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If there is one thing that is universal, it is the desire to make a living doing what you love. Who doesn’t want to be rich and successful, spending all their time indulging in their passion? Yet for most of us, this remains fantasy. Most people, in fact, never even try it. They assume that there is no way to make it work. For me, however, there definitely was.

You see, I have loved discount designer bags since I was a kid. As a pre-teen, I developed an uncanny ability to find expensive bags discounted. I would get them in thrift stores, discount clothing outlets, or after-holiday sales. I never had much money, but I dressed like one of the rich kids!

I went to college like everyone else, majored in business administration, and figure that was that. I didn’t really wants to work in someone’s huge, overwhelming business office, but I knew that it was something I could do that would pay the bills. I had no idea, however, how boring it was. After a few years, I was hopelessly burnt out. I began to look for wholesale closeouts, particularly wholesale bags. At first, it was merely out of curiosity. What I found out, however, shocked me a great deal. As easy as it was for me to find wholesale bags wandering around town, it was 10 times easier on the Internet! I had struck a gold mine!

I started off by investing in wholesale designer handbags in bulk and selling them off, one by one over eBay. It wasn’t long before I was making a killing. As a matter of fact, I was getting orders for my wholesale bags faster than I could mail them! Soon I realized that I had to take a risk. I had to quit my job and devote myself full-time to my online business, or else I would be hopelessly swamped by orders. It was a risk, but it was a risk I was willing to take.

Soon, I was selling wholesale backpacks, customized bags, tote bags - anything you could use to carry something else in. The great thing is, once I started spending a lot of money buying wholesale bags, the designers noticed me. I got better details, priority offers, and an inside track to the best wholesale bag suppliers. This increased my profit margin tremendously and allowed me to undercut most of the competition. I have been sitting pretty ever since!

Originally posted 2006-07-09 13:21:39. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Each month grants us all with a specific birth stone. Whether we adore or hate our particular stone, we’re pretty much stuck with it for life. The good news is, there are a variety of stones to choose from. If you don’t care for your month, you can always pick a different stone. Birth stone rings are becoming more popular these days, and not just diamonds.

Birth stone rings offer a wonderful variety when searching for that perfect gift for a loved one. In my experience, people enjoy having their stone set in a ring. It breaks us from the norm of mundane jewelry we often encounter in the malls and department stores, and in many occasions, sells for a more reasonable price.

Many folks these days are turning to birth stone rings as opposed to the standard diamond for an engagement ring. My uncle and myself are a couple of those who decided to take a chance with the birthstones. When I first began my search for the perfect engagement ring, I immediately looked to diamonds. After days of searching the web for that perfect platinum ring with the ideal, yet uniquely cut diamond, I found myself lost in a maze of generic looking jewelry. Fortunately I came up with the idea of a birthstone. Afterwards I thought to myself, why didn’t I think of this sooner. The first step was to find out my girlfriends birthstone. I mean after only a mere seven years, you think I might already know it, but oh well. In reality I only knew my own. Once I discovered her birthstone was a blue topaz, I immediately hopped on my computer, since I’ve yet to see a selection that can beat the Internet, and searched for birth stone rings. In no time, sites such as ice.com and bluenile.com were popping up like crazy.

After finding that special ring, designed exactly the way I desired, but with a much smaller price than the diamonds I had previously reviewed, I was stoked. Virtually any cut you prefer on the band of your choice is available. A variety of complimenting stones are also an option, to set off the birthstone. The result was a pristine, trillion cut, blue topaz, surrounded by diamonds and white gold. This ring worked beautifully when I proposed. My lady was not only shocked, but also pleased at the distinct, yet stunning look of her ring. She gets compliments all the time.

Originally posted 2005-12-08 14:16:35. Republished by Old Post Promoter

A concern for many right now is losing weight. As it becomes easier and easier to eat high fat and low nutrient food, it becomes easier to gain weight. There are many methods you should combine in losing weight in a healthy way.

The obvious way, of course, is to eat less. Or you can try to improve your diet and eat better. Boosting metabolism is also an obvious way to lose weight, and many people do this through exercise.

Your metabolism is, basically, the rate at which your body uses the energy in food. In different people, natural metabolism is different. If you want to boost your metabolism there are several different approaches.

If you exercise your metabolism will slowly increase as the cells in your body consume more in order to keep themselves going. Exercise should be varied - muscle building will help by boosting metabolism as well as using up more calories in the long term, and aerobic exercise, which can even be just going for a short walk, will slowly build up a higher metabolism, as well as increasing all around health.

Another way of boosting metabolism which at first seems counter productive is to eat more. As in, eat more often. If you eat below a certain amount of calories in a day, rather than boosting your metabolism, you are lowering it - cells start learning to survive on fewer calories, and no longer need as many calories.

This is sometimes called starvation mode. This mode is how your body would survive if there was a famine. Cells don’t work as well in starvation mode. This is why it is important to eat breakfast each day.

There are also certain foods which can help in boosting metabolism. Sugary foods do not help (these actually slow metabolism rather than speed it up), but spicy foods have been seen to help in weight loss by boosting metabolism. Eating small, tasty, and healthy meals several times a day is the best approach when trying to lose weight.

Sleep and stress also affect your efforts at boosting metabolism. Stress slows your metabolism and releases steroids called cortisol into your body that cause your metabolism to slow, besides the fact that many dieters often want to eat more and unhealthy food when they become stressed.

Sleep is helpful in boosting metabolism. Eight or nine hours a night is best for most people. If you exercise on a regular basis your metabolism will actually function better.

Boosting metabolism is important because as people get older, metabolism inevitably slows down. By boosting metabolism, people keep their body fit and at optimum energy levels. So go out! Take a walk; actually take one three times a week for at least thirty minutes.

Originally posted 2006-03-07 07:09:08. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Have you ever struggled with trying to find those unique Christmas gifts for a special person? It can be very difficult to come up with ideas for Christmas gifts no matter what age, sex, or type of person they might be. It is a good thing that we have the Internet to help us find the gifts we want.

I know that you have a friend who likes jewelry. You can search out unique Christmas gifts for them from those companies that specialize in making jewelry from unusual materials or imports items from unusual places.

If you have a friend or loved one that likes drinking wine, you can find many unique Christmas gifts. Find out about that special type of wine that they would never buy for themselves. Now you have the next five years of gifts already lined up.

Through the internet, you can shop the world for unique Christmas gifts. It is almost like getting on an airplane and going to the most exotic places that you can think of just to shop for Christmas gifts. Many companies do exactly that as they look for special gifts for you to give.

Remember though that it is you knowing your special person that makes your gifts unique. What I mean is, the unique part is not necessarily, what you give. It is matching the gift to the person that will make your gift special.

If you are looking to give special gifts, then you have to think about the person and not the gift. The most unique present that you can give to someone is to give him or her something that they would not or cannot buy for themselves.

Actually, probably the best and most unique gifts you can give are ordinary gifts with a difference.

Do you know anyone who does not like candy? You can easily find special chocolates from around the world delivered right to you door. Wouldn’t an assortment of these make unique Christmas gifts? Sending gifts like that to your special friends will gain you a reputation for giving unique Christmas gifts

Native handicrafts are always great gifts. Think about the person’s house or office and use your own interior decorating skills to find unique Christmas gifts that would add style to their environment.

Think also about photographs as gifts that you can give someone. Most people do not have large, framed pictures of themselves around their home or office. If you have some photos of your special friend or loved one, have those enlarged and framed. These would be very unique Christmas gifts that truly say I care about you.

Originally posted 2005-12-10 02:02:06. Republished by Old Post Promoter

If you are someone who is productively employed and lives and works in the modern day society, chances are you hold an online bank account. In fact, if truth be told, you probably could not exist without an online bank account of some sort. Gone are the days when people relied on conventional banking accounts. While the services of the conventional account have en retained, online accounts have given then a new age spin.

The benefits of having an online account are many. First and foremost, an online account is no longer an exception. It is the rule of business and personal finance in this internet enabled world. Second, having an online account opens the doors to a range of convenience options. Remember how you had to spend hours in the queue to pay your bills? Or how you had to struggle to squeeze in time during your office hours to pay bills? Well, forget all that. With an online account, you can quickly and conveniently pay all your bills from the comfort of your computer either at work or at home. An online account also enables you to keep track of all your income and expenditure. No more balancing of the check book and constant tussles with forgotten or misplaced deposit and withdrawal slips. Your online account not only tracks your day to day income and expenses, it also offers you convenient digital reports to enable you to keep track of the same. While there are security concerns regarding online accounts, especially with phishing and the like, these concerns are nothing more than fraud concerns regarding your previous offline account. As technology improves, online accounts get even mre secure and perpetrators of identity theft and other such new age crimes can be tracked down far more easily.

Yet other uses of online accounts include the ability to wire money to anywhere on earth. Not only that, you now no longer need to be in the same city or even continent to access your account. While earlier you needed to be physically present at your bank in order to make deposits or withdrawals, you can now do so conveniently no matter where on earth you happen to be. As long as you have access to a computer and an internet connection, you can log in to your online account, deposit money, withdraw money, schedule payments, pay your bills and do hundreds of other activities which earlier would have entailed a visit to your bank. In fact, online accounts have become so all pervasive that most employers insist on an online account where they can remit your salary and other money!

Since we are on the topic of oney, it might be a good idea to know more about another kind of online account. Since monetary transactions themselves have become convenient with online accounts, could investment instruments like shares and the like be far behind? So to deal specifically with shares and investment instruments, there is something known as a demat account. Strictly speaking a demat account is another kind of online account that stores electronic records of all the shares and investment instruments you hold. This again eliminated the need for paper and keeps information secure.

Originally posted 2008-02-16 01:27:02. Republished by Old Post Promoter