Lifestyle
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Costco Dilemma: What the Heck Do You Do With Those Glass Tiramisu Cups?
How many times have you bought those little premade Costco tiramisu dessert cups in the refrigerated section? If you have a hoard of the adorable glass cups they come in, it’s safe to say you’re an impulse buyer of sweets.…
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Kitchen Confidential: 12 Culinary Secrets To Elevate Your Cooking Skills
Cooking can often feel like an uphill battle — especially when you’re striving to achieve the mouthwatering results you see on cooking shows, but always end up with dishes that look and taste mediocre. But just because you aren’t a…
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Reduce Food Waste With These 6 Top-Rated Overripe Banana Recipes
While brown bananas are safe to eat, a mushy mess of overripe, sugary fruit isn’t exactly appetizing. But like stale bread, overripe bananas can come in handy for a handful of mouthwatering recipes, spanning the gamut from healthy banana smoothies…
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How To Get Rid of Ants From Your Home With 4 Simple Tricks
I just experienced a major ant invasion, and I’m still recovering from the horror. After one rainy day, I came down to the kitchen to find ants all over the place — on the floor, the counter, the table, everywhere.…
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Celebrities With Brands That Cater to the Common Folk
These days, it’s not enough to be an actor, musician, or reality TV star — you’ve got to have your own brand to go with it. Many celebrities have banked on their star status to bring in big bucks through…
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Best Tasting Protein Bars: We Taste-Tested 10 Top Brands
Whether you’re looking for a quick, muscle-building protein source following a tough gym workout or you’ve skipped lunch and need to calm a grumbling stomach and low blood sugar, a protein bar can be an easy and relatively healthy snack.…
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Cage-Free vs. Free-Range Eggs: Are Specialty Eggs Worth the Extra Cash?
When egg prices reached record highs at the beginning of the year, the country’s largest egg producer, Cal-Maine Foods, saw a jump in specialty egg sales. Conventional eggs had become…
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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,…
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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…
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Best Guard Dogs for Keeping Your Home Safe
It’s not easy to know what makes a good guard dog. Great Danes? They’re big but way too friendly. Greyhounds? Too quiet. What you need is a protective, vigilant, and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
