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Choosing Your Glass Pipe: Finding What’s Best For Your Smoking Needs

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With the various options on the market, choosing a glass pipe can quickly become an arduous task. While browsing for your next piece, it is important to keep a few things in mind before you make your purchase: portability, durability, and style. 

Portability

First, you should consider what exactly you’re looking to get out of your glass pipe. If you’re the type to travel and enjoy taking your piece along for a ride, hand pipes like our 5-inch Mermaid Pipe, tend to be a favorite option as they are often smaller in size and praised for their portability. 

Bubblers can also come in relatively small sizes, like our 4 inch Mini Glass Bubbler. Due to their lack of additional parts or attachments, with a bit of water on hand, you can enjoy the filtration and cooling benefits of a bong with the portability of a hand pipe. 

If you aren’t planning for your piece to leave home, we have larger pipes, bubblers, and bongs to fit any pulmonary level. 

Durability

When looking at the various options available on the market, it is important to consider what type of glass you are purchasing. Poorly made glass will crack or chip quickly and easily break apart if falling on any reasonable hard surface.

 At EverythingFor420, our glass pipes, bubblers, and bongs are crafted with high-quality borosilicate glass. This glass is heat stable and durable, which is great for keeping your piece in tip-top shape, as well as protecting it from falls.

Needless to say, no glass is indestructible, but it’s certainly not the case that all glass is created equal. Taking the specific type of glass into account for your glass pipe purchases will be beneficial in the long run. 

New pipes are made every day and some can last many, many years if handled and taken care of properly, which includes being cautious of everyday maintenance and cleaning. Ever been scrapping a pipe to get the resin off and all of a sudden it snaps under the pressure? Getting high-quality glass is the first line of defense to avoid those nightmare scenarios.

Style

Everyone has their own taste, and there’s no accounting for taste. Luckily, there’s a plethora of beautifully made and intricately designed glass pipes. So much so that it’s possible to find the perfect glass pipe for every person. The options are literally endless, and continuing to grow. 

As discussed above, things like portability and durability do matter and should factor into every glass pipe purchase, but it’s never a good idea to neglect the fashionable aspects of the various pieces we have available. Like bright and shiny objects? Life-like replicas of things you wish you could smoke out of? A fan of Rick and Morty? We’ve got you covered at EverythingFor420.

Every lifestyle and sensibility you could think of, there’s a glass pipe out there just for you. The first and best place to look, well, I think you can figure that one out by now.

Increasing chance to quit smoking by using Champix

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As I referenced in my solitary post, I have been smoking for a long time and have attempted each strategy under the sun to stop. My record in all that time was 2 weeks sans smoke. By without smoke, I mean, 100% no smoking, no nicotine, no nothing! I had dealt with a couple of more endeavors which kept going somewhat more, yet they included ‘the incidental’ smoke, or was with NRT, which for me, doesn’t work….. I found that notwithstanding being sans smoke for half a month on NRT, did not tackle the serious issue, which was a nicotine expansion! (Disclaimer: I realize it works for other individuals, it is just my feeling and what has/hasn’t worked for me) 

Champix! Presently, I would prefer not to curse it, in any case, I have been without smoke for about a month, the longest I have ever gone! 

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15-Year vs. 30-Year Mortgages

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The growing variation in mortgages is making it possible for home buyers to customize loans to suit their needs. With greater opportunities, however, comes confusion.  A question that often arises is what type of mortgage is better – a 15-year or a 30-year?

With a 15-year mortgage loan, the interest rate is usually lower than a 30-year mortgage. The advantage of a 15-year loan is that it allows you to build equity (the portion of your home that you own without debt) faster, and it also lowers the amount of interest paid over the loan term. However, 15-year mortgage loans do have a higher monthly payment.   Most people opt for 30-year mortgages because they need to spread loan payments over the longer time period to afford them.

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You Are Never Too Old to Be A College Freshman

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By Tracey Sheetz Bartos, MBA

Every one of us has been to that place in our lives where we stop short and take a look around: at where we are, and where we’re headed. Sometimes we do it by choice. Other times our lives change without our permission and we’re forced to create a new future for ourselves.

Often, in making a major life change, we hope to improve our situation – to find a better job, to make more money, to spend more quality time with family. Many of us are also hoping to feel a greater sense of personal fulfillment in our day-to-day lives.

As a first step to creating a new future, many people choose to advance their education. (I know I did.) In southwestern Pennsylvania, we are lucky to have so many good educational options for adults. As the director of graduate and adult studies at Seton Hill University, in Greensburg, Pa., I work with adult students every day through our Adult Degree Program. (Since I am most familiar with the Adult Degree Program at Seton Hill, I will use it as an example. However, it is of vital importance that you find the situation that fits you the best. We believe in this so strongly at Seton Hill that we often make referrals to other institutions when we are working with a prospective student who is looking for an educational experience that is substantially different than the one we offer.)

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Putting Money Back in Its Place

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By Jeff Gitterman 

As a financial advisor, money is certainly a subject that’s close to my heart.  When I give group seminars, I often like to begin by asking people to give me definitions of what money means to them.  And I always get a similar range of replies: freedom … security … opportunity … power.  I’ve asked this same question to hundreds of financial planners over the last several years, and I rarely ever hear the standard dictionary definition, which is simply that money is a means of exchange.

What’s important about these answers is that they illustrate something about our culture. The problem is not just that we think money can buy us things, but also that we tend to define money as an end in and of itself.  My personal definition of money is a means to satisfy a desire.  That may sound straightforward enough, but things get complicated when we tend to measure our satisfaction, happiness, or success by how much money we have.

Through the work I do, I see proof on a regular basis that having a million dollars in the bank has no relationship to happiness—but people continue to insist that it does, even when their own experience seems to show otherwise.  Many of my clients who have reached this milestone tell me that they still wake up in the morning and feel as if they’re broke.

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