How To Clean Your House in 20 Minutes a Day for 30 Days. When I first learned to clean my own place, I thought Saturday had to be an all day clean-a-thon. I didn't really have a concept of how to balance the work load during the week so weekends could be reserved for larger projects or even you know…fun! Now I clean in 20 minutes a day — every day — and things just seem to take care of themselves. Here's a glimpse at the schedule I use! No one said you had to do everything at once and even when time seems short, if you can manage one task a day, things should start to work themselves out. 1) Dealing With What Comes Through The Door Set up a small area by the front door to act as a "landing strip" for incoming items to your home. 2) Do Your Dishes After Every Meal This will help you stay on top of your kitchen instead of having it turn into a monster!
3) Laundry If you have a washer and dryer at home, do a little bit each day. 5) Set a Timer Most items on the list below should take no more than 20 minutes total. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 50 Life Hacks to Simplify your World. Life hacks are little ways to make our lives easier. These low-budget tips and trick can help you organize and de-clutter space; prolong and preserve your products; or teach you something (e.g., tie a full Windsor) that you simply did not know before. Most of these came from a great post on tumblr. There is also a great subreddit ‘r/lifehacks‘ with some fantastic tips as well. 20. Separate egg yolks like a boss 40. Sources – muxedo task: 99 Life Hacks to make your life easier! If you enjoyed this post, the Sifter highly recommends: 39 Foot Solar Powered Outdoor Christmas Holiday String Lights with 100 Blue LED: Home Improvement.
Why your grandparents didn’t have food allergies…but you do. Did your grandparents have food allergies? Mine sure didn’t. A stark comparison to the growing epidemic of food allergies, worsening with every generation. So why didn’t your grandparents have food allergies? It’s really quite simple… 1) They ate seasonal real food. Food came from farms and small markets in the early 1900′s, and because food preservatives were not widely used yet, food was fresh. Because of the lack of processed food, their diets were nutrient dense allowing them to get the nutrition they needed from their food.
For babies, breast milk was valued and it was always in season. 2) They didn’t diet, and play restrictive games with their body and metabolism. Our grandparents did not fall victim to fad diets, food marketing, calorie counting, and other detrimental dieting habits that are popular today (in part because the marketing infrastructure didn’t exist yet). 3) They cooked food at home, using traditional preparation methods from scratch. 7) They spent lots of time outside. 20th Century Fox Gave Him $25,000 To Make A Movie Trailer. Here's What He Did Instead.
Sherlock Mini-Episode: Many Happy Returns - Sherlock Series 3 Prequel - BBC One. 25 Easy Instant Energy Boosters. By Eleni Gage Simple strategies for filling the tank when you’re running on empty. Tackle a Dreary, Do-I-Have-to-Get-Out-of-Bed Day With a Burst of Color The Morton Salt Girl got it right in her yellow raincoat. “There are days we need a shot of adrenaline before we even get out of bed, and colors can help with that,” says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute and author of More Alive With Color ($20, amazon.com).
Rise and Seek Sunshine “You want to use light and stimulation to wake you up for the daytime, then use dark and quiet at night,” says Joyce Walsleben, Ph.D., an associate professor of medicine at the New York University Sleep Disorders Center. End Your Shower With a Burst of Cold Water Your body responds more quickly to a cold stimulus than to hot, so “a quick, short blast will perk you up,” says Jim Karas, a coauthor of The 7-Day Energy Surge ($16, amazon.com). Get the Giggles Dab on a Jasmine-Infused Fragrance. Penguins: Waddle All the Way. Tips for Creating a Mindful Home. Mindfulness is being embraced everywhere these days, from the Kindergarten classroom to company retreats. What is mindfulness, exactly? Susan Smalley, Ph.D., and Diana Winston, co-authors of Fully Present, say that mindfulness is "an accepting and kind attitude toward yourself and your present moment experience. " One that will change your relationship to life. Sounds enticing, huh?
Here are a few tips on how to integrate the practice of mindfulness into your home. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Fasten your seat belts, because the holidays are here. Six Things Nelson Mandela Believed That Most People Won't Talk About. By Aviva Shen and Judd Legum "Six Things Nelson Mandela Believed That Most People Won’t Talk About" In the desire to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s life — an iconic figure who triumphed over South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime — it’s tempting to homogenize his views into something everyone can support. This is not, however, an accurate representation of the man. Mandela was a political activist and agitator. He did not shy away from controversy and he did not seek — or obtain — universal approval. As the world remembers Mandela, here are some of the things he believed that many will gloss over. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
The DIY Couturier • 21 Tips to Keep Your Shit Together When You're Depressed. A while ago, I penned a fairly angry response to something circulating on the internet – the 21 Habits of Happy People. It pissed me off beyond belief, that there was an inference that if you weren’t Happy, you simply weren’t doing the right things. I’ve had depression for as long as I can remember. It’s manifested in different ways. I did therapy. I did prozac. I did more therapy. My baseline is melancholic. So, this Cult of Happy article just set me off. It’s bad enough without people ramming Happy Tips at you through facebook. A friend of mine suggested that I write something from my point of view because, surprisingly, I manage to give an outwards impression of having my shit together. So, here it is. My 21 Tips on Keeping Your Shit Together During Depression 1) Know that you’re not alone. 3) Enlist the help of a professional. 4) Understand that antidepressants will only do so much. 5) Pick up a paintbrush, a pencil, an activity you got joy from in the past and re-explore that.
When God isn't on the guest list. British actor Daniel Radcliffe, known for his role as Harry Potter, declared he was an atheist in a 2009 interview. "I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it," he said. "I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do. " During a 2002 interview on "Inside the Actor's Studio," actress Julianne Moore was asked what she would like to hear God say to her at the gates of heaven. She replied, "Well, I guess you were wrong. A GQ cover story in 2012 noted that Spanish actor Javier Bardem is an atheist.
English actress Keira Knightley has joked that she wishes she were Catholic. Actor Paul Giamatti calls himself an atheist. Sir Ian McKellen, best known for his roles as Gandalf in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and Magneto in the "X-Men" films, has listed atheism among the causes he cares most about.
Legendary CBS News commentator Andy Rooney, who died in 2011 at age 92, was outspoken about religion. Famous atheists and their beliefs.