The longer you live, the more ‘things’ bog you down — clean house!
I come from a long family tradition of pack rats — we accumulate things, fail to throw enough of them out or recycle them, and end up with “things” bogging us down. When I got married, I suppose my wife’s personality and mine sort of meshed unconsciously that way, because she fit right into the family mold of not throwing anything out if it’s still usable, despite replacing it and never really using it again.
As a result, our home of almost 30 years is getting, uh, cluttered. The battle against the clutter is never ending, because, sigh, it just hurts to get rid of our “stuff,” even if that stuff has just become “thins” that bog down our lives and fill up our house!
Someday, of course, I expect to hit the jackpot — either the PCH sweepstakes (probably) or a best-selling novel (maybe). When the jackpot comes in, we look around the old house, say so long to the memories, and call in the moving companies to deal with the big move into the Big House on the Hill.
Okay, in real life, that probably won’t happen like that. We’ll probably continue living here in the old family “homestead” until the kids get together and pay to put us in a nice “home,” not necessarily on the hill. So what started all this rambling about possessions, clutter, etc.? We made some minor changes in computer hardware the last few days, meaning we had to move a very old, barely working computer upstairs until we can afford to dispose of it. In the process, we found tons of old boxes tucked away in a couple of corners and spent some quality time doing the sorting and mostly tossing necessary to clean out some of the clutter.
Baby steps …
[tags]hording, clutter, reorganizing your house, moving preparations, take time for living[/tags]
Anybody know anything about ‘detox’ diets?
Seems as though I’m on a sort of “health kick” right now. Last week it was acne, this week it’s detox diets. Sort of on a roll, I guess.
I’m asking about detox diets in general. I was reading something about split opinions — the gurus pushing particular diets suggest they’re great, of course, but critics say they’re based on nice sounding “pseudo science,” not sound medicine.
And there are products for special diets that have the name detox in them, such as one I was reading about just awhile ago, Orovo detox, which their site says is a detoxifying blend of “super foods” that cleanse the body and lead to fat burning and weight loss.
I’m skeptical about a pill or a beverage that will solve the many, many problems that cause people to be overweight. I’ve tried a ton of diets personally over the years, and I’ve lost a ton of weight on various diets — then gained it all back and more when I’ve quite the diet and just started my “normal” eating again. The most success I’ve personally ever had at “dieting” was one occasion a few years ago when I simply ate a balanced diet in moderate amounts and exercised regularly.
SO — what do you know about detox diets, detox products, the whole “world” of detox? Care to share it with the rest of us?
[tags]Orvo detox, detox dieting, balanced nutrition, exercise, take time for living[/tags]
Acne can be a plague that diminishes life’s quality at any age
For those of us who never had severe acne problems, even as teenagers, it may be difficult to understand what a scourge it can seem in the lives of those who suffer severe acne or prolonged acne that they never “out grow” after their teen years.
I bring this up as an important issue when we consider how to best “take time for living” our lives to the fullest because I just read a report online about teenagers and acne. The report, at the website Science Daily, told of 266 teen volunteers who took part in a survey recently in San Francisco. Researchers went through a complex formulation relating survey responses to time to money spent, or something like that. The end result was that the teens “reported they would pay a median (midpoint) of $275 to have never had acne, $100 to be 100-percent cleared of acne, $10 for 50-percent clearance and zero for 100-percent clearance with scarring. Parents said they would pay a median of $250 for their child to never have had acne, $100 for 100-percent clearance, $100 for 50-percent clearance and zero for 100-percent clearance with scarring,” according to the researchers’ findings.
In my experience, I have a close family member who has struggled from her earliest teen years into her 60s, trying about every sort of acne treatment and acne cream available, and never found resolution of the problem.
I understand these days, if this problem is plaguing you, there are somewhat expensive and various types of laser treatments that hold promise for permanent acne eradication. If you have this issue, and if you can find a way to try that, good for you. Others, such as our family member, probably will just need to live with acne, seeking treatments that you can and hoping for new developments.
But don’t give up your quality of life over the matter. Whatever may be bothering you, medical or physical problems or perhaps emotional struggles or financial crises, I truly hope you’ll get on top of the issues and enjoy taking time for living to the best of your ability today!
[tags]acne treatment, dermatology, teen acne survey, take time for living[/tags]
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