How To Un-Shrink Clothes. Editor’s note: I updated this post because so many readers added in their ideas. Read and become enlightened…and…unshrunk. I do laundry with a certain level of ferocity. If I can’t bleach something into submission, I’ll stick it in the dryer on high heat until it screams “Uncle!” While I recognize this is probably foolish, I didn’t really care until I shrunk my Juicy Couture velour pants. Here’s the HOW-TO: Fill a sink with lukewarm water and add a capful of baby shampoo into the water. Let the item soak in the baby shampoo water and gently work it through. Remove the garment from the shampoo water and gently squeeze it out. Take a large towel and lay the clothing flat on it.
Roll the towel up with the clothing inside it. Your goal is to absorb the extra moisture, so your clothing is damp but not wet. Then, get another dry towel and put the piece of clothing out on the dry towel. Gently stretch the clothing item as it lays out to dry. Excellent ideas from our readers: Michelle Gowersays: 101+ Real Life Cheats & Hacks! Why You Should Stop Eating Out So Much. We’re not telling you anything new when we say we all eat out too much. The bill is always higher than estimated, and we feel stuffed to death after. We’ll prove to you it’s a bad deal, and give you 4 easy ways to wean you off the restaurant. The rise of the sit-down, mid-priced chain restaurant happened too long ago for most Primer readers to take notice. But in the grander history of human eating, it’s a relatively newfangled trend. Before the American diet got balled by the chain, eating out was either a necessity for travelers or a luxury for revelers.
It wasn’t meant to be affordable (or healthy) for the everyday Joe to take himself and maybe his wife and kids there two or three times a week. But anyone who balances their budget or steps on the scale with any degree of conscientiousness knows that this isn’t true. Okay, not really, but eating out at chain restaurants is certainly among the biggest money wasting opportunities available in the 21st century. Restaurant Markup 1. 2. 3. What Should I Do With My Life? | Page 2. The Universal Packing List. 50 Creative, Cheap Ways to Have Fun. “Never let lack of money interfere with having fun.”
~Unknown Back when we were young, we may have asked our parents for money to do things, but more often than not, we found creative ways to have fun without spending a dime. At least I know I did. My cousins and I turned their bulkhead cellar doors into a slide—and the main attraction of our DIY amusement park. We turned cardboard paper towel rolls and rice-filled soda bottles into instruments, and entertained ourselves for hours on end.
We didn’t wait for overtime or vacation weeks to have fun. I highly doubt I’d spend one of my adult Saturdays banging on a homemade coffee can drum, but there’s something to said for getting a little creative with your downtime. If you’re looking for some cheap, creative ways to enjoy the weekend—or perhaps an upcoming weekday you’ve chosen to liberate—I recommend: Have Fun Outside 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Have Fun with Food 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Have Fun with Entertainment 21. 22. What You'll Wish You'd Known. January 2005 (I wrote this talk for a high school. I never actually gave it, because the school authorities vetoed the plan to invite me.)
When I said I was speaking at a high school, my friends were curious. What will you say to high school students? So I asked them, what do you wish someone had told you in high school? Their answers were remarkably similar. I'll start by telling you something you don't have to know in high school: what you want to do with your life. If I were back in high school and someone asked about my plans, I'd say that my first priority was to learn what the options were.
It might seem that nothing would be easier than deciding what you like, but it turns out to be hard, partly because it's hard to get an accurate picture of most jobs. But there are other jobs you can't learn about, because no one is doing them yet. And yet every May, speakers all over the country fire up the Standard Graduation Speech, the theme of which is: don't give up on your dreams.
Upwind. What are the most useful websites on the web? : AskReddit. T-Bucket's Wacky Tips to Survive Being Broke in a Recession - T-Bucket. 1. Put an egg in your Ramen 2. Have sex ,alot. It's free and it feels really good if you do it right. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. Why you should travel young - Converge. As I write this, I’m flying. It’s an incredible concept: to be suspended in the air, moving at two hundred miles an hour — while I read a magazine.
Amazing, isn’t it? I woke up at three a.m. this morning. Long before the sun rose, thirty people loaded up three conversion vans and drove two hours to the San Juan airport. Our trip was finished. It was time to go home. But we were changed. As I sit, waiting for the flight attendant to bring my ginger ale, I’m left wondering why I travel at all. I was leading a missions trip in Puerto Rico. “Do you think I should go to graduate school or move to Africa?”
I don’t think she was talking to me. I told her to travel. She sighed, nodding. I had heard this excuse before, and I didn’t buy it. Yeah, but … … what about debt? … what about my job? … what about my boyfriend? This phrase is lethal. Most people I know who waited to travel the world never did it. It reminded me of Dr. Dr. I was about to start working out, and he had just finished. “Great,” Dr. 25 clever ideas to make life easier. Via: amy-newnostalgia.blogspot.com Why didn’t I think of that?! We guarantee you’ll be uttering those words more than once at these ingenious little tips, tricks and ideas that solve everyday problems … some you never knew you had! (Above: hull strawberries easily using a straw). Via: apartmenttherapy.com Rubbing a walnut over scratches in your furniture will disguise dings and scrapes. Via: unplggd.com Remove crayon masterpieces from your TV or computer screen with WD40 (also works on walls).
Via: athomewithrealfood.blogspot.com Stop cut apples browning in your child’s lunch box by securing with a rubber band. Via: marthastewart.com Overhaul your linen cupboard – store bedlinen sets inside one of their own pillowcases and there will be no more hunting through piles for a match. Via: realsimple.com Pump up the volume by placing your iPhone / iPod in a bowl – the concave shape amplifies the music. Via: savvyhousekeeping.com Re-use a wet-wipes container to store plastic bags. Via: iheartnaptime.net. The Perfect Massage - Q by Equinox - StumbleUpon. Learn to give a mind-blowing rubdown. (You can both thank us later). Thursday, September 8, 2011 Nothing says “I’m a keeper” like a well-executed massage. The problem? After a few thumb jabs and some lackluster squeezing, most of us run out of steam. The Set-UpHow do massage therapists manage to go all day without aching hands? Kneading Probably the most quintessential massage technique, you’ll rotate your thumbs and fingers simultaneously in circular movements.
Squeezing“The muscles on either side of your shoulders are notorious for carrying stress,” says Burgess, “so you want to give this area some attention.” PercussionEssentially a hand chop, this technique is a good closer after you’ve worked a particular section of the body. CompressionThis is essentially just using the palm of your hand or forearm to lean into a muscle group. Stroking Great for smaller areas such as the back of the neck or arms, stroking is a more superficial technique. Video by Project Dstllry. Get Rich Slowly - Personal Finance That Makes Cents.