How Money Worries Can Damage Your Mental Health (And What To Do About It)
Money issues can have a negative affect on your mental health, and, oh boy, do I know that… Even years later you can have trauma from the years of mental stress of poverty and other extreme money worries. But even if less extreme, it can still take a toll on your mental health. Here’s more about that […]
Paying Back Debt on a Budget: Debt Relief and Alternatives to Bankruptcy
When someone is in debt, it can feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulder, that you’re constantly running around to stop from drowning under the weight of it. For some people it gets too much and it feels like there is no way out, and they feel like their only option […]
How Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Affects Multiple Parts of the Body- Part 2
As International Ehler’s Danlos Syndrome awareness month comes to a close I wanted to talk some more about how Ehlers Danlos Syndrome affects the body in ways you might not have expected, and specifically the way it affects mine. I posted part 1 already, and here is part 2. EDS, as I’ve explained in many […]
Maximizing the Lifespan of Your Knives: A Frugal Guide
I honestly used to think a knife was just a knife, since growing up we basically had paring knives, serrated knives, and bread knives, and that’s it. When I got married and built my own home, I just bought some short cheap serrated knives and replaced them when they got dull. One time when I […]
How String Instrument Rentals Help Musicians of All Levels Save Money
My daughter’s school offers music lessons, one of them being violin. When she heard her friend was taking violin lessons, she came to me and told me she dreamed of learning to play the violin. I was a little nervous because I knew how expensive a violin is, and for someone just starting out, not […]
How Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Affects Multiple Parts of the Body- Part 1
Alternate title: How Knowledge of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Helped Me Make Sense of My LifeI have Ehler’s Danlos Syndrome, a degenerative genetic collagen defect disorder that is degenerative. Many people who have it go undiagnosed their whole lives, and many people only after many years of trying to figure out what is wrong with […]
Understanding the Most Common Sports Injuries in Children
I’ve gotten injured more times than I can count, and not just little injuries that go away in a day or two, but ones that takes weeks, sometimes months to heal (and one that I still haven’t healed from 4.5 years later). Most of my injuries aren’t from sports (though that one that still hasn’t […]
5 Survival Tips for Those Who Are Traveling to a Region With Poor Cell Signal Coverage
I love traveling. Every time I’ve traveled thus far outside my country I’ve traveled to places with good cell phone coverage. Many people do travel to more remote areas. (I would love to do that but haven’t managed to do so yet because of costs.) What do they do there to reach people as needed? […]
Frustrated By Seemingly Insurmountable Problems in My Blog Redesign
As I mentioned in my last post (and as visible to anyone seeing my blog), my blog has been under construction for the last week. It was hard enough for me to bite the bullet and actually do it, but I’ve had issues from day one, and I think I may need to start over […]
Unveiling the Life-Changing Magic of Hearing Aids
I was at the ENT two weeks ago and asked him for a referral to get my hearing checked. I’ve noticed I often have a hard time hearing people and need to see their lips in order to understand what they’re saying. Who knows, hearing aids might be my future. For whatever ridiculous reason, there’s […]