Lifestyle
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Thrive Market’s Promise To Deliver Low-Cost Organic Groceries Is Total BS
While we’d all like to erase the pandemic from our memories, those two or so years of worldwide social distancing led to some major changes. Digital services became a lifeline, and grocery-delivery companies with silly names like “Gopuff” and “Weee!”…
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How To Make Homemade Sriracha Sauce So You Never Run Out
Finding Sriracha on a store shelf feels like striking gold nowadays. For the lucky few who do manage to snag a bottle, the skyrocketing prices for Huy Fong Foods Sriracha have made buying the beloved condiment less satisfying than before. But before you give…
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Best Guard Dogs for Keeping Your Home Safe
Not every big dog is a good guard. These 20 protective, alert breeds excel as watchdogs and guard dogs that take home security seriously.
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How To Get Rid of Pantry Moths on a Tight Budget
A stray pantry moth may look harmless. But then you’ll notice that they’ve multiplied, and when you finally look in your pantry, you’ll discover something horrific: an army of airborne pests and a wriggling mass of larvae. The good news…
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Dumpster Diving, Stealing, and Eating Costco Samples: The 10 ‘Brokest Things’ Redditors Have Ever Done
Despite living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, a staggering 40% of Americans find it somewhat or very difficult to pay their bills, according to a United States Census survey from earlier this year. With such a large…
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Is Your Rent Too High? Find an Affordable, High Quality of Life City Using This Interactive Map
Let’s say you’re looking for the perfect place to live: somewhere with cheap rent, plenty of sun, and legal weed. With MoveMap, a free, interactive tool that lets you sort locations by everything from the cost of living to median…
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Here’s Why You Should Always Buy Lab-Grown Diamonds
The diamond industry is a sordid business, one built on backbreaking child labor, bloody civil wars, and earth-warming greenhouse gasses. Given those thorny ethical issues, you’d think that lab-grown diamonds…
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Remember CB Radios? They’re Back, 10-4
CB radios were — and still often are — a practical tool on the road, especially in a trucker’s life. But back in the 1970s and ’80s these portable communication…
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Strangest Things That Have Washed Ashore
The ocean is full of mystery, not all of it marine in nature. Given the right conditions, some of that mystery washes ashore at random times, bewildering beachcombers, locals, and…
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This Company Is Fighting Food Waste by Making Fabric Out of Your Leftovers
Did you know the fashion industry is slowly killing our planet? Fashion contributes to roughly 10% of global carbon dioxide emissions, and many of the clothes we wear (about 60%) are…
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Why You Should Never Play the Lottery
The lure of the lottery is powerful. Just pony up a few bucks for a ticket while you’re buying a coffee at the corner store, and a few days later,…
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‘Buying Candles Is a Scam’: How To Make a ‘Kajillion’ DIY Candles for Around $50
Do the prices of nice-smelling candles make you sigh deeply and just hope your house smells OK without them? One TikToker has a solution. For just slightly more than the…
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Underrated and Affordable: 9 ‘Best Value’ Cities, According to Working-Class Americans
It’s not often that mid-sized Midwestern cities get to shine. But in a recent thread on Reddit’s r/PovertyFinance — a working-class forum that focuses on frugality — Middle America outshined…
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‘This Always Brightens Them Up’: Retail Workers Share 8 Ways To Be a Model Customer
The very existence of the subreddit r/RetailHell — an 80,000-strong community of disgruntled workers — should tell you everything you need to know about the service industry (hint: it sucks!).…
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AI Says This Mac and Cheese Recipe Is Worthy of a Michelin Star. Here’s What It Really Tastes Like
People have asked ChatGPT how to do pretty much everything. How to cheat on a test. How to build a bomb. How to make a decadent, fat-laden recipe, which is…
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Kick Your Diet Coke Habit With These 10 Healthy Alternatives to Soda
Before the World Health Organization’s announcement that the artificial sweetener aspartame could cause cancer, diet soda was considered the lesser of two evils. And although some experts claim the news isn’t as bad as…
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TikTok’s Favorite Grandma Shares 3 Unusual Ways To Use Charcoal
Known primarily for firing up barbecues, charcoal is emerging as an absolute rockstar in the home improvement world. You might be raising an eyebrow, thinking, “Really? The same stuff I…
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Lanyards, Wrist Straps, and 3 Other Ways To Protect Your Phone From Thieves While Traveling
If you, like most tourists, walk the streets of a foreign country staring cluelessly down at your phone, you’re a prime target for thieves. All it takes is a pickpocket…
