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A day off is reason enough to celebrate with a special breakfast. Whether it’s a typical Saturday with no obligations, or you’re observing a mid-week mental health day, you should put the “break” in “breakfast” with a tall stack of pancakes.

I have a feeling we’re going to be hearing a lot about grand juries in the coming months. Earlier this week, news broke that the U.S. Department of Justice brought former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff before a federal grand jury in D.C. in connection with the, uh, unpleasantness surrounding the 2020…Read more...

Stop paying for TV. I’m not just talking about cable: You can drop Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, and Disney+, and still be able to watch TV for free. Sure, you won’t be keeping up in the golden age of streaming, but you’ll have 24/7 no-cost entertainment in your living room, thanks to both antennas and internet TV. If…Read more...

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As a kid in the rural Midwest, I was accustomed to seeing people around me “rescue” injured birds, bring them into their homes, and care for them. The local vet even facilitated this by calling up certain families when a hurt bird was brought into his practice. We considered these birds lucky, Little-O…Read more...

In a post-pandemic world, food delivery services like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub have become ubiquitous. And even though we can go back out to restaurants now, it’s hard to deny the convenience of a warm, tasty dinner delivered straight to your door. In an effort to even further entice customers, a handful of…Read more...

With memories of (and the fallout from) the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 still painfully fresh for too many families, anxiety is high over recent economic fluctuations. The U.S. economy shrank again in the second quarter this year, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today, and many experts and everyday …Read more...

The question “What do I do with these watermelon rinds?” was answered long ago, and you probably already know the answer, especially if you’re from the South. Watermelon rinds become watermelon pickles, and the crisp, kind of flavorless scrap is rendered soft, tangy, and (often) a little spicy. But pickles aren’t the…Read more...

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If you’re ever looking for a demonstration of the adage “it’s expensive to be poor,” look at buying a car. If you’ve got your eye on a car that costs $35,000 with all fees included, and you have $35,000 in your bank account, that’s what you pay for the car. If you don’t have the cash, let’s say you put down $5,000 and…Read more...

An unusual cocktail ingredient is trending, and it’s not my amarena cherry syrup. (Yet.) It’s cheese. You already love it when paired with a drink, so why not include it directly in your libation? There’s a place in our coupe glasses for both soft and hard-aged cheeses, but you shouldn’t just toss any old cheese into…Read more...

In declaring monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization on Monday acknowledged that currently this outbreak is concentrated among men who have sex with men. The WHO director-general’s statement followed this by saying that “stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous…Read more...

Money is a weirdly taboo subject, and many of us made it through our entire educational careers without partaking in any serious money management lessons—undoubtedly to our detriment. A lot of us manage to buy houses and earn and save surprisingly large amounts of income without really understanding anything at all…Read more...

When I was 11, I could imagine no more subversive television show than Beavis and Butthead. It looked like a cartoon—you know, for kids!—but focused almost exclusively on stuff that was decidedly off-limits in my household: swearing, watching music videos, hitting my brother in the head with a baseball bat, setting…Read more...

Oh, Choco Taco, why did you have to go? Klondike may have discontinued the ice cream novelty but they can’t discontinue my childhood. I will never again have the pleasure of tearing open the thin, metallic, plastic wrapper that cradled the ice cream truck favorite, and that breaks my polar-bear-loving heart. But the…Read more...

For most gamers, the PS5 is an easy setup. You plug it into your TV, it figures out whether you have a 1080p or 4K display, and presto: modern gaming at your fingertips. However, those of us who game on a 1440p monitor rather than a TV may be frustrated by Sony’s lack of support for the resolution. Well, pop the…Read more...

Some slang terms and buzzwords spring out nowhere to fill a pressing cultural need to talk about a new thing, or to talk about an old thing in a new way, but some seemingly new words are actually older-than-retro and date back hundreds of years. These terms lay undisturbed in ancient tomes until, somehow, they get…Read more...

Power outages can range from being annoying to downright catastrophic, depending on the circumstances. With the North American Electric Reliability Corporation estimating that a significant portion of the U.S. is at an elevated risk for power outages this summer, due to above-average temperatures and worsening drought…Read more...

A couple of months ago, I found a snack that changed my life. It was only three ingredients—super tart cornichons dipped in crème fraîche swirled with honey—and it was chaotically good.Read more...

Have you noticed Instagram kinda sucks now? You open the app, scroll through your feed, and think, “Who the hell are these people?” In its heyday, Instagram was a simple social media app for friends to follow other friends and catch up on their lives with fun photos and filters. Now, you’re being served fake TikToks…Read more...

If you’ve been waffling over whether to purchase a Meta Quest 2 VR system, it’s time to make a decision: Meta announced yesterday that the price of the Quest 2 is going up by $100 on Aug. 1. This means you only five days to break out the credit card or be faced with needlessly giving Mark Zuckerberg one hundred…Read more...

It might seem tempting at first to put a screen protector on your shiny new MacBook. After all, many of us put screen protectors on our shiny new iPhones, in an effort to preserve these expensive displays. You would think the same philosophy applies to your MacBook’s screen, which likely costs more than your iPhone…Read more...

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It’s zucchini season, and my zucc plant is going wild. The plant is prolific and the zuccs are big, which is fine, because I have several methods for getting zucchini into my mouth. Here are my favorite ways to deal with too much zucchini, should you find yourself in a similar situation.Read more...

Across the board, Apple takes tech accessibility seriously. Their most visible efforts come via iPhone features like Voice Control, but are hardly limited to iOS and iPadOS. While accessibility features are developed to help people with physical impairments, macOS users can also access to a swath of accessibility…Read more...

Cinnamon rolls are the epitome of a “reconsider food.” These are foods that have the special ability to make you say, “Nah, I really shouldn’t. OK, but maybe just one.” It’s a real act of strength to walk by a Cinnabon without taking two or three extra deep breaths; the aroma of that cinnamon roll is nearly thick…Read more...

There was a time when testing positive for COVID came with the confidence that you wouldn’t get reinfected for a few months. Unfortunately, we no longer have that sense of short-term protection. In addition to keeping yourself safe with a well-fitted mask, it’s smart to redeem your free COVID tests by mail and test…Read more...

Clearly the Google Play Store is no place to download apps willy-nilly. Sure, most of the options on offer are perfectly safe, but far too many malicious apps sneak in under the radar. A week after we updated you on a recent infestation comes news of another batch of apps discovered to be carrying malware—and this…Read more...

With the state of inflation the way it is, it’s not unlikely you’ve considered doing some unconventional things with your finances—and one unconventional way you can get more bang for your buck is by retiring abroad. There are quite a few financial incentives for spending your golden years overseas: Lower costs of…Read more...

There’s something about being in nature that is so refreshing and calming—something many of us developed a new appreciation for during the pandemic. But if you’re new to the outdoors or just want to up your game, you need some solid apps to help you navigate the great outdoors. Here are our favorite outdoor apps to…Read more...

I thought it would be a fun to write a listicle about things in your house that are dirtier than your toilet, mostly because I wanted to make you feel bad about your housekeeping. I quickly discovered I was hardly the first internet-hack/list-artist to have this idea.

There’s no crying in streaming! Does that work? Is that anything? Look, if Prime Video is going to turn the beloved 1992 Tom Hanks/Geena Davis baseball flick A League of Their Own into a TV series, I’m going to have to reference its most famous line. That’s just the law of the internet.Read more...

Networking has a number of tangible benefits, from finding mentors who can help you navigate your career and peers who can offer advice and support, to identifying leads on your next job. However, as useful as networking is, it can also be downright terrifying.Read more...

I was feeling a bit smug a week ago, comfortably nestled up in my corner of the Pacific Northwest while the rest of you sizzled. But now the heat has come for me, too, and I find myself hiding next to the AC vent, hoping my kids don’t come back from camp with sunburns and heat rash. I figure it’s time we all take a…Read more...

Why are you reading this article? Wait, don’t click away—what I mean is, why are you reading this article? Chances are, you visited this article from your smartphone, like so many of us do. Whether you have an iPhone or an Android, you can make your phone read text out loud to you, so you never need to read it…Read more...

You may have reached that point in summer when the kids have lost the unbridled excitement they had for limitless screen time, water balloon fights, and even the pool when school first let out. (And you’ve lost all desire to calmly referee brawls over Nintendo Switch time and who got more snacks.) Here are some…Read more...

Aesthetically, my home is what you would describe as “decorated by a horny grandma.” I love vintage things, tacky things, and tacky vintage things, which is why I paid nearly $70 for a novelty cookbook called Singers & Swingers in the Kitchen: The Scene-Makers Cook Book.Read more...

I had Taco Bell for the first time in my life last week. I know, I know. It’s not that I didn’t want to try Taco Bell. In fact, I’d argue the hype had built up so high, I could no longer lose my Taco Bell virginity in a casual way. The timing was just never been right until now.

A “travel hack” is currently going viral on TikTok, promising to reliably get you to the front of the line when you’re boarding a flight and/or let you pass to the front of TSA security lines. I’m not going to share the videos, because they’re trash, but it works like this: You pretend you’re injured, even going as…Read more...

With more than 8,000 locations nationwide, Family Dollar has stores in every state Wilbur Alaska and Hawaii. In some rural areas, it’s the only game in town—meaning that if you run out of toilet paper, coffee, or toothpaste, your options are either Family Dollar, or a mini road road trip.Read more...

From picking between two restaurants to picking between two job offers, there’s no one foolproof approach to making decisions. We’ve covered our fair share of decision-making hacks in the past: There’s the 37% rule to simplify your gut instincts, or creating a decision matrix in order to prioritize what you need to…Read more...

Whether they’re birthday cards, jewelry, or photos on your phone, a lot of people keep mementos of past relationships—but when is it OK to keep hanging onto these things, and when is it time to let go? Here’s what you should consider about holding onto keepsakes from past relationships—especially when you have a new…Read more...

Caesar dressing is an incredible condiment, packed full of all sorts of flavors: richness from the egg yolk, umami (and salt) from the anchovies and parm, acid from the lemon, and pungency from the garlic and fresh pepper. Why, then, do we think of it as a mere lettuce topping, when it could be used to make any…Read more...

There are a lot of reasons you might want a tattoo removed. Maybe it was done poorly, maybe you no longer care for whatever it was commemorating, or maybe you just want to clear some space to add fresh ink. Whatever your reason, the desire to get rid of a tat can come on just as strongly as the original desire to go…Read more...

Take a peek at Apple’s website or walk into an Apple Store and you’ll be inundated with MacBook options: MacBooks Air and Pro, of all different shapes, sizes, and specs, all vying for your attention and a significant chunk of your money. It’s not easy to know which is the right fit for you, especially once you factor…Read more...

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If you’re like most people, you probably don’t enjoy flying on low-cost carriers (LCCs). The seats are cramped, there are a million fees, and it’s often just not a great experience. But there are steps you can take to make the experience less painful, because sometimes the cost is low enough that it doesn’t make sense…Read more...

Gaming is a well-established medium with a robust online community, but podcasts, which offer a powerful space to niche voices, have made engaging with games and other gamers easier than ever. While some people seek out places for the latest news and reviews, others want content that’s more thoughtful—discussions…Read more...

While there are some signs that inflation is going to start getting better in this country, things remain pretty grim. In some areas, the cost of a wide range of products and services has gone up nearly 10%, while income has stagnated or risen much more modestly. The grocery store is where inflation really hits hard…Read more...

As travel spending hits new pandemic highs, you’ve probably started day-dreaming about an international vacation yourself. But before you start booking away, you should make sure your passport didn’t expire over the course of the pandemic.