Great Gifts, Gift Giving Ideas, Etiquette Tips
21. 7 Tips for Choosing Bed Linens
This reader has a problem in the bedroom -- but it's not what you're thinking! With all the options for bed linens, she can't choose! Advice expert April Masini gives her tips for choosing the right sheets for her personality and lifestyle.
22. Interview Tips - Video Resume?
Everyone's looking for a way to make themselves stand out in the job hunt, and the latest trend is video resumes. But are they too much, or do they do the job of making you a stand-out candidate? Advice expert April Masini gives you the scoop.
23. Wedding Advice - The Rules to Wedding Etiquette
With people getting married older and having second and third marriages, does the old etiquette for weddings still apply? With the way relationships are these days, can you show up at weddings with friends instead of significant others? Best-selling author and relationship advice columnist April Masini gives the REAL wedding etiquette to one curious reader.
24. Business Etiquette - Celebrating at Work
Birthdays, anniversaries, new babies, weddings ... all things you'd celebrate with your family and closest of friends, but lately, you're celebrating them at work!? Advice expert April Masini tells one boss who is fed up with all the celebrations what's appropriate and how to reign it.
25. Email Etiquette - 'Netiquette'
Email has revolutionized communication. With the click of a button, one is able to talk to anyone across the globe within seconds. But this effortless ease has also caused many to practice bad 'netiquette'--that is poor online manners. Columnist April Masini lets us know when it is okay to email and when the online communication is outright inappropriate.
26. New Technology Etiquette
Technology has become an integral part of our lives, so it's no wonder a new set of etiquette guidelines need to be taught concerning when and where gadget use is appropriate. This goes for PDAs in business meetings to emailing personal feelings, there is a right and a wrong way to utilize technology. Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini presents a manners guide for the new millennium.
27. Business Etiquette - Workplace Fridge Feuds
Feuding over the fridge seems to be a popular theme at workplaces everywhere. It may sound silly, but it can be a serious issue when people start throwing other people's food out, eating other people's food, or even bringing smelly lunches everyday. Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini offers her list of workplace refrigerator etiquette so the fridge fighting can stop!
28. Future Mozart Gifts
Is your child a Mozart in the making? If you want to encourage your child's interest in music, check out advice expert columnist April Masini's fabulous musical gift ideas that are great for kids. And let the music play on!
29. Email Etiquette
To e-mail or not to e-mail? Is that the question you've been asking yourself lately? Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini explains that there are plenty of times when e-mailing is appropriate, but at other times, a phone call or one-on-one visit is best. Read on to hear her advice, so you can make sure you have proper e-mail etiquette.
30. Second Wedding Etiquette - Gift Giving Ideas
Weddings aren't once in a lifetime affairs anymore! Second and third weddings are different in many ways, especially in how guests gift the happy new couple. Relationship advice expert and columnist April Masini explains why the gift-giving rules are different the second time around, and why you shouldn't register for gifts more than once.
31. Email Etiquette - Text Message Etiquette
This is the age of letting your fingers do the talking for you. YES -- you guessed right -- Text Messaging! It's all the rage and wherever you are, you are likely to see both children, teens and adults texting away like crazy, be it in the train, store or while crossing the street! It's become a phenomenon! So how do you know when not to cross the line and what are the rules of texting? Let advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini tell you how to text message the right way!
32. Dating Gift Ideas - Help for Men Buying Gifts
The idea that men are bad at buying gifts is a stereotype, and while it's one that many women believe in general, they often refuse to believe it about their own partner. Relationship advice columnist April Masini helps one guy whose girlfriend is perpetually disappointed in his gift-giving.
33. Etiquette Tips for Men - Drop! Pick! Pop It In!
You're at a swanky restaurant or glitzy party and you're about to pop a crinkly french fry into your mouth when it suddenly slips out of your fingers and lands on the floor. No one is really paying any attention to you and as far as you can remember -- the five-second rule totally applies -- so you quickly bend down, pick up your french fry and pop it in your mouth. Except that your girlfriend in the corner spots you and later gives you hell. What's wrong you ask? Well, relationship advice expert April Masini tells you when it's okay to use the five-second rule and when it isn't -- so pay attention!
34. Relationship Advice: Christmas Couple Etiquette
As if holiday parties weren't stressful enough, if you're meeting your boyfriend's or girlfriend's family for the first time -- the pressure and stress can double. But it doesn't have to! Get relationship advice expert April Masini's tips for how to ace that first meeting...the advice you need on everything from what to bring, to how to act, and everything in between.
35. Great Gifts For Men
It's been said that men are more difficult to shop for than women. Whether that's true or not, dating and relationship advice expert April Masini has tips for never-fail gifts for the men in your life. Find out what the top eight items are on Guys Gift Wish List ....
36. Humorous Ways Beat Holiday Stress
Everyone has their standard fall-back gifts. Scented candles. Argyle sweaters. Socks. Body lotion. But if the idea of buying another carbon-copy Christmas gift has you tearing your hair out, relationship advice expert April Masini has some (humorous) tips for you!
37. Etiquette Tips for Men - Hug Me ... I'm Male!
You may have noticed a new trend -- be it in the workplace or among friends. Hugs are the new handshakes; and it's not just among the females! Men are hugging too. Previously, hugging was seen as the feminine thing to do and males preferred sticking to the macho handshake but the tides have turned because men are now getting in touch with their feminine sides and hugs are becoming more and more common! Is it a good thing and how do you practice "safe hugging," asks one such male. Relationship expert and advice columnist April Masini gives you some tips on how to hug your male buds or office mates the proper way!
38. Gift Card Pros And Cons
Gift cards are a contentious topic. To some people, they're a win-win: they make shopping easy and they make the recipient happy no matter what. To others, they're a cop-out and they show that you haven't thought their gift through. Best-selling author and advice columnist April Masini talks about the pros and cons of the gift card trend.
39. The Truth About Hot Holiday Toys
Ever stand in a line for four hours to get a gift? Shoved other parents aside to grab the last one? Why do we go insane trying to get our kids the hottest gift each Christmas -- and what makes a gift the "must-have?" Relationship advice expert April Masini explains the phenomenon and offers advice on whether or not you just get that hot gift for your kid this holiday season.
40. Gifting Beethoven Babies
It's easy for any prideful parent to get caught up in their child's affinity for music. Kids love music, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you should go out and buy that baby grand piano quite yet. Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini offers tips for age-appropriate musical gifts.
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