Just because you're not strutting your bikini bod on the beach doesn't mean you should throw in the towel and forget about your legs! Keep those thighs strong and toned with these moves — they're the most effective exercises for targeting your lower half to make you feel confident in skintight pants and short skirts.

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It all starts at home. A great day begins with an amazing morning. With constant distractions and the daily pressure of responsibilities, it’s important to start your morning right to get your mind and body prepared for your daily routine. These 11 tips will bring out the best of your morning, day, week, and life.

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The best way to trim out both the inner and outer thighs comes through a combination of strengthening muscles and burning through the fat pockets that are covering them up. With this circuit, you will do a burst of cardio that relies heavily on those muscles, followed by a strengthening move. Do all of the exercises, in order, with very little rest between them until after the sliding squats. Rest for about a minute before beginning the circuit again. Repeat the circuit a third time and feel the burn!

What's not to love about high-intensity interval training? Not only does HIIT save you time, but it also burns tons of calories, both while you work out and after (even if you're doing nothing at all!). One of our favorite ways to HIIT is Tabata, a type of workout that combines 20 seconds of intense bursts of workouts with 10 seconds of rest in four-minute rounds. Does a short and effective workout sound good to you? Get started here.

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Do you belong to an online survey website? If not, you could be missing out on one of the easiest ways to earn money from home.

In a recent conversation on Reality Checker Central, many readers listed online surveys as one of their go-to ways to score free gift cards. “Online surveys have gotten me a lot of things our household needed on Amazon,” says Kathleen Scribner. She belongs to about 20 survey sites and typically earns $50 a month in Amazon gift codes through them (plus additional perks such as free products, PayPal credit and gift cards to retailers like Walmart and Best Buy).

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Some women have a lot of shoes, others prefer to spend their hard-earned money on nice purses. Some collect kitchen gadgets, books, hours at crossfit, or cats. Me? I collect paint. My entryway closet holds all my painting supplies and is currently home to nearly eighty cans of paint, stain, sealer, and spray paint. I know, ridiculous…you don’t have to tell me. My point is that over the years I have learned a lot about painting (obviously) and have some tips that will make painting quicker, cheaper, cleaner, and way less frustrating.

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