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How to Buy Eco-friendly Furniture
In all areas of our modern lives, we’re going green whenever we can—including our household and office furnishings. Furniture makers are now producing bedroom, living room, kitchen and bathroom furniture made of renewable or recycled materials with an eye to environmental friendliness. With eco-friendly furniture getting easier to find, more varied in style and more affordable, greater numbers of people are opting for the natural, the recycled, the organic and the sustainable.
How to Feed a Large Family on a Budget
It’s a matter of supply and demand: the more your family grows the more food you need. In today’s world of skyrocketing food prices it can be hard to keep food on the table, especially if you’re on a tight budget. By managing the ways you shop and cook, you’ll learn that feeding a large family is not as tough as it seems; the key lies in being a smart shopper and using every opportunity you can find to save money on your food budget.
How to Prepare a Healthy Quick Meal
Drive through fast food, pizza at the front door, microwave frozen dinners–in today’s hectic lifestyle, sometimes it’s hard to remember to eat, let alone cook a healthy meal in a hurry. Quick doesn’t have to mean unhealthy; it’s more a matter of planning ahead and having the ingredients you need already in the house. Change your shopping habits a bit so you’re prepared to whip up a nutritious meal in a hurry, and you’ll give new meaning to the term “fast food.”
How to Shop for School Supplies on a Budget
Getting kids ready for the new school year can take a bite out of your household budget, and–if you have more than one child–it can turn into a financial crisis. Learning how to shop for school supplies on a budget is an important step in easing the strain when money is tight. It lessens or eliminates having to tell your child you can’t afford the supplies he wants and needs. Once you master the process, you’ll find yourself using the basic concepts in your other shopping categories, and the savings will multiply throughout the year.
How to Motivate Kids to Exercise
In today’s busy lifestyles, especially when both parents work outside the home, it can be a challenge to motivate your kids to get enough exercise. Television, video games and computers can lull children of all ages into sedentary habits; yet you know it’s important to their health and well being that they lead more active lifestyles. According to Doug Hewitt, author of “The Practical Guide to Weekend Parenting,” the most important step is making the exercise decision and then making it fun.