How to Decode Building Codes (and Why You Should Care)
If your job isn’t related to building codes, you probably don’t encounter or think about them on a regular basis. While we may refer to […]
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You Should Be Safer at the Grocery Store
When we think of food poisoning, we usually think of frequent memories of food, from salads to onions to dried spices . But it’s also […]
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All the Smart Ways to Use Glycerin in Your Home
When it comes to putting together your arsenal of standard household products, you probably already have things like white vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and […]
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How to Make an Accent Wall Intentional, Not Accidental
Let’s face it, sometimes accent walls can feel more like emergency walls when someone ran out of paint and never finished the job. Maybe it […]
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Why You Need Time for Boredom Every Week
Do you remember what it means to be truly bored? It’s not like being bored at work and trying to speed up time. But you […]
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Use the Air Layering Method to Propagate Plants Safely
Plant breeding can be random, especially for beginners. TikTok or Instagram tutorial videos make it so easy. While sometimes this is true, other times you […]
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How to Fix Elden Ring Autosave Error (and Other Common Problems)
Players are finally immersed in Elden Ring , one of the most anticipated video games of this year. It received universal critical praise and has […]
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Confusions, Baby Steps, and Other Personal Financial Strategies You Should Know
With so much conflicting financial advice out there, it can be hard to sort through everything, let alone figure out which one is best for […]
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How to Choose the Right Realtor or Real Estate Agent (and What’s the Difference?)
There are a lot of things that you can do on your own without the help of professionals. This site is full of them. One […]
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Khai Jiao Is the Best Way to Use Leftover Mung Bean Sprouts
For reasons unknown to the universe, a packet of mung bean sprouts is always too much for any dish you prepare. Even if you’ve doubled […]
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The Best (and Worst) Ways to Freeze Grocery Store Eggs
While freezing can be a great way to preserve many foods before they go bad, some foods just don’t freeze well. However, when it comes […]
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The Five Stages of a Market Bubble (and Where the Cryptocurrency Is)
Depending on who you ask, blockchain technology is either a revolutionary and breakthrough development or a nonsensical marketing term that represents a bloated concept. Whatever […]
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How to Sleep Like Fucking Royalty
When you sleep, you are, by definition, unconscious, but that doesn’t mean your bed should be less than luxurious. You deserve to be cuddled surrounded […]
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The 7 Best Evernote Alternatives (and Why You Should Finally Switch)
Evernote is a true story of wealth in rags. Once the default note-taking app for anyone and everyone, it’s now incredibly hard to love. And […]
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A Guide to Child Culture for Adults Out of Touch With Reality: What Is “goblin Mode”?
It’s a strange day to write about pop culture, but like the tiktokers below who take silly walks for their “stupid” mental health, I’ll plod […]
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Learn to Accept Damn Compliments
There’s a reason it’s called “accepting” a compliment – it’s a real commitment to receiving praise. You want to do it in a way that […]
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How to Talk to Children and Teenagers About the Crisis in Ukraine
As the adults of the world watch as Russia invades Ukraine, unleashing what many fear is the biggest war in Europe since 1945 and potentially […]
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How to Turn Your Shower Into a Spa Oasis (on the Cheap)
Your bathroom should be an oasis of relaxation, right? At least that’s what we’ve been led to believe. It’s hard to think of optimal relaxation […]
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The Best Flowering Ground Covers (to Brighten up Boring Grass)
If you have a standard grass lawn in front of your house, you may have had reason to wonder if our ancestors were crazy. How […]
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Of Course You Can Go to Antarctica (but Here’s Why You Shouldn’t)
Over the past few years, travel to Antarctica has gone from a “rare and treacherous expedition” to a “mass vacation”. However, as multiple sources point […]
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The Fastest Ways to Check a Viral Tweet
The sum of human knowledge and the views of millions of people are available on your phone. Unfortunately, not everyone who shares information is reliable. […]
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You Don’t Wash Your Blankets Enough (and That’s Disgusting)
Throws, along with mattresses and duvet covers, are household items whose cleanliness is taken for granted. Because we can only use them for an hour […]
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How to Force Google Chrome to Download PDFs Instead of Opening Them
When you click a PDF link in Google Chrome, it opens the file in a new tab by default. This is fine if you’re only […]
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6 Common Baking Myths You Should Stop Believing
When it comes to baking, many of the timeless “rules” we all know (and follow) may be based in circumstantial fact or science to some […]
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What Do the Codes on Your Tires Say?
If you have a car, you also have at least four tires – five if you have a real full-size spare in the trunk instead […]
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The Smartest Way to Keep an Avocado Fresh for up to a Month
Buying avocados is always a little crappy: they tend to ripen at unpredictable intervals, and that fleeting moment of ripeness comes and goes before you’ve […]
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You Can (Once Again) Stream Twitch From Your Xbox
Twitch streaming integration is back on the Xbox console. Microsoft abandoned its Twitch integration back in 2017 in favor of its own streaming platform called […]
Continue reading »Don’t Be Upset If You Can’t Squirt (but Here’s How You Can Try)
When you Google “squirting”, the results are mixed. There are articles proclaiming that they can teach you how to do it, as well as forums […]
Continue reading »How to Stick to a Running Routine All Winter
Winter weather can challenge even the most determined and motivated runners. With less daylight, low temperatures, unpredictable wind and slippery conditions, it can be difficult […]
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Difference Between Possum and Opossum
Possums look like skinny, rat-like creatures—or so I thought. You see them crawling along the roads at night, sharp-toothed tufts of fur with long bare […]
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How to Stop Anxiety From Sabotaging Your Investments
The world is on the verge of a geopolitical paradigm shift , but is still reeling from a global pandemic. Traditional markets are getting restless […]
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You’re Probably Using These Psychological Terms Incorrectly on Social Media
When I first joined TikTok in 2020, I couldn’t go a day without videos of abusive narcissists, whether in the form of “toxic” exes or […]
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What’s New on Netflix in March 2022
With the fourth season of Ozark airing in January and ” Inventing Anna ” premiered in February, it looks like March will be tragically devoid […]
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How to Prepare for the Next Slack Crash
When Slack crashes, it’s a big problem. In 2019, a workplace communications software company announced that it has over 10 million daily users, and as […]
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The Best (and Worst) Colors for Painting Your Front Door
Perhaps you’re thinking about sprucing up your home or preparing your home for sale, and one of the quickest and easiest ways to change the […]
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The Only Scenarios Where It’s Absolutely Okay to Summon Someone
I was a ghost and I made a ghost. When someone sees me as a ghost, I assume it’s because they’re so in love with […]
Continue reading »How to Summon a Demon
If I didn’t learn anything else from heavy metal, horror movies and Dungeons and Dragons, then I learned that demons are amazing . I want […]
Continue reading »What Is the Safest Way to Throw Away Old Knives?
Good knives have a long shelf life if you take care of them: wash them by hand, store them in a specially designated place and […]
Continue reading »21 of the Best Introspective Movies to Watch Alone
I have always been perfectly content with watching movies alone. All is well if it’s Fast & Furious 2 or Uncharted , but there are […]
Continue reading »13 ‘Challenges’ That Prove Older Generations Were Just As Stupid As TikTok Teens
Considering the proliferation of strange and dangerous Internet “challenges” such as the Tide Pod challenge, the blackout game, and the milk crate challenge, it’s easy […]
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