Most Viewed Posts This Week: June 5-12
This week we rediscovered Amazon Prime , got some sleep , cooked up a delicious steak, and kept our strawberries fresh . Here’s a look back.
Amazing Amazon Prime Benefits You May Have Forgotten
If you’re shopping online, Amazon Prime membership is easy at just free two-day shipping. But that’s not all that Prime membership gives you. Here are some of the benefits you may have forgotten.
This picture shows how a lack of sleep can negatively affect your brain.
You know it’s bad not getting enough sleep, but you know how bad it is? This infographic explains all of the terrible side effects like anger, food cravings, and unnecessary risk that can come from not getting enough sleep each night.
Tip: What’s the best way to marinate an inexpensive steak?
As great as they are, ribeye, porterhouse and sirloin steaks are not an everyday meal for most of us. If you want to get your fill of beef without spending a fortune, ditch some of the less popular but still delicious steaks . We’ve covered several different pickling techniques so you can get the most out of your cut.
Keep Strawberries Fresher For Longer By Following These Three Simple Rules
Strawberries are a very soft fruit, and they can also go bad quickly if you’re not careful. To get the longest possible shelf life from your strawberries, simply follow these guidelines.
The only method of learning something new
Someone stole $ 90 million from the company I worked for. I’m not good at people. The company fell apart. There are some things I cannot learn. I tend to love people too much. So it’s hard for me to understand people, no matter how hard I try. So I find other people who can judge people, and I ask them to help me.
This flowchart will help you find your career personality type.
Deciding on a career is not easy, especially when you are not quite sure what you want to do for a living. Knowing your career personality type can be helpful to get you started in the right direction.
How Ingress, Google’s real-world smartphone game, got me out of the water
Getting out of the house and meeting new people is difficult. For a long time, I let inertia limit me to the same neighbors and daily routines – until I started playing Google’s mobile augmented reality game Ingress . In just a few months, I’ve explored places I’ve never seen before, met many new and interesting people, and walked hundreds of cumulative miles – all thanks to a simple video game on my phone.
Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2015 That Really Matters
Apple announced all sorts of things today, including its new streaming music service, iOS 9, OS X El Capitan, and watchOS 2. The conference has been long, so let me summarize.
Make your own cordless phone charging stand from just about anything
Wireless charging is no longer a new technology, but it can still be quite expensive. This build is cheap, can work with just about any smartphone, and can fit into pretty much anything you want to turn into a charging pad.
Why you should think twice about buying a home with a pool
Home and real estate renovations show that backyard pools almost always paint in a positive light, but in reality, pools represent serious maintenance, repair and insurance costs that you might not think about when buying.
What I learned after moving three times and smashing everything I own
Most of us have too much junk. But after a couple of moves between states in the same number of years, I realized how important it is to own less.
“Spend less than you earn” – useless and useless financial advice
If you’ve ever read five words about personal finance, they were probably “Spend Less Than You Earn”. It is popular because it is simple. It’s actually too easy. This is the smallest piece of a large puzzle with many challenging pieces. It’s time to teach them.
Children’s Boot Camps: Skills Every New Parent Must Learn
For a little thing like that, babies can be downright intimidating, especially if you’re a first-time parent. Babies do not come with operating instructions, so here is the Baby 101 survival guide for those feeling delicate and trying their first months with a newborn.
How to make your daily life more like a vacation
I took a nice two weeks vacation last month. I was thrilled, but even shortly before the trip, I also feared the awful feeling of returning. This is not the best attitude, but when the vacation flies by so quickly, it’s easy to get worried. Before you know it, you are stuck in the same routine that you were in before leaving. This time, I wanted things to be different.