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Two plus weeks since I quit smoking

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Well it’s been just a little more than two weeks since I quit smoking! Yeah for me!

I smoked for more than 25 years so it was a big deal to quit.

Actually … it was a big deal to work up to quitting – once I actually did it I just had to keep myself from lighting up and getting through the first few days. I took a medication to help me quit – Zyban and it helped a lot.

I quit cold turkey in the past and all I can remember is being in a blind rage the whole time .. this time I get a little anxious here and there, but for the most part I’m feeling pretty good.

One of the things that I did shortly after quitting was to join an online forum – just for support. It’s helped a lot. Oh and on that forum a lot of people swear by this book written by allen carr that helped them quit smoking. Obviously I did it without the book – but the forum helps.

Anyone else quit smoking recently? How did you do in the first couple of weeks?

Sensitive skin and skin care products

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I’m trying to find a new skin care treatment. I don’t know why, but over the last year, I’ve had a lot of problems with my skin.

I’ve had a lot more breakouts and blemishes than I ever have. My main problem is that I have very sensitive skin so I can’t use harsh skin treatments to cure any blemishes so I need to find the best natural acne treatment that’s also mild or easy on sensitive skin.

I was wondering if any of you also have sensitive skin and blemishes? What kind of products do you use to treat your skin and or prevent break outs? Any suggestions?

Time to decorate the house for Christmas?

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Wow, it’s hard to believe, but there are less than two months until Christmas!

Of course, if you’ve been shopping in the stores in my area (Toronto) it’s been looking like Christmas for the last month or so – but more so now that our Thanksgiving is over.

I didn’t decorate the house the last few years, but I want to decorate this year. I want to ditch the old lights and get some LEDs. Actually … it will be getting cool here soon, so it would be a good idea for us to get our lights up soon. It’s much easier to put the outdoor lights up when the weather isn’t too cold rather than when it’s already cold or worse – snowing!

I have tons of indoor decorations – two trees, even antique or vintage decorations. The only thing I don’t have is Snow cap stockings to hang on the mantle. I’d love to get one for my husband and one for myself.

Do you decorate your house at Christmas time? Do you just decorate the inside of the house or do you decorate the outside as well?

Found a great Vitamin and Bulk food store

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My husband and I were shopping on the weekend and we happened to visit a very interesting store while we were in a shopping mall.

The store was called Healthy Planet. It’s mainly a vitamin store, but it also sells health foods, organics and some bulk items.

We were amazed by how large their selection was, and their prices were great as well. Vitamins that we normally buy in other stores were about two or three dollars cheaper per bottle at Healthy Planet.

My husband, who’s hair is getting a little thin at the top, even found some information about a website called www.stressandhairloss.net. He plans to visit the site this weekend to get some information. Who knows, maybe he can stop or slow his hair loss.

We didn’t have a lot of time to look around the store, but I’d like to go back soon and take a better look at their bulk foods. I don’t know why, but I love buying bulk foods. LOL

Have you noticed product sizes are smaller yet the price is still the same?

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I was just watching a story on the news about how manufacturers are “shrinking products but not the price”. By this I mean, maybe you used to buy your favorite yogurt in a large size container – perhaps a 750 ml container. Now you’ve just noticed that while the packaging looks the same the container only holds 600 ml and the price is still the same or perhaps even higher.

All kinds of manufacturers are doing this. Watch carefully. Everything from the weight of loaves of bread changing to the amount of product in a package lessening. Oh and watch out when manufactures announce a “new look” or new packaging – I’ll bet you’ll notice that the weight of the product is less or that if it had 12 items in it before now it has 10.

A friend of mine recently noticed something like that with her weight loss supplements the packaging had changed and there were fewer pills.

Consumers being interviewed in the news clip also noticed that ingredients in some of the food products that had decreased in size had changed as well. They had more or cheaper fillers in them so consumers are being cheated twice on those products by paying the same price for less product with inferior ingredients.

What products do you buy regularly that you’ve noticed have been downsized recently? Do you feel ripped off by the manufacturers?

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