While vinyl flooring is known for its durability, that doesn’t mean it’s completely damage-proof. Between everyday wear and tear and occasional mishaps, you may begin to notice some minor blemishes on your once-pristine floors. The good news is that repairing a small tear, scratch, or gouge in your vinyl floor is often a pretty simple […]

Cooking your own meals at home has always been (and likely always will be) the cheaper option. You can opt to replicate your favorite fast food or restaurant meals, seek out simpler, less labor-intensive recipes, or experience the gluttonous glories of the past by digging through grandma’s recipe book. But just because cooking at home […]

True crime is the most popular genre in podcasting, which makes coming up with the best of the year a huge challenge. Here’s a list of the shows that kept us up all night in 2023: the ones with top-notch reporting, unforgettable people, and the kind of twists that will have you at the edge […]

One of my favorite smart tech hubs is the Google Nest Display, and it’s 40% off today at Walmart. You can control all your smart devices through apps on your phone, but a hub makes a great addition to your home. It allows you to have a remote spot where you can control all of […]

If you want to try a more organized approach to meeting your goals in the coming year, try this monthly schedule designed around both setting tasks and tracking your accomplishments.  The first step is to create a personal single source of truth, or SSOT, which is essentially repository for all the information and resources related […]

If you’re looking to have a hands-free experience with your smart home, you need a voice assistant. By merely talking in the direction of a device enabled with the assistant, you can get information about the weather, time, local businesses, or anything else from their knowledgbase. You can control smart devices or send an email […]

Considering how absolutely necessary sleep is to our health, it can be infuriatingly difficult to get a good night of it. We have thousands of years of technological advancement and medical research to draw on, and yet many of us are stuck awake and watching infomercials at 3 a.m. It’s clear that your choices of […]

Do you know how much you are actually worth? Your net worth sums up the current value of what you own minus what you owe to give you a bottom-line dollar amount representing your financial situation—so it is an important metric to track over time as it indicates whether your financial health is improving or […]

Today is Stuff Your Kindle Day, an author-organized event that happens four times a year where people can download mainly romance and romance-adjacent books for free and to keep. In 2023, the event took place on March 31, June 30, Sept. 20. and today, Dec. 27. The event first started in 2014 when author Zoe […]

A little over a month ago, I got back into a familiar routine, one I’ve drifted in and out of for well over a decade: I started hyperfocusing on my health “data,” tracking workouts and rest on an Apple Watch, calories in and out on an app, and my weight and body composition on a […]

Kitchen countertops are equally functional and decorative. A beautiful countertop is a joy to behold—and to use, which makes your choice of material pretty important. Granite remains one of the most popular choices for kitchen countertops for a lot of good reasons: It’s durable, beautiful, and easy to keep clean (and not so hard to […]

This Nix Mini 2 Color Sensor can scan and read the color of just about any surface—great for matching paint colors—and it’s on sale for $59.97 right now (reg. $99) until July 23. No two colors are quite the same when you’re painting or doing a DIY project, and with the Nix Mini 2 you […]

Prime Video’s January slate includes a handful of original films and series featuring A-listers. First up is Role Play (Jan. 12), an action comedy starring Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo, the former of whom lives a double life as an assassin. Later in the month, there’s Expats (Jan. 26), a drama show based on Janice […]