156 days ago

How to Downsize Gifts and Heirlooms

Anthony Wilding Retirement Village

Welcome to the second of this series of articles dedicated to helping you to downsize, declutter and rightsize your life, brought to you by Ryman Healthcare in conjunction with organising and decluttering expert Peter Walsh.

This time we are tackling one of the more challenging aspects of downsizing – what to do with gifts and heirlooms. Whether you need to free up space in your own home or are helping someone else to downsize, this is a task that can feel daunting and emotionally charged.

Although it might be tempting to box everything up and hide it away to deal with another day, that just passes the problem down the road to your future self or to your family.

Fortunately, there are ways to downsize gifts and heirlooms that honour and remember the past whilst enabling you to rightsize your life for the present day.

Click to read more.

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1 day ago

Poll: Are swear words no longer?

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

In 2023, Apple amended its autocorrect function to allow Iphone users to freely use their intended word without mentioning 'ducks'. Is this a sign of the times? Are swear words no longer taboo in our communities or workplaces?

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Are swear words no longer?
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    21.2% Complete
  • 47.3% No - it's still inappropriate to swear
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1364 votes
2 days ago

'Messenger' end-to-end encryption

Gordon from Halswell

Facebook has decided to encrypt messages to some of my contacts and will do more in the coming months.
I can no longer contact these people via Messenger and this is my only way of contacting some of them.
I have tried removing the end-to-end encryption but all the instructions on how to do it, do not relate to a laptop, and they say this in the instructions !!
Can anyone help me?

1 day ago

Are you getting enough sleep to solve this one neighbours?

Riddler from The Neighbourly Riddler

Name a month in which people sleep the least.

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