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Seriously Smart Ways To Save On A Wedding

Stop me if I’m wrong, but you’ve got engaged and you’re planning your wedding. So, you’ve never been happier/excited/anxious in your entire life. And, it’s not the idea of spending your life with one man. That you can get used to, but the cost of the shindig is scaring you senseless. Seriously, how can one event cost this much money?!

Forget about the what and the why because they aren’t important right now. What you should focus on is the how. How can you make your dream day a little more affordable? Carry on reading to find out the seriously smart hacks at your disposal.

How to Make Maths More Real, Relevant and Fun

Maths is one of the most important lessons you learn at school and the skills you learn in these classes are utilised every day of your life. However, it is no secret that many children don’t like it – finding it difficult and boring. But I don’t think so!

5 Tips to buying a new vacuum cleaner

The market is flooded with vacuum cleaners and you may find it hectic to try and figure out which one to buy. You have to choose from brands such as Hoover, Dyson, Bosch, and others while you also figure out if you will buy a cylinder, upright, bagless, bagged, stick, cordless, corded or handheld vacuum cleaner.

Surviving a Road Trip

As my children are getting older, they are less and less keen on road-trips, which makes it so hard to plan and travel. So I decided to write this post by asking them how to make road trips more bearable for them and of course, for us to survive together!

Before any road trip, we always have a habit of getting our car ready. It is always essential to make sure you don’t run into serious problems. Getting roadside help is not always quick or simple. I am always very cautious, especially travelling with children in the car.

3 Helpful Tips to Getting A Replacement Social Security Card

3 Helpful Tips to Getting A Replacement Social Security Card From Home While Travelling

Some things are simply not worth losing. Things that are precious to you, maybe things or people that you hold so dear to your heart. When the time comes that they indeed get lost somehow, it often causes some degree of pain and discomfort. It usually spells trouble and stress. Maybe that thing in your mind right now is your smartphone, which holds gigabytes upon gigabytes of captured memories and images. Perhaps it’s your laptop with important files and documents stored in the deepest recesses of its hard drive. Maybe it’s a particular piece of gold and silver shaped in the form of a tiny, expensive jewelry given to you as a gift from someone special. But how about a social security card? How often do we think about the “what if’s” of losing such a thing?

4 Tips To Selecting The Best Bar Stools For Your Home

Now that you have an eye-catching bar set up in your abode, you will need bar stools to accompany the area. Selecting the best bar stools for your home is not exactly as easy as a walk in the park. It´s because there are various factors to consider and some of these factors are style, looks, comfort, and convenience etc. While some prefer stationary bar stools, there are others that love swiveling around in their bar stools. There isn’t a dearth of bar stools available for purchase on the market. However, the ones worth purchasing are very few and far between. Luckily, you need not lose your sleep over deciding the ideal bar stool for your home as we have listed 4 tips to help you make your decision. Have a look below! For more information on bar stools, you can visit the site, danetti.com.

How To Choose The Right Mattress

Choosing the right mattress for your specific situation and needs can be an extensive and downright exhausting task sometimes.

Choosing between the different types, firmness and fillings can be confusing and in the end you could be buying the completely wrong type of mattress. This can be quite harmful when you have a bad back or hip, with the wrong mattress this can only aggravate the situation.

Bedworld take a look into how you go about choosing the perfect mattress for you and your situation and the inner workings of a mattress that would affect you.

4 Ways to Add Value to Your Home

Improving your home can have a significant impact on your quality of living and also the desirability of your property if you are looking to sell and move up the property ladder. Whether you are looking to create that all-important space for you and your family, or you want to add value, there a number of things you can do. The Office of National Statistics recently revealed that we spend around £30 billion a year on home improvements across the UK; that’s around £43 million every week!
With so many things you can do for your home, where do you start? The National Association of Estate Agents revealed some of the most preferred modifications to add value to your home, so here are just a few!

How To Unblock Your Drains!

How To Unblock Your Drains! If you’re living in a family home, a blocked drain can often be a bug bear; whether it is in the kitchen or bathroom, determining whose fault it is that the drain is blocked (as well as whose responsibility it is to clean it out!) can be a struggle. Having water that won’t drain is frustrating, and we all know how expensive it can be to call a plumber out to solve the problem. Here, we run through a few ways that you can not only work to unblock your drain, but also prevent it from happening again in future!

How to Protect Your Kitchen Surfaces?

How to Protect Your Kitchen Surfaces?

The kitchen is at the heart of most homes. Not only does it provide you with food, family time and a social area, it can be a great escape from the rest of the house. You are in there every day cooking meals, chatting about your day or sipping glasses of wine with friends to pass the time. This means that the kitchen is in constant use.

Its surfaces are being used all day every day; the kids are baking on the worktops, you are preparing your meals and the cupboards are being filled full of fabulous ingredients ready to be cooked with. So how do you protect theses surfaces? How do you keep them lasting as long as possible?

Health Hacks Review

Health Hacks contains 500 simple solutions that will provide benefits to your health. This is written by Esme Floyd who is a writer specialising in health, science and lifestyle subjects. She has written for UK publications Zest and Men’s Health, and is the author of Body Massage and seven 1001 titles, including 1001 Little Beauty Miracles.

Chinese interior tips for your UK home

Although living in the UK can be a lot of fun, sometimes the fusty old British interior design scheme can leave a little to be desired. So for anyone who’s looking to update their interiors with a few Chinese themes, here are some ideas.

3 Feng Shui Tips For Your Wardrobe

We all heard something about Feng Shui – the traditional Chinese philosophy that helps people take care of their life better. It works on many levels in our life, and it works on the premise that what is closest to you has the most impact on your physical and emotional health. And what can be closer to you than your clothing?

Today I am going to share some Feng Shui tips for your wardrobe. To use it or not – it is all up to you, but nothing will change if you won’t make an impact. So do your choices and let’s get to those tips right away.

3 Foods to Avoid for Good Oral Health for Your Family

Taking care of oral hygiene for both you and your children is so important. Regular trips to the dentist, a nightly routine for brushing teeth and knowing which foods to eat and which to avoid are so important.

Today we are going to focus on the later because there are several foods which have been known to cause tooth decay in both children and adults that you need to know about!

In Case Of Emergency

Do you have money set aside for a “rainy day”? With responsibilities and financial commitments it is a good idea to have some money set aside for emergencies. But how much should be set aside?

Firstly, we should consider what is an ’emergency’. For me, I would include any of the following:

Loss of income for either yourself or your partner if there are financial dependencies. If there are two incomes then the chances of being laid off at the same time are smaller

Health-related issues for yourself or family, which may well be linked with loss of income.

Repairs around the home, e.g. broken roof tiles, broken fences, burst pipes, etc.

Replacements for essential possessions that are absolutely necessary, e.g. a car, oven, washing machine, etc.