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A sustainable PERIOD!!!

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- some powerful period facts- disclaimer: I tried my best to use gender neutral pronouns though out this post. If I failed to correct some of my mistakes, I am so sorry, please message me so I can change them.  I realize that not all women have periods and not all people that have periods are women 1.      An individual goes through approximately 11,000 disposable pads/tampons in a lifetime. 2.      To produce one little bud of cotton the process requires six pints of water. 3.      Tampons, pads and panty lines along with their packaging generate more than 200,000 tons of waste per year.  4.      456 periods over 38 years = 6.25 years or 2,280 days of your life spent bleeding 5.      Assuming the prices of these items stay fixed (not realistic)     a.      tampons: if one tampons is used every 6 hours and 4 tampons are used every day = 20 tampons for a 5-day cycle, this totals to 9120 tampons in your whole life.      b.      if one box costs $7 and there are 36 tampons per box, the co

Website & Blog Pro (not pro at all) - Tips

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 Hi, so if you are like me you had no idea what HTML is, or how to sell products online, or how to write I am here to give you the -  website & blog 100% NOT PRO tips Below I will include a list of all the software I used for my two websites: Blogger (this) Google Sites (my shop) Ecwid (for selling products) BLOG:  So Blogger is pretty easy to understand and there are countless videos on youtube that show you how to do everything related to this. But since you love reading what I write (hopefully) I will give you my important tips. The website is super well laid out. On each of the tabs you can find your posts, there is a folder for drafts, published, and scheduled. There is also another tab that is full of extensions for different pages you can have on your site.  I couldn't include it on here because I can't put videos up here but on the layout tab and the theme tab. You can truly customize your blog to whatever you want. You can also import themes from the internet, and

College, Freshman advice, COVID19??

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 COLLEGE DURING A PANDEMIC AND ADVICE FOR FRESHMAN Well this is my second time typing this. I went to post it earlier tonight and all of a sudden it just all deleted. So yeah. I am a little angry - because this was a super long post and I had lots of cool pictures and everything. So sorry if it doesn't live up to your expectations.  Where was I....  Going back to school no matter what is stressful, but going back to school during a pandemic, now that's a little crazy. I truly have no idea how this school year is going to go. I constantly find myself stuck between "I want to go into this semester with an open mind and with the mindset that we will stay on campus" vs. "I don't want to get my hopes up and be let down". I really hope we get to stay until Thanksgiving but I think I am overestimating the responsibilities of my fellow classmates. I am about to wrap up my packing for my apartment this semester. So I wanted to include some tips and tricks that sa