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Holiday tips for coping with difficult family members
All year, you face the stress of juggling work, parties, shopping, cooking and caring for your children or elderly parents. Then come the holidays, when we often get caught up in unrealistic expectations, which can affect the way we relate to others in our immediate or our extended families — which can create even more stress. Here’s how you can cope with the holiday angst that difficult family members can cause. Holidays are a high-stress time Relationships can cause turmoil at any time, but they can be particularly difficult to deal with during the holiday season, when an already overloaded schedule can reach the breaking point. Family gatherings can intensify…
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Style monitor: spring city-break packing tips
With the long-weekend season nearly upon us, and by way of acknowledging the fashion grand tour that is the ’shows’ this month, we bring you spring’s hottest weekend-wardrobe essentials, whether you’re frolicking in Florence, pirouetting in Paris or nipping off to New York. These packing suggestions should ensure there’s a little less to worry about; after all, your weekends away are meant to be 100% wooing, 0% wardrobe crisis. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– MRS SMITH’S STYLISH CITY-BREAK PACKING LIST THE SEPARATES To boldly go… Weekend wardobes that work involve as little packing as possible, and this cute little combo ticks off more trends than should be allowed in one outfit: colour blocking and…
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Tips to get cheap hotel deals wherever you go
Getting cheap hotel deals is always on the priority list of all travelers- whether they are professionals, backpackers or students. So, if you are traveling somewhere whether for pleasure or work, always make sure to get the best hotel deals available. The first step to get cheap hotel deals is to decide on your budget, i.e. how cheap do you want which of course differs from person to person. After you decide on the budget, you should then browse the Internet to compare the facilities offered by all the hotels available in that budget to get the best hotel deals. Wakanow.com is one platform where you can get the hotel…
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Tips for women to ensure a healthy heart and a healthy vacation
Tips for women to ensure a healthy heart and a healthy vacation Henrico County based Mondial Assistance, the largest travel insurance provider in the world, and the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Mid-Atlantic chapter are teaming up for the 2011 Go Red for Women campaign and as part of the effort are offering these tips for women to ensure a healthy heart and a healthy vacation in 2011. Mondial Assistance is a “Healthy Lifestyle” Partner for this year’s … Extracted from: Read more on News-Medical-Net Valley cold is a hot time for furnace, pipe repairs The recent string of below-freezing nighttime lows in the Valley has caused pipes to burst, irrigation…
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Tips for choosing the best hotel during your vacation trip
Choosing the right hotel or motel is always a difficult task for the people, and with the huge number of promotions, deals and programs out there, it can be more confusing. Today every single hotel have there websites full of tormenting photos and slick promotional copy that make you believe you’ll be bathed in luxury as soon as you step foot into the lobby which doesn’t help at all. How can you tell that particular hotel will give you the total comfort or it’s a right hotel for you? Since every traveler has different needs when searching for a hotel, you’ll need to ask yourself what’s most important to you.…