How to grow a lemon tree
Growing a lemon tree is surprisingly easy – even indoors. And they make gorgeous plants – green all year round, with dark shiny leaves. Getting a lemon tree to fruit takes a bit more planning and effort, but it’s doable. Basically, lemon trees need a lot of light (artificial will do), protection from cold weather and – if you want fruit – access to bees and insects that pollinate them.
Lemon trees as fruitless houseplants
Lemon trees make beautiful indoor plants. If ... READ MORE
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If you regularly get wrong numbers on your cell phone or have callers you’d like to avoid, create a contact called “Wrong Number” and add to it any phone numbers that dial you by mistake. Set it to silent for their ringtone, and you won’t even be bothered with a ring.
While this is great if you have a number that gets mixed up with a major company or something, it can also be psychologically beneficial if you’re getting calls from ... 
Shopping online is awesome. You can save money and get products not available offline in your region. You can read reviews from other customers that help you make smarter purchases. You can leave reviews of your own. Oddly, this digital shopping age is a bit of a return to when communities were tighter-knit and everyone knew everyone else and businesses needed good reputations to survive.
The best known online shopper’s paradise is, of course, Amazon.com. I do love Amazon, but a ... 
We’ve talked before about putting dried, used coffee grounds in old pantyhose to make odor-absorbing sachets. Guess what else old pantyhose are good for?
Tying plants (like tomato vines) to sticks
Use as hanging storage for onions. Tie knots between each onion, and you can just snip at the bottom knot to get one out.
Remember how you can line plant potters with coffee filters to keep water and soil inside. Pantyhose also work.
Make catnip toys for cats – just ... 
You might want to make your own soap because you’re allergic to some of the common ingredients in store-bought soap, or because it saves money, or just for the fun of mixing your own scents and decorative shapes. Making soap from scratch isn’t a simple process, and you will need to be careful with the lye. Alternately, you can “rebatch” your own soap without using lye if you use another soap (like Ivory, which already has the lye) as a ... 
One of the great secrets of negotiation is how your tone of voice affects the other person’s perception of your mood. Whether you’re in sales or just a customer trying to get a company to do right by you, there are several tips I’ve found very effective over the years:
Keep your pitch low. Don’t let your voice wander up into the higher ranges: it sounds desperate and/or false to the ear.
How to yell. Yelling signals “I have lost control of ... 
It’s not enough that you’re unwell and need treatment that will take up time and cause you more discomfort: it’s also gonna cost you! That’s the reality many of us live with when it comes to medicine. Finding ways to pay medical bills can be almost stressful enough to cause a whole other health issue.
There are a number of ways you can keep your medical costs under control:
Always ask: what’s it gonna cost me?
Before getting any procedure done, or starting ... 
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