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Ten Reasons to Donate to Local Organizations and Thrift Stores
Though there are some national organizations that perform phenomenal services to those in need, USR would like to offer some reasons to donate within your community areas. When you donate directly to local charities, your items and money stay in and serve your community. The money local charities donate to and the people they clothe, feed, and

Ten Reasons to Shop at Your Local Farmers Market
Here are ten reasons to shop at your local farmers market. 1. Fresh Produce Yes, this seems to be a no-brainer, but most produce you will find in your local supermarket has traveled hundreds or thousands of miles before it arrives in the produce section. In order for the fruits and vegetables to appear fresh

Ten Reasons to Travel
“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.” Marcel Proust, Remembrance of

Ten Reasons to Write Regularly
In “Why I Continue To Write: Thirty-five years after Last Exit to Brooklyn,” Hubert Selby Jr. says of his youth, I went into the hospital in 1946, with advanced tuberculosis, and altogether I spent three and a half years in the hospital. By the time I got out I had had 10 ribs removed, one

Ten Reasons to Exercise Regularly
Most people generally understand the significance of exercise. Still, listing some of its specific benefits clarifies why exercise improves everyone’s quality of life. 1. Working out increases your lifespan. American life expectancy is 78.6 years. Countries like Slovenia have surpassed us in this regard due to Americans making poor lifestyle choices. Among other things, exercise reduces
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Ten Reasons to Donate to Local Organizations and Thrift Stores
Though there are some national organizations that perform phenomenal services to those in need, USR would like to offer some reasons to donate within your community areas. When you donate directly to local charities, your items and money stay in and serve your community. The money local charities donate to and the people they clothe, feed, and

Ten Reasons to Shop at Your Local Farmers Market
Here are ten reasons to shop at your local farmers market. 1. Fresh Produce Yes, this seems to be a no-brainer, but most produce you will find in your local supermarket has traveled hundreds or thousands of miles before it arrives in the produce section. In order for the fruits and vegetables to appear fresh

Ten Reasons to Travel
“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.” Marcel Proust, Remembrance of

Ten Reasons to Write Regularly
In “Why I Continue To Write: Thirty-five years after Last Exit to Brooklyn,” Hubert Selby Jr. says of his youth, I went into the hospital in 1946, with advanced tuberculosis, and altogether I spent three and a half years in the hospital. By the time I got out I had had 10 ribs removed, one

Ten Reasons to Exercise Regularly
Most people generally understand the significance of exercise. Still, listing some of its specific benefits clarifies why exercise improves everyone’s quality of life. 1. Working out increases your lifespan. American life expectancy is 78.6 years. Countries like Slovenia have surpassed us in this regard due to Americans making poor lifestyle choices. Among other things, exercise reduces