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We all love our pups, because yes, they’re adorable and part of our family, but man they can be a BIG expense.
There are one time fees, like adoption, and monthly bills that can stack up quickly. So! The folks at Rover put together this infographic to help break down what it costs to take care of your furry friend.
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First jobs are invaluable, not just because we earn money, but because there are things you just can’t learn about working unless you’re actually doing it. Love them or hate them, it’s an experience that almost all of us will have at one time in our lives.
In case you’ve forgotten (or you’re wondering why your teenager should get into the workforce!) read through these 15 memories of lessons learned.
“Be nice to the person at the counter/register/drive thru.”
“Got time to lean you got time to clean Always look busy.”
“People do strange things in Taco Bell bathrooms.”
“Don’t let your coworkers push their job duties on to you so they can slack off. I worked a job where it was just me and one other coworker we each had our own job duties and he would take four hour long breaks to go home and smoke weed and nap and when he’d come back he’d finish up his work. I use to let that slide because while I was at work I would just be on my phone watching movies after I finished my responsibilities eventually while he was at home he’d ask me to do his jobs and when he came back he’d just stand around and do nothing since everything was done, it was a chill job but fuck doing two peoples job and letting someone get paid for doing nothing.”
“Your boss is looking out for himself and will throw you under the bus to cover his own ass. You need to be your own advocate.”
“If you are allowed to. Always shit during work hours.
*Edit call centres also don’t pay you for your time taking a shit.”
“The nicer you are to assholes, the angrier they get, and the more fun you have!”
“To wear good shoes. My feet are screwed for life as a result of that job.”
“When your boss gives you constructive criticism don’t reply by mentioning that others do similar things but the boss is presumably okay with it. The criticism isn’t about them it’s about you.”
“You’re expendable and first impressions last.”
“Behind you”
Alert anyone you’re approaching from behind, especially if either of you is carrying something.”
“The reward for a job well done, is more work.”
“Never let on if you aren’t busy. And never ask for more work if there is no benefit to you. You’ll get more than you can handle and won’t see any extra money. Learn to work efficiently, but mostly manage your own time. Help co-workers if it’s a two-way street. Common thread: people will take advantage of you. Always be wary. But having your peers’ backs (if it goes both ways) can be the only way to get through the day.”
“MANAGE EXPECTATIONS.
Are you going to hand something in late? Off-scope? Early? Talk to all the known stakeholders in advance and communicate this to them. Manage the awareness of the people around you with respect to what they are expecting from you.
When you start your first job, you’re so scared of being less than perfect that you don’t realize everyone is less than perfect and they know you’ll make mistakes. What your boss and coworkers need more than you to be perfect is to be open and clear with them so they have the proper info to make decisions as things change and report to their people in turn.
People are FAR more willing to work with you to fix things than be blindsided at the 11th hour. The reason everyone around you seems to be doing their job perfectly is that they’re managing expectations so well that whatever they produce is always exactly what people are expecting from them and are prepared to receive, regardless of what may have initially been asked of them.
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“First full time job: Use your down time to learn new skills. I learned so many new things about the internal systems, excel access etc that I eventually found my profession.
Essentially: Use boredom to your advantage.”
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Every time you go to Taco Bell you accumulate more and more of that delicious little leftover, the Taco Bell sauce. But isn’t it a shame that so many of them will go to waste? If you’re someone who frequents Taco Bell, chances are you have a drawer somewhere in your kitchen that’s full of extra sauce packets you just couldn’t bear tossing in the trash.
Well, you’re in luck, because someone has figured out how to turn the mild, hot, or fire sauce into a deliciously spicy salt that will do wonders for a bowl of chips or popcorn.
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The process is the same for dehydrating any wet flavoring agent and is really pretty simple. Here’s how to give it a go!
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Serve it to your Taco Bell-loving friends and they’ll all be saying yo quiero your house for their late-night gatherings for the foreseeable future.
I bet you never knew that was Monica’s REAL chef’s secret!*
Enjoy!
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Anyone who has ever adopted a pet knows how rewarding the experience can be, but also how much work it can be to get to know your new pet – their personality, their quirks, the issues they need to work through and the ways they enjoy affection. It can be hard to know when you’re wandering around what exactly you’re getting into, but anyone who walks by Bruno is going to have a pretty good idea.
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Bruno was surrendered when he couldn’t get along with his family’s children, so that’s also something helpful to know. Here he is, perusing adoption applications and weeding out the people who have children he’s too heavy to quickly escape from.
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He’s extra AF.
With his extra toes, his rocking bod, and the way he catches the camera, it’s no wonder that his (fabulous) Facebook post has garnered quite a bit of attention. It lists his quirky traits, like standing on his hind legs and wanting to be petted while he eats, and his positive qualities abound:
As you can see by the updates on the Facebook post above, Bruno has found his forever family. And since there was no way this cat was going to settle into home life without a few extras, the shelter made sure his new momma was as much as he is:
She definitely deserves him.
h/t: ScaryMommy
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Everyone functions a bit differently, and while some people can live day-to-day in the midst of mess or clutter, others can’t begin to fathom how it’s even possible. The facts are, however, that people who live in tidier environments are usually happier, more productive, and less anxious than their counterparts.
So, if you’re someone looking to get “clean,” read on to find out what changed these 15 peoples’ perspectives:
“I quit drinking and all of a sudden had a lot more free time and less tolerance for living in filth.”
“I got married, then wanted to stay married. Good motivation.”
“The possibility of ever having a love interest come over.”
“I got tired of being embarrassed if anyone ever visited or just avoiding having anyone over at all. And tired of seeing the mess every time I came home and having it on my mind that I would eventually have to clean it up. I live alone so this is what I did.
I got rid of all my dishes except for one bowl, one plate and one of each cutlery. This forces me to rinse the bowl/plate right after I finish eating and means I never have dishes to do. sometimes I do get lazy and just leave the bowl in the sink with soapy water to soak until next meal. also just one frying pan and pot.
I got rid of all my clothes except for 7 pairs of underwear/socks and enough clothes for the week. This forces me to do laundry every week on the same day that I decided is laundry day.
I keep a sponge and cleaning stuff right beside the bathroom and kitchen sink and counters. when they start to look a little dirty, I give them an easy quick wipe off. I found its much easier to do small quick clean ups than wait and do a big messy one.”
“I deep cleaned my room one day on a whim. Discovered mold growing on the wall and floor and mattress and sheet from the crappy building leaking. The mold was of course making me sick and since I was spending all my sick time in bed, next to the mold, I wasn’t getting any better.
I don’t live there anymore, but it’s been a pretty good way of looking back and telling myself, ‘let’s not let things get so bad I can’t tell if mold is growing anywhere’”
“I was sick of not being able to see my floor so I just spent an afternoon cleaning my room. I was surprised by how much better I felt, and I’ve never looked back. Now I usually clean it about once a week and I get excited for it too, It’s really nice coming home to a clean room after a long day!”
“I just realized as I was growing up that 95% of bad things that happened to me were my own fault in some way, so the best way to avoid that is to organize my life. You can’t misplace things if you always put them in the same place. You can’t run out of clean clothes if you always do your laundry the same day each week. You save a lot of money, and can generally eat healthier, by making your own food. If you work out regularly, you stop getting sore from working out. When you have a clean living space and eat healthy, you get sick less often. Even when you do get sick, your body can fight back if it’s in good shape.
Not everything is preventable, but the vast majority of mistakes are from carelessness or rushing to do things. By planning ahead or taking care of them before it’s necessary, you mitigate risk significantly.”
“Got super depressed but still had some energy and since I hated myself anyway I decided to deep clean my room on a whim. It actually started to feel good to see progress. After three days I walked into my room and it was clean and organized. I laid down on my bed and felt at peace.
Ever since then, I keep things tidy at home and work because it feels mentally a little better to at least be physically comfortable.”
“I got a better handle on my mental health. I realized how much happier I feel when things are clean, and also what caused the executive dysfunction that made me messy. I’m still not perfect. I’m still disorganized. But it’s a whole lot cleaner than I used to be.”
“I just started having less stuff. You’re not repeatedly moving around your shit if you have less shit to move. I highly recommend the book “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo. It requires around 2-3 days of constant dedication, but if you do everything she suggests, it makes a rather large difference. I threw out 13 garbage bags and a bunch of other things that couldn’t fit neatly into bags. My life was changed, as advertised.”
“My cleaning is super anxiety linked. When I would feel anxious, I would get deep into something like a bathroom. And not just whatever cleaning, deep cleaning!!! I would take the toilet seat off and clean everything until it sparkled. The end result of it made me feel more in control of my life and my surroundings.
My tip would be have the right tools – rubber gloves, good sponges and cloths, cleaning products that work. It makes the whole task feel more manageable.”
“I realized that neatness is a matter of continuous little actions rather than one big cleanup. If an object is put away immediately after being used, the mess/clutter never builds up to the point of overwhelm. If a mess is cleaned up immediately after it’s made, you never have a 2-hour cleanup job. It’s just a matter of retraining yourself to always do the little cleanup steps.”
“Getting a dog who gets into EVERYTHING. He’s too smart for his own good. So if I wanted my dog to stay alive, which I did, I had to stop being a slob.”
“I used to be so messy it was crossing the line into dirty… Clothes everywhere, dirty dishes stacked-my friends would come over and just start cleaning because they couldn’t stand it. My husband is very tidy and we would get in so many arguments. I really would try to be a clean person but it seemed so overwhelming and out of reach that I thought I would always live that way.
One day I overheard my mom and my husband talking about my messiness and my husband said to my mom, “she just never puts stuff away” and for some reason, it just clicked this time. Being tidy is nothing more than just putting stuff away.
I used to see it as vacuuming, folding clothes, doing dishes, wiping off the counter, and a million other unrelated tasks that I thought I can never get good enough at all these things to be a tidy person but it turns out they are all just variations on putting things away. Forever changed my outlook.
I don’t put everything away as soon as I should but now when I have a few minutes to spare like when I’m waiting for the microwave and at the end of the day I always just start putting stuff away. I’m so proud of myself for being the tidy person I’ve always wanted to be and it’s so nice being able to let people in my apartment with no notice.”
“For me it was the dea what I was paying money to be in this space. I was working every day to come home, and home was a place to relax. No one wants to come home to a messy kitchen, clothes everywhere etc. To walk in after a long day an have everything just so is…its perfect. I am paying serious money to be here- so it should look good!
Hence why I clean a small amount every day and spiff things up before going to sleep. :”
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Just because these tweets were written for women, by women, that doesn’t mean men won’t still find them funny. But seriously, ladies, listen up…cause these tweets are here to make you laugh.
Enjoy, my female friends.
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Supermarket chain Kroger, which owns 2,800 stores across America, recently announced that they’ll soon start phasing out plastic bags in their locations. By 2025, the company plans to eliminate plastic bags from their stores completely.
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The Ohio-based supermarket giant will begin their phasing out process next year in Washington state. Kroger will push customers to use cloth bags or bags made from other reusable materials.
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Out of the nearly 1 trillion plastic bags used around the world each year, only about 5% end up being recycled. Kroger’s plastic bag plan is part of its larger initiative called Zero Hunger Zero Waste. The plan aims to fight hunger in local communities and to reduce landfill waste by 90% by 2020.
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Planes are feats of modern engineering and we are so thankful they exist. But why the heck do they have to have such a steep takeoff?
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The answer, as you might have guessed, is for practical reasons. Planes are at their most efficient when they are at their cruising altitudes, so pilots do their best to take off, ascend sharply to around 35,000 feet, and cruise until it’s time to make that final descent.
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Because the airlines and pilots have to keep customer comfort and other plane traffic in mind, the pilots can’t take off as steeply as they’d like to, but obviously, that ain’t gonna…fly…
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Good news, goat lovers. If goats are drawn to you, that means you are a happy person. That’s an obviously self-fulfilling statement, but it also may be scientifically true that goats prefer you because you’re happy.
At least that’s what a recent study says.
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The study says that goats prefer “positive human emotional facial expressions.” In other words, if you’re smiling, goats are more drawn to you. In the study, goats roamed and explored an area that had two black and white photos at goat-eye level. One was of a smiling human face, the other an angry face.
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The goats preferred to approach the smiling face. This suggests that goats have the ability to read human facial expressions. Companion animals such as dogs are recognized as able to read human emotions, but this is the first research to show that goats might have that same ability. So get out into the country today and go smile at some of these adorable fluffers!
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We use search engines like Google and Bing (jk, no one uses Bing) so often that we almost take them for granted. So, have you ever wondered when the first internet search ever took place?
Was it Google back in 1998? No. Was it ARPANET in 1969? Try again. Most people aren’t aware of it, but the fact is that the first Internet search occurred all the way back in 1963. That year, two men sent the first known long-distance computer query: Charles Bourne and Leonard Chaitin at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California.
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The project was funded by the Air Force in a time when most information retrieval – no matter what it was – demanded physical objects. Bourne and Chaitin designed their program to search for any word in a database of 7 memos that Bourne had typed onto punched paper tapes and converted to magnetic tape. Chaitin went to Santa Monica, 350 miles away, and put the files onto a military computer. Then, they sent a query from that massive computer terminal (no one can quite remember what the question was). The data went out and came back through telephone lines, and the right answer appeared. Bourne and Chaitin had proved that online search was possible.
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Although the initial experiment was a success, the Air Force shut the program down. Everyday use of the pioneering experiment was still more than a generation away. But at least we can now thank Bourne and Chaitin for their foresight.
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