Category: <span>Advice</span>

How to Use a Ladder Safely
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How to Use a Ladder Safely

Sometimes we need a little boost, like when changing an overhead light bulb, painting, or clearing the gutters. For each, you need a ladder.  Along with numerous other tasks. And yet according to the World Health Organization, there are more than 164,000 emergency-room treated injuries caused by falls from ladders each year in the US...

Fire Pit Safety Tips
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Fire Pit Safety Tips

Building a fire pit can be as simple as circling stones in your backyard or as involved as hiring a professional to build one on your patio. Whichever way you choose to go, be sure to keep these fire pit safety tips in mind. Preparing your outdoor fire pit Make sure the ground or surface...

How to Practice Water Safety this Summer
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How to Practice Water Safety this Summer

This year – during the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic – summer feels a little different. Families are traveling less, many local lakes, beaches, and pools only can operate at reduced capacity and with new rules in place, and large neighborhood gatherings are replaced by smaller, more intimate get-togethers. But no matter what summer looks...

How to Cope with Anxiety
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How to Cope with Anxiety

Anxiety isn’t exactly a topic that comes up between strangers in a grocery store line or while you stand around the office water cooler. To many people, the topic is taboo and for all kinds of reasons – mostly having to do with feelings of inadequacies for allowing something like anxiety to infiltrate your psychological...