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Home & Garden > Home Interior Theme ideas for apartment bathrooms: 1 of 10

Sure, you can just go down to the store and buy themed towels, shower curtains and rugs... but why not make your apartment bathroom uniquely yours? You may not have a choice in the color of the walls (which are probably white or off white) but you do have a choice in the color of the towels, etc., so that's a place to start....
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Where was your favorite place as a child?: 11 of 88

My most favorite place of all when I was a child was a certain spot on a three rail pole fence that jutted out into the river. I would go there and daydream my troubles and trials away. This river is a narrow and shallow one, but its size is common enough on the high plains and mountains of the Western US. It ran cold and cl...
Food & Drink > Coffee How to reuse your coffee grounds in the garden: 2 of 12

What's common, makes good compost, repels gnats, flies and ants and you probably throw it out every morning? Used coffee grounds. If you garden, you should be scooping up every precious little bit of these. They make extraordinary compost whether you use them in a compost bin, sheet compost with them, or just sprinkle a few ...
Autos > SUVs The benefits and costs of SUVs: 2 of 10

While it's true that some SUVs burn more gas than the typical family sedan, they're not all gas guzzlers. Gas mileage in the 20 - 25 mpg range are certainly not unheard of, so the "gas guzzler" image is shot - but you won't find one SUV that gets 40 - 50 miles per gallon, either. Safety is something to take into ac...
Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values Why we make bad choices in life: 19 of 94

Why do we make bad choices in life? There may be as many reasons as there are people, but probably the basic reasons are these: 1. We cannot see the future. What may seem like a logical choice at the time may turn out to be far from the best one when unknown factors reveal themselves. When you decided to put your child in a ...
Home & Garden > Furniture Furnishing a house on a budget: 5 of 20

I'm going to address a strict budget, because that's the position most people are in, when they begin to ask, "How can I do this better?" Being on a strict budget doesn't mean you have to have furniture that looks like everyone's castoffs (although it may be!). You see, whether you go "curb shopping" (picking up what others ...
Home & Garden > Home & Garden (Other) Septic tank maintenance: 1 of 3

Maintenance on a septic system is simple - most of the time you don't have to think about it, if you follow a few rules: 1. Eliminate or minimize sending bleach and household chemicals down the drain. 2. Never flush even "flushable" paper products of any kind. 3. Don't bother with septic tank "helpers," as some of them could...
Food & Drink > Diet, Health & Organic Foods Fitting in fruits and vegetables: 17 of 48

Fitting enough vegetables into your day may be a tedious chore if you look at it as a task to be completed. Why not consider it a fun challenge? We're told we need to eat five to nine servings... That sounds like a lot of food! How can we get them into a day's worth of eating? Here are a few ideas: 1. Drink your veggies! Col...
Home & Garden > Furniture Old furniture: Creative ways to reuse or get rid of it: 5 of 14

Reusing furniture takes some creativity, but with a little thought, you can do it. You don't always have to change the form, or even the color, or do anything drastic to a piece of furniture to get good use out of it in different ways. As a "for instance," we bought an old bedroom dressing table at a garage sale. I...
Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues Threats to everyone's right to privacy: 3 of 8

We may or may not have ever had any privacy, but it seems that what little we may have had, is being taken away by technology. "It seems" is the critical point, because perception is everything. When satellites can send detailed images of anything back to earth, when billions of computers and all of the data transmitted and/...