INPUT ARTICLE: Article: After buying basic precious metals, gold or silver futures, funds like ETFs and ETNs, mining stock or any other metals-based asset, tracking these investments is important. Track with software tools that analyze changes in the value of your investments. Periodically check on your long-term holdings within your online brokerage account or with the help of your broker. As your holdings grow, you may want to consider hiring a financial manager to oversee your investments and make adjustments in response to market conditions. There are several ways to profit when your investments increase in value. Long-term strategies can include holding on to your gold, silver or other metals for a very long time. This is often done in hopes that prices will spiral up into the stratosphere, creating vast wealth. Short-term strategies include options for those who want to benefit regularly from increases in equity values. This would involve shorter periods in which holdings that have appreciated are sold (perhaps on a yearly basis), producing more consistent and modest earnings. Based on your newly acquired experience at investing in precious metals, use a portion of your gains to reinvest in rising metals. Drawing on past observations of market behavior and investment performance should guide you in deciding where to invest in the future.

SUMMARY: Track your investments. Decide on a profit-taking method. Reinvest in new opportunities.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: After you've decided on a recovery plan, whether that is getting a new job, reducing debts, bankruptcy, or some combination of those, get started as quickly as possible. The longer you delay, the more your debt will pile up. Take every step you decided on as quickly as possible. Most of these will be abrupt changes that will negatively impact your quality of life. As states previously, the most important thing is to remain positive throughout this situation change and try to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Understand that in a financial crisis situation, not all debt is valued equally. If after reducing expenses, you only have a fairly small amount remaining to pay off debt, it is important to use that amount to pay off debts in the following order of importance: Pay off any secured loans first. These include mortgages or car payments. Not paying these loans can result in foreclosure or repossession. Focus next on unsecured loans, specifically on high-interest accounts like credit cards. Finally, focus on unsecured loans with low debt. For any debts you cannot afford to pay, ensure that you contact them and explain your situation. You may be able to renegotiate repayment in these cases. While it may be tempting to ignore your creditors, this will only worsen your situation. Often, creditors will begin garnishing wages (automatically taking a cut of your pay) simply because they have not been able to make contact with borrowers . Be aware that creditors will not stop attempting to contact you, nor will they forget about you. Therefore, being proactive and working with, rather than against creditors is critical. Phone your creditors, and make sure you have with you all your financial information, as they will likely ask. Honestly explain to your creditors that you are unable to make payments, and that you would like to work with them to come upon a solution. Ask for a rate reduction, deferred payments for several months, or a reduced payment plan. Creditors are very eager to work with borrowers, since it is more costly for a creditor to utilize debt collection services and risk losing principle than to work constructively with a borrower. Suggest that you are willing to pay the ongoing interest during any period of debt relief, this signals to creditors that you are serious about your obligation Inform your creditors that you are planning on staying in touch every month. By contacting them and staying readily available, they will be more likely to extend favorable terms and be more flexible in their needs. Both of these solutions involve transferring debt balances to new loans with more favorable terms A debt consolidation loan involves taking out a new loan with lower interest, like a line of credit, and transferring your higher interest debts to that loan. For example, you would transfer all your credit card debts to a line of credit, which rolls all of your payments into one payment, that will often cost less then the previous payments combined due to lower interest rates. Be aware that although interest rates are lower, the loan terms are often longer, which means you may actually spend more in interest over time. A balance transfer card is another solution for credit card debts. A balance transfer card is credit card which offers very low to no interest rates for the first 12-24 months for individuals who transfer their balances from another credit card. Doing this can give you a much needed break on payments until your financial situation is in order. If you feel overwhelmed, consider consulting not-for-profit debt counseling services. These services can help you make and plan and work with creditors to restructure your debt in a way that fits within your current means to pay.

SUMMARY: Implement your recovery plan. Prioritize your debt repayment. Understand the importance of staying in touch with your creditors. Contact your creditors and explain your situation in open and honest terms. Consider debt consolidation loans and/or balance transfer cards to reduce payment amounts. Consider debt counseling.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Blend the ice cream, milk, and candy until the mixture becomes smooth and pourable. Depending on the size of your candy pieces, you might have to try a higher blender setting if your candy pieces are bigger. If your candy pieces are relatively small, the normal blending settings should work just fine. Be sure to put on the top of the blender, so you don't splash milk and ice cream everywhere. The texture of your ShakeAway is all about your personal preference. Normally, ShakeAways have a consistency where the candy pieces are small enough to fit through a straw, and the ice cream, milk, and candy can be eaten with a spoon, but still thin enough to immediately spill if knocked over. A general rule of thumb is, blend the mixture less to have a thicker ShakeAway, or blend it more to have a thinner, smoother ShakeAway. To top off your ShakeAway, consider adding a dollop or two of whipped cream and/or sprinkle some of your whole pieces of candy or leftover bits for a crunchy topping.

SUMMARY: Blend the ingredients. Determine the right texture. Add some final touches.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Open up your rabbit's hutch or enclosure to look around and smell it. Check for any areas that are particularly damp or any areas with waste in them that haven't been cleaned recently. If the odor is coming from the rabbit's hutch, you might not be cleaning it often enough. Clean out any soiled or dirtied hay in the rabbit's hutch each morning and replace it with new hay for your rabbit to sit in. If you can't clean the hutch each day, you should be doing it every other day at the absolute minimum. If you don't want to clean out the entire hutch, you could try litter train your rabbit so you only have to clean a small area or a litter tray. Your rabbit's enclosure should smell like clean hay, which many find quite pleasant. If you smell anything stronger than this, it's likely that you've found the source of the stink. Even if you're cleaning out soiled hay each morning, some bad smelling substances can seep into the hutch itself. Clean the hutch thoroughly once each week by removing everything, scrubbing the hutch down with warm soapy water, misting lightly with white vinegar to disinfect it, and rinsing thoroughly with water. You should also clean your rabbit's food bowl and its water bottle or bowl when you clean out the hutch weekly. If the hutch is still wet or damp when you put hay back into it, the hay may begin to rot and produce a bad smell. Let your rabbit run around freely or keep it in a small, temporary cage while the hutch dries completely. You should be able to tell by touch if the hutch is still damp. Feel the inside for any dampness, leaving it to dry for longer if it is still wet. As long as you keep a few doors closed to prevent the rabbit from traveling too far, it should be perfectly content hopping around your home while its hutch dries.

SUMMARY:
Inspect the rabbit's hutch to determine if it's the source of the smell. Replace soiled hay each morning. Clean the whole hutch thoroughly once a week. Leave the hutch to dry in the sun for 3 to 4 hours.