Slow days at work can be made much easier with some handy tips and tricks to give your boss the impression you’re actually working, but you’re really not.

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Defending yourself shouldn’t be too hard. Here are seven simple self-defense tricks that you can easily use during a fight.

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On a recent dumpster diving trip, we came across several discarded pairs of jeans. They seemed perfectly good and sported no rips, stains or funky smells. Since these 43 X 30s were out of our size range, they went right to the thrift store’s drop box.
Spotting these seemingly still-good jeans being discarded brought up a […]

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There are plenty of web lists out there that will tell you how to do very specific things. You can learn all about shampooing your cat, organizing your pantry, and making intricate stained-glass VW Beetle ornaments…but how many resources are there to remind you how to be a decent person? These are […]

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Have you ever seen wooden pallets sitting outside of a commercial building? Have you ever wondered what happens to them?
In some cases, the pallets are recycled or sold to someone who can use them. A lot of the time, though, they end up in the garbage - approximately 150 million of them per […]

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With fuel prices climbing ever higher and the typical American budget being stretched to capacity already, it comes as no surprise that many of us are forgoing our annual summer vacations this year. For a family with limited resources, a vacation can seem frivolous.
Getting away from home and having fun can do […]

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How do you handle keeping the plants alive while you’re off traveling for days at a time? If you’re like the geniuses at LifeHackery Central, you’ll forget that you even have houseplants and come home to dried-up leaves and stems littering your floor. Oops.

If you just can’t ask someone to come water your […]

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We’ve all been there: the painfully over-done relationship that neither party has the guts to end. If you’ve been in a dead relationship for a while, or if you’ve been cheated on and can’t get over it, maybe a nice creative break up is just what the doctor ordered.

Or maybe you’ve tried to end […]

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Whether we like to admit it or not, all of us lie at some time. Whether it’s something innocent like “No, of course you don’t look fat in that!” or something a little more sinister, there are probably no adults who can claim to be entirely free of lies.
Knowing that, it’s easy to […]

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With the abundance of fast foods and convenience foods available to us at all hours of the day, it’s no wonder that so many of us find ourselves addicted to the quick fix of sugary or salty treats. When your waistline starts to expand and you can no longer fit into your favorite jeans, […]

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