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How to protect your home from Carpenter Bees

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Are you looking for carpenter bees treatment? While carpenter bees are not quite as destructive as termites, keeping them out of your home and wood is still a bit of a challenge. Getting rid of these wood-destroying insects may seem difficult, but there are a few simple tips that can help you eliminate these pests from your home for good.

Before you begin, you should know that carpenter bees, unlike termites, do not actually eat wood. They simply remove it in order to build nests. That means if they have gotten into your house, they are feeding on something else – most likely from your kitchen! Carpenter bees eat many of the same things we do, including sugars, syrups, protein, starches, and other sweets. Keep your food in airtight containers to keep these bugs out of your home and away from a food source.

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Choosing an engagement ring your bride will love

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We all love choices. Whether it is choosing from 20 kinds of breakfast cereal or 200 channels of cable television, choices make us feel empowered and happy, right? The truth is that psychological research has recently proven that too many choices can often feel overwhelming and leave the consumer unhappy and nervous about his final selection, no matter what that is.

If you are a soon-to-be-engaged guy who is shopping for an engagement ring for your special lady, you probably already know this. What seemed like an exciting and romantic shopping expedition when you first started out soon becomes an overwhelming exercise of differentiating between hundreds of diamond engagement rings, all of which look almost identical to you.

If that is your predicament, then the search is over, my friend. Here are ten modern, trendy, but classic engagement ring designs, each matched with the personality type of the girl who will love that ring. Simply select the ring style that matches her personality, and then you will be able to easily narrow your search to a ring of that style. Or you can pick your favorite design elements and have a perfect diamond engagement ring custom made.

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Grow ginseng for fun and profit

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Ginseng has been grown and harvested in Asia for centuries, and it was one of the first natural resources to be gathered and sold abroad after Europeans first began to colonize North America.

Thanks to the intense demand of the Chinese for American ginseng, the harvesting of ‘seng roots quickly became one of the most common ways to make money in the Appalachian Mountain and Upper Midwest regions of the United States.

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries ginseng roots were gathered by the wagon load in the “hills and hollers” of the Appalachians, but today most of the wild ginseng that was so prevalent in the woods back then is gone.

Nowadays the best way to make money by selling ginseng is to plant your own crop and cultivate it. Make no mistake about it, growing a ginseng crop takes a lot of work and it takes several years for a crop to mature enough for digging, but the financial rewards can be substantial.

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How do I slow down my mouse pointer?

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Question:

Rick, this just might be the dumbest question you’ve ever received, but I have to ask it anyway because I’m a complete novice when it comes to anything other than checking my email and surfing the Internet. Seven months ago I bought a new HP desktop PC and I love it. The thing is my mouse stopped working the other day and a friend told me it has probably gone bad.

I went to Wal-Mart and bought a new mouse and now the little arrow pointer moves around the screen so fast that it’s hard to select or click on anything. My question is this: How on earth do I slow down the mouse pointer? Please help!!!!  –Maya Freilich

Answer:

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5 ways NOT to save for your retirement

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Saving for retirement is important, but the key is to do it wisely. After all, what’s the point of saving for retirement if you do so in such a way that you harm yourself in the process? Here are five bad ways to save for your retirement.

1. Neglecting your health

If you think a good way to save for your retirement is to neglect your health, think again. What’s the point of saving up for retirement if you’re going to be in such bad health that by the time you get there you spend all your money on medical care? Would looking at your bank account really make you feel better when you’re experiencing chronic health problems and pain? Do yourself a favor and spend the money now instead of later so you can actually enjoy your life. This means going to the doctor when there’s a problem, spending money to deal with your health issues, exercising and eating healthy.

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