Saturday, 31 December 2011

See u next year 2012... bye 2011...All the best to all.. Thank you.

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Financial Troubles For Many Nations In The New Year | International Forecaster Weekly Bob Chapman The International Forcaster | Economy News | Investing | US Market Information | Gold | Silver | Wall Street Bailouts | Investment Trends | Money Resources | US and Worldwide Politics

Financial Troubles For Many Nations In The New Year | International Forecaster Weekly Bob Chapman The International Forcaster | Economy News | Investing | US Market Information | Gold | Silver | Wall Street Bailouts | Investment Trends | Money Resources | US and Worldwide Politics

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2012 Feng Shui Forecast by Dr. Simona Mainini (part 2 of 2).m4v

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Friday, 30 December 2011

Mineweb.com - Long liquidation, Eurozone jitters push gold down.

Mineweb.com - The world's premier mining and mining investment website Long liquidation, Eurozone jitters push gold down - GOLD NEWS | Mineweb

The price of gold slipped in London on Thursday fixing at its lowest point since July 8th on the back of continued concerns about the Eurozone crisis and long liquidation

Author: Adrian Ash
Posted: Thursday , 29 Dec 2011

LONDON (BULLIONVAULT) -

The WHOLESALE MARKET gold price fell further on Thursday in London, hitting its lowest London Gold Fix since 8th July at $1537.50 per ounce - 19% below Sept's record high - on what dealers called "long liquidation" and "pressure" from the Eurozone debt crisis.

New laws in Japan were also blamed for forced sales during Asian trade, with bullion dealers obliged to report all physical transactions above ¥2 million ($25,600) to the tax authorities starting New Year's Day.

Physical gold bullion flows in Europe are "very light - unsurprisingly for this time of year," says Swiss refinery and finance group MKS.

"[A] few accounts [were seen] bailing out on the break of $1570" on Wednesday, MKS says, with "the rest of the move driven by illiquidity and forced sellers pushing themselves out as they push [the gold price] lower."

On a closing-price basis, "Support sits at the trendline off the October 2008 low, currently at $1543," says Russell Browne's technical analysis for Scotia Mocatta, pointing to the uptrend in the gold price starting with the collapse of Lehman Brothers 3 years ago.

That support level is "followed by the September [2011] low around $1533," reckons Browne.

The Euro sank 1.5¢ on Wednesday after new data showed the European Central Bank's balance-sheet swelling to €2.7 trillion last week on making the first of its "unlimited" three-year loan offers to commercial banks.....

http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page34?oid=142331&sn=Detail&pid=102055

International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM ) Chart...finance.yahoo.com

International Business Machines

(NYSE: IBM )
Chart forInternational Business Machines Corp. (IBM)

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=IBM&t=2y&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=

Business Summary

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) provides information technology (IT) products and services worldwide. Its Global Technology Services segment provides IT infrastructure and business process services, including strategic outsourcing, process, integrated technology, and maintenance services, as well as technology-based support services. The company’s Global Business Services segment offers consulting and systems integration, and application management services. Its Software segment offers middleware and operating systems software, such as WebSphere software to integrate and manage business processes; information management software for database and enterprise content management, information integration, data warehousing, business analytics and intelligence, performance management, and predictive analytics; Tivoli software for identity management, data security, storage management, and datacenter automation; Lotus software for collaboration, messaging, and social networking; rational software to support software development for IT and embedded systems; business intelligence software, which provides querying and forecasting tools; SPSS predictive analytics software to predict outcomes and act on that insight; and operating systems software. Its Systems and Technology segment provides computing and storage solutions, including servers, disk and tape storage systems and software, point-of-sale retail systems, and microelectronics. The company’s Global Financing segment provides lease and loan financing to end users and internal clients; commercial financing to dealers and remarketers of IT products; and remanufacturing and remarketing services. It serves financial services, public, industrial, distribution, communications, and general business sectors. The company was formerly known as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. and changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation in 1924. IBM was founded in 1910 and is based in Armonk, New York.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=IBM

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What is Money – Really – and Why Do We Need to Own Gold – Really?

Have you ever wondered what money really is [and why we need to own some gold as a result]? You’ll notice that everyone you read has a strong opinion , but who’s right? [Let look at the situation and see if we can come to an answer that we both can agree on.] Words: 3086

So says Danny B (www.fofoa.blogspot.com) in edited excerpts from his original article*.

Lorimer Wilson, editor of www.FinancialArticleSummariesToday.com (A site for sore eyes and inquisitive minds) and www.munKNEE.com (Your Key to Making Money!) has edited ([ ]), abridged (…) and reformatted (some sub-titles and bold/italics emphases) the article below for the sake of clarity and brevity to ensure a fast and easy read. The report’s views and conclusions are unaltered and no personal comments have been included to maintain the integrity of the original article. Please note that this paragraph must be included in any article re-posting to avoid copyright infringement.

The article goes on to say, in part, that:

Is money really just one single thing and then everything else has varying levels of moneyness relative to real money? [For instance:]

is gold real money?
is money whatever the government says it is?
is money whatever the market says it is?
is silver money in any way today?
are US Treasury bonds money?
is real money just the monetary base or is money all the credit that refers back to that base for value?
is money supposed to be something tangible, or is it simply a common unit we use to express the relative value of things?
is money really the actual medium of exchange we use in trade or is it the unit of account the various media of exchange (checks, credit cards, PayPal) reference for value?
should the reference point unit of money itself ever be the medium of exchange? Some of the time? All of the time? Never?
is money a store of value and, if so, for how long?
is money supposed to be the fixed reference point (the benchmark) for changes in the value of everything else or is it simply a shared language for expressing those changes?
is money something that changes over time or is money’s true essence the same concept that first emerged thousands of years ago?
and probably the most important question: does the correct view of money produce answers that are vastly superior to the blind conjecture prescribed by all other views.

Answers

Everyone has a strong opinion about what money actually is so “everyone” will probably disagree with what I write but that doesn’t mean they are right and I am wrong. I want to challenge you to use your own mind and see for yourself. Take what I say and then take what they say, compare, contrast, analyze and then decide for yourself. The prescription produced by my view is quite simple – and only you can decide if it is vastly superior to their blind conjecture.

The Pure Concept of Money

According to Webster’s the word ‘money’ emerged in the English language sometime during the Medieval period in Europe, maybe around the late 1200s. Wikipedia suggests a possible etymology originating with the Greek word for ‘unique’ or ‘unit’. The Western term for physical coins that emerged sometime around the late 1500s was ‘specie’ from the Latin phrase for “in kind” or “payment in kind,” meaning “payment in the actual or real form.” The word ‘currency’ came a little later from the Latin word for current or flow, and was married to the money concept in 1699 by the philosopher John Locke who described the “circulation of money” as a flow or current of monetary payments made in specie.

Etymology is important, because with money or “the moneyness of things” we are talking about a vital concept that predates the word by thousands of years and it’s only by understanding the pure concept that we can see the ways the word has been bastardized by…[the debtors and the savers] over centuries. The meaning we commonly assign to words may change over time, but that never changes the original concept underlying the emergence of the word in the first place.

Case in point: Is ‘money’ equal to ‘wealth’? Is “gathering wealth” the same as “gathering money?” [Such an understanding of just what those words actually meant in the language of the time can be seen in the way Proverbs 13:11 was translated over the passage of time]… and which I think will help to illustrate my point about words and concepts:

(Wycliffe Bible 1395) Hasted chattel, that is, gotten hastily, shall be made less; but that which is gathered little and little with hand, shall be multiplied.

(King James Version 1611) Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

(Young’s Literal Translation 1862) Wealth from vanity becometh little, and whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great…

[The Living Bible Version 1967) Wealth from gambling quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows.]....

http://www.munknee.com/2011/12/what-is-money-really-and-why-do-we-need-to-own-gold-really/

December 29, 2011 Midday Metals Report

by IraEpsteinFutures on Dec 29, 2011

Commodities, Ira Epstein, Linn Group, Futures Trading, Online Trading, Technical Analysis, Metals Report, Sales: 866-973-2077

Tuesday, 27 December 2011

Satyajit Das: The Cultural Transformation of the World of Finance (1/6)

by INETeconomics on Dec 22, 2011

When Satyajit Das started to work at a commercial bank, the world of finance was simple: banks made money by lending it. That was 44 years ago, and the tools of the trade have changed quite a bit since then. In this INET interview with Robert Johnson, Das describes some of the cultural changes that transformed the world of finance from the perspective of a practitioner and shows how traders of the "School of Hard Knocks" were replaced by a generation of traders that came straight from business school and overly relied on models and financial theory.

Business Line : Markets News : Gold should form 10-15% of asset allocation: IDBI Mutual

Gold should form 10-15% of asset allocation: IDBI Mutual

No secular reason why gold prices should decline

MUMBAI, DEC. 26:

Gold should form an important part of asset allocation of every investor as it is a meaningful asset option especially in times of uncertainty, a top official of IDBI Asset Management Ltd said.

“Everyone should have a sizeable amount, at least 10-15 per cent holding in gold as a prudent asset diversification strategy,” Mr Debasish Mallick, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, told Business Line.

In long-term financial planning, it is prudent to hold various assets and gold should be one of these, he said.

The fund house is the latest entrant to India's growing gold exchange traded fund market.

SAGE HAVEN OPTION

It mobilised Rs 110 crore in the gold ETF new fund offer that it launched during Diwali and has had the highest collection till date, Mr Mallick said.

Gold ETFs in India has seen substantial growth every year as the yellow metal has proved itself as a safe haven investment option.

“Gold ETF is the best buy option instead of physical gold. There is no wealth tax, you can sell anytime,” Mr Prithviraj Kothari, President, Bombay Bullion Association, said. According to him, it is a safe method of holding gold.

While Mr Mallick declined from making any gold price projection, he said, the global macro-economic situation remains uncertain. The yellow metal is seen as a safe haven asset and a hedge against inflation...

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/markets/article2749957.ece?homepage=true&ref=wl_home

Gold prices may be down, but analysts predict rise in 2012 | Alaska Dispatch

Gold prices may be down, but analysts predict rise in 2012

Michail Vafeiadis | The Christian Science Monitor | Dec 25, 2011

What is it with gold?

Spot gold prices soared to a record above $1,900 an ounce in early September, dipped below $1,600 late in the month, rebounded strongly, and then fell below $1,600 again last week. That's a 16 percent decline in three months, although the shiny metal is still up for the year.

Will the decline continue into 2012?

It could. Concerns about the euro debt crisis have sent investors scrambling to buy dollars as a haven from risk, rather than gold, which has caused the dollar price of gold to fall. When gold prices fell below their 200-day average last week, a technical sell signal, prices broke below $1,600 although they have recovered a little since then.

"What is surprising is that in an environment where headline risk news is bigger than ever, gold has actually fallen from its highs," Christoph Eibl, CEO and founding partner of the Swiss commodity hedge fund Tiberius, told Reuters.

With the euro debt crisis virtually certain to extend into the new year and the US economy still weak, keeping inflation tame, many analysts see gold prices could fall further. Yet, they do not anticipate any precipitous fall since gold serves as a kind of ballast to market volatility and as a store of value.

Looking further into 2012, many analysts are bullish on the precious metal.

For technical buyers, the signal could come early, if gold can break above its 200-day average of about $1620 an ounce......

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/gold-prices-may-be-down-analysts-predict-rise-2012

Gold prices to see consolidation in first-half of 2012 - Business Today

Gold prices to see consolidation in first-half of 2012

B.S. Srinivasalu Reddy Mumbai December 27, 2011

The year 2012 may give an opportunity to investors and households to increase their investments in gold at a relatively low level of Rs 25,000-25,500 for 10 gm. Those who have missed the bus earlier could wait for this opportunity before June.
"We suggest investors to buy gold, even in bulk, at Rs 25,000-25,500 per 10 gm during 2012, when the price of the precious metal consolidates in the first half. At this level, it would not have much of a downside risk, but would have high probability of going up," said Naveen Mathur, associate director-commodities and currencies of Angel Broking

In the first-half of 2012, gold prices are expected to witness consolidation as a sharp upside will be restricted on account of the ongoing economic uncertainty.

"However, by the second half of the year prices could witness a bounce back as by then the global economy will receive clarity over the lingering European debt crisis and an improving US economy, thus helping investors allocate investments with 'caution' taking a back seat," Mathur added.

Gold has marked its eleventh annual consecutive rise this year, despite falling sharply from its all-time high of $1,920/oz. It has gained 12 per cent in the dollar-denominated international markets, which dictate gold prices across the world, including India, from the opening level of $1,420.8 per troy ounce (31.1034 gm). It was trading at $1,606 per troy ounce when the market broke for year-end holidays last week......
http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/gold-prices-movement-in-2012/1/21228.html

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50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do...marcandangel.com

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Practical Tips for Productive Living

jUNE 2ND, 2008 @ 7:56 AM BY: MARC

50 Things Everyone Should Know
How To Do

http://www.marcandangel.com/2008/06/02/50-things-everyone-should-know-how-to-do/

Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one.

While not totally comprehensive, here is a list of 50 things everyone should know how to do.

1. Build a Fire – Fire produces heat and light, two basic necessities for living. At some point in your life this knowledge may be vital.

§ How to Build a Fire

§ Wilderness Survival Firecraft

§ Build a Fire Without Matches or a Lighter (video)

2. Operate a Computer – Fundamental computer knowledge is essential these days. Please, help those in need.

§ How To Help Someone Use a Computer

§ The BBC’s Guide to Using a Computer

§ Mac Basics

§ Windows Basics

3. Use Google Effectively – Google knows everything. If you’re having trouble finding something with Google, it’s you that needs help.

§ Google Guide

§ Google Advanced Search Operators

§ Google Web Search Features

§ 20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches

4. Perform CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver – Someday it may be your wife, husband, son or daughter that needs help.

§ Learn CPR

§ How To Perform Adult CPR (video)

§ How CPR Works

§ How to Perform the Heimlich Maneuver (video)

5. Drive a Manual Transmission Vehicle – There will come a time when you’ll be stuck without this knowledge.

§ How To Drive a Stick Shift Instructional Movie (video)

§ Learn to Drive a Stick Shift

§ Learn to Drive a Car with Manual Transmission

6. Do Basic Cooking – If you can’t cook your own steak and eggs, you probably aren’t going to make it.

§ Cooking Basics and Tips

§ Cooking and Baking How To Information

§ Basics of Cooking Series

7. Tell a Story that Captivates People’s Attention – If you can’t captivate their attention, you should probably just save your breath.

§ How To Tell a Great Story

§ How To Give a Great Speech

§ Presentation Tips for Public Speaking

8. Win or Avoid a Fistfight – Either way, you win.

§ How To Actually Win a Fistfight

§ How To Win a Fistfight (video)

§ How To Win a Street Fight

§ How To Avoid Confrontations Like a Samurai Warrior

9. Deliver Bad News – Somebody has got to do it. Unfortunately, someday that person will be you.

§ How To Deliver Bad News in Writing

§ How to Deliver Bad News to a Customer

§ Good Ways to Deliver Bad News

10. Change a Tire – Because tires have air in them, and things with air in them eventually pop.

§ How To Change a Flat Tire (video)

§ How To Change a Tire (video)

§ Saturday Mechanic: Changing a Tire

11. Handle a Job Interview – I promise, sweating yourself into a nervous panic won’t land you the job.

§ The 25 Most Difficult Questions in a Job Interview

§ Job Interview Questions and Answers

§ How to Handle Your Job Interviews Successfully

§ 10 Sticky Job Interview Situations and How to Handle Them

12. Manage Time – Not doing so is called wasting time, which is okay sometimes, but not all the time.

§ How To Manage Time and Maximize Effectiveness

§ Managing Your Time

§ 10 tips for time management in a multitasking world

§ Time Management Tips and Exercises

13. Speed Read – Sometimes you just need the basic gist, and you needed it 5 minutes ago.

§ Learn Speed Reading

§ How To Speed Read the Net

§ Speed Reading Techniques

14. Remember Names – Do you like when someone tries to get your attention by screaming “hey you”?

§ How To Remember People’s Names

§ Tricks for Remembering Names

§ 7 Hacks to Remember Any Name

15. Relocate Living Spaces – Relocating is always a little tougher than you originally imagined.

§ Moving Tips and Guidelines

§ Moving and Relocation Guides

§ Moving Tips

16. Travel Light – Bring only the necessities. It’s the cheaper, easier, smarter thing to do.

§ Travel Light with One Bag

§ Pack Light and Travel Happy

§ Packing Light and Right

17. Handle the Police – Because jail isn’t fun… and neither is Bubba.

§ What to Do If You’re Stopped by the Police

§ How To Handle the Cops if They Knock on Your Door

§ How To Handle the Police

18. Give Driving Directions – Nobody likes driving around in circles. Get this one right the first time.

§ How To Give a Complete Stranger Driving Directions

§ How To Give Directions

§ Giving Good Driving Directions

19. Perform Basic First Aid – You don’t have to be a doctor, or genius, to properly dress a wound.

§ First Aid Guide

§ Understanding First Aid

§ Common First Aid Topics

20. Swim – 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water. Learning to swim might be a good idea.

§ How To Teach a Child to Swim

§ Swimming Breathing Basics

§ Find Swimming Lessons Near You

21. Parallel Park – Parallel parking is a requirement on most standard driver’s license driving tests, yet so many people have no clue how to do it. How could this be?

§ How To Parallel Park a Car (video)

§ How To Parallel Park (video)

§ How To Parallel Park

22. Recognize Personal Alcohol Limits – Otherwise you may wind up likethis charming fellow.

§ Alcohol: Know Your Limits

§ Know Your Limits

§ Alcohol Consumption Info

23. Select Good Produce – Rotten fruits and vegetables can be an evil tease and an awful surprise.

§ Produce Primer: Selecting the Best

§ Tips on Choosing Produce and Keeping it Fresh

§ Buying Fresh Vegetables

24. Handle a Hammer, Axe or Handsaw – Carpenters are not the only ones who need tools. Everyone should have a basic understanding of basic hand tools.

§ How To Safely Use a Hammer

§ How To Safely Use an Axe (video)

§ How To Choose and Use a Handsaw

25. Make a Simple Budget – Being in debt is not fun. A simple budget is the key.

§ Money 101 - Making a Budget

§ How To Make a Budget and Stick To It

§ How To Make a Budget That Works

26. Speak at Least Two Common Languages – Only about 25% of the world’s population speaks English. It would be nice if you could communicate with at least some of the remaining 75%.

§ Free Online Language Courses

§ Learn a Foreign Language Online Free

§ Language Learning with Rosetta Stone

27. Do Push-Ups and Sit-Ups Properly – Improper push-ups and sit-ups do nothing but hurt your body and waste your time.

§ How To Do a Proper Push-Up

§ Chris Comfort’s Push-Up Workout (video)

§ 19 Variations for a Push-Up (video)

§ How To Do Sit-Ups (video)

§ How To Do an Abdominal Crunch (video)

28. Give a Compliment – It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give someone, and it’s free.

§ How To Give a Good Compliment

§ 5 Kick-Ass Reasons to Give a Genuine Compliment

§ How To Give a Killer Compliment

§ 10 Best Compliments a Man Can Give a Woman

29. Negotiate – The better deal is only a question or two away.

§ How To Negotiate Like an Indian

§ Salary Negotiation Tips

§ Win-Win Negotiation

30. Listen Carefully to Others – The more you listen and the less you talk, the more you will learn and the less you will miss.

§ Tips on Effective Listening

§ Listening Tips for the Classroom Environment

§ Techniques for Active Listening

31. Recite Basic Geography – If you don’t know where anything is outside of your own little bubble, most people will assume (and they are probably correct) that you don’t know too much at all.

§ Maps and Geography of the World

§ USA Geography Map Games

§ Test Your Geography Knowledge

32. Paint a Room – The true cost of painting is 90% labor. For simple painting jobs it makes no sense to pay someone 9 times what it would cost you to do it yourself.

§ Painting Tips (video)

§ House Painting Guide

§ DIY Painting Tips and Tools

33. Make a Short, Informative Public Speech – At the next company meeting if your boss asks you to explain what you’ve been working on over the last month, a short, clear, informative response is surely your best bet. “Duhhh…” will not cut it.

§ How To Conquer the Public Speaking Fear

§ Better Public Speaking and Presentation

§ How To Write an Informative Speech

34. Smile for the Camera – People that absolutely refuse to smile for the camera suck!

§ How To Smile for the Camera

§ How To Be Photogenic

§ How To Smile with Your Eyes

35. Flirt Without Looking Ridiculous – There is a fine line between successful flirting and utter disaster. If you try too hard, you lose. If you don’t try hard enough, you lose.

§ Guide to Flirting

§ Flirt Without Frightening

§ The Rules of Flirtation

§ The Science of Romance: Why We Flirt

36. Take Useful Notes – Because useless notes are useless, and not taking notes is a recipe for failure.

§ Various Note Taking Systems

§ Note Taking Skills and Guidelines

§ Take Study-worthy Lecture Notes

37. Be a Respectful House Guest – Otherwise you will be staying in a lot of hotels over the years.

§ 10 Ways to Be and Excellent House Guest

§ How To Be a Good House Guest

§ Have A Pleasant Visit By Following A Few House Rules

38. Make a Good First Impression – Aristotle once said, “well begun is half done.”

§ How To Make those First Impressions Count

§ Making a Great First Impression

§ Tips for Making a Good First Impression

39. Navigate with a Map and Compass – What happens when the GPS craps out and you’re in the middle of nowhere?

§ How To Use a Compass Alone

§ Using a Compass Alongside a Map

§ Navigate with a Map and Compass

40. Sew a Button onto Clothing – It sure is cheaper than buying a new shirt.

§ How To Sew a Button

§ How To Sew a Button On (video)

41. Hook Up a Basic Home Theater System – This isn’t rocket science. Paying someone to do this shows sheer laziness.

§ How the Home Theater Works

§ Home Theater Hookup

§ Home Theater Installation Tips

42. Type – Learning to type could save you days worth of time over the course of your lifetime.

§ Online Typing Lessons for Everyone

§ Free Typing Lessons for the Standard QWERTY Keyboard

§ Free Touch Typing Program

43. Protect Personal Identity Information – Personal identity theft is not fun unless you are the thief. Don’t be careless.

§ FTC’s Identity Theft Site

§ Identity Theft Info (video)

§ How Identity Theft Works

44. Implement Basic Computer Security Best Practices – You don’t have to be a computer science major to understand the fundamentals of creating complex passwords and using firewalls. Doing so will surely save you a lot of grief someday.

§ 4 Steps to Protect Your Computer

§ Security Basics for Home Computers

§ SANS Basic Computer Security Whitepapers

45. Detect a Lie – People will lie to you. It’s a sad fact of life.

§ How To Detect Bullshit

§ Identify a Lie with 6 Simple Questions

§ How To Detect Lies

46. End a Date Politely Without Making Promises – There is no excuse for making promises you do not intend to keep. There is also no reason why you should have to make a decision on the spot about someone you hardly know.

§ Tips for The End of a Date

§ Tips for Ending a Bad Date

§ How To End a Date Gracefully

47. Remove a Stain – Once again, it’s far cheaper than buying a new one.

§ Effective Ways to Remove Laundry Stains

§ DIY Cleaning and Stain Removal

§ Stain Removal Articles

48. Keep a Clean House – A clean house is the foundation for a clean, organized lifestyle.

§ The Keep-It-Clean Plan

§ Keeping a Stress-Free, Clean House

§ How To Keep Your House Clean in 20 Minutes a Day

49. Hold a Baby – Trust me, injuring a baby is not what you want to do.

§ How To Hold a Baby (video)

§ How To Hold a Baby

50. Jump Start a Car – It sure beats walking or paying for a tow truck.

§ Edmunds Jump-Start How To

§ How To Jump Start Your Car (video)

§ DIY: Jump Start a Car

Check out these books for more ideas on pertinent life skills:

§ 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn’t

§ The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge

§ The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do

http://www.marcandangel.com/2008/06/02/50-things-everyone-should-know-how-to-do/

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