Open your curtains open all the time, but especially at night and let the natural sunlight help wake you up in the mornings. If you are tired during the day, try to take a walk in the sun to help you keep awake. I haven't heard of anyone falling asleep walking during the day before!
A week before your trip try to check the temperature and humidity of your destination and try to recreate the same temperature and humidity if possible, especially if the contrast is large. When you're at the destination try to keep the same temperature and humidity as you're use to. Ways of increasing humidity are water in the bath tub, hanging wet towel in your room where there's airflow, damp cloth on a heater or hot device. To reduce humidity close the bathroom and turn up the air conditioner.
Drink water instead of snacking, sometimes it's difficult to get over the hunger pangs, instead of feeling the need to snack, fill your stomach with water instead. This will fool your body to think that your full but yet burn calories, it's said that a bottle of water will burn 25 calories or 5 M&M worth! Try drinking a glass of water before each meal. If that's not enough incentive here are some more:
Try to eat fruits that has lots of water like tomatoes and watermelons, these contain 90% to 95% water so you have nothing to lose! Avoid drinking packaged fruit juice because these generally will contain artificial flavors and colors.
Overeating causes your stomach to expand, making you feel hungrier easier. Avoid having one large meal during the day, instead try to have a balanced portion between breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you feel like you're about to burst you've had too much!
Don't put high calorie foods around your house, especially in your fridge, desk and tables. Instead hide them away in a drawer, studies have shown that if their out of sight, you'll have a less chance of eating them! This also reduces the chance of "mood eating", when you eat because you're stressed or feeling blue.
Everyone knows that you're most likely to buy more food (and probably unhealthy foods) when you're hungry. But this can happen when you're feeling blue or stressed as well. If you can't avoid this, make a list when you're at home and stick to it!
Crash diets typically causes your body to lose glycogen (carbohydrates) and water instead of fat. It also causes your body to lower the metabolic rate. It doesn't take much to lose weight if your body is in perfect balance (you are consuming all the calories that you are eating), then by not drinking say a sweet can drink (100 calories) every day you can lose 10 pounds (4.5 kg) in a year! Generally 3500 represents 1 pound (0.45 kg), therefore 100 x 365 means 10 pounds (4.5kg). A small change can have a drastic effect to your health.
Not all providers are equal and just because you have the highest speed, ultimately you are limited by how many people are on your provider and how fast your providers are connected to other countries.
Get your friends on different providers to try some speed tests like SpeedTest.Net or check out their past results for providers at Global Service Provider results. Search on google for other speed tests!. Note if you are testing cable service providers try getting your neighbors to perform the tests since cable connections share the same pipe while ADSL providers have a dedicated connection to your service provider.
Try different browsers! At the time of writing this Firefox claims to be 5 times faster than IE7 (Internet Explorer) and 2 times faster than Opera. What is clear is that Firefox handles memory superbly even after a few hours of browsing compared with other browsers, while Opera and Safari does really well with certain pages. Try different browsers it doesn't cost you anything and and save you up to five times just waiting for pages to load.
Firefox
Opera
Safari
IE 8 (Beta)
If you always use your browser most times or every time you start up your computer, then why don't you put your favorite browser in your startup folder. Your startup folder is located in Start > Programs > Startup. What's easiest is to right click on your startup folder and click on open, then drag your browsers icon to the startup folder not hold down CTRL if you want to copy your shortcuts, instead of moving them. This can save you an hour each year, and maybe more if you open up to a site that you would actually use, like google.
Tabbed browsing can save you lots of time by:
Here are some power tips for tabbed browsing (IE, Firefox, Safari):
Pressing your escape button will generally stop your page from loading. We've all been to pages accidentally that keeps your browser logo rotating (which means that the pages is still load), if you think that you've downloaded what you need or you just want the browser to stop click on the ESC button!
If you use webmail and don't want to pop off your mail from the internet search toolbars can be great! Personally I prefer Google Toolbar, but you can also try Yahoo Companion or MSN toolbar.
Some toolbars have extra functions as well like synchronizing bookmarks, sharing web pages, news, etc..
Use your browser to store form information and your user name and passwords. Note that you should always protect your security, so if you're using Firefox you can always use the master passwords, otherwise you can use other free tools like RoboForm. There are also variations that allow you to store you data on your USB drive.
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Pet Therapy
Studies have shown that petting a dog lowers blood pressure, improves your immune system, reduces your risk to allergies, increases your lifespan,
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Take a nap
The antidote to stress is sleep it reduces your stress hormone cortisol. Taking several naps a day might interfere with your sleep patterns, but
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Indoor - Recycle your crayons - Rainbow colored crayons
Ever had broken crayons, or you want to make something unique for your child, try making your own crayons!
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Indoor - Free Online Activities / Games!
There are tonnes of free online games for your kids, forget about buying games from your supermarket there are so many free ones out there!
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Reading tips for toddlers
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Indoor - Hand or Foot Prints / Tracing
Trace your hand, foot or body!
Make a print of your hands / foot by painting paint on your hands then on a piece of paper / canvas
Create a album
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Indoor - Growth Charts
Growth Charts are lots of fun, encourages kids to eat better, see how far they have grown!
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Indoor - Blowing!
Get your child ready to blow the candles out!
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Indoor / Outdoor - Make your own Paper Airplane
Make some paper airplanes and try different games.
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Indoor / Outdoor - Hide and Seek variations
Try these tips to give your child hours of fun!
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Indoor / Outdoor - Eye Spy with Variations
Improve your child's language and observation skills with this ageless guessing game.
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Indoor - Make your own playdough
Whether you are concerned about preservatives, making your play dough can be lots of fun. Did you know you can make different types? Cooked, non-cooked, edible, with and without preservatives
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Outdoor - Blow Bubbles
Blowing bubbles can be lots of fun, toddlers love to chase, catch, blow and just watch them in awe. Try some of these tips to make or blow bubbles!
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Outdoor - Watch the clouds
Take a blanker outside and lie down to watch the clouds. Try to make out different shapes, animals, objects, people.
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Outdoor - Going to the Zoo
Kids never get bored of going to zoo, entertain your kids for hours. Try some of these tips to get more from your visit!
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Indoor - Make your own colorful magic bottles
Make your own inexpensive colorful bottles. Teach your kids about colors, light, physics!
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Indoor - Rubber mats houses, mazes and tunnels
While rubber mats are great to protect your children from falls, it also can be great to make houses, mazes and tunnels.
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Indoor - Straw Painting
Instead of using a paint brush you might want to try using a straw instead for a different effect
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Indoor - Tissue Art
Tissue art is a great way for your child to make colorful pictures and can be lots of fun!
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Outdoor - Plant something!
Gardening can be a great way to introduce your child to nature, here are some practical tips to get started.
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Outdoor - Look out for a rainbow or make your own
After some showers look out for a rainbow, or try to make your own by using a garden hose.
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Indoor - Balloon Tennis
Try keeping the balloon up in the air by hitting with you hands, or using a ping pong ball or badminton racquet.
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Indoor - Make your own flash cards
There are lots of ways to make your own flash cards, find them on-line, paint your own, cut pictures out of magazines!
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Indoor - Memory Game
You can use flash cards, a deck of cards or even photos. It's a great way to learn different words and improve your child's memory
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Indoor - Mirror Play
Try getting two mirrors together and find out how many images you can see!
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Indoor - Indoor basketball
Try throwing balls into a bucket or basket!
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Indoor - Ribbon wand
Tie a ribbon to the end of the stick and get your child to wave your ribbon wand around to make beautiful shapes
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Outdoor - Listen to the sounds
You'll be surprised the sounds you hear outside, just lay a blanket outside lay down and listen!
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Indoor - Window Art
Buy some window paints, some wash out with soap, others let's you peel them off, whatever the choice it's great fun for your child!
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Indoor - Foot and Hand Tree
Every year make an outline of your child's foot and hand and cut them out, then paste it on-top of each other to make a pyramid of how much your child has grown!
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Outdoor - Send postcards home
Even if you are out on a short trip make your child draw a picture and post it home!
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Outdoor - Tricycling / Bicycling
Tricycling is a great way to encourage your child to explore and build coordination skills!
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Indoor - Tops and spinny things
It's amazing what you can find to spin, blocks, CDs, coins almost anything that looks like a pyramid or disk can be spun.
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Australian's: Check out the TravelHealth Web Site
The Government has done something really useful and set up a web site to assist traveller's in preparing for a top holiday - http://www.travelhealth.com.au.
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Outdoor - Visit your local library
Libraries are great ways to entertain your kids. Don't forget to check out events and activities at your local library as well.
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Outdoor - Visit your local science museum
Science museums are are great way of teaching your child new experiences.
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Outdoor - Playground hunting
Depending on the part of the world you are in, try going to different parks and playgrounds. You'll be surprised how many you will find around your home!
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Check out the weather, when you plan and the night before
Weather is important for you to gauge temperature, wet / dry conditions, humidity. Here are some tips:
Check out the weather when you plan your
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Indoor - Jigsaw Puzzles
Jigsaw Puzzles is a great way to challenge your child, and start small.
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Don't cut the thorns
It may be nice to protect yourself from thorns but cutting them will actually damage your flowers.
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Cold water to keep them longer
Use cold water to keep them longer and conversely warm water to make your flowers open up faster.
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Remove any leaves that will be submerged
Bacteria is a leading cause for flower decay, by removing leaves that are under the water you will reduce the bacteria build up.
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Handle with care!
Flowers are delicate living plants, be careful not to crush or damage them.
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Change the water
It is good to top-up the water every day and change the water every few days to a week. Distilled water is best but tap water is generally OK.
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Remove air bubbles
Hold the stem under cold water and cut about an inch off the stem with a sharp knife or scissors. Try cutting at an angle to increase the amount of water passing through the stem. Don't do this too often or your flowers will droop with too much water!
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Keep out of the sun
Try to avoid direct sunlight, warm surfaces, in a cool place so that your flowers will retain their moisture.
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Keep smoke and fruit away from your flowers
Cigarettes and ripening fruits gives off ethylene gas which is harmful to your flowers.
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Aspirin works with flowers too!
One way to stop bacteria is to put half an Aspirin with your vase water. Note that this is a good trick for Christmas Trees as well.
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Use flower food packets
These normally have preservatives, sugar and acid (to help water movement). If you don't have that try adding a little sugar.
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Choose the healthy flower in the first place
Look out for plump and upright flowers, with green leaves, unbruised / unbroken stems, no slime at the stem (which is a sign that the flowers have been there for a long time), unopened flower buds.
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Instead of Asprin try using a little dishwater
Dishwater is a good way of also reducing bacteria.
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Register yourself with your embassy
If you are going to a known hostile region or 3rd world country, register yourself with your local embassy in case of an evacuation. Check out http://www.embassyworld.com/ for you local embassy.
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Take out the appropriaate travel insurance
You may be surprised how much hospital treatment, medial evacuations may cost. Take the appropriate travel insurance esp. if you are planning to do any adventure activities.
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Check visa requirements
Some countries require you to have interviews and may take months esp. if you live in the Middle East / Asian countries. Check out the embassy of your destination country for more details http://www.embassyworld.com
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Make sure that you have at least six months valitidy
Even if it's at the boundaries consider getting it changed in case you want a change of plans. Some countries will turn you around at the airport!
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Check your luggage allowance before you leave to the airport
Don't get charged with extra baggage, check your checked-in baggage allowance. Move some to hand-carry-on luggage if required (but don't exceed the
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Avoid ear blockages during take-off and landing
Help your ears adjust with the changes of pressure, by staying awake during take-off and landings, yawning, swallowing, drinking, chewing gum, sucking on sweets, hot cloth over your ear. If you have a child try using pacifiers, sucking on thumb.
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Bring your own water to the toilets
Some Airlines Water fails tests, esp. in the toilets where some airlines say it is not drinking water! Instead bring some boiled hot water into the toilet, if you need to brush your teeth, etc...
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Special Circumstances
If you have any special circumstances that requires you to reschedule or cancel a flight contact your airlines. If you are sick you can get a doctor's note and fill out some forms. Special consideration is also given for death in the family.
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Loosen your shoes or wear the slippers supplied
If you are on a long flight you might want to remove your shoes and just wear the slippers, it will improve your circulation in your feet.
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Use security pouches
Security pouches can give you peace of mind when you need to go to the toilet and when your are off the plane. Use them to store your credit cards, cash and valuables.
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Choose your seats early
Choosing the right seat for your plane as you can get extra legroom, more privacy, less noise, etc... Here are some tips:
Check out seat
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Use TSA Approved Locks
If you are traveling to the US and you need to buy a lock try getting a TSA approved lock.
"TSA screens every passenger's baggage before it is
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Forget noise cancelling headsets buy disposable earplugs
Disposable earplugs are inexpensive and can save you from a crying child. Or even better get a custom earplug that you can reuse, you can find companies that can do this for you or kits to make your own!
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Tackle dry air and the lack of humidity
Dry air is a problem with all airlines, generally around 10%-20% humidity. Dry air also increases the risk of spreading colds, although all major
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Customize your check-in luggage
Unless you have a unique color luggage or shape it can be difficult to identify which bag is yours or even worst have someone accidentally take your
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Use your destination address
Don't announce to the world (and thieves) that you are going on a trip! Instead put your destination address instead. Most check-in counters will have free labels that you can use.
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Try special meals
If you are a frequent flier you can very easily get sick of airplane meals. Try ordering for a special meal, vegetarian or even kids meals. Most likely you will get your meal first as well!
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Check the flight capacity
If the flight capacity is low you might be able to get a seat with no one beside you or even better four seats in the middle of the plane, this beats
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Travel Pillow or not to Travel Pillow
Most people don't realize that most airlines have side wings on their chairs that can act as a travel pillow. But if you want better neck support or
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Avoid putting items under the seat
Try to put all your items in the overhead compartments, if you are on business class try to get the chairs on the top deck next to the windows where
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Pick the right flight!
Mid-week flights and flights at odd times are normally cheaper. But also weigh the extra cost of time, recovery from jet lag, getting transport at
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Make friends on the plane
Not only will this make the time go by faster, but you can learn more about your destination if you are traveling somewhere new. It will also help
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Exercise and prevent sleepy legs, blood clots and DVT
Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT)'s have been in the news in the past. You can minimize this by doing some exercises most of them doesn't involve getting
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Bring your own food
This might seem odd but may actually make a lot of sense. Most of the time you are at the gate 30 minutes before departure, takes 15 minutes or so
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Don't joke about bombs, guns, terrorist, etc...
There has been numerous reports in the news of people joking about bombs even at the custom clearance. People have been force to go through
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Remove old luggage tags
One of the main reasons why luggage gets routed to the wrong destination is because of old luggage tags. Remove them and remove the confusion on the luggage's destination.
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Noise cancelling headsets
Noise canceling headsets work better than earplugs, just by turning it on without any sound coming out and you will immediately see the difference.
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Watch your tickets
Most people know that passports are important documents, but so are tickets! If you lose your tickets report it immediately, you might be required
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Be prepared for unexpected delays
Plane delays happen all the time, weather it's due to the weather, union strikes, maintenance, etc... Here are some things that you can help you
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Always reconfirm your flight and check the flight details
Don't believe that people tell you it's always good to reconfirm the flight. Changes in schedules, delays happen all the time. Also before you
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Get an airline power adapter for your computer
Buy a power adapter for your computer for long journeys, but also consider getting a second battery. Note that some airlines have restrictions on
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Exercise Regularly
Try exercising 5 times a week for 30 minutes, like brisk walking, jogging, swimming, sports, dancing, bicycling, aerobics, yoga, boxing, etc...
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Learn / Play an instrument
Take the time to learn an instrument once you can play a few songs it's a great de-stresser, it slows you down, gives you a sense of accomplishments, and releases your creative side.
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Talk to someone
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved." - Charles Kettering. Sharing is not only a great way of reducing stress it builds relationships, and helps you gain a different perspective to your problem.
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Breathe deeply
People normally use less than 50% of their lungs, by taking conscious deep breaths you allow more oxygen absorption, reduces your heart rate and
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Take a walk
Walk even if it's to the bathroom, around the block or just pacing. It forces you to just concentrate on your problem, improves your circulation, and forces you to breath more deeply.
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Take a hot bath or shower
There is nothing more stress relieving than a hot bath, use bath balls and scents if possible. If you don't have time take a shower or just wash your face.
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Take a time out
You can always schedule a time out, no matter how busy you are, even if it's for 5 minutes. Set a time and day dream about something else.
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Dare to say NO
The key cause for stress in this day in age is time. Try not o do everything, know your own limits, you don't have to please everyone. Don't let
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Don't blame yourself
Some things are out of your control, and if they were in your control, use it as a stepping stone, analyze what you could have done better and let the matter rest.
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Schedule a meeting / alert
If it's something that you can do nothing about now or it's not something critical / urgent, schedule it for another time when you can do justice to
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Listen to music
Listen to your favorite song, and release endorphins to calm you down. Sometimes you need to take a step away to revisit the problem afresh from a new angle.
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Write it out / Draw it out
By writing it out you are forcing yourself to use both sides of your brain. It makes you visualize the issue, hopefully you will gain a new
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Smile to feel happier
Do you know you cannot feel angry at the exact moment for are smiling? It's physiologically impossible! It reduces your heart rate, and makes you feel happy!
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Read a joke!
Get some humor / joke books, read them once in a while. Or try some of these funny websites:
Collegehumor.com - Read articles, videos, pictures
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Daydream
Think about taking a hot shower, going to the park, having a holiday. It's a great way of distressing and relaxing.
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Find a religion
Find some spiritual friends. It's easier to share with people that has the same common belief's as you do, and generally more open to share your
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Don't multitask
We aren't computers so don't treat your body like one! Multitasking too many tasks actually impairs your memory and performance. Most of us have
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Prioritize - Urgent or Important?
Create a ToDo list order by what is urgent & important first, to urgent & important, urgent & not important and last not urgent and not important.
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Flying to the US check out Airport Information
FAA Flight Delay Information - Great site to see if there are any delays in the airport or if the airport is closed.
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PD: PublicDomainPictures.net
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/ 100's of photos split into 16 categories
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PD: HistoryPicks.com
http://www.historypicks.com - 1000's of historical pictures from the 1900, 1800, 1700 and before!
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PD - Public-Domain-Photos.com
http://www.public-domain-photos.com - Thousands of public domain photos
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PD: Public Domain Clip Art
http://www.pdclipart.org/ - Thousands of free clip art
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PD: PDPhoto.org
http://pdphoto.org - Collection of photos including 26 categories on US States and Europe
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Get a faster internet connection
One of the easiest thing to do is increase your internet speed. If you browse twenty pages of a reasonable size (200k) per day you could save 2.5 days a year! And if you are going for a higher speed internet that could mean another 6 hours savings a year.
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Make your bathroom sparkle
Set the right atmosphere by having a clean bathroom. Here are some tips to make your bathroom shine:
- Vacuum everything, esp. dust and hair which are hard to clean when wet.
- Pour a scented toilet cleaner into the toilet bowl.
- Clean mirrors, chrome, light fixtures with glass cleaners
- Empty your rubbish bins
- Use all purpose cleaners that don't leave streaks. Spray everywhere and let it absorb a little before wiping.
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Prepare fluffy towels / robes
Have fluffy towels handy, use softeners. If you do have a towel robe, use softeners on that too. Make sure your exit is as enjoyable as your bath time, and give yourself the option of sleeping straight away or taking a nap after your relaxing bath.If it is cold put them on a towel heater if possible and be careful about fires.
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Use an inflatable pillow
Don't you hate lying down on porcelain, buy an in-expensive travel pillow, best ones are the ones that are inflatable and water resistant. That way you'll make sure that you lean your head back and relax in the bath for longer!If you can try investing in a bath pillow, they are more suited for bath tubs and come in a large arrays of shapes and sizes. Click this link for same examples of bath pillows: Bath Pillows from Amazon.com
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Set the lighting
Lighting is very important for the mood. Pamper yourself and get some scented candles, but make sure you don't have clashing scents. Floating water candles can also be nice as long as you're not bothered about your hair catching on fire, which is very unlikely.Generally the less lighting the better, make sure that you turn off the lights and if it's bring close the curtains. It's nice just looking at the candles flicker against the walls and through the water.
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Find your favourite music
Music is a great way to set the atmosphere and your mood. Find your favorite music and make sure you have enough music for your bath session. Nothing is worst than having to get up to change the music. Best is if you had a remote, but be careful not to use mains power or get your player wet!Generally I prefer softer music, but go with whatever you like. Or buy special bathtub music and yes there is a section just for tub music- click on this link for some examples: Bath Tub Music from Amazon.com
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Choosing the right soaps and scents
Consider using bath oil, bath milk, bath salts, bubble baths, fizzling bath balls. If you haven't tried all these combinations try them and find out which one suits you. Also consider putting in a few drops of essential oils like lavender, eucalyptus, rose, jasmine and bergamot. If you have some flowers handy try adding in petals, soft rose petals are nice. Just make sure that you strain them out after your bath to avoid clogging your pipes.
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Bubbles or no bubbles?
Having a hot tub is nice, but most people don't have the luxury of the space or time to install a new hot tub or spa tub. Consider buying a spa mat, that goes into your existing tub. Before you buy note that some brands can be loud, do your research and this could be a relatively inexpensive way to feel like you're in a spa tub.Here are some bath mats you might want to consider: bath mats from Amazon.com
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Remove distractions
Turn off your phones both your land lines and your mobile phones. If you have pets feed them and put them outside if possible. Tell the rest of the household (if any) that you are going to relax in the bath for a couple of hours and make sure you clear your appointments. If time is really short, set an alarm to tell you when you need to get up, nothing is worse than looking at your clock every few minutes!
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Take a book or wine with you
Bring in your favorite book and a glass of wine with you. Wine can help relax you, but be careful not to fall asleep. Reading in the bath can be fun as well, you'll not even notice the hours pass by!
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Use moisturizer after your bath
Long baths can open up your pores and remove oil from your skin, so after your bath remember to put on moisturizers like cocoa oils, moisturizer butter to ensure that your skin doesn't dry out. If possible try putting your creams next to your bath or heater to make sure they aren't cold to the skin.
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Use cotton buds to clean corners and hard to reach places
Dip the tip of the cotton bud in a soapy solution and squeeze dry, then use the tips of the buds to clean around the window and the corners of the frame.
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Try not to clean the windows in the heat of the day
The best times to clean the windows are in the morning or at night. That's when the water off your windows will evaporate less and leave nasty streaks, even better is when it's cloudy or after the rain when the humidity is higher.
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For something quick use newspapers or brown paper
Using newspapers, brown papers, chamois, or any hard papers that won't flake and leave lints can be handy and useful for cleaning windows. Especially those that are too small for normal squeegees. But note that sometimes these can leave the windows statically charged and may attract more dust. You might want to use gloves if you are dealing with newspapers to avoid getting prints on your fingers.This may also be useful if you use squeegees to remove any stray streaks.
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Microfiber cloths are great too
Microfiber cloths are great to use along edges between the window and the edges. Make sure that the cloth is slightly damp and wipe carefully around the edges. Try not to use softeners when cleaning the cloths as it may reduce the absorbency and the effectiveness.These can be great to get right of dirt from your window frames and sills.
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Wash the outside of the window with a hose
The last thing that you want is to shift dirt and potentially scratching your window. Before washing it with soap make sure that you wash any lose dirt off your window first with a hose.
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Use a squeegee!
Invest in a good squeegee, all professionals use this, especially for large windows. Firstly notice the width of your windows, make sure that if you have small windows you might want to consider to get two sizes or just one to handle all your needs. Note that for small windows you might want to use clothes or paper.
Test the rubber, make sure that it's soft and not hard, some squeegees allow you to adjust the tension and change the rubber, you might want to consider that when you buy. Also remember how high your windows are, if it's pretty high then you might want to invest in a longer handle.
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Buy a sponge applicator
A sponge applicator is vital to ensure that the soap solution is spread evenly. The best applicator is the T bar sponge. Although you can use a rag or sponge can do the job, these can make your life easier.Note that natural sponges are best as they are softer than man made ones.
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Perfecting your squeegee techniques
Here are some tips in using the squeegee you might not have tried:
- The most important point is to wipe clean your squeegee after each stroke!
- Always work from the top down, either up and down, or left and right working your way down and overlapping your strokes.
- Try using up and down on the outside (which is easier for upper stories), and left and right on the insides, that way you'll know which side of the glass your streaks are.
- If your squeegee squeaks then you probably don't have enough soap in your solution, apply more soap to the glass and try again
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Window cleaning solutions
Here are some recipes for window cleaning solutions, that can work just as effectively as purchased solutions:
Solution 1
- 1/2 cup of vinegar
- 1/3 cup ammonia
- 1 gallon (4 liters) of warm water
Solution 2
- 1/2 cup of vinegar
- 3 tablespoons
- 1 gallon (4 liters) of warm water
Solution 3
Try a few drops of dish washing liquid in a bucket of warm water.
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Getting rid of mineral streaks
Over time hard-water runoff from your tiles or rain falling through metal can leave stubborn mineral stains on your glass. To get rid of these try using extra rubbing alcohol with your solution, or you can use cleaners that use oxalic acid.You might also want to try to use polymer coatings to help put a layer of coating on top of your glass to help stop minerals to directly coat the glass again, but you'll have to apply these regularly.
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Get self cleaning windows
You might not want to change all your existing windows, but you might want to consider these for new windows. Their self cleaning windows, these windows have titanium dioxide in them, which when exposed to UV light creates a chemical reaction to dislodge dirt from your windows. For more details.click on this link.
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Go west
Going west is better than going east, so if you are planning multiple stops or planning your vacation keep this in mind. Experts say that it can take 50% more time to get use to get lag if you are going east rather than west.
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Keep fit and healthy
Keeping fit and healthy is important to improving your ability to adjust to new timezones. It also helps protect you from any germs that might be on the plane. All planes have HEPA air filters, but if you're stuck with someone that's sick next to you air filters may not help that much!
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Do nothing?
Consider how long your trip is, is it for a day or a meeting? Is it worth it to get use to your new timezone, instead of just resting up well the night before. Sometimes if you're going for a short trip, you might not want to just to jet lag twice. The first thing is to work out when and how long you need to be awake in your timezone, then work out how much extra sleep you will need. Note that if you plan to sleep on the plane you can subtract that time to the sleep you need.
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Improve your immunity
While it's always best to eat a balanced diet and get all the vitamins you need naturally, you might want to consider taking some vitamins to help boost your health especially for a long trip. Some vitamins that you might want to consider are B12 to help boost your energy and C which can help boost your bodies resistance to infection.Use sleep mediation wisely or not at all!
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Take short naps
If you decided to adjust to the new timezone, try to keep awake during the day. Here are some things you might want to do to fight of fatigue: take a walk, explore new surroundings, eat (if it's close to mealtimes), call home or talk to someone, take a shower, exercise (gym, swimming, sports), go shopping. If none of these works for you take a short nap make sure it's no more than 30 minutes, 15 minutes is ideal, but never push your body too far you don't want to lower your immunity down too low and get sick from the lack of sleep and needing another holiday for your trip!
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Force yourself to sleep
The best thing to do to fight jet lag is to sleep at your destination's timezone. It can be difficult if your body tells you that night is day, but try to sleep as much as possible. Not only will this improve your immunity, but also reset your body clock to your new timezone.Some tips to force yourself to sleep include, using ear plug if it's noisy, turn off all the lights, and using aromatherapy.
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Sleep on the plane
If you're eating away at your destination's night time, force yourself to sleep on the plane, here are some tips to ensure that you sleep well on the plane. Reduce or mask the noise out by using ear-plugs, noise canceling headsets, or just play calm music. If possible get those travel pillows that goes around your neck. Also most seats have wings at the top of the seats, pull those out so that you have something to rest your head against. Most importantly turn on your do not disturb or tell you attendant to put a do not disturb sticker on your seat.
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Avoid caffeine
Caffeine can dehydrate you, disrupt your sleeping schedules, and increase even more anxiety that you might be feeling traveling to an unfamiliar destination.Try to also avoid alcohol that can cause dehydration and cause you to be nauseas on your trip.
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Excercise on the plane
Combat poor circulation and lethargy on your flights by:
- Squeezing and release a sock or armrest until you hands are tired
- Try to raise yourself a few inches off your seat by using your arms and feet
- Tense and release different muscles in your body
- Try doing stretches, neck, arms, back, hips
- Have a walk around, but be careful of seatbelt signs
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Wear comfortably
If you're not going straight to a business meeting wear something comfortable, t-shirts, shorts, skirts, shoes. Avoid items that pinch or constricts, and keep in mind the temperature of your destination.
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Eat at your destination timezone
One of the best ways to get into the timezone is to eat at your destination's timezone. Eat a hearty meal at dinner, most people naturally feel sleepy after meals and will help fool your body into moving into the new routine. Fruits are also a great way to make yourself regular and provide you will the vitamins that you need,
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Sun is your friend
Sun light is a natural caffeine fix and helps reset your body clock. Open your curtains open all the time, but especially at night and let the natural sunlight help wake you up in the mornings. If you are tired during the day, try to take a walk in the sun to help you keep awake. I haven't heard of anyone falling asleep walking during the day before!
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Use temperature to make you feel more at home
A week before your trip try to check the temperature and humidity of your destination and try to recreate the same temperature and humidity if possible, especially if the contrast is large. When you're at the destination try to keep the same temperature and humidity as you're use to. Ways of increasing humidity are water in the bath tub, hanging wet towel in your room where there's airflow, damp cloth on a heater or hot device. To reduce humidity close the bathroom and turn up the air conditioner.
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Drink lots of water
Drink water instead of snacking, sometimes it's difficult to get over the hunger pangs, instead of feeling the need to snack, fill your stomach with water instead. This will fool your body to think that your full but yet burn calories, it's said that a bottle of water will burn 25 calories or 5 M&M worth! Try drinking a glass of water before each meal. If that's not enough incentive here are some more:
- Breaking down fat produces more waste that needs to be removed from your kidneys, water helps keep your kidneys clean.
- It's recommended that you drink 8 glasses of water every day.
- Drinking water is better than drinking other drinks that can have lots more calories!
- Can help with your hear, headaches, skin, digestive problems and even prevent cancer!
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Eat lots of fruits
Try to eat fruits that has lots of water like tomatoes and watermelons, these contain 90% to 95% water so you have nothing to lose! Avoid drinking packaged fruit juice because these generally will contain artificial flavors and colors.
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Don't Overeat
Overeating causes your stomach to expand, making you feel hungrier easier. Avoid having one large meal during the day, instead try to have a balanced portion between breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you feel like you're about to burst you've had too much!
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Avoid temptation
Don't put high calorie foods around your house, especially in your fridge, desk and tables. Instead hide them away in a drawer, studies have shown that if their out of sight, you'll have a less chance of eating them! This also reduces the chance of "mood eating", when you eat because you're stressed or feeling blue.
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Don't eat when you're hungry or feeling blue
Everyone knows that you're most likely to buy more food (and probably unhealthy foods) when you're hungry. But this can happen when you're feeling blue or stressed as well. If you can't avoid this, make a list when you're at home and stick to it!
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Losing weight is a lifestyle not a crash course
Crash diets typically causes your body to lose glycogen (carbohydrates) and water instead of fat. It also causes your body to lower the metabolic rate. It doesn't take much to lose weight if your body is in perfect balance (you are consuming all the calories that you are eating), then by not drinking say a sweet can drink (100 calories) every day you can lose 10 pounds (4.5 kg) in a year! Generally 3500 represents 1 pound (0.45 kg), therefore 100 x 365 means 10 pounds (4.5kg). A small change can have a drastic effect to your health.
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Compare Internet Providers / Service Providers
Not all providers are equal and just because you have the highest speed, ultimately you are limited by how many people are on your provider and how fast your providers are connected to other countries.Get your friends on different providers to try some speed tests like SpeedTest.Net or check out their past results for providers at Global Service Provider results. Search on google for other speed tests!. Note if you are testing cable service providers try getting your neighbors to perform the tests since cable connections share the same pipe while ADSL providers have a dedicated connection to your service provider.
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Try other browsers instead of IE like Firefox, Safari
Try different browsers! At the time of writing this Firefox claims to be 5 times faster than IE7 (Internet Explorer) and 2 times faster than Opera. What is clear is that Firefox handles memory superbly even after a few hours of browsing compared with other browsers, while Opera and Safari does really well with certain pages. Try different browsers it doesn't cost you anything and and save you up to five times just waiting for pages to load.Firefox
Opera
Safari
IE 8 (Beta)
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Load your browser when you start up
If you always use your browser most times or every time you start up your computer, then why don't you put your favorite browser in your startup folder. Your startup folder is located in Start > Programs > Startup. What's easiest is to right click on your startup folder and click on open, then drag your browsers icon to the startup folder not hold down CTRL if you want to copy your shortcuts, instead of moving them. This can save you an hour each year, and maybe more if you open up to a site that you would actually use, like google.
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Power users use tabbed browsing!
Tabbed browsing can save you lots of time by:
- Letting you load pages in the background, saving you previous loading times
- Saves you from pressing back to get to a main page
- Helps you keep track of multiple pages, without overloading your task-bar
Here are some power tips for tabbed browsing (IE, Firefox, Safari):
- CTRL+T opens a new tab
- CTRL and clicking on a link generally opens the link in a new tab.
- ALT+D brings you to the address bar
- CTRL+PageUp and CTRL-PageDown brings you to the next / previous tab (Firefox only)
- CTRL-W close the current tab
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Use bookmark toolbar
On Firefox it's called the "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder", Safari it's just your "Bookmarks Bar", Seamonkey (a derivative of Firefox) it's called the "Personal Toolbar Folder". Sorry IE users, don't see anything there at least in IE7, but IE has the links sidebar, which I personally think takes up too much real-estate.
If you are using tabbed browsing just drag the tab to your toolbar and there you go. Normally the titles don't fit so right click and change the properties or the name of the site so that it makes sense to you.
If you are using tabbed browsing just drag the tab to your toolbar and there you go. Normally the titles don't fit so right click and change the properties or the name of the site so that it makes sense to you.
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Escape, stop your browser from loading
Pressing your escape button will generally stop your page from loading. We've all been to pages accidentally that keeps your browser logo rotating (which means that the pages is still load), if you think that you've downloaded what you need or you just want the browser to stop click on the ESC button!
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Search Tool Bars
If you use webmail and don't want to pop off your mail from the internet search toolbars can be great! Personally I prefer Google Toolbar, but you can also try Yahoo Companion or MSN toolbar.Some toolbars have extra functions as well like synchronizing bookmarks, sharing web pages, news, etc..
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Store form data, passwords
Use your browser to store form information and your user name and passwords. Note that you should always protect your security, so if you're using Firefox you can always use the master passwords, otherwise you can use other free tools like RoboForm. There are also variations that allow you to store you data on your USB drive.
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