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Between shot records to x-ray copies, prescription information to hospital stays and surgery records, the average person is sure to have a file of medical information an inch thick—if not more. When you have additional family members to keep track of, the job becomes that much more complicated.

Keeping medical records straight may not seem like such a big deal; after all, what’s done is done. But when you’re keeping track of your own medical history, linking events and risks with possible current health issues, and checking insurance payouts and medical bills for accuracy, they can come in pretty handy. You can also use them during tax season. And what about medical emergencies? Doctors always want a medical history when you bring someone in, but in times of emergency, it’s not like he or she (or you!) will remember everything.

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Admit it: your home has smelled like a soiled diaper (or two), the wrong end of a dog, or the poop deck of the Black Pearl at some point or another in your life. When this happens—especially if company is coming—we all want to immediately reach for a can of Febreeze and douse the house in a cloud of smelly-good residue.

But the fact remains that, like most aerosol sprays, that really isn’t that good for us to be inhaling. It’s not like it really gets rid of the smell’s source or anything; it just covers it up. It’s like throwing your toddler’s blankie over dog poop instead of cleaning it up—or doing what Adam Sandler did in Big Daddy: using newspaper to lay over vomit and pee, and simply let it sit there.

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Stainless Steel Still Gets Stained, Oddly Enough: Stainless Steel Still Gets Stained, Oddly EnoughFor some reason this weekend I was struck by the urge to get my pans SHINY again.  Not the inside of the pans - those are perfectly clean - but the outsides.  My pans hang in the kitchen, so the dreary griminess is very visible to myself and any visitors!  I spent a lot of time researching solutions, and I had some successes and some failures.  

Problem: Hard water stains on EVERYTHING.  My house has a well system, and our ground water is pretty darned hard, even after it's been run through the water softener.  I get white mineral deposits anywhere that water is allowed to dry.


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When you buy cleaning products, no matter what kind they are, you spend anywhere from $3 to $10 bucks per product. If you clean daily or weekly, which is preferable, you can expect to spend several hundred dollars on cleaning products annually. The more environmentally friendly products, which also happen to be the best smelling, almost always cost more because of the high quality natural ingredients. Guess what? There is a way to get the great smell, the clean surface, and the dead germs all while actually enjoying the process of cleaning, by spending alot less money. Consider purchasing these few items today and enjoy cleaning your home with non-toxic, all natural products that not only do the job and smell exquisite; they do it all for a fraction of the cost of store bought products and last a whole lot longer.

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