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What's in your lip balm?
I was talking to a friend recently about making lip balms and she told me what her all time favorite lip balm was and that she paid $7.00 a tube for it. She then grabbed the lip balm in question and started to read out the ingredients to me. Turns out it has petroleum products in it and guess where that expensive lip balm is now? Yep, in the trash. That's how strongly people feel about putting known carcinogens on their skin (lips). Have you looked at the ingredients in your
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How do you prefer your purchases to be wrapped?
Do you like your purchases to arrive wrapped basically or with lots of lavish extra touches? Are you prepared to pay for those extra touches? I have to confess to being a pragmatist especially when it comes to wrapping gifts. I am certainly not known within my family for the artistry of that wrapping simply because I can't see the point in spending it on the wrapping that is usually thrown away the same day. I would much rather put that money into the gift. Which is not to sa
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What are we going to get Grandma or Grandpa for Christmas this year?
Grandparents find that their skin is becoming more fragile each passing year, it needs more TLC than when they (we) were younger. My Dad is now in his 80's and he's not really good with change. The last time I went to visit him in Australia, I proudly presented him with a shaving soap I had made for him. He got that tight little smile on his face, a kind of veiled dread, which really meant that he was being polite and was going to throw it in the bottom drawer in the bathroom
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That feeling when you absolutely have to call Tech Support
I don't know about you, but when something is not working with my internet or some other tech product or service that I use, I absolutely dread it. I will even find a work around if I can, just to put off that phone call. Over the past year, I've had repeated issues with my internet provider. I'm not going to name them, but it was one of the big ones. I would suffer through intermittent service or painfully slow service rather than call them but dead service was the time when
