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International Dating

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Have you been searching for love? Had good relationships in the past but find that you’re having trouble finding the right woman now? Don’t worry, you aren’t alone.

In this day and age with everyone working long hours, parenting children on their own, and perhaps caring for aging parents or relatives it can be hard to find out to getting out and play the dating game.

Have you ever thought of trying to find the right woman on line using an international dating service? I know people that it’s worked for, and I’d say if you aren’t having much luck on your own why not give www.loversplanet.com a try? Who knows, you could end up dating Russian brides, and possible find the love connection that you’ve been hoping to find.






Paperwhites love a little drink of Gin

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Now here’s a few tips that you might not have heard of or thought of before:

If your forced paperwhite Narcissus, are flopping over there is a remedy – an odd one at that. Researchers at Cornell discovered an old home remedy for top heavy paperwhites that will help keep them in place – give them a good stiff drink. That’s right, put a little bit of gin in the water and watch their heavy heads lift. You can use an assortment of alcohols for these boozy plants – vodka, rum, tequila and whisky all seem to work equally well.

Another tip to steady your paperwhites as they grow is to start them in plain water until the roots begin to show and the stems are a couple of inches in length. Once they reach this stage, drain the water and use an alcohol/water mix by mixing one part liquor to seven parts water. Continue to water them with this 5% alcohol mixture and they should stay upright and happy. Use the alcohols mentioned above for best results. This mix stunts the growth of the stems by a third to one half but doesn’t affect the size or production of the blooms.

You should also keep your paperwhites in a bright, yet cool room as they will grow at a slower rate in the cool room. The prefered room temperature would be closer to 60 degrees than 70 degree’s F. You can also place the bulbs in a container of pebbles, water or soil rather than growing the bulbs in a water filled container. Maintain the waterline below the bulb level or they may rot. Water the roots, not the bulb. This holds true for Amaryllis and hyacinths as well.

Also, apparently bulbs started after the new year will grow more quickly and and be shorter plants than bulbs started in December.

How’s your credit card holding up in the buying season?

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I hope that all of my visitors had a great holiday season. I was wondering how many of you saved some of your shopping for after Christmas so you could catch some of the post Christmas sales? New Year Sales, or as we have here “Boxing Day” sales?

Are your credit cards taking a beating? Stats for the UK show that credit cards are used for the bulk of spending by consumers during the Christmas and New Year period and I wouldn’t doubt for one minute that those stats hold true for large portions of Europe and North America as well. Apparently January is also the month when the majority of new credit card applications are made. Often these applications aren’t for new cards per se, they are to transfer current balances over to new credit cards. Often ones with 0% balance transfers or low interest cards.

We had absolutely no Christmas budget this year due to my illness. We just couldn’t afford to go out and get gifts for everyone like we normally do. One benefit of this has been that our credit card, for once, did not take a beating this year. It’s nice to be able to say that.

However, if you are unlike me and you put a lot of your holiday expenses on your credit cards you might be interested in visiting the Card Guide Co, where you can compare credit cards, interest rates, and all of the various cards with rewards attached to them from air miles to Sony points.

The Card Guide is just full of information that anyone looking to get their first or their 5th credit card would find useful. As I said earlier you can compare credit cards, learn about balance transfers, and read many of their informative articles when you visit the Card Guide. Check out your options.

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