Helpful Hints

Helpful Hints

The dangers of using a debit card

Paying with debit rather than credit can leave you open to phantom charges or drained accounts.

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Germ-carrying ticks should tweezed out of skin, killed quickly

Last summer, I learned that antiseptic mouth rinse kills ticks immediately. When I found a tick, I used to remove it and put it into rubbing alcohol, where it died after a minute or so.

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