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Okay the problem is that I am 14 and I am in need of money.I want to ask if any of you have any ideas on how I can earn some easy money?

Well since you're 14 years old, you can babysit your neighbors or your sibblings, if you have any. You can ask your parents if they need help around the house or you can go around your neighborhood and see if other people need help. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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Everyday when I get home I am like sooo totally bored and I hate it!Anyone who gives me atles=ast two ideas of what I can do when I get home will get rated a five!!!

When you get home, you can watch TV, go on the computer, eat a snack, work on your homework, listen to music, hang out with friends, and you can call someone. There are so many other things that you can do. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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I need really urgent help!!!!!!!

I was going on a website that if my parents find out about I wil be dead so how do I delete the name of the website out of the websites that have been visited lately?

Any help will earn you a five because it willl be greatly appreciated!!!

You need to delete your recent documents by going to Start then to Settings then to Taskbar & Start Menu and then click Clear where it says "Documents menu" and then all the websites will be deleted from the drop down list. Then you just need to erase your history by clicking on the history tab and deleting each day. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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Hello!! I hope ya'll can help me! I'm sorr its so long but its a long story!! Okay here is my scenario. My birthday was at the end of January, and my boyfriend had already been planning our Valentine's date. He asked me if it would be alright if he gave me my birthday gift along with my Valentine's gift because it would make it easier on him, so of course i told him yes. Well, On Saturday (which was our Valentine's day because i had to work Monday) he took me to dinner, then he blindfolded me and took me to... a hotel. BUT before you judge, it was very romantic. He had his friends come and light the candles he had set up EVERYWHERE and rosepedals, the whole deal. And we had planned to have sex for our first time, not necessarily then but we had stopped ourselves a couple of times because we wanted to wiat until it would be special. Which this was. Okay, well moving on, besides all of this, he didn't get me like flowers or a bear or even a card. I spent like $70 on him with gifts and whatnot. But i wasn't too mad because i assumed he had sent me a carnation at school (Our school has sales where you can buy a carnation for someone for V-Day and writea message and then we got them on Monday 9*) Well i of course sent him one, and i waited but he never sent me one. I went to his house after work and i brought over peanut butter heart shaped cookies (His fav!) and still nothing. This made me really mad because he didn't even get me a stinkin carnation!! I got pretty upset and left. Now am i overreacting? I mean he did spend money on me but i'm the type of person who appreciates little things like a flower or a box of choc, he didn't have to go buy a hotel or anything, i just wanted a carnation :( Lol, AND he still hasn't given me anything for my birthday!! Shouldi be mad?

Aww, your boyfriend should definitely have gotten you something like a carnation or even a box of chocolate. You really do have right to be mad about this. If he promised you that he would give you your birthday present on your Valentine's Day, he should have at least give it to you. I think the reason why he didn't give you anything because since he rented a hotel room and made it romantic, he probably thought that was your birthday present from him. Getting a room does cost quite some money. You really do need to talk to him and bring up the sunject of your birthday present. If I was you, try to not to make it seem like you are rude and greedy for, even though you aren't, but the way you tell him, could make him mad or pissed off at you. Just be like "I didn't notice my birthday present that you gave me on our Valentine's Day. What was it?" Just say something like that to start the conversation up and you'll find out. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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i need help.my ex bf broke up w/ me on valentines day. i'm still madly in love w/ him. i told him i missed him and he said he misses me too... i was like why are we doing this to ourselves? he said i dont know... i am so confused! help please!

Aww, why did he have to pick a day like this, especially on Valentine's Day? If your ex-boyfriend still misses you, then he probably dumped you so he could take a break. You need to talk to him and ask him why he broke up with you. Just try to forget about this and move on and if he wants to get back together with you, then go out with him again. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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I have met this new friend. My bestfriend doesn't like her. I like her. The new friend is mean to my bestfriend but not to me. I want to be friends with both of them. What should i do?

You need to talk to both of your friends and find out why they dislike each other. Once you find that out, try to fix it or let them work out their problems. You could also tell both of them that you don't want to hang out with two people who hate each other. Start spending time with one of them at a time and gradually start making plans with them as a group. You need to tell them straight that you want them to stop hating each other. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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Ok I am freaking out right now and I really need help! Today During dinner I accedentaly spilled some of my milk on my MP3 player that I got for christmas and it was a lot of money! Well I just went to go turn it on and it's not working! What should I do! How do I get it to work! Please help me!

Well since you got liquid in an electronic, there is definitely a slim chance of it working. If the milk got inside of your MP3 player, take it apart and dry it out by blowing on it or using a blow dryer. If that doesn't work, then you could just take it to an electronic repair shop and have it fixed. I've done this so many times with my cell phone and I just dryed it, once the liquid got into my phone. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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I like to sing. But when i am in a group with people for chorus i don't sing. I think i am singing but i'm not. My music teacher is getting mad at me. I try really hard to sing. I quit chorus but now i still have music periods. I can't quit. Did i make the right decision?

I think you did make the right decision because if you tried your hardest to sing and you couldn't, then you do have a reason to quit. If you don't sing when you are in a group of people, then there is no reason to be in chorus so you did make the right decision. But then again, you did make a wrong decision, since you love singing, but then there is always next year where you can sign up again. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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I think the way I come off to people is just mean and that I don't like anyone. Today I heard some kid say (about me) "Yeah, she hates everyone" and that is not true. I tend to tell people to shut up and I guess I'm not the nicest person... so how do I begin to change? I don't want to seem a rude, hateful person anymore!

I tend to be mean sometimes but I'm really not. I know I can control it but then again, I can't. Before you are about to tell someone to "Shut up", think before you actual say it and come up with another way to make this person not talk. You do need to change and changing takes time. Start being friendly with everyone and greet people in the hall. If someone needs something like a pencil or pen, lend them one. You just need to be nicer and people will then see that you aren't that rude and a hateful person. Don't worry, there are tons of other people that are even meaner and you are no where close to that. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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At the end of a letter that my friend wrote me, he put K.I.T. What does K.I.T. stand for?

"K.I.T" is an abbreviation and it stands for "Keep In Touch".
-Karen

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i just made a xanga profile thing how can i put that link into my AIM profile so all my friends can go to my site?

If you know what the URL to your Xanga is (it should be something like: http://www.xanga.com/USERNAME), copy it and then go to your AIM profile where you can edit and click on the "Link" button and paste the URL in the "Hyperlink URL" section and underneath that, where is says "Hyperlink Text", you can type whatever you want in that section like: "My Xanga" or "Click this". You can also just copy and paste the URL into your regular profile without changing the text of it. This is basically how you put a link into your profile so your friends can view it. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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Okay. my profile is kind of blah and boring do you know of any diffrent things to out in your profile. Things like Xangas, Mad Profile things like that but at the same time things a lot of people dont have. Thx in advatage.

I only know of Buddy4u and it's just like a Mad Profile, except it's much better.
-Karen

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Okay, all day..randomly I start sweating, and my bra gets soaked, so the bottom of my boobs stink..and the whole day it's wet there, and it raelly gets annoying. I've tried bringing two bras to school, and it doesn't really help. I use deodarant, everything. Please help me?

P.S. I'm wayy overweight, so my boobs are the size of china. I know this is part of the effect, but I don't sweat on my face or anything..just my chest and armpits. Help?

I definitely suggest that you try and use Certain Dri. It costs about $10.00 at your local pharmacy and it's just like regular deoderant, except that it closes up your sweat pores and won't make you sweat. Trust me, it works because I am using it right now. Also, try wearing looser shirts so that your arm pits can have some air and that you won't sweat that much. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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does anyone know of some good exercises to get rid of love handles? i do crunches (all the different levels) and they help a little... but they never seem to fully go away. i also diet.

Side crunches are the only type of exercise that will get rid of love handles. You won't see results for a while. Try increasing the amount of crunches you do and the results will eventually come faster. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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Okay at school I talk with this kid a lot and now everyone is saying nasty things like we have made out and stuff and it is really making me not want to hang out with this guy anymore but I want to but I do not want to be continued calling names so what should I do?

You don't need to stop being friends with this guy, just because of this. Ignore these people and their name calling because it doesn't help if you don't. Don't stop hanging out with this guy, just because people are saying that you have made out with him. You really just need to ignore these people and don't let this effect your friendship with this guy. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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Does anyone know any great sites where I can find very very very very funny jokes or comics so I can get a good laugh?

FunnyJunk is a great website where you can find jokes, comics, and funny pictures. Here's the link to it: http://www.funnyjunk.com. Ebaum's World (http://www.ebaumsworld.com) is also a good website too! Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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My 8th grade graduation is coming up in May and i need to know some appropriate songs to sign cuz i have a good voice and i want to pick a song to sing thats right for the occasion! Can someone give me some suggestions in a list? It should be slow im guessing ..thanks in advance!!

Since this is for your graduation, you should definitely sing either "Graduation" by Vitamin C or "Time of Your Life" by Green Day. Both of these songs go great with occasions like this and they are slow. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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Im trying to find a good book to read for school project andi cnat find one .... i've recently been reading books that involve drugs and relation ship.... and i like well really anyhting fiction that isnot fantsy, science ficion. or non-fiction PLEASE HELP

I have to agree with Sherry and that you should definitely read a book by Nicholas Sparks. He wrote some books that were made into movies such as "The Notebook" and "A Walk To Remember". Lois Duncan and Lurlene McDaniel have written a lot of books and I have read a few for my school reports. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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ok i know this is really random and sounds stupid, but whenever my mom eats, she doesn't eat with her mouth closed. this really bothers me because it looks and sounds really disgusting, but none of my other family members seem to notice. how can i tell her, politely, that i think it's disgusting and she should stop (because she does it in public too!)

You need to talk to your mom and tell her that it disgusts you when she chews with her mouth open. When you are eating, mention to her that you can't eat, since the noise of her chewing distracts you. Just go up to her one day and say; "Hey mom, lately I have been noticing that you have been chewing with your mouth open and it bothers me. Can you please start chewing with your mouth closed?" That's all you have to say to her. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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iunno why i'm late for most things because i sleep in. i get like 10 hours of sleep a day or i need 10 hours of sleep a day if i dunget 10 hours i sleep in so i get 10 hours. how can i make myself wake up without stalling and needing more sleep?

If you have more than one alarm clock, put one of them near your bed and then another one some where else in your room and turn up the volume of them so you can wake up better. Try drinking coffee in the morning or just rinse your face with cold water; that always helps me, since I can't wake up in the morning too. Try going to bed earlier and it will help. Hope I helped :)
-Karen

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