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Tips on how to make the living space a vibrant, multi-functional hub for cosmopolitan homeowners

• Scale assessment. Opt for compact furniture pieces to maximize the floor area. Arrange them diagonally to make the room look bigger.

• Highlight rooms [...]

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Hello yellow. Color experts are predicting that cheerful and sunny yellow will be the influential color of the year for 2009.

Pantone, which provides color standards to design industries, specifically cites “mimosa,” a vibrant shade of yellow illustrated by the flowers of some [...]

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It’s disheartening that stores in the United States sell unsafe or uncertified products, but it does happen. Fortunately, there are organizations dedicated to keeping dangerous products out of your home.

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and Factory Mutual are both certifying bodies that test products [...]

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Are you going through maddening circles for the past few days because of your debts? Do you feel being stressed out by collection agencies by sending you insistent demand letters and threats of a collection suit with damages? Are you [...]

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Looking for information on how to better manage your credit card? How about financial planning tools to help you save up for your children’s education or retirement? All these and more are just one click away in Citibank [...]

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You don’t smoke, but some of your neighbors, friends and relatives do. And when you’re around them, smoke from their cigarettes puts your health at risk.

Here are some tips for politely reminding others not to smoke around you.

Speak up tactfully. Family and [...]

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If you need additional help with debt reduction, try these suggestions:

Establish a budget. Often, families who make a reasonably good income say they don’t know where it all goes. You can find [...]

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Two things have special healing—a tear and a good laugh. What does humor solve? Humor is the vaccine for stress and boredom and a secret to a long life. Humor is best expressed through jokes. Everyone enjoys a good joke. Humor [...]