When it comes to interior design, you tend to get what you pay for: The expensive-looking rooms you see in magazines and design blogs are, in fact, incredibly expensive. But you don’t necessarily need “hire an interior designer” money to make your h…
Lees meerWhen you need caffeine, you don’t always have the time or energy to brew a pot of coffee. That’s part of what makes energy drinks so convenient and appealing. But it’s neither convenient nor appealing if they contain metal fragments, and unfortunat…
Lees meerUnpredictability is one of the core challenges of shopping for cannabis. It’s incredibly rare to have a completely custom, controlled experience with weed, and even tougher to duplicate it. To people who don’t already enjoy the herb, these variables…
Lees meerGood therapists are out there, and we have some advice on how to find one. You’ll also want to feel out whether the type of therapy your therapist offers is appropriate for the issues you’re going through. But once you’ve gotten through the stage of…
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Lees meerThere’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there is such thing as a free smart thermostat. Energy companies all over the country are offering rebates to customers that can lower the price of a smart thermostat all the way down to zero, so before you…
Lees meerI am a fashion-challenged person. My parents trained me to put on pants before leaving the house, but that’s pretty much where my sartorial education stopped. For most of my adult life I have wallowed in fashion confusion, unable to keep track of th…
Lees meerOne thing that sets Wordle apart from other games is that you face a grid with no clues whatsoever at the start. You get to make the first move, and gameplay follows from your choices. Your starting word matters—so what do you choose?Read more...
Lees meerYou either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain, and I fear I am entering my villain era. Not intentionally, but my brain seems to be gravitating towards stranger and stranger things. Take this dish, which would be cons…
Lees meerSnapchat is the rare social media app that never made the jump from mobile to desktop. Instagram has a web app, WhatsApp has a desktop app, but, until now, you always needed your phone by your side if you wanted to Snap. Starting today, though, you …
Lees meerGone are the days when having a professional clean your home was a sign that you were rich—like really well-off. With new apps, affordable prices, and so many of us working multiple jobs, hiring a house-cleaner is not only doable, but often necessar…
Lees meerWe strongly recommend checkups with your eye doctor and a regular updating of your prescription, but sometimes life gets in the way. You might break or lose your glasses just weeks after your old prescription expired, or you might just want spare gl…
Lees meerYour outfits are awesome. Too awesome, in fact, to hold knowledge of them all inside your head. Posting your OOTDs (outfit of the day) on Insta and TikTok is the traditional way to catalog your daily looks, but, if you have an iPhone running iOS 16,…
Lees meerPicture perfect apples are tumbling into grocery stores with no sign of stopping, and will continue to do so for the next month or so. Make the most of this bounty by cooking up one of the more concentrated iterations of apple—apple butter, with a t…
Lees meerIf you want to watch NFL football in 2022, but you don’t want cable, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that there are a ton of options for watching games without tying yourself up to Cox or Time Warner. The bad news is that different …
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Lees meerThe past few years have been incredibly stressful for all of us. From worries about health and safety, to dealing with the death or illness of friends and family, navigating financial hardships due to job loss, or having to constantly adjust for sch…
Lees meeriOS 16 is filled with plenty of major features, but there are smaller changes as well—like the return of your battery percentage, and an option to enable haptic feedback on the stock iPhone keyboard for the first time. But one thing lost in all the…
Lees meerThe ubiquitous US News college rankings attempt to answer an inherently subjective question—“Where should I go to college?”—with hard numbers. While an admirable goal to some extent, the resulting list is anything but objective, and it certainly sho…
Lees meerI’m Irish-American, so I should have disdain for the British monarchy from both sides of the hyphen. I had been indifferent my whole life...that is, until Queen Elizabeth II died and the incessant “the Queen is dead” coverage revealed what a bunch o…
Lees meerHaving a dishwasher is a game changer, even if it’s a tiny dishwasher, cutting down on both labor and water use. Next to air conditioning, the dishwasher is my favorite discrete invention of all time, excluding big big ones like electricity and indo…
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