Tips and Tricks
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This page is the container for unsorted tips and tricks, making it an inbox of sorts. Theoretically, the tips should get sort into a specific subject page.
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- Keep track of items we needed in the house. Just put a stack of index cards in the pantry or other convenient portion of the kitchen with a pen. When an item is noticed, just write it down (one per card) and drop into a convenient bin on top of the microwave.
- Stop using cheap pens. Life is too short to fight your way across a page using a stick ball point pen. A nicer pen will seem to glide across the page, ensuring that you spend less time trying to write and more time actually writing. Besides, if you're into the ladies, those of the fairer sex almost always compliment a fellow with a nice pen after they've borrowed it. As a couple of relatively inexpensive options, I'd recommend the Pilot Dr. Grip Gel (preferably with a G2-07 extra fine refill) or the Parker Jotter. I've also heard great things about fountain pens.
- Pay bounties for household chores. Children, if in fact they're anything at all like me, don't like responsibility but they like having money. Instead of giving them a given set of chores to earn a salary/allowance, why not turn them into consultants? Every week (or other periodic interval), post a list of "bounties" on the fridge. Outline the task with enough information to complete it to your satisfaction, and indicate exactly how much your willing to pay for this completed task. In Stephen Covey's Seven Habits speak, this is a "win-win" or "no deal" situation. This tip might also work well in a college apartment.
- Eat healthy at Chinese buffets. If you're on a diet or just plain want to eat a lot healthier than you can at most fast food restaurants, Chinese buffets can be both a welcome oasis or a terrible calorie-packing fat injector. Nearly every Chinese restaurant has vegetarian options -- usually with nifty names like Buddha's Delight. Confine yourself to vegetable dishes (steamed if available) and a couple of scoops of plain white rice, and you'll find that you can eat far more food for less calories. Chinese buffets are also excellent places to get cravings out of the way since you can easily get a bite of a "bad" calorie-packing dish without having to order a full entrée that could derail your diet plan.
