When you're a kid, rejection is hard, whether it's those mean girls who won't let you sit at their table, or the drama teacher who didn't cast you in the 10th grade musical. As you get older, you might start to get used to being turned down; there are only so many colleges that can waitlist you.
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When you gotta go, you gotta go. But what happens when you have to go, you're out in public, and you're trying to navigate the daunting new world where the rules are dictated by a pandemic? Microbiologists like Ali Nouri acknowledge that public bathrooms, as a whole, are a challenge.
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In an interview with The List, organizational psychologist Joanna Lovering, founder and CEO of the style coaching service Copper + Rise, explained that clothes actually can change your brain chemistry. "What you wear doesn't just affect how others perceive you."
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What is almost as good as getting rich in real life? Well, dreaming about hitting it big, of course. You wake up and for a moment, you think you may never have to worry about money again. Except, according to experts, dreaming about getting rich is not necessarily about finances at all.
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As regularly wearing a mask becomes the norm, one thing has become very apparent: Many masks don't fit. Mask fit goes beyond comfort, and is a potential health risk, too. As shared from a study by engineers at the University of Edinburgh, poorly-fitting masks pose a rise at the back and the sides.
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These days most of us are trying to make as few trips as we can to the grocery store. We also know that if we want to steer clear of massive crowds, we should probably avoid shopping on the weekends. And although Trader Joe's is one of our favorite places, let's be real, the store is pretty small.
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While Costco is known as a bargain-hunter's paradise, there's no denying that many of those bargains tend to be super-sized. While the Duggar family no doubt goes through those giant-sized jars of mayonnaise in no time, smaller families may struggle to use up Costco-sized items before they expire.
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If you ask celebrity tarot card reader, Angie Banicki, who has read cards for Ellen Page, Sophia Bush, and Ellen Pompeo, she'll tell you that a tarot card reading isn't like looking into a crystal ball. Rather, a reading is simply meant to be a tool to help people better understand themselves.
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Now that face masks have become a required wardrobe staple in much of the country, more and more retailers are selling cloth masks. Old Navy provides attractive and affordable face masks in a variety of colors and patterns, and they've just made their face masks even better by adding a new feature.
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For many Aldi fans, trips to the store are more along the lines of a hobby, or even an obsession, than a typical mundane grocery run. Aldi ultras eagerly snap up each new addition to the product line, and many boast homes and yards furnished with Aldi Special Buys.
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Walmart's newest service, Walmart Plus, promises to be a game changer. While we don't have a lot of details about Walmart Plus yet, the service appears to be a delivery service in the same vein as Amazon Prime, which will likely be its biggest competitor.
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The internet is a fickle beast, no one can dispute that. Case in point: The same internet that was so vocal about calling for a boycott of Costco after the grocery giant rolled out new rules requiring shoppers to wear face masks is now lionizing a Costco worker who enforced that same rule.
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Have you ever dreamed a witch with a green face (think The Wizard of Oz) is chasing you through a dark, dry forest that never seems to end? What, just us? Well, according to Bustle, nightmares about being chased are among the most common motifs people experience in their dreams.
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Sam's Club has real deals, and offers hefty savings on everything from food and drinks, to household cleaners and furniture. While you can pick up pretty much everything you need from just one place, savvy shoppers will tell you there are things you should pass up — and one is clothing.
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Pop quiz: When was the last time you paid any attention to cute, cuddly pets on Instagram or looked for new recipes to try, instead of reading the news, which is kind of looking more and more like a countdown to the End of Days? If your answer is, "I don't remember," you're not alone.
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By now, many of us have mastered the art of showing up to Zoom meetings with creative backgrounds, or clicking on the handy "Touch up my appearance" filter in the app's video settings in order to project our best selves. But how do you ensure your meetings go beyond simply showing face?
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How often do we go into a favorite houseware store, expect to find new stock, only to see the leftovers on the shelf that we spotted over a week ago? The answer is never, if you buy your home furnishings at HomeGoods. The store is a collection of branded goods and crafts by international artisans.
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If we told you that Big Lots was founded by a man named Sol Shenk who, as per company site, "loved making crazy closeout deals" on things like automotive parts and vehicles, it may help you understand just how the store manages to keep its prices so low and competitive compared to other stores.
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Feng shui is an ancient practice that ties the spaces we live in with the natural environment around us. It's all about balancing your environment, which can affect our physical health, as well as our "yin" and "yang" or feminine and masculine energies.
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People like to recycle their delivery boxes. What, to us, might be just an additional box to store our stuff could be a car or spaceship to an inventive child or a place to nap for a curious cat. That's why we think it's cool that Amazon is launching a new line of more eco-friendly shipping boxes.
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Fans of HGTV's home renovation show Good Bones know it's the kind of wholesome, life-affirming content that never goes out of style. Its unique stars, mother-daughter duo Mina Starsiak and Karen Laine, who also own their own company, Two Chicks and a Hammer, make the show too easy to binge-watch.
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Nothing is ever quite as it seems at Daiso, the Japanese dollar store that's slowly and quietly making inroads into America's retail scene. First opening in the US in 2005 ,and now with 80 stores across several states, Daiso is unashamedly pink and full of quirky gadgets.
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By now, most of us are expecting that the rest of 2020 will continue to be anything but normal. While Thanksgiving is a few months away, Walmart has announced that they're going to be changing things up this year.Thanksgiving typically marks the start of Black Friday shopping, but not this year.
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These days, it's difficult to go on social media -- or any media for that matter -- without seeing clips of people throwing public tantrums after being told to wear a mask. Plus, it's been reported that there are groups issuing fraudulent "face mask exempt" cards from the Freedom to Breathe Agency.
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Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal condition that impacts more women than you think. Lena Dunham, for one, has been very vocal about her struggles in the past, and according to The Office on Women's Health, PCOS actually affects one in ten women of childbearing age.
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You know things aren't looking good when your boss says half of his site visits makes him touchy. "I'd say we're at about 50% of where we should be," Walmart US CEO Greg Foran said in 2019. "I get out to stores every single week. About half the time I'm ok with it, and the other half I'm grumpy."
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It's a strange comment that expectant couples sometimes get: "Are you hoping for a boy or a girl?" Because whatever it is you might be hoping for, it's not like you have a say in the matter, right? Unless you're undergoing in-vitro fertilization, you've got a 50/50 shot of having a boy or a girl.
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