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• What do you really want for Christmas? More time, more joy, less stress?

  Christmas. The holidays. Chances are, those words send happy images straight to your heart! Children's faces, breathless with wonder and delight. Shining lights on a beautifully trimmed Christmas tree. Delicious scents of fresh cookies and hot cider. A bounty of gifts, wrapped and beribboned. The cheerful hubbub of family members gathered from far-flung parts of the continent and even from overseas.

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• Pet Hair and Pet Care: The trials and tribulations of living with pets

  Do you despair over the pet hair in your home? It is on your clothing, your furniture, even your bed! Believe it or not, there are some benefits to having pet hair around your home. Dr Joanne Righetti from Pet Problems Solved provides some interesting solutions and insights to living with pets.

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• The 12 steps to a stressless Christmas

  Christmas and the New Year are probably the most stressful and hectic times in your home – and it is very easy to be caught up in the fever of getting everything completed. However, with a little planning and a little help you can take the stress of the holidays.

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• Domestic bliss - the growth in outsourcing chores

  Personal, household and hospitality task outsourcing is booming in response to the increasing pressures on personal time. As so many of us race back to work in the face of recessionary times, the burden placed upon working couples with children who are also caring for ageing parents, continues.

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