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Great House Gift Idea for Every Budget

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Home Interior

Home Interior

To be warm, safe, snug and protected inside one’s own home is a wonderful idea and the snail symbol, or the more abstract spiral, lends itself to all manner of wonderful house warming gifts.

You can make a card very easily by cutting out a spiral and affixing it with glue; any snail motif on a greeting card, or a picture of a snail drawn or cut out from another source will make the house warming card special.

Snails are very popular as ornaments, so you can get an enormous variety of all sizes of snail figurines, from small brass snails to large garden ornaments made from marble and they’re all easily found, online and off.

Any budding artist can make and paint a basic snail from self hardening clay; snail and spiral mobiles are easy and always fascinating, too.

An exotic snail shell, or the shell of a sea snail is an extension of this idea and particularly good for beach front properties.

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Watch out Your Germ

Friday, February 26th, 2010
Germs of House

Germs of House

They are germs, and they’re lurking in more places than most people think, just waiting to be touched so they can hitch a ride on people’s hands.

They’re lying in wait for you at the ATM machine and on your computer keyboard at work. Secretly, they attach themselves to your hands when you push a shopping cart at the store. The little pests will even attach themselves to your children’s hands when they romp on playground equipment.

Where the Germs Lurk

From the workplace, the home and school to cars, trains and planes, germs are everywhere. Even during activities such as exercising, playing, shopping, going to the movies, attending sports events and commuting, people are coming in contact with germs and may not realize it.

Since many germs are spread by hand contact, practicing good hygiene every day is a solution to the problem. This alcohol-based hand sanitizer kills 99.99% of the most common germs that may cause illness.

A list of “99 Places Where Germs are Likely to Lurk” includes:

At work-elevator buttons, phones, shared ink pens

Knowing where germs are and practicing good hand hygiene can help keep families healthy.

At the gym-exercise machine handles, mats

When shopping-escalator handrails, shopping basket handles.

When traveling-subway poles and handles, gas pump nozzles

At school-shared toys and books, cafeteria trays, playground equipment

At home-pet toys, light switches, thermostats

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