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How to Pick Out the Perfect Holiday Gift For Your Brother

Perfect Holiday Gift For Your Brother

Yesterday, I received an email from my 30-year-old brother titled “Xmas List Request.”  Immediate reaction: this should be good.  On this carefully crafted list, he included quality brown socks (no surprise), golf balls (not shocked at all), and the grand finale…any type of frozen food!  Steak, salmon, whatever he can put in the fridge to avoid [...]

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The Wonder Years – 9 Reasons Why Being a Kid Was Awesome

The Wonder Years – 9 Reasons Why Being a Kid Was Awesome

Do you remember when days lasted forever and drug store candy was used as a form of currency? Although our childhoods may be distant memories there’s no reason why we can’t take a stroll down memory lane and reminisce about all the good stuff that made being a kid the best thing in the world. [...]

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Why Christmas Decorations Make a Difference

Christmas Decorations

Attribution due to Christine Zenino, under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Generic 2.0 license. Lately, I’ve been getting the sense that with each year that goes by, I lose a little bit more of the excitement I used to feel over Christmas. I don’t come from a Christian family and one half of my family don’t [...]

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The Joy of Wine Clubs

The Joy of Wine Clubs

Whether you’re an amateur wine buff, an aficionado of fine vintages and lesser known grape varieties, the perfect dinner party host or simply someone who appreciates a decent glass of good quality wine with which to relax and unwind, there’s a whole world bursting with great wines just waiting for you to try and to [...]

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Deep Cleaning Tips to Prevent Winter Bugs

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Colds and flu are a part of life in the winter, but that doesn’t mean that you should just accept them without a fight. Proper home hygiene, and a few basic precautions, can slow the spread of most winter bugs. Here are a few tips to help you fight off common bugs. The Golden Rule: [...]

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15 Imaginative Passive Aggressive Notes

15 Imaginative Passive Aggressive Notes

Don’t you just love passive aggressive notes that spell it out for offenders? Covering everything from car parking spaces to communal areas left in terrible states, here are some great examples of passive aggressive notes that get their message across loud and clear! An Ice Cold Fridge Note A secret lemonade drinker has been told [...]

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5 Pets That Might Kill You

5 Pets That Might Kill You

Pets are great additions to the family. They tend to be cute, quirky and almost endlessly entertaining. This isn’t necessarily always the case however; some people just aren’t satisfied with a friendly Labrador. Nope, they’ve got to have something extravagant, exotic and more often than not outright dangerous. Here are five pets that potentially at [...]

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Picking out a Memorial Tree

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Memorial Tree Planting – Which Tree to Pick? Picking a tree to plant in memory of a loved one usually takes in to consideration to what the loved one  would have have wanted, what would maybe reflect their character symbolically. In Celtic Mythology, every tree had its own symbolic meaning and representation. Trees were planted [...]

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