We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
Welcome back to Mid-Week Meditations, Lifehacker’s weekly dip into the pool of stoic wisdom, and a guide to using its waters to reflect on and improve your life.
On the second Tuesday in June, I start to feel fluish. If this is 2016 and I’m still a freelance writer, I’m losing money immediately on the assignments I can’t complete because my vision is blurry and my thoughts are erratic. If this is 2013, I am soon taken off the roster at the cafe where I work.
Ready for the next chapter of the Lifehacker Fitness Challenge? In January we worked on pull-ups at whatever level worked for each of us. In February, we’re sticking with upper body exercises but flipping the script: every day, try to do at least one push-up.
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If you are an enjoyer of martinis or Manhattans, you probably have a couple of bottles of vermouth on your bar cart. If you’re a lover of a fancy aperitif, you probably have more. These fortified wines are a lot of fun but, due to their lower ABV, they don’t last forever.
When it comes to the overall cost of a vehicle, the sale price is only part of the equation. You need to factor in resale, and how much value your car will lose. Some drop slower than others, and according to Kelly Blue Book, these 2018 trucks, SUVs, and an all-wheel-drive sedan will be your best bets to minimize…
Funerals are a time to remember loved ones and say a heartfelt goodbye, not draw attention to yourself. Still, some people do exactly that. Just because you’re all dressed up doesn’t mean a #funeralselfie is warranted.
If you’re in the market for a car or home loan, chances are you ran a free credit report to see how good (or bad) your score is. Maybe you’re feeling good about yourself, and then all of a sudden you’re denied outright.
In our series Getting It, we’ll give you all you need to know to get started with and excel at a wide range of technology, both on and offline. Here, we’re walking you through the process of creating your own app by examining five software tools to get the job done.
Can you pick up a piece of paper from the floor? With your teeth? While standing on one leg? Don’t just guess—you have to try it.
Our readers listed these Crabby Wallets as one of their favorite front pocket wallets and today, you can save $5 off a whole bunch of different colors when you clip the on-page coupon. These wallets can hold up to 10 cards, include a ring for your keys, and are crazy thin. We saw a similar coupon earlier in the month,…
Some writers would start this post by stating that there are no rules when it comes to which dips you like with which chips. But those writers would be wrong. Of course there are rules.
“Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things,” writes Jenny Offill in her novel Dept. of Speculation. “Nabokov didn’t even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.” Women, instead, are forced to “balance” work and life.
For some of us, the thrill of the gridiron is enough. But others need a little more than bragging rights for the stakes to feel high. Enter: the friendly Super Bowl betting pool. And since the goal is to make things more interesting, let’s, well, make things a little more interesting!
My fellow Americans, the annual Final Handegg is upon us. I’m a simple, soccer-loving girl from upstate New York, and as such, I have simple tastes: this Sunday, I would like to eat my weight in Buffalo wings, ruthlessly ogle some be-Spandexed butts, and—God willing—see Tom Brady cry big, fat tears of shame on…
We’re not entirely sure the sheet mask is the answer to everyone’s skincare dreams—it’s a paper mask (masque?) drenched in some allegedly salubrious liquid that you stick to your face while you let the serums sink in and Instagram a picture of yourself looking alarmingly similar to Jason from Friday the 13th. Does it…
Parents today are stressed. They’ve lost old friends. They miss their old hobbies. They’re too tired for sex. They feel judged. A few years ago, one study reported that the drop in happiness after having a first kid was larger than when experiencing unemployment, divorce or the death of a partner. Yes, unemployment, …
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Many of us are more security savvy than ever when it comes to our phones and laptops, but there’s one threat you might not be protecting against—the people inside your own home. Whether you’re worried about nosey housemates, clumsy kids, or horrible siblings, these are the steps to take to make sure your stuff stays…
You’ve been waiting at the airport for two hours, you’ve had your Cinnabon fix, and you’re ready to board the plane. There’s just one problem: there is no plane. We’ve all been there. Flight delays are a massive headache, and Google Flights just updated with some features to help ease the pain.
There’s always that one person in your life that has nothing on their walls. Add some awesome infographics to gifting list with 25% off sitewide at Pop Chart Lab. Check out their newest prints, like the Permutations of Pasta and the Magnificent Multitudes of Beer. Enter the code GROUNDHOGDATA at checkout to see your…
Non-dairy milks aren’t perfect fill-ins for cow squeezings. They’re made by watering down various plant products, and their nutrition facts are nothing like dairy milks—or each other. A pair of scientists recently declared soy milk to be the most nutritious non-dairy milk. It doesn’t really matter which one you put…
Since 1950 the National Book Foundation has awarded the National Book Award to authors such as Colson Whitehead, William Faulkner, Beverly Cleary, and Jesmyn Ward. The Foundation also runs several programs for readers and writers, including the BookUp after-school reading program. In March 2016 the Foundation hired…
The top-tier model in the Hoover REACT series, the Powered Reach Premier is down to an all-time low $100 on Amazon, for one day only.
We asked you about the best electric toothbrush over three years ago, and since then, there’s been a lot more innovation. There are app-enabled ones, silicone ones, even ones that have a subscription service. So, we’re coming back and wondering what you think the best electric toothbrush is, and why.
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We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
I have a Google Doc page always open on my browser. On it are headers marked “pizza,” “burgers,” “casseroles,” “pies,” dips,” on and on. Under each section, I list established dishes and imagine how those flavors might taste in an alternate form. Such as: Korean fried chicken pizza. Carne asada ramen. Caramelized…
You’ve got problems, I’ve got advice. This advice isn’t sugar-coated—in fact, it’s sugar-free, and may even be a little bitter. Welcome to Tough Love.
We’ve all got a money habit or two we could stand to change.
Amazon’s Alexa may have more “skills” and connect with more services, but when it comes to artificial intelligence smarts, Google Assistant has the competition beat (sorry Siri, it’s not even close).
Thirty one-year-old Andrew Koretz just emailed me about his new company, “Garage Time,” which apparently allows anyone to rent out unused garage space to people who just need a place to wrench. It actually sounds like a great idea.
If there’s one personal finance mantra that everyone can agree on, it’s decrease your discretionary spending. Skip those lattes! Pack those lunches! Wait until the movie’s on Netflix!
We start sorting things as kids: Hot Wheels, pencils, the cutest boys in class. We organize our rooms just so, and get mad when our parents mess them up. And we develop new sorting habits as we grow up, some useful (chronological tax documents) and some embarrassing (alphabetized bottles of hot sauce).
$100 might seem like a lot to invest in a toothbrush, but the Oral-B Pro 7500 includes multiple brushing modes, a Bluetooth connection that gives you real time feedback and advice on your phone, and even an LED ring built into the handle that glows in different colors to tell you when it’s time to switch quadrants, or…
People often hurt the ones they love, and people who work with and around food are no exception. What other possible explanation could there be for cooks, bloggers, and content creators repeatedly subjecting the avocado to all sorts of heat-based tortures? Avocados need nothing more than a sprinkling of salt to be …
Over the weekend, we learned that hackers were using YouTube ads to take over computers and force them to mine cryptocurrency. These types of attacks (known as cryptojacking) are only becoming more common, but a closer look at the practice reveals that it’s usually tied to one particular currency: Monero.
The State of the Union seems like an unnecessary relic of a past era, when there was some distance between the American public and their representatives, when people didn’t know, for example, that the president paid off a porn star he had an affair with, or that we could figure out his policy priorities by switching…
We’re in a golden age of arguably unnecessary health gadgets, including several new entries to the market that aim to optimize our sleep, or at least give us lots of data describing it. We asked a few sleep experts what’s useful and what isn’t. Here are the features they liked:
Reddit has been slowly rolling out two-factor authentication for beta testers, moderators and third-party app developers for a while now before making it available to everyone over the past few days.
Are you a server’s worst nightmare without even knowing it? We’re here to help. The Salty Waitress is The Takeout’s advice column from a real-life waitress that will teach you how not to behave like a garbage person while dining out—and maybe in real life.
Today is National Plan for Vacation Day, so bust out your calendar and start thumbing through those travel guides. You don’t want to let those precious vacation days go to waste just because you got too busy before you organized some much deserved R and R.
It’s 2018, and your lighter doesn’t need fuel anymore; it just has to charge over USB. This discounted arc lighter isn’t really pocket-friendly, but its long, flexible neck makes it ideal for lighting candles, camp fires and other awkwardly-placed flammable things. Just charge the built-in battery, and you’ll be good…
If you have spent any amount of time around these parts, you know that my life is basically sponsored by duck fat. Whether I’m sous vide-ing turkey legs or making mayo, I pretty much live for the rich, smoky taste graisse de canard brings to the dinner table.
You may have heard of moms and dads giving their teenagers alcohol as a parenting tactic—rationales include 1) it’s safer to buy it, serve it, and monitor it in a controlled environment than to have them sneak off with their friends to swig forties in some sketchy parking lot, and 2) it normalizes alcohol so they…
Thank you for choosing Lifehacker for your last-minute “How to watch the SOTU” search. You could have chosen anyone, but you chose us. OK, here’s how to watch the President impress commentators by not just screaming the F-word for an hour:
Today’s best deals start off with a Logitech Gold Box, a foam mattress sale, a charging station, and more.
Today we’re all being tracked by more gadgets than ever before, and in ways that might not be immediately obvious; but it is possible to put restrictions on the data that your laptop, your smartphone, and even your fitness tracker can collect about you—in particular, where you are and what you’re doing with your…
Let’s not sugarcoat it: Searching for a job can be awful. It’s a little like apartment hunting. Or partner hunting. You have to sift through a lot of unattractive options for one gem in the rough. But there are much better, more effective, and sanity-saving ways to find appealing jobs that don’t involve refreshing…
iOS/Android: I hate mobile browsing. When I open Safari, I’m usually trying to google something quickly, then go back to my other apps. Lately I’ve been trying the mobile browser Cake, publicly released for iOS and Android today, and it’s made searching much faster.
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If you’re really serious about improving your nighttime routine, you can buy an entire foam mattress today for $375-$608 (queens cost $518) in Amazon’s Gold Box. These 4.4 star-rated mattresses are constructed of seven inches of high density base foam topped with a three-inch layer of memory foam, and come with a…