Other pets, children, or a noisy environment can all cause your cat to feel stressed and avoid the litter box. Make sure that your cat’s litter box is kept in a place that is semi-dark, quiet, and secluded. If your cat’s box is in a high traffic area, she will be less likely to use it. Try using Feliway diffusers to help your cat feel more relaxed. This product releases a scent that some cats find comforting. Your cat’s medical history may provide an explanation for why your cat has not been using the litter box. If you suspect that your cat is sick, take her to see a vet as soon as possible. Early treatment of an illness by help stop litter box problems as well as save your cat from pain and discomfort. Urinary tract infections and feline interstitial cystitis are common conditions that may cause your cat to urinate on the carpet.  Urinary tract infections may cause a cat to avoid the litter box, even after the infection has been treated. Your cat may still associate the litter box with pain and want to avoid it. Feline interstitial cystitis is another common cause of litter box aversion. Cats with feline interstitial cystitis may urinate in the litter box because they feel the need to urinate more often. Kidney stones or a blockage of your cat’s urinary tract may also result in a litter box aversion. Your cat may meow or howl while using the box and the fear of pain may continue even after treatment. Keep in mind that prompt treatment of these conditions is essential so that your cat does not develop a long lasting litter box aversion. Urine marking is when your cat sprays a bit of urine on a piece of furniture or other surface to mark her territory. The amount of urine is much less than a cat will eliminate when urinating. If your cat is displaying this type of behavior, many of the suggestions in this article will be helpful, but there are additional things that you will need to do to help stop your cat from urine marking.  Urine marking is most common in unneutered male cats but unspayed female cats may also exhibit this behavior, so it is important to have your cats spayed and neutered. Urine marking is also common in households with more than ten cats, so keeping the number of cats in your home below ten can also help with this problem.

Summary: Decide if stress is causing your cat to urinate on the carpet. Consider your cat’s current or past medical conditions. Figure out if urine marking is the cause of your cat’s litter box problems.


If you typically download your music from online stores such as iTunes, the Google Play Store, or Amazon, you will have a credit or debit card statement documenting exactly how much money you have spent. Go through your recent credit or bank statements to see how much money you have spent on purchases. You may not always purchase your music with a debit or credit card. For example, if you purchase CDs or vinyl records in a shop, you may be paying in cash. If this is the case, write down the albums you have purchased with cash over the past months. If you have the receipt or remember the price, write down how much you paid. If you didn’t, search online for the going rate for that album to get a general idea of how much you spent. Hopefully you have not engaged in this, but if you have, you will need to include this in your final count. Write down each song or album you have purchased or type it into an excel sheet.  Search for the album or song in the iTunes store or in the Google Play store to find out how much you would have spent had you purchased the music legally. Write this down too. Be aware that if you are downloading music illegally, you are committing a crime. If you get caught doing so, you could face heavy fines of up to $250,000 and even jail time. Add up the number of songs you have purchased over the last six months, and how much this has cost you. Are you spending more on music than you are on basic life necessities, such as food? Are you going into debt because of your music purchases? By completing these steps, you will be able to get a good, objective way of examining your habits. If most of your music is purchased without really thinking about it and the consequences of doing so, there are a few things you can do to become more aware the next time you go to buy a new song or album.  Take a few seconds or minutes to regroup before you head to the cash register. Take a few deep breaths, walk around a bit. You want to get your mind off of the song you want and back to thinking about your goals.  Think about whether the purchase will be in alignment with your goals. Try to be as honest with yourself as possible. Does that new song help get you closer to your goal of spending less money on music or does it take you farther away from that goal?  Evaluate your stress level. Become aware of any stress you are experiencing, whether it is related to the purchase or something else. You may be more likely to make an impulse purchase if you are stressed, so take a second to think about this, too. Don’t store your information, and if you already have it stored, remove it. Companies usually make it possible to purchase the music with a single click, which makes it too easy to do. If you want to restrict your spending, change your settings so that you have to type in your credit card information each time you make a purchase. This will also give you a bit of time to evaluate whether this is a “want” purchase or a “need” purchase. If you are able to walk away from that impulse purchase, reward yourself with something else you want. Buy yourself a fancy coffee, an ice cream, or a new sweater with the money you saved.

Summary: Look at your bank statements over the past six months. Write down all of the music you have purchased using cash in the past six months. Write down all of the music you have pirated in the last six months. Total all of your purchases up. Avoid impulse purchases. Remove your credit/debit card from your music account. Reward yourself.


This is based on the country you are currently calling from. This number will be typed in first. Some common international prefixes include:  United States and Canada: 011 Australia: 0011 United Kingdom: 00 You can find your country's international prefix code by visiting the Nations Online Project: http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/international-calling-codes.htm  If you are on a mobile phone, look at your zero digit on your keypad. If there is a “+” under it, you can press this instead of adding the international prefix code. This is entered right after the international prefix code. This number ensures that your call is connected to South Korea. Most Korean phone numbers will begin with a zero. Leave this 0 out when you are making an international call to South Korea. Instead, go straight from the country code to the phone number. For example, if the number begins 010, you should dial 10. Once you have entered the international prefix code and the country code, dial the nine or ten digit phone number. An international call to South Korea might look like 011-82-XX-XXX-XXXX. Area codes are built into the phone numbers in South Korea, so you do not need to add any additional numbers.

Summary: Find and enter your international prefix code. Press 82 for South Korea’s country code. Leave out the first 0 in the number. Finish with the phone number.


This helps prevent smudging and errors, as it’ll be easier to paint your non-dominant hand rather than your dominant hand. Stretch your fingers out wide to prepare you for painting, and pay extra attention to your dominant hand when painting it using your non-dominant hand. Painting your pinkie first and then moving around your fingers to your thumb will help prevent smudging.
Summary: Paint your dominant hand first to make the process easier.