10 Spoons and Spatulas That I Love

10 Spoons and Spatulas That I Love
I love a high-tech kitchen toy as much as the next sous-vide-er, but I am far more dependent on my favorite spoons and spatulas than I am any countertop appliance. Beyond functionality, I like the look and feel of spoons and spatulas. (Spoons are my favorite souvenir to pick up while traveling; I love them so much.)… Read...
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Shape Your Breakfast Sausage to Fit Your Bread

Shape Your Breakfast Sausage to Fit Your Bread
If you’re making a McMuffin-type breakfast sandwich, a circular sausage patty makes sense. But say you want your breakfast sandwich on toast—what then? A sausage circle leaves the corners un-sausaged, and I don’t think anyone here wants to start their day with un-sausaged corners. (Plus, some of those pre-shaped… Read...
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Get All Your Free Tax Filing Options Right Here

Get All Your Free Tax Filing Options Right Here
With the delayed tax filing deadline coming at us fast—it’s July 15, don’t forget!—we’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that TurboTax, the digital tax prep software that pitches itself as a free-and-easy way to do your taxes, is in fact not so free or easy. Actually, it sucks—enough that it inspired… Read...
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How to Safely Hang Dumbbells From a Barbell

How to Safely Hang Dumbbells From a Barbell
If you have a barbell but not quite enough plates, you’ve probably spent this quarantine hanging things off it in extremely sketchy ways. On social media I’ve seen people put weights in tote bags, hang water bottles off their barbell, and more. A lot of these DIY solutions are injuries waiting to happen, but recently… Read...
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How to Get Your Kids to Read More This Summer

How to Get Your Kids to Read More This Summer
Getting our kids to read consistently can be a challenge. But given how the end of the school year just went down, you may be especially worried that you need to help them step up their reading game, at least so they don’t slip backward in the months leading up to whatever fall will bring. We’ve written quite a bit… Read...
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The Best Remedies for Common Headaches

The Best Remedies for Common Headaches
Whether it’s the pulsating pain of a migraine or the behind-the-eyes pressure of sinus congestion, nobody likes a headache. And if you suffer from them, you may need to cycle through a dozen different treatments to find one that works. The thing is, headaches—and their causes—are all different. With that in mind,… Read...
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What's the Best Webcam for Zoom Meetings?

What's the Best Webcam for Zoom Meetings?
The year was 2016. After having recently moved out of my parents’ house and deciding to be a freelance writer full-time, I decided it was in my best financial interest to upgrade my streaming setup, I guess so I could build up my Twitch channel and foster a community around it?? Ha ha ha, such foolish dreams I often… Read...
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How to Cool Your Home More Naturally

How to Cool Your Home More Naturally
In some ways, the pandemic has forced us to be less wasteful and more environmentally friendly. We’re driving less, we’re using less public transportation, we’re supporting more local business. But now that we’re in the heat of the summer, home all day in the most stifling of temps and still trying to look presentable… Read...
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How to Enable Facebook's New Dark Mode on iPhone

How to Enable Facebook's New Dark Mode on iPhone
Facebook’s iOS app is finally getting an official dark mode. Just like the dark modes in Facebook’s other apps—Messenger, Instagram and Whatsapp—turning on dark mode swaps the iOS app’s default white and blue interface with a black and grey theme. And it looks great, and should please those of you who haven’t already… Read...
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What to Use if You Run Out of Hand Soap

What to Use if You Run Out of Hand Soap
So you’re running dangerously low on hand soap in the middle of a global pandemic, and refills are hard to come by thanks to supply chain issues and ongoing panic buying. Or maybe you can’t venture out to the store to buy more until well after you’ve run out. You still need to wash your hands frequently—what to do? Read...
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Kids Can Still Earn Free Pizza Hut by Reading

Kids Can Still Earn Free Pizza Hut by Reading
If you were a kid in the 1980s or ‘90s, you may remember reading predominantly in order to earn free Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas. Launched in 1984, Pizza Hut’s BOOK IT! program is built on the premise that the promise of cheesy, deep-dish goodness would be an effective enough motivator to get kids to read more… Read...
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How to Make a Single Glass of Lemonade

How to Make a Single Glass of Lemonade
When I think of lemonade, I always picture a pitcher—it’s just the most acceptable scale to envision. But an entire pitcher of lemonade requires many lemons, and sometimes I only have one. That’s okay, though; a single lemon is all that you need to make a perfect glass of lemonade. Read more... from Lifehacker htt...
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Your 'Medical Mask Exemption Card' Is a Lie

Your 'Medical Mask Exemption Card' Is a Lie
Masks can be uncomfortable to wear, it’s true. And as most of us in the U.S. are not used to wearing them, so they’re also an uncomfortable reminder of how the pandemic has changed our lives. But if you’re looking for an excuse not to wear one, please leave the ADA and your fake medical condition out of this.… Read more... from...
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What's New on Netflix the Week of June 28, 2020

What's New on Netflix the Week of June 28, 2020
It took 26 years for someone to remake the 1984 horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street, but in the Content Wars of 2020, no one can afford to let a property lie fallow for that long. Hence, this year delivers not one but two reboots of the 2002 Japanese thriller Ju-On: The Grudge, which you may remember as the other… Read...
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