10. De-cluttering your household and donating to charity

Basically, you should start your cleaning by de-cluttering, sorting and organizing your closet, furniture and books. If you donate some of those items that you don’t need any more they’ll find a new lifestyle somewhere else. Once the clutter is out of your way, you can now start your spring cleaning.

9. Pack away the winter clothes

You should wash your winter clothing and store them in breathable cotton bags and place them on top of cupboards or wardrobes. Meaning, you should avoid those plastic bags that attract dust and condensation. Unpaired pantyhose and cinnamon sticks are good options as compared to moth balls.

8. Cleaning your oven

Although this is one of the things that most people hate doing, your oven needs to be cleaned after going through all those winter roasts. Besides, the old oven cleaning techniques, you should try using a mixture of bicarb soda and water. You can spread the paste in the oven and leave it overnight. You will achieve amazing results when you wipe the paste off the following morning.

7. Cleaning the fridge

When cleaning the kitchen you should start by cleaning the cupboards and the fridge. Use a toothbrush and vinegar in reaching all the crooks and crannies of your fridge. You should also make sure that you discard all items that are past their expiry dates. A vacuum cleaner with a hose will help you in removing the lint in the condenser of your refrigerator coils so as to avoid overheating. Deodorize and remove the nasty smells from your refrigerator.

6. Preparing the air conditioning unit

Go over the unit with the brush attached to your vacuum, when vacuum cleaning the unit. You should also wash the filter and dry it before reinstalling it back.

5. Freshening the curtains and pillows

You can only avoid allergens and dust mites by freshening up your curtains, rags, carpets and even pillows. This will also help prolong their lifespan and keep them looking as good as new. You ought to release the pleats because they trap a lot of dust. You can use wool wash or Euco fresh in spring cleaning your pillows for perfect results. Dry them properly before putting them back.

4. Cleaning your blinds

Use a dump sponge in wiping your wooden blinds. You can also use non-corrosive cleaners in wiping your Aluminum blinds on slanting surfaces. Dry them thoroughly to avoid rusting before putting them back.

3. Getting rid of dust

You should use the force of gravity in spring cleaning your rooms from top to bottom. You can unscrew your bulbs and use a microfiber cloth in wiping them. You should start your cleaning from walls to skirting boards and flooring in that order. While you are at it, you should also check your smoke alarms too.

2. Washing the windows

Since you need that natural light flooding your living room through the windows, you have to clean the windows late in the day when the sun rays are not striking the glass hard. This is very important because the strong sunlight will cause streaking on your glass due to quick drying. Moreover, squeegees are more preferable to using cloth or paper towel. In other words, you ought to be careful to avoid damaging your glass as you clean for spring.

1. Steam cleaning the carpets, lounges and rugs

Upholstery and carpets can accumulate dirt, bacteria or even dust during the winter season. Hence, if they are not cleaned adequately in preparation for the spring months, they might end up being unhygienic and unsightly.

10. Knowing your client’s hairstyle history

As a hairstylist, you should know the hairstyle that the client prefers using more often. You should know the hair care regime that the client prefers; the client’s outdoor activities such as swimming and whether your client prefers short or long hair. This will help you determine the right hairstyle or hair product suitable for the client.

9. Choosing the right color

If your client leaves the choice of coloring to you, you have to take time in analyzing the suitable colors before starting out on the hair styling. Warm and cool colors are usually evident in most skin tones and thus when making a choice from this point. Your aim should basically be guided by choosing a coloring that matches perfectly with the client’s skin tone. You should also determine the face shape of your client so that you can suggest cuts and styles suitable for the client.

8. Be very careful in choosing colors

Remember the lighting under which you are doing the hair styling can alter the true coloring that you intend to achieve. You can do this by observing the colors in natural light so as to see whether there are yellow tones. You should also be able to determine whether the color that you see is a residue from the previous coloring.

7. Make notes and sketches as you proceed.

By making notes you will be able to discuss the right hair styling and hairdressing suitable for your client before you start applying it. For example to blonde red tones you will require copper gold tones; you can only make such assessments with the help of some few notes.

6. Use pictures or illustrations when customizing a hairstyle

If you use pictures in explaining to your client the kind of hairstyles suitable for her or him, chances are one will be better placed in making the right choice. This way you’ll ensure that your school of thought is consistent with that of your client. For example, a client can consider a brown color to be red!

5.  Consult with your client widely

You have to ensure that you consult with your client every time you are going to conduct a color service. Instead of assuming, you should ensure that your client knows what to expect before you start hairdressing. When consulting, you should avoid using professional terminologies for easy understanding.

4. Having good hair product information

By knowing a wide range of hair products, you’ll increase the chances of making the right decision. Product knowledge will enable you to understand the strengths and weaknesses of whichever product that you want to use.

3. Use hair cuttings in testing new products.

You should never try out a new product on a client or hair type. You should make swatches using hair cuttings to test the colorings. In fact, you are better off making mistakes at this level than on a client’s hair.

2. Understanding favored or major colors

It’s advisable that you, as a hairstylist, you memorize some of the major coloring in the market for easy and quick decision making. For instance, you can come up with designs for the reds, dark blonde, brown and darker. Basically this covers some of the major designs of hairstyles.

1. The customer is always right

You always have to ensure that all the concerns that the customer had have been addressed. You ought to be sure that the client is confident before you start styling.

10. Buying a discount carpet is always cheaper

Unfortunately most homeowners believe that buying expensive carpets is impulse buying when cheaper ones can do the job. In most cases you might end up replacing the cheaper carpets up to about ten times in the lifespan of a single expensive carpet. Carpets that come at discounted prices lack strong resistance to both wear and tear as compared to their expensive carpets counterparts.

9. A thick carpet doesn’t require an underlay

This is a misconception because as they say ‘ a carpet is only as good as its underlay’. And this is something you need to consider. Poor carpet underlay makes carpets to damage more quickly.

8. New carpets don’t have to be cleaned professionally

This is a very dangerous myth because a professional carpet cleaner will always advice you that all dirt, oils and allergens ought to be removed from any carpet in order to prolong its lifespan. These elements can cause your carpet a lot of harm.

7. Using your own carpet cleaning machine

Believing that you can use your own carpet cleaning machine in achieving the same results that you can get with a professional carpet cleaner is a misleading myth. Your machine is not capable of extracting the cleaning detergents and water that it pumps into the carpet completely. This will leave your carpet dump and hence predispose it to re-soiling and mould build-up.

6. Supermarket stain removal products are all suitable for cleaning stains off the carpet

Some of the stain removal products that you buy at the supermarket might end up removing some amount of color if used on the carpets. In other words, avoid using strong chemicals on your carpets when doing carpet cleaning.

5. Vacuuming once a week is enough

In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), experienced carpet cleaning experts and most established carpet manufacturers, vacuuming carpets should be done on a daily basis. Although it sounds ridiculous or tedious, it will add several years to your carpets.

4. Steam cleaning method should be avoided

It’s a wonder where some homeowners get such a myth from, even when most established and leading carpet cleaners recommend it! As a matter of fact, this is one of the most effective carpet cleaning methods for removing soils and dirt.

3. Deodorisers keep carpets fresh

Although the powder may leave your carpet smelling fresh it becomes embedded into your carpet’s underlay. When the carpets starts drying it will show an existence of dip white stains.

2. Drying the carpet yourself

The time frame before mould starts building up or forming on the carpet ought to be adhered to professionally. It’s only professional carpet cleaners who can adequately advice you on removing and replacing the underlay of a carpet.

1. Pet soil should be solved by replacing a carpet.

Professional carpet cleaners know how to use odor removals in neutralizing the pet urine and stains. So, unless it’s extremely serious you shouldn’t replace your carpet.

9. Toronto Zoo: – It is situated in Toronto, Canada and it was developed in the year 1974. It is the biggest zoo in Canada. It covers an area of about 710 acre areas and has approximately 5000 animals in it. Zoos of almost the whole world are participating in an effort to enhance the knowledge regarding the dangers intimidating amphibians.

8. Smithsonian National Zoological Park – It is one of the oldest zoos in the US and situated in Washington DC. The best thing about this zoo is that the regular entrance for the people is free. The zoo is located in the Rock Creek Park and over 2000 animals and 400 species have their houses in this zoo. The area of the zoo is about 3363 acres. The National zoo is open each day of the year except on 25^th December.

7. Schonbrunner Zoo, Austria:-It is a traditional city zoo situated in Vienna, Austria in 1752. It is the oldest zoo in the world. This significant zoo contains all of the kinds of animals that people would expect to find in a main zoo: giraffe, lion, rhino, tiger, bears, elephant, many different types of birds and much more. The zoo also contains a large aquarium and a museum of natural history.

Beauval Zoo, France

6. Berlin Zoological Garden, Germany:-It is the oldest zoo situated in Berlin, Germany in 1884. The area of the zoo is about 84 acres and about 19,500 animals and 1,500 species are present in this zoo. It has the most inclusive compilation of species in the world. It also has the globally known animals such as Giant Panda, polar bear, and Bao which have contributed the zoo a private image.

5. National Zoological Gardens of South Africa:-The zoo is situated in Pretoria, South Africa since 1889. J. W. B. Gunning is the founder of this zoo. With about 9,000 animals and 700 species in this zoo and about 210 acres of area becomes the point of attraction for the tourists. Every year more than 600,000 people visit this zoo.

4. Bronx Zoo, New York: – The zoo is situated at Bronx in New York City in 1989. The Zoo is one of the world’s biggest metropolitan zoos. About 4,000 animals and 650 species are living in this zoo and it covers about 265 acres of area. Every year more than 500,000 people visit this zoo.

3. Beauval Zoo, France: – The Beauval zoo is situated at Beauval in France in 1980. It is one of the largest zoos in France. There are about 2,000 Species and 4,000 animals living in this zoo and its area is about 212 acres.

2. Basel Zoo, Switzerland:-It is situated in Basel, Switzerland in1874. It is the biggest and the oldest zoo in Switzerland. About 1,812,438 people visit this zoo annually. The Zoo ranked as one of the fifteen best zoos in the world. There are about 645 Species and 5,000 animal living in the zoo and zoo area is about 32.12 acres

1. Animal Kingdom, Orlando: – It is the biggest single Disney theme park in the world. The area of the zoo is about 500 acres. The zoo is represented by the tree of life a sculpted 145 feet article tree. There are more than 1,500 animals living in this zoo.

It’s also important to know the type of hair you have. For instance, having a lot of hair strands on your head doesn’t actually mean that you have thick hair because each strand can be thin, coarse or even wavy. However, if you don’t take out enough time to know some of these basics about yourself then chances are that you’re prone to having more than three bad hair days in a week.

Here are the top ten hair styling mistakes that you should avoid so as to make your hairstyling perfect.

10. Poor blow drying

Although all types of hair can use some volume the tricky of making the volume that your hair needs work is hidden in the blow drying habits that you adopt. By holding the dryer about 12 inches from the scalp of your hair you should do the blow drying from the back to front and not vice versa.

9. No protection

Always ensure that you use a thermal protector when using the blow dryer or curling iron on your hair. This is very important because the strong heat can damage the strands of your hair.

8. Wrong choices of hair products

Although some women know their hair types some of them end up picking the wrong hair products because they actually don’t know the right hair products suitable for them. It’s also good to know the texture of your hair. You ought to know the texture in terms of fineness and straightness before setting out to buy any hair product. Since you might need to combine more than one hair product for the best result you should consult your stylist especially if you are not sure about these aspects.

7. Too much usage of good hair products!

Most women end up blaming the type of hair products that they use on their hairs without considering the fact that the bad result could have been caused by too much usage of the product. For instance, you will need less serums and pomades because they are highly concentrated. Too much usage of some of these hair products can make the hair look unwashed or become a dust magnet.

6. Iron flattening

When using the flat iron you shouldn’t forget the thermal spray that protects the hair from the strong heat produced by the flat iron. You should also divide your hair into small sections before you start the flat iron flattening. Start at the bottom of the roots slowly to silken the hair and smoothen it.

5. Styling wet or damp hair is bad

You shouldn’t try to style wet hair because unlike dry hair it doesn’t hold a hair style. It’s recommended that you give your hair time to recoup the oils lost before blow drying it for better results. Once it’s completely dry you can also dry it further slowly and use various hair products on the hair without damaging it.

4. Taking too long to style the hair in between hair cuts

It’s a known fact that a great hair style starts with a great hair cut once the hair starts growing out. If you do the cuts between 4 to 8 weeks, you will make it easy for the stylist to give you a hairdo or the kind of hair style you want with ease.

3. Over styling your hair

There is no need of overdoing your hair styling every time you want a hairdo unless you are a model or hair styling for a momentous occasion such as a wedding or prom. Style your hair in such a way that it moves and falls freely as you go about your day to day lifestyle. All you need to do is use the right hair products and styling techniques.

2. Under styling your hair

There are millions of men and women who do absolutely nothing to their hairs. If your hair is more than a few inches long, then you ought to do something more than just a little “wash and go”!

1. Picking the wrong hairstyle

A hairstyle that looks good on someone else might not necessarily look good on you. Therefore, what looks good on your co-worker or favorite celebrity might not be suitable for your skin tone, hair texture or even face shape. You ought to take your time in choosing the right hairstyle first.

1. China:-China is the biggest producer of coal in the world. The coal mining industry of china is the biggest and also the deadliest in the world in terms of human being protection. In China, Coal is the main source of energy. The coal production is about3, 576 Metric tons annually in China.

2. USA:-It is the main industry in USA. The United State was the net exporter of coal in 2008. It produced around 932 metric ton hard coal and 65 metric tons of brown coal. A total of about 57 metric ton hard coal is exported every year.

3. India: – India has abundant household assets of coal. Most of these are in the states of Orissa, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Chattisgarh. The coal production is about 526 Metric tons annually in India.

4. Australia: -It is the 4^th biggest producer of coal in the world, and it is also the biggest exporter of coal in the world. Total production of raw coal was 405 Million Tone in the last financial year in Australia.

5. Indonesia:-It is the 5^th largest producer of coal in the world. Total production of coal in Indonesia in financial year was 263 million tones.

6. South Africa:-It is the 6^th largest producer of coal in the world. Total production of coal in South Africa in the financial year is 255 million tones. About 77 percent of energy wants are straightway derived from coal and about 92% of consumption at the continent of Africa is produced in South Africa.

7. Russia:-Russia is the 7^th largest producer of coal in the world. Russia Coal power is one of the biggest sources of energy. It is also the 5^th biggest producer of coal in the world. Total production of coal in Russia in financial year was 229 million tones.

8. Kazakhstan:-It is the 8^th largest producer of coal in the world. Total production of coal in Kazakhstan in the financial year is 96 million tones.

9. Poland:-It is the 9^th largest producer of coal in the world. Total production of coal in Poland in the financial year is 78 million tones. About 89% of heat and 92% of energy is generated from coal in Poland. Nowadays, Poland coal industry is among competitive in Europe. Poland is also the 8^th biggest rocking coal exporter in the world.

10. Colombia:-It is the 10^th biggest producer of coal and the 4^th biggest exporter of coal in the world. It is also biggest coal producer in South America and has the biggest reserves in the region. Total production of coal in Colombia in financial year was about 73 million tones.

10. Wayne Gretzky: The victory of four Stanley cup is the start of Gretzky’s list of achievements and he reached the 50 goals in the 50 games plateau three times. He also played an important role as a coach for the Phoenix Coyotes.

9. Mario Lemieux: He won Olympic gold and a world cup for Canada. He retired in an early age and when he tries to come back his health related problems did not allow him to stay in the field. Mario Lemieux was the only contemporary of the Gretzky.

8. Bobby Orr: Bobby Orr is the only defenseman who wins the Art Ross Trophy twice and he is well known for his amazing speed and offensive talent. Unfortunately knee injury forced him to stay out of hockey; otherwise there will be many other records had been created by him.

7. Maurice Richard: Hart Trophy was won by him for once and when he retired he held plentiful NHL records and titles, as he was by far the most talented player of his era. Richard was suspended from the game for long term and fined $ 10,000 for punching a lineman.

6. Gordie Howe: Gordie Howe was known by his dozen’s of nicknames including “Mr. Hockey”. He is the only player who playsin five different decoys and also served WHA (world hockey association). He plays hockey till his 52th birthday and won countless titles and trophies during his sports career.

5. Bobby Hull: Stanley Cup was won by him with the Blackhawks prior to the three Avco Cups that was won with the Winnipeg Jets and he is one of the selected superstars who succeed in the WHA and NHL. Bobby is well known for his amazing speed and blistering slap shot.

Bobby Hull

4. Mark Messier: Messier won six Stanley Cups in his career, and also known by his nickname “The Moose”. He never met with any major injury during his long sport career and was famous for activeness, size and defending mating calls.

3. Dominik Hasek: Hasek won six Vezina Trophies, and was one of the goaltender to win Hart trophy six times (back to back). He got the title of “greatest goaltender of all the time” and hisnickname was “The Dominator”.

2. Jean Beliveau: Jeans wonten Stanley Cups as a player with Montreal Canadiens and a next seven as a part of Montreal’s management. He signed a contract with the Canadiens, which forced Beliveau to play for them.

1. Guy Lafleur: Guy Lafleur is also known as, “The Flower”. Some people call him “Lazy” as nick name, but that could not distract him from fetching one of the Montreal Canadians  most admired players. He won three Lester B. Pearson and Art Roses Trophies, a Conn Smyth, two Hart Trophies, and a Canada Cup during his career of 17 years.

10. Value of time: It is imperative to make children realize how valuable time is in their lives. Give them interesting to-dos. Ask them to take a shower in ten minutes or finish their meal in fifteen minutes and such. Using a stopwatch will spice things up.

9. Chores: Engage the kids in daily household chores. It could be little things like gathering the clothes from the clothes line or laying out the dishes for dinner. Make them feel involved and be sure to thank them for their effort.

8. Gardening: Encourage kids to have their own little corner in the garden. Assist them to plant vegetables or greens of their choice. Ask them to tend to the plants and water them when required. Look out for the joy on those faces when the tender leaves appear! Grumpy faces will disappear when you serve them spinach from their own produce!

7. Day-out: Little outings are a great way to brighten up mundane holidays. They also help to wean the kids away from video games and soak in the goodness of open air. Just throw in some goodies in a basket and off you go. Nothing elaborates. A walk to the nearest park is good enough.

6. Cooking: Rustling up something in the kitchen with kids in tow can sometimes be very rewarding. Engage them in small kitchen acts. Mixing the cake batter, peeling the boiled potatoes, tossing the salad are all small experiences the kids will enjoy and actually take pride in doing.

5. Bonding with the elderly: Organize and arrange meetings of the kids with elderly people; even an outing to a nearby old home can be rewarding. A company of the old makes children more sensitive and caring and they can draw a lot from their wealth of experience.

4. Television time: Parents often leave their kids by themselves while watching TV. Try and be different. Join them when they watch TV. Involve yourself in their programs. Watch their faces glow with pride when they take you through the storyline and feel in control! In the bargain you can even get them to see something educational if you make it seem like a fun thing to watch.

3. Exercising: Chalk out an exercise routine with the kids. Doing it together is enjoyable and you benefit from it too!

2. Craft: Learning a craft helps kids to hone their artistic skills and keeps them out of mischief’s way.

1. Reading out: This is the mother of all pastimes. To hold the kids’ interests initially, pick up a book or comic whose televised version they are familiar with.

9. Ambulophobia: The fear of walking or standing! Imagine the implications of having such a fear. How to you go about life without standing or walking! Of course you can’t travel in motorized chair all the time. Well, I guess people suffering from such a fear have to face the fear or are forced to face it.

8. Cibophobia: The fear of food, how do these people live or do they even live? When analyzing the situation there can be two options, either they starve themselves to death or face the fear every time they take a spoon full of rice in their mouth.

7. Epistemophobia: This is sad but people do suffer from such fears, the fear of knowledge. Imagine no school, no education and no work. If you even face the fear and learn then you might not be able to comprehend well.  Your cognition will not allow you to learn with such a fear.

6. Acousticophobia: The fear of sound, including ones own sound. How can a person live a normal life with such a fear? Do such people even exist and if they do, do they live in normal societies? The most effective way of communication terrorized them. Even if they want to avoid any voice, there is no escape from sounds when living in such a time.

5. Somniphobia: The fear of sleep. It is another phobia that makes living like a hell. Imagine the fatigue this phobia can cause from un-restlessness. The mental and physical fatigue will make the person dysfunctional, and even if they want to sleep the fear of sleep will not let them sleep. Scary!

4. Counterphobia: This is one weird phobia. The phobic seeks situations of fear and discomfort. Although not disorder, these phobics engage in such activities to counter their fear. The person may sometimes end in psychological problems in the constant struggle of fight or flight.

3. Chronophobia: The fear of passing time. People with this phobia are even scared of the concepts related to time like past, present and future or early, later etc. The idea of time itself scares them. What the world would be for such people.

2. Phobophobia: The fear of developing a fear, this phobia is as weird as it sounds. Phobia already means fear, so the person fears of having a fear! Complicated and ridiculous, it is more of a brain teaser than some actual fear.

1. Pantophobia: The fear of everything. No doubt this phobia has made to number one of the list. The person with such a phobia can go about normal in life apart from the insane thought of some sinister force out there in the world. No matter where the person goes, he will have this fear nagging him that some evil is hovering over him.

10. It is not a horror novel but “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon” would be an amazing movie. The story revolves around a girl who got lost in a forest. She is a fan of the Boston Red Sox and she imagined that Tom Gordon, her favourite player, is guiding her safe against unseen monsters.

9. The baseball story in “Blockade Billy”. A short book that tells about the baseball story of the 1950’s makes a good read especially with the additional surprising twists by Stephen King. It is with no doubt that a good film adaptation of this will make it to the blockbuster.

8. “The Gingerbread Girl” will be a challenge for an actress. Since there is only one main character in this story, it needs a thorough audition if ever they are going to make this a movie. It presents an empowering end of a story about a woman, Emily, who was abducted when she was jogging.

7. “Insomnia” as another fantasy. A man learns about alien-ish beings that are on the mission from the command of their master to destroy the world.

6. A vexing time travel in “11/22/63”. Here, the character found a portal that could take him back to 1958. He devises plans on how to stop the JFK assassination only to find out that the timeline will reset if he will leave or enter the portal.

5. Zombies again at “Cell”. People are not new to seeing zombie-like creatures in films. This may not be unique to the story of Cell but how the story unfolds will leave you breathless.

4. More fantasy with “The Eyes of the Dragon”. After the huge hit of “The Game of Thrones”, a TV series adapted from George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire”, it is a wonder why this book of King has not found its way yet to the screen.

3. Awesome adventures for “The Talisman”.This is about the story of Jack Sawyer who wants to save his mother. To do that, he needs to travel to another world. Read this and be transported to another world together with Sawyer to experience adventures.

2. “The Long Walk” is a race for survival. Have you watched “The Hunger Games”? This story is about a yearly event that gathers 100 participants who must race to survive while maintaining their 4mi/hr speed. Dropping below that speed will get you a warning, and getting a warning for three times will get you a ticket that means death.

1. Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” is an all-in-one story. It has everything from sci-fi to drama to time travel to romance and more of the elements that people usually look for in books and movies. You will never get tired of this even if it consists of seven volumes.By the way, a movie adaptation of this will be released soon.