Dealing with people who twist your words
I like a good debate, even if I come to realize I’m wrong. How else do we learn anything?
But the quickest way to turn a healthy debate into an unhealthy debacle is to have it with someone who turns your words around until they mean something else. Then he argues that point, completely ignoring what you really said.
Why do they do that?
Sometimes it’s that you’re absolutely right but it’s a truth they’re not ready to acknowledge. Sometimes ... READ MORE
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A living will specifies what you want done for your health care, should you be incapacitated and unable to speak for yourself. Do you want your family to exhaust all medical means to keep you alive? Or is there a limit – drawn by your personal beliefs or your religion – that you wouldn’t want them to exceed?
Do Your Proxy allows you to draw up a living will online for free. It’s designed for New York, but ... 
If you usually just make your burger patties out of ground beef and maybe some seasoning, you’re missing out on a lot of fun. The beauty of working with ground meat is that you can add anything you want into the patty. Try adding an egg to every pound of beef; this improves both the consistency and the flavor (and keeps it together on the grill). Garlic, onions and Worcestershire sauce are all winners for seasoning, but don’t be afraid ... 
Here’s a collection of twenty terrific tutorials for crafters, including knitting, crochet work, making jewelry out of old stuff you’ve got lying around, DIY stuff and making pretty wastepaper baskets. These should keep you busy through the rest of the summer!
PurlBee introduces you to Sashiko embroidery, a Japanese form of embroidery that doesn’t require an embroidery hoop, so you can carry your project anywhere.
Make jewelry out of old inner tubes.
A pattern for making your own water bottle carrier, so ... 
The first sunburn tip should always be: get a good sunblock and use it all the time. Dermatologists recommend this not just for avoiding sunburn, but for protecting you skin from longterm damage and potential skin cancer.
But if it’s too late for that and you’ve already lobstered yourself into pain, misery and peeling, the rest of this post is for you:
Take a cool bath and sprinkle some baking soda in the water to soothe burned skin.
Aloe vera gel! Lots of ... 
For a basic scrub down on the patio furniture, this is the simplest thing you can do, but it’s effective.
Mix up a gallon of water and dishwashing liquid. Grease cutting, preferably. Get the water fairly soapy, but you really don’t need a lot of soap. Dip a sponge in it and start cleaning. Dish liquid that cuts through food can cut through most of what’s going to land on your lawn furniture. If it’s just plastic furniture, you probably don’t ... 
You know those yearly stickers most states issue for you to stick on your car’s license plate? Here’s a tip I got from a state trooper after part of my license plate tag was removed by someone attempting to steal the whole thing:
One you apply the sticker, take an Exacto blade or something similar and make diagonal slashes through it in both directions. This way, if they try to peel it off, it’ll shred. The people who steal these things ... 
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