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Hot tubs are great when it’s chilly out, but when the outdoor temperatures and humidity begin to rise, stewing in bubbling hot water may not...

In a perfect world, we’d decide who—and what—we share our home with. Unfortunately, real life doesn’t always play out like that, and it’s en...

Whether you usually wash your car (or SUV, truck, van, etc) at home yourself, or take it to a carwash, you probably don’t get around to doin...

Let’s say you’re out for a late summer stroll, and you come across a patch of familiar-looking flowers with long, thin stems and tiny white...

We might not realize it, but many of the words and phrases we use throughout the day can casually disparage others. Plenty of our idioms and...

So, you and your partner have decided to have kids. (Or maybe you didn’t “decide” so much as you felt nauseous for days before figuring it o...

Not to go all “we live in a society” on you, but modern American culture promotes two main goals: Get married and get money…lots of money. F...

In his popular—albeit questionable and somewhat callow—1980 novel Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins prescribes the following three way...

I moved into my home in the winter, when the yard was freshly sodded and a few decorative shrub-like plants dotted the perimeters of my yard...

There’s some new foolishness in the wind, you might not be surprised to learn, in the form of a, er, viral meme suggesting it was a vaccinat...

When you land a good job, you feel grown up and self-assured. When your boss turns out to be one of those, constantly checking on you and mo...

Just like the hidden symbols on an iPhone’s keyboard, there are plenty of useful keys buried under one long-press on your Android. Before we...

Staying fit during and after pregnancy is an important part of that whole “giving birth” thing. Regular exercise during pregnancy can help r...

Headspace and Calm are the juggernauts in the meditation apps sphere. They have done a great job bringing mindfulness-based meditation to t...

Given the volume of things we forget to clean around the house, we probably aren’t paying enough attention to our appliance filters either....

When you install a beta on your device, you’re gaining access to new features and changes before almost everyone else on the platform. Apple...

Keeping your yard healthy is especially hard when an unexpected plant is beating it for resources. Many invasive plants need little to no li...

If you want to lift weights, walking into the gym (or moseying over to your dumbbells at home) is a good start. But if you want to get stron...

Despite our nation’s confusing, confusingly slow embrace of legal cannabis, recreational weed use has been a thing for millennia. While once...

In America’s “linear economy,” one where products are designed to be used once before being discarded, getting to “zero-waste” is nearly imp...

There are other universes that exist alongside ours, and the people in them also really like TV. Entertainment options can seem endless as i...

Before you commit to a mortgage, consider the 28/36 rule to make sure you’re not getting in over your head. How does the rule work? It’s a c...

If you misplace your Android phone, there are a few things you can quickly do to locate it, so take a deep breath, exhale slowly, and follow...

When you’ve been with your partner long enough that marriage is on the table, you might think you know everything there is to know about the...

The COVID vaccines have always been an option for anyone who is pregnant or thinking about getting pregnant, as well as those who are breast...