We all love a party and enjoying a party with your kids can easily be environmentally friendly, especially if you have it outdoors in the sunshine.  However, regardless of if you are trying to do your bit to save the planet or not, planning a kids party can still be quite stressful, so here are a few tips.

Keep the guest list short:

It is not necessary to invite everyone you or your child can think about. You can limit the guest list to your child’s close friends and family members if they live nearby. …

Financial experts will tell you that you don’t have to make more money to increase your financial wealth. What’s as—if not more— important, they say, is doing more with the money you already have. This is especially true in today’s uncertain economy.

So how do you spend smarter? A good place to start is by looking at your food budget. If, like me, you have a growing family and limited resources, groceries (food and household products) are a major monthly expense. But I’ve learned that, with a little planning and creativity, I can shave at …

It’s easy to presume when we see bright neon lights that they must use a lot of electricity.  The dazzling neon glow is so intense that it can be seen even in daylight and it seems logical that so much light can only be achieved by using a lot of energy.  So it is surprising to find that neon lights are actually very energy efficient.

How Neon Lights Work

I am not a scientist so this is a very simplified explanation that will probably have physicists choking on their coffee.  A traditional light bulb works …

Scoring certainly shows itself to be widely varied among different tasters and different groups of tasters. Obviously, exact score matching isn’t possible or even ideal, but it seems important that we are generally in agreement with a fairly narrow range of, say, two to three points as a two- to three-point variation can put a coffee into a different quality and corresponding price categorisation.

This group score just manifested itself in our office as we hosted a tasting of the My Virtual Coffee House Cup of Excellence (COE) coffees. Generally speaking, the entire group of …

We would all like to save money where we can.  For many of us, our biggest outlay is putting fuel in our cars.  According to the Odyssee-Mure project, in 2017 the average distance Europeans were travelling was 12,000 km a year, with Germany and Austria having the highest mileage of about 14,000 km a year.  It logically follows that if we could drive more efficiently then we could save money. There are, interestingly, a number of simple steps we can take to make our driving more efficient and save ourselves a few cent.

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