WAYS TO SAVE MONEY.

• Car pool.

• Use coupons at the grocery store.

• Always grocery shop with a list.

• Buy clothes clothes off season.

• Take a five minutes shower.

• Meet friends for coffee instead of dinner.

• Make long distance calls at night and on weekends,instead of mid-day or midweek.

• Ask for generic prescription instead of brand name.

• Throw pocket change in a jar and take it to the bank when its full.

• Brown bag your lunch.

• Use public transportation.

• Apply for scholarship and financial aid.

• Make cards and gifts for friends,

• Trade your car for less expensive,lower maintenance one.

• Change the oil in your car yourself regularly.

• Exercise for free-walk,jog bike or get exercise video from library.

• Go to a matinee.

• Share housing with friends or family member.

• quit smoking.

• Do your own nails.

• In winter,set your thermostat to 64 and turn it down to 60 at night.

• In summer,set your thermostat to 78 or higher.This will save you 5-7% in cooling cost.

• Buy fruits and vegetables in season.

And there are many more........

Benefits of vitamin B1

benefits of vitamin A

How Margarine is harmful to us...a must read.

This is interesting . . . . .
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed
the
turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a
payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this
product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food
appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in
place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever
new flavorings.

DO YOU KNOW... the difference between margarine and butter?
Read on to the end...gets very interesting!
Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5
grams.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the
same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other
foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because
they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of
other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for
less than 100 years.

And now, for Margarine...
Very high in Trans fatty acids. Triple risk of coronary heart disease.

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers
HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold. Lowers quality of breast
milk.

Decreases immune response. Decreases insulin response.
And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY

INTERESTING!
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC...

This in fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and
anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing
the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this by yourself:

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area.
Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

* No flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (That
should
tell you something).

* It does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional
value; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny micro organisms will
not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic.
Would you
melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Share This With Your Friends..... (If you want to "butter them
up")!

Chinese Proverb:
"When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it,
you have a moral obligation to share it with others.

What life was really like in good old days.

How did one survive

How did one survive growing up

in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s ?

We had no seat belts, no airbags and

sitting in the back of a ute was a treat…

Our baby prams had the most gorgeous lead based colors…

No such thing as tamper proof bottle tops…

Opening kitchen cupboards was a breeze… as safety locks were unheard off…

Cycling was like a breath of fresh air…

no safety helmets, knee pads or elbow pads, with plenty of cardboard's between spokes to make it sound like a motorbike…

When thirsty we only drank tap water, bottled water was still a mystery…

We kept busy collecting bits & pieces so we could build all sort of things … and we were fearless on our bikes even when the brakes failed going downhill…

We were showing off how tough we are, by how high we could climb trees & then jumping down….It was great fun….

We could stay out to play for hours,

as long as we got back before dark,

in time for dinner…

We walked to school, or sometimes we even rode our bike.

We had no mobile phones, but we

always managed to find each other….

How? no one knows…

We lost teeth, broke arms & legs, we got cuts and bruises and bloody noses…. nobody complained as we had so much fun, it wasn’t anybody's fault, only ours

We ate everything in sight, cakes, bread,

chocolate, ice cream, sweet sugary drinks,

yet, we stayed skinny by fooling around.

And if one of us was lucky to find a 1 liter

coca cola bottle we all had a swag from it & guess what? nobody picked up any germs...

We did not have Play Stations, MP3, Nintendo’s,

I-Pods, Video games, 99 Cable TV channels,

DVD’s, Home Cinema, Mobile phones,

Home Computers, Laptops, Chat-rooms,

Internet, etc ... BUT, we had REAL FRIENDS!!!!

We called on friends to come out to play, never rang the doorbell,

just went around the back…

We loved being let loose in the

big bad world…without bodyguards…

We played with sticks and stones, played

cowboys and Indians, doctors and nurses,

hide and seek, soccer games,

over and over again…

When we failed our exams we were given a second chance by simply repeating the same grade…without visiting psychiatrists, psychologists or counselors…

such were the days…

We had freedom, success, disappointments and responsibilities...

Most of all, we learned to respect others…

Maybe this message will help them forget the stress that surrounds us these days….and just for a few moments puts a smile to their faces as they remember what life was really like in the good old days……