Holiday Tips, Decorating Ideas
41. Home Holiday Safety Tips
The holidays are time of joy, but because of the distractions, parties and other things going on, they can also be a time when you let your guard down and have safety issues at home. Advice columnist and relationship expert April Masini gives one reader a few tips for staying safe this holiday season.
42. 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.
43. Holiday Tips - Spiritual Holidays
How can you prepare yourselves for the upcoming holy season? What can you do to feel a little closer and feel a little better about yourself? Read these tips by relationship advice expert April Masini and find out how giving up a little can actually do so much wonders for the soul.
44. 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.
45. 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 ....
46. 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!
47. Why Singles Are Buying vs Renting Homes
Have you noticed a recent trend towards the purchase of dream homes, condos and vacation homes sprawled across vast greens in Vermont, Lake Tahoe or the vast expanses of the plains? Are you even more surprised to find out that it is singles who are purchasing these homes? One single reader asks advice columnist April Masini why buying homes are so popular among singles nowadays and if it is in her best interests to consider buying her own home. Read on and find out what April has to say!
48. Holiday Manners for Kids
Holidays can be special memories treasured by families for years to come. They can also provide a meaningful vehicle to teach your children about manners and proper etiquette. Get relationship advice expert April Masini's tips on how the Holidays can help you teach your kids good manners.
49. Bathroom Basics
It's important to keep your bathroom well stocked with all different types of accessories, especially if you have a lot of guests. Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini gives tips on what you need to have in your bathroom ... and why renovating your bathroom can actually rev up your love life!
50. Holiday Planning - Blended Family Togetherness
Blended families can complicate the holidays and change the dynamic in the house for the holiday period. If you have children who are not normally home throughout the year, tensions can arise. Advice expert April Masini offers tips for blending your families successfully during the holiday season, no matter how different they are.
51. Relationship Advice: Create Your Own Holiday Traditions
As families become more diverse with bi-racial and inter-faith marriages, they are creating their own holiday traditions that are unique to their relationships. These rituals can incorporate aspects of both spouses' backgrounds or be new traditions altogether. Dating and relationship advice expert April Masini gives you some dos, don'ts, and tips for melding your holiday traditions. Read on to get advice on making traditions to build even stronger relationships.
52. 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.
53. Holiday Safety Tips - Safeguarding Home
The holidays are a time of high travel, and they're also a time when homes are more susceptible to being robbed or broken into. Advice expert April Masini offers five simple tips for safeguarding your home while you travel during the holidays.
54. Holiday Tips: Trendy Or Tacky Holiday Letter
With computers and our busy lives, the idea of a holiday newsletter is so tempting. It's a quick, guilt-free and easy way to keep friends and family attuned to what's going on with you and yours without handwriting a million cards. But is it OK to communicate like this? Relationship advice expert and best-selling author April Masini offers advice on holiday newsletters: just because they're popular, doesn't mean they're right.
55. Holiday Tips - No New Year's Resolution
New Year's resolutions are ubiquitous during January, but by March they're often forgotten. How do you stay motivated on those resolutions? Relationship advice expert April Masini says: don't make them at all! You'll be more productive and more likely to keep at what you want to do in life if you don't start on January 1st every year. Get April's tips on not making New Year's resolutions this year!
56. Holiday Tips - Christmas Card Etiquette - Baring All In A Card
Holiday cards are a rote part of many people's year-end traditions. But when there's something extraordinary going on in your life -- like you're going through an illness -- do you use the card as a way of keeping your family and friends informed, or do you stick to the traditional notes of holiday cheer? Relationship advice expert April Masini decodes the etiquette of writing holiday cards...and holiday newsletters.
57. Great Gifts for Boyfriends
Gift giving (and buying) is often a challenge, especially when you're buying for someone not entirely like yourself -- older, younger, a different gender, for example. One way to always score a home run is to pay attention to trends. Everyone likes the newest and hottest items! Relationship advice expert April Masini offers you tips on some of the latest gift trends to guide your buying this holiday season.
58. Gift Giving Ideas - Tips On Regifting - Recycled Gift Tips
Regifting: whether you love it or think it's tacky, it's happening everywhere. If you have a stockpile of gifts that, while lovely, aren't for you, they might need regiving. Relationship advice expert and best-selling author April Masini offers tips on how you can regift with class.
59. Holiday Tips - Great Photos
Do your holiday photographs end up a blur of red and green? Family members with their heads cut off? Non-existent because you always forget the film? Advice expert expert April Masini offers you quick tips for capturing holiday moments on camera--successfully!
60. How To Survive A Divorce
Divorce is difficult, and dealing with the holidays after a divorce is even more difficult. Making the right choices for your children is essential, especially during the first holiday season after the marriage breaks up. Dating and relationship advice expert April Masini offers tips and advice for navigating the holiday season this year.
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