If you have property tax exemptions, such as a homestead exemption, adding your spouse to your deed could mean you no longer qualify. This could substantially increase your property tax bill. If you’re accustomed to claiming a property tax exemption and you’re concerned you might lose it if you add your spouse to your deed, consult a tax professional. When you add your spouse to your deed, you are giving her a gift. The IRS only allows taxpayers to gift up to $14,000 per person per year. Assuming your property is worth much more than that, adding your spouse to your deed could trigger state and federal gift tax reporting obligations. NOTE:  Gifts to spouses are exempt from state and federal gift taxes if the spouse recipient is a US citizen. Capital gains are taxes you pay on the profit you make from selling property. For example, if you buy a house for $100,000, that amount becomes your “basis” in the property. If you sell the house five years later for $200,000, you would have a capital gain of $100,000.  If you add your spouse to your deed, he will have to use your basis if he later sells the property. That means he could pay substantially more in capital gains taxes than if he acquired the property when you died. To continue the previous example, suppose you added your spouse to the deed for the house you bought for $100,000. You die 50 years later, and your spouse decides to sell the house five years after that for $1 million. His capital gain would be $900,000. However, if you transferred the property to your spouse at your death, for example through a transfer-on-death deed, his capital gains basis would be the fair market value of the house when he acquired it. This could result in far lower capital gains taxes. Returning to the $100,000, suppose you create a TOD deed for your spouse. When you die 50 years later, your spouse acquires a house with a fair market value of $900,000. When he sells it five years later for $1 million, he only owes capital gains taxes on $100,000.  Before you add your spouse to your deed, it’s important that both of you understand how it potentially affects your tax liability so you can make an informed decision and not be caught unaware later on.

Summary: Understand you may lose tax exemptions. Pay gift tax. Discuss capital gains with your spouse.


Combine equal parts of coconut oil and brown sugar in a small bowl. Use your fingers to massage it into the fine lines around your mouth before rinsing it off. This procedure exfoliates the skin, but it also causes a little bit of swelling, which helps reduce the look of smile lines. Applying an eye cream around your lips can moisturize and help fill in lines. You'll need to apply it twice a day - when you wake up and before you go to bed.  Look for products that say they can boost elastin, which will help reduce the appearance of lines. Check for active ingredients like vitamin C, retinol, peptides, hydroxy acids, coenzyme Q10, niacinamide, grape seed extracts, and tea extracts.  In addition, these treatments can boost collagen production. Talk to your doctor about retinoids, vitamin C serum, and glycolic-acid peels, which can stimulate collagen production. Wrinkles appear because collagen breaks down as you age. By replacing some of that collagen over time, you may reduce the look of fine lines like smile lines.  These products are ones you apply every day that contain ingredients that boost collagen. Look for the words "collagen-boosting." They may also be labeled "anti-wrinkle" creams. They can also act as moisturizers. You'll need to apply this treatment every day for it to be beneficial, but you can see results over the long term. You should see some results in the first week. Try a serum with hyaluronic acid, which can help moisturize your skin and boost collagen at the same time.  Prescription versions will have a higher concentration of ingredients, so they will likely be more effective.

Summary: Use a mixture of sugar and coconut oil. Plump up your lips and mouth area with eye cream. Try a collagen-boosting treatment.


While eye contact is key to attraction, being too enthusiastic can be off-putting. Try to avoid going overboard with eye contact.  Once you've initiated conversation with someone, glance away while he or she talking now and again. Do not be rude by glancing away to look at your phone or someone else. Just briefly glance to the left or right to avoid being overwhelming with eye contact.  You should strive to look at someone's face about three quarters of the time you're talking to that person. Keep your glances between one and seven seconds. This shows a genuine interest, which can be attractive, but does not overwhelm a potential partner with eye contact. Raising your eyebrows can be seductive. Raising your eyebrows conveys interest and recognition. When you're talking to someone, raise your eyebrows when conversation begins. This can increase your chance of seducing this person. The way you look at someone can effect your likelihood of seducing that person. Maintain level, steady eye contact when talking to someone rather than looking using the corner of your eyes. Side-eyeing can help with making initial eye contact. However, people tend to respond better to occasional direct eye contact during conversation rather than side-eyeing. On occasion, glance the object of your attraction up and down. This can help convey attraction.  You can also tell if a person is interested in you based on how they look at you. If someone glances at your hips and thighs there's a good chance they're interested in you.  When you're interested in someone, you can show this by eyeing their head and shoulders while they talk. This tends to convey attraction, which might help in seducing someone.
Summary: Do not overdo it. Use eyebrows. Avoid leering. Glance the person up and down.