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Holiday
Tips
The holiday stress and shopping days season is here. Look to ISU Extension
for information and education to help you handle the holidays.
- Holiday Finances
- Happy holiday doesn't need a price tag
Iowa
Concern's Finance Web site - answers on debt, budgeting and much
more
Online
Shopping and Security publication (Pm-1789g) (pdf
file)
Consumer
Privacy
Consumer
Decisions
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- Holiday Safety
- Christmas tree safety
Selecting
and Maintaining Your Natural Christmas Tree Pm-654 (pdf
file)
The
Iowa Christmas Tree
Give
the gift of life - a carbon monoxide alarm
Tips
for Wintertime Driving from the Iowa State Patrol
Iowa Road Condition Reports
from the Iowa Department of Public Safety
Winter Weather Tips
Consumer Protection Safety Council
- list of product recalls (toys, clothing, furniture, and other consumer
products)
Recalls.gov - Online resource
for Government recalls (has links to all the recall services, including
consumer, food, automobile, boat, medicine, cosmetics, and environmental
products)
- Holiday Stress
- Try to keep your family calm during the holidays.
- Take the ravel out of travel
Stressed out? Iowa
Concern can help
Stress publications
- over 30 free printable publications on various stress issues
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- ISU Extension family life field specialists offer ideas for dealing
with family traditions and family changes.
- Holiday customs change when older relatives
change
- Holidays: family history or family hassle?
- Tips for caregivers during the holidays
- Visits top gift lists for nursing home resident
- Gifts for special people in long-term care
Gifts for Children
- Are there children on your gift list? Try these ISU Extension publications.
You'll need Acrobat
Reader to access these files.
- Understanding
Children: Toys (Pm-1529m)
- Making
Puzzles (Pm-724)
- Making
Blocks (Pm-725)
- Shopping
for children's clothes and shoes (Pm-895)
- Holiday Food
- Every season
is the season for food safety!
Food
preparation
- More Holiday Ideas
- Growing
Holiday Cacti (RG-308, use Acrobat
Reader)
Reiman
Gardens information
- Holiday Aftermath
- Remove those holiday stains
- Consumer
Choices: How to complain and get results (Pm-716, use Acrobat
Reader)
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