The Summer of 2019 is looking to be a monumental celebration. Your oldest daughter will be graduating from college. Your youngest daughter will be graduating from high school. And you and your spouse will be celebrating your 30th wedding anniversary. While your girls think that you should celebrate by traveling to Hawaii, the adults in the family have even bigger plans. You have already started working on scheduling a family vacation to the City of Lights, Paris, France. While a summer vacation on the beaches of Hawaii may seem inviting to high school and college age girls, as parents you…
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Did you know that about 45% of consumers prefer shopping for fashion items online, rather than off? This is not too surprising — the selection online is often far larger than what one can find in a store, and technology is making it increasingly easy for people to digitally ?try on? merchandise without ever leaving their home. You may be feeling like your current wardrobe could use a pick-me-up. You?ve recently looked back at some of your photos from five years ago — and you?re a little shocked to see that you?re still wearing many of the same outfits! It?s…
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Beauty is an idealized human concept that many of us strive to achieve and maintain. So important is this idea of beauty that it was worshipped by the ancient Greeks as embodied in the goddess Aphrodite; the Romans later adopted Aphrodite into their own pantheon, renaming her the goddess Venus. Beauty changes along with culture as anyone who has studied idealized feminine sex icons in American history can tell you; the 1990s and 2000s have seen exaggerated curves, lower weights, and fewer flaws from celebrities thanks to photo editing and medical breakthroughs with equal measure. Beauty is in the eye…
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Do you like to camp? If you do, you are not alone. This is a very popular way for many families to vacation. In 2013, nearly 14% of the population of the United States went camping, according to the American Camper Report from 2014. That is more than 40 million people. In 2014, more than $1.5 billion was spent on camping gear at travel stores. A large percentage of this was on travel backpacks and sleeping bags. Fun Tips to Make Your Camping Vacation Great Brighten your campground with a milk jug filled with water. Take an empty gallon milk…