Lifestyle

5 Monthly Home Maintenance Tasks You Should Be Doing

 

Being a homeowner does not end upon buying a new house. Just like a car, your home must be maintained in top shape through proper maintenance. Regular home maintenance can also prevent you from expensive repairs and accidents.  The best way to be on track with your maintenance tasks is to keep a calendar. The most frequent would be monthly …

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10 Great Ideas for Decorating Your Kids’ Rooms

 

Your kid’s room is a space for imagination and creativity. It’s the place where they read stories, do their assignments, play with their toys, and slowly grow up. It’s also a place that can be such a mess every day. While decorating your little one’s personal space can be a challenge, it can also be a lot of fun when …

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Are People Meant to be Monogamous?

 

These days, people seem to be shocked when they find out that their relationship partner has been having sexual relations with someone else. But is infidelity really that strange and unusual? Are monogamy and commitment to only one person natural for humans? Let’s start with the claim that humans fall into the category of mammals. And now, let’s look at …

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5 Home Improvements that are Always Worth the Investment

 

Living in a new house is like the honeymoon stage of a relationship. You love every part of it and cannot imagine changing anything. But as years go by, you start thinking that change is necessary. Home improvements are actually quite common for home owners. But keep in mind that not every renovation project will give you a return in …

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How a Girls Night Out Looks Like: From Excitement to Desperation

 

You are a beautiful, successful and single girl in your 20’s or 30’s and it’s Friday night – you look jaw-dropping, your friends are coming over to pick you up and you are heading to the club ready to have a wild night and maybe even meet your Prince Charming. In theory this all sounds great, but being single and …

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Is Paper Really Doomed? Productivity Apps Are Taking Over

 

Productivity – out of 450 million words in the Corpus of Contemporary American English, “productivity” is in the top 5 hundred, which is pretty good, considering its contextual limits. It is THE word of the 21st century.  The modern lifestyle is a fast paced one and being time efficient is a must. We are time-bound creatures, and we have less …

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Amazing Milk Benefits of the “Other” Kind

 

We should all be aware of the nutritional benefits of milk by now, but let’s put that aside for the moment. Did you know that milk is also a powerful tool in the tiresome everyday maintenance tasks you have to do around the house? Like most people you probably didn’t, so take a glass of milk and pull up a …

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Freaky Things on Friday the 13th

 

Friday the 13th, or as some like to call it “Black Friday”, is a part of a superstitious tradition of blaming everything bad that happens on that day on the bad luck it brings along. You may be laughing about this, but there is surely a part of you that believes there is something behind all of this and that …

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Should We Switch to Diesel?

 

Most people in Europe prefer diesel over gas. But, this is not the case in the United States – here many people are still sticking to gas, and considering diesel a dirty fuel. However, this is not the case anymore, and the problem of diesel has been solved, making it one of the most desirable fuels. The first thing that …

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12 Fun Facts about Kissing

 

1. The word “kiss”. The Romans had words for each type of kissing: “basium” for kissing on hand or cheek, “osculum” for closed-mouth kissing and “saviolum” for passionate kissing. Greeks, on the other hand, didn’t have a word for kissing, but they did have several words for love, such as “philia”, “eros” and “agape”. The English word “kiss” comes from …

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