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Yes Virginia, there is a special place called eBay, where all the used clothing, the Barry Manilow cd’s people got tired of, recycled wedding gowns, eBooks on how to get gum out of your hair and all the odd toys from the island of misfit toys come to be sold at auction to the highest bidder~~and people are making a killing there.

If you have something you would like to sell, something you don’t need any longer, you can put it up for sale on Ebay. Set up a free account, browse the categories’ they offer to get an idea of what’s for sale and then either buy something or put something up for sale yourself. For a small fee, you can add pictures to your listing and create your own sales page to bring in customers. If you have a large inventory of things, like…oh, say garden gnomes with pygmy goat companions, you can have an online eBay store to sell your stock of the little critters.

You can customize your auctions for three days or an entire week, depending upon how much exposure you want and how fast you’d like it to go. Set a reserve price for your product, so that someone can simply pay that price, end the auction and go home with your product. Ebay is an excellent way to make money online.

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Yep. Eat. You have to eat in order to keep your metabolism running in an optimal manner. Are you skipping breakfast in order to cut back on calories and lose weight? Bad battle plan, soldier. Let’s work out a battle plan together here and I’ll s how you just why you need to eat, when you should eat and what you should eat.

Remember that not eating sends your army into survival mode, right? It believes you are starving and so slows down it’s metabolism in order to conserve its stores. Let’s s ay you’ve been asleep for 8 hours. You didn’t have anything to eat for two to three or more hours before you went to bed last night. Now your body has been without food for about 11 or 12 hours. If you skip breakfast, you’re adding more time and your body is starting to whimper and wonder where its fuel is and if it’s ever going to come and s hould it start conserving now because starvation is just around the corner? You’ve got your little soldiers all up in a lather and that’s not a good thing.

Now, what happens if you go to bed, get up and eat a healthy breakfast? You have, in essence, broken your fast. You’ve been fasting for ten or more hours and now it’s over. Your little soldiers can relax and get back to their normal duty, which is burning calories instead of storing them.

Eat small meals and eat them often during the day. Research has shown that breaking down the traditional three meals a day into six smaller meals, spaced evenly throughout the day will result in a boost to your metabolism.

No this does not mean you can go out and have a Mcbreakfast meal in the morning, a steak and fries two hours later, five Twinkies and a ho-ho next, then tacos with s our cream and guacamole for your next meal, BBQ ribs with mashed potatoes for your fifth meal and a trip to that all-you-can-stuff-into-yourself-buffet at the mall for your sixth and final meal of the day. Sure, you might be boosting your metabolism a bit, but you’re overcompensating with too many calories and losing the Battle of the Bulge in a BIG way. Your soldiers will be so over-run with calories that they will be forced to store them as fat.

Break down your meals into six smaller and HEALTHIER meals during the day. Lower your caloric intake in a healthy manner and your little soldiers will not only win the battle, you’ve given them the right weapons to win the entire war.

Also, avoid white in your diet. Simple sugars, rice and refined flour are all absorbed quickly by your body and are turned into fat stores. Eat more complex carbohydrates. They take a longer time to be absorbed into your body and this enables your blood sugar to remain level. Try eating brown rice instead of white rice, whole grains in your breads and pas ta made from wheat flour instead of white refined flours.

Avoid caffeine and drink green tea ins tead. Caffeine is known to bock abs orption of vitamin C , create a bit of unhealthy acid in your system and stimulate sugar cravings. If there’s one thing you don’t need when you’re trying to lose weight, its sugar cravings. Green tea has antioxidants and doesn’t have all those nasty side effects that coffee can give you.

Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. Water flushes out all the toxins that are set free when you’re losing weight. If you are dehydrated, your metabolism slows down. Try drinking very cold wate when you’re pus hing the H2O. Your body has to remain warm and it will boost your metabolism a bit each time it has to warm up after your glass of ice water.

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This one is probably the single toughest one to overcome. If your boss is a bad one, things probably will not improve. Unfortunately, someone has got to be in charge in any organization, and when your boss is incompetent or just unreasonable or biased, you are going to be in for a long, tough slog each day.

If you boss is merely incompetent, the best thing you can do is to provide as much help to him as you can. Not only will you make yourself invaluable to him, you will also gradually learn his job—thus positioning yourself to move up in this, or a different organization. The greateryour skill set, the greater your flexibility when it comes to finding a more challenging and fulfilling employment opportunity!

If, on the other hand, your boss is unreasonable and/or biased, you have several strategies available—none of them good ones. You can buckle down and take the abuse; do the job as best you can and hope that he notices your value; you can start looking for another job; you can go over his head and hope that his boss might help; or you can seek legal action.

Keep in mind that your boss's boss may well not care if he is abusive towards you. The higher ups in a company tend to be bottom line oriented, and if your boss's numbers are good, your unhappiness may just be the price of doing business to them. If you are going to fight, keep in mind that there is a very good chance that you are going to lose. Understand the risks before you make the attempt! Have you reached a point where keeping your sanity mandates that you take the risk?

Your mantra (if you choose to fight) is DOCUMENT DOCUMENT DOCUMENT. Write everything down. Keep a journal of what's going on, every time you have contact with your boss, note it. Keeping a record will also enable you to cover your backside if things do get out of hand. Protect yourself.

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You get up in the morning and pop some bread into the toasterfor breakfast. Watch out! You might not end up with toast but with EBay Toast!

This is where you're going along with your normal morning routine and suddenly the likeness of Abraham Lincoln appears on your toast!

You have two options: chew up old Abe and go on about your business, or put it up for auction on eBay.

Will people bid on such a thing? Oh goodness, you vastly underestimate people's desire for the bizarre if you think something like that won't garner dozens of bids!

People have purchased the likeness of the Virgin Mary on a toasted cheese sandwich, and even the likeness of the famed creator of the Daleks on toasted bread.

If toast isn't your thing, then perhaps you might consider buying a possessed pancake from a family in Germany who are selling it in order to free themselves from the evil it has brought to their family. Strange things began happening in their home afterthe pancake was created during a loss of electricity.

And if you're wondering—yes, the pancake was sold at auction. We don't yet know if the demon took up residence with the new pancake owner.

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There's nothing more exciting to a child than getting themselves all dirty. As parents and caregivers we're always telling them to stay clean, to wash their hands and don't touch.

Now you're going to give them the opportunity to touch and to get dirty and to play!

You'll need some water soluble finger paints. They come in all colors and they're so much fun! Whether from a squeeze bottle or a jar—dipping their little fingers into the wet muck gives them tactile sensations and a creative outlet.

You'll need paper and paints. Also, it would be a good idea to have the child wear old clothing or an apron to keep the paint from their clothing.

These are just a few ideas to get you started on making some exciting memories with your children—as well as keeping their little imaginations active during dull and rainy days.