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hey I have some lived experience personal care advice I had to learn the hard way in my adulthood after growing up with abusive neglectful narcissistic parents. Maybe it will help someone else.

The most important room in your house to be clean is your kitchen. If you only have a few spoons and a whole house of mess, spend them on getting your kitchen clean, hygienic and tidy enough to be usable.

spending money on things that last longer or work better isn't a waste of money. You don't have to use the cheapest of everything because spending is bad work out what YOU think is worth splurging on.

Always buy the best shoes you can afford. Taking care of your feet is so important for your health. If you're afab the same goes for underwear, buying one pack of good quality, good fitting cotton breathable underwear will save you so much money on feminine care supplies if you get what I'm saying.

Get your feet measured in a shoe store. Especially if you're over 25 your feet will have grown since you were 18. I spent years thinking my body was wrong because my feet ALWAYS hurt. My girlfriend suggested we measure them and I realised I was in shoes two sizes too small. For years!! I didn't even know shoes were supposed to have space in them.

a cheap bottle of washing up liquid (dish soap) costs like £1 and can be used on basically every surface. Clean your counters, toilet, sinks, bathtub or shower, oven and hob with a scrub daddy and some cheap washing up liquid. It doesn't react with other chemicals and it cleans deeply and easily. I even use it on the inside of the shower glass where it collects that crusty water residue.

When bathing with an unscented bar soap everywhere first. Then wash a second time with your scented soap. The scented liquid soap isn't designed to clean you it's designed to make you smell beautiful.

Don't use scented soaps on your kitty. Don't use femfresh or other feminine washes on your kitty. Don't use feminine wipes on your kitty. You use your unscented bar soap you use on the rest of your bodh on your kitty once a day. That's all it needs.

You don't need sewing skills to mend things. A £5 sewing kit you keep somewhere in your house and maybe a 2 minute YouTube tutorial is all you need to fix holes in your clothes and make them last longer.

Cereal for breakfast is quick and convenient but aim to eat protein for your first meal. Things like eggs, meat, a protein shake, Greek yogurt. You'll feel fuller for longer and your body will appreciate it.

most things don't need to be ironed. For the things that need creases out a steamer is better for the fibres and easier to use. Simply hang up the item and hold the steamer against the creases.

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time is going to pass anyway

YES ~ it takes time to lose weight

YES ~ it takes time to learn a language

YES ~ it takes time to learn new skills and make real change in your life

It can be easy to keep putting it off because it takes too long, or it's too hard.

But that time will pass anyway.

It will pass whether or not you put in that effort or not, would you rather another year pass where you're stuck in the same rut?

Or would you rather a year pass and you've put that effort in to become fitter, to learn that language and make those changes?

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Nude at the Window by Paul Paede (1913)

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Undine (sculpture), 1904 - 1988.

by Isamu Noguchi.

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UNESCO-Welterbe Markgräfliches Opernhaus Bayreuth by baroqueblockbuster.

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St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, Northern Ireland, Christmas morning.

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This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

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Memento Mori Ring, anonymous, c. 1620 - c. 1650

The passage in the opened book ‘’t Leven is mijn Christi, Sterven is mijn Gewin’ (For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain), the skull with the hourglass, and the angel reminded the ring’s wearer of the transience of earthly life. Inscribed on the inside of it is: ‘ons leven is een schadú op aerde’ (our life on earth is a shadow). (Source)

More world posts here: sixpenceee.com/tagged/world

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Details by François Flaming 

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An Egyptian Faience Scarab, New Kingdom, 18TH dynasty, reign of Hatshepsut, 1473-1458 B.C.

Green in color, the well-detailed beetle with the underside containing her royal prenomen flanked by cobras, each head surmounted by a solar disk, a winged sun-disk with pendant cobras above

½ in. (1.3 cm.) long; ring size 4 ½ x

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Nature Inspired: Golden Cicada Resting On a Jade Leaf

Exquisite ornament of the Ming dynasty.

Total weight of the insect figurine, made of 95% pure gold, is 4.65 g. The thickness of the finely crafted wings is only 2 mm.

Unearthed in Boshiwu (博士塢), Wufeng Mountain, Suzhou. Now exhibited in Nanjing Museum (南京博物院).

Photo: ©南京博物院

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Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II, Middle Kingdomca. 1887–1878 B.C.

„Hieroglyphic signs make up the design, and the whole may be read: The god of the rising sun grants life and dominion over all that the sun encircles for one million one hundred thousand years [i.e., eternity] to King Khakheperre [Senwosret II].”

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Gold diadem with carnelian Herakles knot, Macedonia, 3rd-2nd century BC

from The Walters Art Museum

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Ancient Roman amethyst intaglio showing Pan, the pastoral god, playing pipes under a crescent moon and a leaning tree, with a goat observing.

Dated between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The gold ring setting is of a later date.

Collection & Credit: Sands of Time Ancient Art.

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~ Ring Inscribed with Hieroglyphs.

Place of origin: Egypt

Date: 305–30 B.C.

Medium: Gold

▪︎ From the source: Upon death, people who were thought to have lived moral lives were reborn in the afterlife as a form of the god Osiris. This ring is inscribed with the title “Osiris,” followed by the owner’s names and titles, attesting to his faith that he would become one with the god after death.

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