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Do you have a hard time getting your guy to participate fully in the Christmas preparations? Many of my girlfriends complain about their husbands not knowing what to do, not helping out, or simply not getting the right presents when it comes to Christmas shopping.
This is exactly why I’ve written this article, 'How To Get Your Man To Behave This Christmas.' It covers the touchy situations of how to get the present you want from him, getting him to help around the house with the general preparations, visiting friends and family, getting the Christmas cards sent, and the big one: cooking on Christmas day.
This article will provide you with some tricks and tips, but will also help you to work out some of your own solutions by giving you just the right spark you need.
If, like my husband, the man in your life goes nuts on Christmas Eve trying to pack what should be weeks' worth of carefully planned shopping into one afternoon, this article was written about him.
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At the Relationship Supermarket, we also care about the domestic aspects of our lives and the good stuff that make living easier. Because of career training and work experience, I feel more comfortable and qualified to write about relationships and life-coaching type articles. Nevertheless, some of my most successful articles published on Triond are not those which discuss tools for an easier life, but equipment for making living easier in the home.
These first five (below) hit a high spot on the Internet. I think that the popularity of the series is not owed to just the title, but the fact that they describe hilarious scenarios. They outline cheap, useful and unknown uses for various household items, but as a change from the norm where advice and tips are generally painstakingly listed, this amusing but handy series show someone walking around the home with a jar of Vaseline, salt, a bottle of baby oil, a bottle of Vodka, or a pack of toothpicks, taking care of the many tasks around the house that particular item could be used for - all in one go. The domestic goddess’s appetite for easy living was obviously whetted and satiated with these pieces.
Top 10(Legal) Things To Do If You Find Yourself Holding a Jar of Vaseline
Top 10 (Legal) Things to do if You Find Yourself Left Holding a Bottle of Baby-Oil
A helpful list of things you can do, if you suddenly find yourself left holding a bottle of Baby Oil with no one to smear it on.
If Olive oil is made from olives, coconut oil – from coconuts, crude oil – from crude (you’ve got to know I’m kidding right?), and corn oil is made from corn, what is Baby Oil made from?
Top 10(Legal) Things to do if You Find Yourself Holding a Pack of Toothpicks
Allowable things to do if you’re holding a pack of toothpicks. You would be surprised at how useful they are.
You’re not quite sure how you got here, all you can vaguely remember is that you’ve been extremely busy and your activities involved some salt , a bottle of Baby Oil and a jar of Vaseline . However, you’re suddenly now aware that you’re standing in the kitchen, wearing latex gloves and holding a pack of wooden toothpicks. How do you make yourself useful while you try to figure out what went on before you arrived in the kitchen?
Top 10 (Legal)Things to do if You Find Yourself Holding a Bottle Of Vodka
A very useful list of things to do if you’re suddenly holding a bottle of Vodka and have an afternoon to spare.
We’ve now come to the last of the five article in this series. We’re in a good position though because this time we’re happily holding a bottle of Vodka. If all else fails and none of these tips work (they will, really), we could just give up and drink the whole lot – which as you know, is horrible advice.
So what can we endulge in with a bottle of Vodka that won’t involve the long, overweight, icing sugar-encrusted arm of the law?
On a lesser note, I published How To Clean Pet Faeces, Yucky Spills and Other MuckyThings. This has always performed well, but the views came in constant dribbles rather than a mighty force of a Caribbean wave. I suppose this shows that domestic goddesses surfing the Internet are looking for more concise pieces rather than just general household-tips ones.
It was then I realised that How Duct Tape Became The Love Of My Life had to be written.
I’ve always had a good selection of duct tape at home because I think out of everything else, this item has been most useful to me through the years.
Another few domestic goddess popular articles were:
Your Guide To Creating The Perfect Eyebrows
Give yourself a free face-lift, in the time it takes to cook the roast.
For those of us who can’t or won’t have a surgical face lift, this is the next best thing. In the following article I will suggest tried and tested ways to take years off your face. I’ve discovered that these ways work instantly with lasting impact.
A Flea, A Flea. My Kingdom For A Flea
My family and I came back from holiday with flea bites all over our bodies, caught no doubt, from the beds in which we slept. This encouraged casual research into fleas which resulted in some very shocking and worrying discoveries indeed.
8 Brilliant Uses For Urine
So flushing it down is not the way to go.
A large part of what we deal with here at the Relationship Supermarket.com is about keeping that sound relationship with have with our inner selves intact. More and more it seems the temporary balance we grab onto by the tips of our fingers, is teetering in the opposite direction from where we stand ready to unfold.
Is it our modern lifestyle which unhinges the mind at weird angles? As a young girl growing up, I was not aware that quite so many phobias existed. Then again, I lived in a poor country where worrying about paying the rent and having enough to feed your family were highest on people’s lists of fears.
Is the lack of life’s worries the very thing that has induced these abundant fears? Or have phobias always been present but misdiagnosed?
I’ve just heard of Automysophobia. It’s the fear of being dirty. All the usual signs of increased heart-rate, panic attacks, dry mouths, excessive sweating, and the feeling of losing control, accompany what is a genuine terror of getting dirty. The most worrying symptom is that people who suffer with authomysophobia tend to take extreme measures to stay clean. Walking in the path of oncoming traffic to avoid stepping on a muddy patch on the ground is not uncommon behaviour for this type of illness. Washing with bleach if one feels that they’ve become dirty is also not unheard of.
Automysophobia isn’t just the dislike of dirt on one’s skin, or being careful not to appear dirty to one’s peers. It’s totally irrational, like most phobias, and digs itself into the psyche a whole lot deeper than simply being ‘careful.’ The good news is that it can be managed with behaviour therapy and treatment.
Be on the look-out for this developing in your children. With the onset of swine flu, people are understandably taking precautions to be extra clean. Talk to your children reasonably and don’t forbid them to get dirt on themselves. Dirt is part of growing up, and it shows that our children had some fun outdoors. This, in an age of obesity in kids, can only be a good thing. No one has found any relationship between ‘too tidy’ parents and the onset of automysophobia in kids, but don’t take any chances. Phobias make for a very miserable lifestyle for anyone, let alone young people blossoming into our very difficult world.
A ‘friend’ has become such a generic name for people with whom we spend our time. These days we’ve filled our lives with so much time-wasting junk, that too many people have more time for their online ‘friends’ than they do for the real ones they can touch.
I often wonder how we would react if we were stuck in a room with the people we hang out with on Facebook or Twitter. Would we want to stay and chat or would we race out to make fresh online friends whose voices we’ve never heard, whose hands we’ve never seen.
Is the Internet responsible for this shift, or are we so involved in our own lives, we can’t be bothered to share real things with real people.
And what about the things we do share with real people? Are they too superficial, or have we managed to maintain genuine bonds with the people whose lives we’re meant to enrich? In this article I explore a few different types of friendships based on the ‘real’ people we know. In which division do you fall? Are you the Judas type, in it for what you can get? The Peter type, the life of the group when the going is good? Are you somewhere in between, or do you dare to be the Jesus type, strong and dependable?
From a woman’s perspective, what does it take to maintain a bit of the sweetness of the honeymoon period in a relationship? Many of our counterparts feel trapped in a partnership where our men feel so ultra comfortable, they begin to stagnate and grow mould. It’s great to be at ease and snug in a relationship, but when comfort turns into festering, we’ve got to stand up and take action before the ‘regret’ period steps in.
In this fun article Fun Guy, or Fungi? I talk about different ways to get him back on track. There are workable solutions that every woman can handle. So pick up a spade and scrape that guy off your couch.
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