Article: To help treat and even prevent further foot fungus, you need to take care of your shoes. Try to wear shoes that are made of breathable fabric. You can also try wearing 100% cotton socks. Other materials don't allow your feet to breathe. Also try to buy more open toed shoes. This helps give your feet room to move around and give them access to open air. Avoid wearing the same shoes two days in a row. Your shoes need time to air out. Throw away worn out shoes that might be breeding grounds for bacteria and fungus. Also throw away or disinfect any shoes you wore without socks while you had foot fungus. You don't want to contract the fungus again.  You can also spray them with Lysol or other disinfectants to reduce the chance of fungus or bacteria growing in your shoes. If your shoes aren't breathable, try to take your shoes off as often as you can and expose your feet to the air. Locker rooms, pools, showers, and other similar, moist areas are breeding grounds for fungus. Make sure you never go barefoot in these places — wear sandals, flip-flops, or shower shoes.
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Wear breathable shoes and cotton socks to avoid foot fungus. Practice shoe maintenance to avoid bacteria build-up. Wear sandals in public places instead of going barefoot.

Problem: Article: The number-one obstacle that prevents investors from seeing the huge effects of compounding mentioned earlier is lack of patience. Indeed, it is difficult to watch a small balance grow slowly and, in some instances, lose money in the short term.  Try to remind yourself that you are playing a long game. The lack of immediate, large profits should not be taken as a sign of failure. For example, if you a purchase a stock, you can expect to see it fluctuate between profit and loss. Often, a stock will fall before it rises. Remember that you are buying a piece of a concrete business, and in the same way you would not be discouraged if the value of a gas station you owned declined over the course of a week or a month, you should not be discouraged if the value of your stock fluctuates. Focus on the companies earnings over time to gauge its success or failure, and the stock will follow. Concentrate on the pace of your contributions. Stick to the amount and frequency you decided upon earlier, and let your investment build up slowly.  You should relish low prices!  Dollar-cost-averaging into the market is a tried and true strategy for generating wealth over the long run.  Furthermore, the less expensive the stock prices are today, the more upside you can expect  tomorrow. In this day and age, with technology that can provide you with the  information you seek in an instant, it is tough to look several years to the future while monitoring your investment balances. Those that do, however, will slowly build their snowball until it builds up speed and helps them achieve their financial goals. The second biggest obstacle to achieving compounding is the temptation to change your strategy by chasing fast returns from investments with recent big gains or selling investments with recent losses. That's actually the opposite of what most really successful investors do.    In other words, don’t chase returns.  Investments that are experiencing very high returns can just as quickly turn around and go down. "Chasing returns" can often be a disaster.   Stick to your original  strategy, assuming it was well thought out to begin with. Stay put and don’t repeatedly enter and exit the market.  History shows that being out of the market on the four or five biggest up-days in each calendar year can be the difference between making and losing money. You won't recognize those days until they've already passed. Avoid timing the market. For example, you may be tempted to sell when you feel the market may decline, or avoid investing because you feel the economy is in a recession. Research has proven the most effective approach is to simply invest at a steady pace and use the dollar cost averaging strategy discussed above. Studies have found that people who simply dollar cost average and stay invested do far better then people who try to time the market, invest a lump sum every year on new years, or who avoid stocks. The reason for this is that it takes a decade or so to learn the many pitfalls in investing in stocks, like the emotion that goes with a bull market, exaggerated information, sales groups that are paid to sell and tend to bend the information to look to rosy and just plain fraud.  Many brokers will not tell you that 99.9999% of all companies go bankrupt over time, so mutual funds and dollar cost averaging avoids all the bad companies that are removed without you have to do any homework or lose any money.
Summary: Be patient. Keep up the pace. Stay informed and look ahead. Stay the course.

Sprinkle the powder liberally and don’t worry about using too much. Both baking soda or corn starch are absorbents that will “soak up” moisture, especially oil. They will not stain or damage carpeting.  One advantage of baking soda or corn starch is that they are very inexpensive. Another advantage is that they are non-toxic and made from organic materials. Neither baking soda nor corn starch will have a negative effect on the environment or on your body. Avoid rubbing too softly or too harshly. Use just enough force for the baking soda or corn starch to penetrate into the carpet’s fibers. Use a utility brush for larger oil stains, and an old toothbrush for small stains. This means leaving the powder alone for at least 15 minutes. Now that the baking soda or corn starch has absorbed the oil, use a vacuum cleaner to suck it out of your carpeting. Vacuum very thoroughly to remove every last bit of powder. Rub the detergent into the carpeting with a utility brush or an old toothbrush. Pour a small amount of warm water over the area and immediately blot up the detergent with a clean cloth or sponge.  Don’t be alarmed if the process creates soap suds, just keep blotting until all of the detergent is removed and the carpet is relatively dry. The more detergent and water you use, the longer the process will take. Inspect the fibres carefully for traces of oil. Repeat the process if the stain is still visible.
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Cover the stained area with baking soda or corn starch. Rub the baking soda or corn starch into the carpeting. Allow the baking soda or corn starch to set, and then vacuum it up. Squirt a few drops of liquid dishwashing detergent onto the stained area. Allow the carpeting to dry completely.