If you are looking to remodel your old bathroom and create a whole new space, you might be trying to make your dollar stretch further than usual. And no wonder in this economy! Though we are all waiting for things to turn around for the better, for the moment we have to make do with what is. For many homeowners, this means making the most of their older homes rather than move to a newer one, and if this is the case then a little remodeling might be in order. Many people like to give their old bathrooms a makeover first, because this is an area that we all spend daily time in and want to be as nice and clean as possible. If you want to make your bathroom new again but need to watch your budget, here are a couple tips for you to get the best deal from a bathroom furniture store.
When you walk into a home improvement store and find a bathroom vanity or linen cabinet you really like, you may look at the price and think it’s time to walk away and find something a little less costly. Here’s the thing though…at larger home improvement stores you may not have a lot of wiggle room with the price, but if you go to a smaller, privately owned business to look at bathroom furnishings you’ll be able to negotiate more. If you go to a private business, you can ask to speak with the manager or owner and ask for a discount, which they will be likely to give you to make the sale. So choose the private vendor over the large chain store, and you can get a discount sink vanity that you might not have thought possible. The key is that you have to ask for them, and do it at a place where you can get them.
Another option for saving money on new bathroom vanities is to look online. You’d be surprised what a wide selection of reputable stores sell great quality vanities and bathroom furniture online, and at a discount price. Online stores know that they have to compete with “in-person” retailers somehow, because it’s easier to sell if a person can experience an object with all their senses. So good online bathroom furniture retailers will give you an amazing price that your local stores may not be able to match, and there are your biggest savings! You have to give up seeing the vanity in person until you buy it and it’s shipped to you, but as long as you taken accurate measurements to ensure it will fit and seen high quality images of your purchase, you should be in great shape. Just make sure that your online bathroom vanity retailer has a good reputation and a customer satisfaction policy.
So whether you choose a retailer online or a privately owned local business, make sure to ask for your discounts, because this economy has made bathroom furniture retailers more willing to negotiate down on their prices.
Jane Worthington
http://www.articlesbase.com/bath-showers-articles/where-to-find-the-best-deals-on-bathroom-furniture-712764.html
What is wrong with me? (Multiple symptoms, both physical and emotional)?
I am 30 years old. Have been generally healthy throughout my life. But ever since I had my tubes tied I have developed multiple symptoms that seemed benign at first but with time became a bit alarming. I don’t know if these symptoms are connected to a single disorder or disease or if they point to a couple different illnesses but I would like a doctor or nurse’s opinion before I actually commit to going in for an exam.
First the physical symptoms:
-I am thirsty almost all the time. I drink upwards of a gallon of water or tea a day.
-(this may be a DUH kind of thing but) I go to the bathroom a lot more than I used to. Sometimes 10-15 times a day and I always have substantial urine "output".
-I have a lot of trouble getting to sleep at night. I can lie awake for hours and hours trying to sleep but finally at around 3am fall asleep from exhaustion. Unisom and other over the counter sleep aids do not help for long. A few days at the most.
-Once I get to sleep I sleep way too much. I only allow myself 10 hours at the most but if left to my own devices, I would probably sleep for 15-18 hours.
-I have hardly any appetite. I have to force myself to eat. When I do eat it is stuff that is fairly healthy but not like "nuts & berries" healthy.
-Bowel problems. Bloating, gas, tender abdomen, sometimes diarrhea or constipation.
-I get headaches and shoulder pain fairly often. Maybe once or twice a week, either one or the other. Sometimes both at once.
-The lower back pain has been a part of my life since my second pregnancy, but since it is a symptom I thought I would include it.
Now for the emotional symptoms:
-I feel like I am in a crowded room sometime and everybody is sucking all the good air up. Claustrophobic or emetophobic, take your pick.
-Fits of crying or anger. Sometimes I will be ok one minutes then the next I think about something and I can start to cry and don’t know how to stop. It takes for my husband to make me lie down and him rub my back. About 10-15 minutes of this before I calm down, then the weird thing is, after that I am fine. Like it never happened. Or I get angry, very very very angry. To the point of breaking things. I have a special place in my back yard where I go in these cases. Where I have a baseball bat, some old plates or dishes. pieces of old furniture that I can go back there and go to town on beating things to pieces. I call it my "anger management zone" or AMZ. That sometimes makes me feel better but a lot of times I can’t go back there because the neighbors will complain. During the day they don’t care but after a certain time I can’t go back there. So that leave me steaming and having to find a different way to process these feelings. Usually by yelling but that gets a bit strenuous on my throat after a while.
There may be more that I may not have noticed by that’s what has startled me a bit. Can anyone with a medical background please tell me if these warrant a trip to the doctor, or do I just have to deal with them as best I can? If I do need to see a doctor what kind of doctor do I need? And if you can please give me an idea of what I am dealing with?
Do go to the doctor. You clearly have symptoms that are disrupting your life. They may have a psychological basis, or could be physical in nature. Some of the physical symptoms you mention could be associated with depression and/or fibromyalgia. The anger, however, does not really fit.
It’s possible that you have an endocrine problem that is causing both physical and psychological symptoms.
It will take a complete work up by a competent physician to figure out what is going on, but you should get help.
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Look into celiac disease. It can cause all those symptoms. It’s an autoimmune disease caused by gluten intolerance. It’s extremely common, 1 in 133 people have it. It can cause any number of combinations of symptoms. Some people just have digestive symptoms (which is what physicians commonly associate with it, but you can just as easily have other symptoms as well. Headaches are very common in people with celiac disease. The gastrointestinal symptoms you mentioned are definitely celiac related. Excessive thirst and insomnia are also documented symptoms. Emotional symptoms are actually the most common symptoms of celiac disease. A lot of people have anxiety and depression, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, other people just complain of irritability. I don’t think that anger is necessarily something that has been documented, but it can definitely fall in the anxiety and irritability department. The reason it causes the mental symptoms is that most of the serotonin in your body is located in your digestive tract. When your intestines are damaged, the serotonin isn’t able to be used by your body. Intestinal damage is a part of the diagnostic criteria in celiac disease. The good news is the cure for it is a gluten free diet. I think you should try a gluten free diet for awhile and see if your symptoms subside. Please let me know if you have any questions. I accept private messages.
http://www.csaceliacs.org/celiac_symptom…
http://www.celiac.com/articles/1106/1/Ce…
http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache…
http://www.celiac.com/articles/21758/1/G…
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Registered Nurse