Category: Holidays

With the 2022 holiday season starting next week with Thanksgiving, the time to send any packages, cards, and other mail you want to receive by […]

Not only do Thanksgiving traditions vary across families (both biological and the chosen ones), communities, and regions, they also tend to evolve over time. This […]

Picking up a tree for Christmas can be an interesting project. A tree skirt will help hide the stand and give the tree a finished […]

Don’t expect a Thanksgiving miracle this year – at least not if you’re hoping to find an inflation-proof turkey. According to TODAY.com , this year’s […]

Getting everyone together for holiday parties is a comforting practice as the weather turns chilly: Eating out and company together can be the best part […]

Whether you’re sending holiday cards or gifts, or just sending in your monthly rent check, you might want to avoid using those big blue donation […]

Veterans can get quite a few food-related deals this Veterans Day this Friday, but there are other, non-consumable discounts and freebies. Here are a few […]

Cutting down your own Christmas tree is often illegal, but the USDA Forest Service is all for it—as long as you follow the right channels. […]

When you are a child, it seems that the traditions of family holidays are inviolable – that they were handed down on stone tablets and […]

When overnight guests arrive for the holidays, in addition to the usual cleaning, straightening, and emptying wastebaskets, you can add design touches to enhance your […]

I truly believe in the value of homemade Halloween costumes. The idea of ​​buying a ready-made suit is offensive to me personally. Since I’m going […]

The keys to a harmless last-minute Halloween costume are simple: people need to be able to tell who you are, and it needs to be […]

I’m a Halloween scientist with a Ph.D. in Witchology at Virginia Tech* and I want to share my knowledge with you. These 12 Halloween Facts […]

I’ve never been into pumpkin carving. I love looking at pumpkin lanterns and I have deep respect for those who take the art of carving […]

With Halloween approaching, your costume may need a last-minute quick gore – and it’s actually easier to make your own “blood” than you might think. […]

Pumpkin carving is a typical Halloween act, but anyone who has ever tried it knows that after carving a pumpkin, its lifespan rapidly increases. Squirrels […]

Now that you know when is the best time to carve pumpkins so they don’t rot before Halloween , it’s time to move on to […]

It’s officially pumpkin season and you know what that means. If you’re a suburban parent, not only will you head to the pumpkin patch to […]

I’m highly suspicious of “safe” Halloween activities like swiping at the mall or pulling candy out of the trunk of a car. Halloween is knocking […]

There has been a lot of controversy on social media lately about how to prolong the life of a pumpkin by rubbing it with bleach […]

Every year, unfounded urban legends and mythical hype leave caregivers worried about what to treat or treat. While you won’t find razors or fentanyl in […]

It’s only a few weeks until Halloween, so it’s time to ask yourself what you’re going to be wearing this year. This is a deeply […]

It’s the end of September and you know what that means: it’s time for warnings about criminals putting harmful items in kids’ Halloween candy! The […]

Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and Father’s Day is just around the corner, with many grown children everywhere trying to figure out what […]

Cinco de Mayo (literally “May 5th”) has a fascinating history, but I’m going to start with what Cinco de Mayo isn’t : it’s not Mexico’s […]

I’ll start with a word of caution. First of all: please, by all means, receive everything that your mother directly asked for (or hinted at) […]

Easter is weird. For religious people, this is the most sacred day of the year, a time to reflect on the main miracle on which […]

April 15 is not a tax day this year — it’s April 18 — but it’s the first day of Passover, Good Friday, and National […]

On March 14, the more nerdy side of humanity celebrates Pi Day, a holiday that “ celebrates the irrational, transcendent, and infinite ratio that helps […]

Valentine’s Day is coming soon. Sometimes referred to as “Oh Shit, I Forgot Again” Day, the annual celebration of love on February 14 is celebrated […]

Your opinion on Valentine’s Day doesn’t matter. “But the holiday is!” You scream. “All holidays are made up,” I calmly replied. “We live in a […]

Lunar New Year, known as “Spring Festival” in China and sometimes referred to as “Chinese New Year” in the US, is one of the most […]

Well, we did it. We went through shopping and packaging, a nearly fallen tree, and the antics of 12 Santa-drunk kids on the most exciting […]

The stockings were hung, gifts were wrapped and then unwrapped, and the gift-giving portion of the holiday season came to an end. But when you […]

In a sketch of the final episode of Saturday Night Live, a pair of mature women (played by Edie Bryant and Kate McKinnon) filmed a […]

The proliferation of the Omicron variant may have made your vacation plans difficult, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get the holiday photos you want […]

The holidays are coming up, and we can all use several ways to simplify the madness. A few tricks you’ve probably never thought of before […]