If you want to live in a newly constructed house, you have two choices: You can buy a finished home from a builder, or you can have one built from scratch. Either choice can be incredibly expensive: The cost of building a new house in the U.S. ranges quite a bit, with $332,397 being the national average, but the final…
Source: LifeHacker – These Are the Cheapest Houses You Can Build
I’m not a big Starbucks fan. Not because it’s a big corporation (or anything similarly noble), but because I live in Brooklyn, and without really trying, became something of a bougie coffee snob. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy a candy-like, foamy PSL in the fall. Since I drink coffee at an alarming rate, I started…
Source: LifeHacker – Make a Better PSL With Pumpkin Butter
While being surrounded by clutter in your home can feel chaotic and overwhelming, much of it can probably simply be discarded. How much of your kid’s old artwork really needs to be kept forever? There’s nothing of value in that stack of junk mail. And what do all the cords in that drawer even do? I’m not saying it’s…
Source: LifeHacker – Use the ‘Calendar Method’ to Finally Declutter Your House
Thanksgiving dinner is not complete without stuffing (or dressing). It’s a humble, somewhat silly dish. You dry out some bread, make it wet again, then dry it out one more time, but the result is undeniably delicious—assuming the broth you used is, itself, delicious. For the best stuffing, you should focus on the…
Source: LifeHacker – For the Best Stuffing, Focus on the Stock
You have a big test or project looming, but can’t seem to force yourself to prepare for it at all. You’ll even do other things—like clean your room or call your family—that you normally hate, just to put off studying. You might think you’re just avoiding work, but you’re probably procrastinating for a real reason, and…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Tell What Kind of Procrastinator You Are (and What to Do About It)
I’ll admit it: I’ve gone through a partner’s phone to catch them being unfaithful. But while I scoured their texts for proof of infidelity, I didn’t think to also head on over to their banking apps for a different kind of cheating: financial infidelity. Now, I can’t endorse the sort of privacy violations that I’m…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Spot Financial Infidelity (and What to Do About It)
North Carolina and Virginia are scheduled to play in an Atlantic Coast Conference game on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023 at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The game is scheduled for kickoff at 6:30 p.m. ET.
Source: LifeHacker – Where to Stream the North Carolina Vs. Virginia Game
The beauty of the internet is that every once in a while, someone asks a totally innocuous question and people chip in with answers that can potentially change the reader’s life. This time, someone on Reddit asked about apps that are so good that it’s hard to believe they’re free. The responses highlighted lots of…
Source: LifeHacker – Nine Free Apps That Will Change Your Life, According to Reddit
From the earliest days of cinema history, cartoons were never just for kids, and it’s important not to confuse the medium with a genre. Animation has produced movies that are charming, romantic, harrowing, musical, magical, dystopian, funny…and pretty much every other adjective you might use to describe a story that…
Source: LifeHacker – The 30 Best Animated Movies You Can Stream Right Now
You can get a lifetime subscription to the popular language learning app Babbel on sale for $149.97 right now (reg. $599) through October 23. Babbel offers personalized language courses across 14 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Indonesian, Norwegian,…
Source: LifeHacker – You Can Get a Lifetime Subscription to Babbel for 0 Right Now
Inspiration comes from unexpected places this week—places like an Indian restaurant in Bowling Green, Kentucky and TikTok’s recommendation algorithm. Young are people doing it for the plot, wallowing in their own filth, and debating whether Gollum or King Kong stars in the worst video game of the year.
Source: LifeHacker – The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Do It for the Plot
I don’t get a thrill from dressing up in Halloween costumes anymore, but I look forward to all of the silly “scary” food that crop up. Peeled grapes become monster eyeballs, ground Oreos transform into graveyard dirt, spaghetti somehow turns into a bowl of worms, and blackened chicken wings are re-branded as “bat…
Source: LifeHacker – Make Spooky Halloween ‘Mummy Fingers’ in Your Air Fryer
My “fall leaf philosophy” has changed a lot over the years, from laissez-faire due to disinterest, to a deeply held responsibility to bag every last leaf, to mulching all the leaves for compost, and finally landing right back where I started. While I personally hold that leaves are best left where they fall (for the…
Source: LifeHacker – These Are the Best Mulchers to Tackle Your Leaves This Fall
Hope you remember your slightly obscure political figures, because today’s puzzle is a tricky one. If you’re looking for the Connections answer for Friday, October 20, 2023, read on—I’ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. Along the way, I’ll explain the meanings…
Source: LifeHacker – Today’s NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Friday, October 20, 2023
For whatever reason, I hate-follow a bunch of keto-focused influencer accounts on Instagram. They’ll lure me in with a bunch of meat, then hit me with a bell-pepper-as-bread “sandwich,” a monstrosity I have been familiar with since the Weight Watching days of my very early 20s. They’re also obsessed with…
Source: LifeHacker – Make This Single-serving, Crustless Pumpkin Pie in Your Microwave
You can get a lifetime subscription to Prism Drive on sale through October 23, with options including $58.97 for 5TB of storage, $79.97 for 10TB, or $89.97 for 20TB. Prism Drive works with iOS, Android, and web browsers, and it’s compatible with most major file types like images, videos, and audio files. It also…
Source: LifeHacker – You Can Get Prism Drive Cloud Storage for Right Now
Best Buy is the first of the major retailers to announce their plans for Black Friday this year. Earlier this week, they published a press release on their website detailing their plans, including the dates you can expect to see deals, what member perks you can expect, what things will be on sale, their extended…
Source: LifeHacker – Here Are Best Buy’s Black Friday Calendar and Price-Match Rules
While I prefer solo travel, I know that traveling with another person can be a beautiful thing. When you’re hiking to a waterfall, or getting lost in a new city, or gazing at the Taj Mahal, you might feel a pang of regret if you don’t have someone with you to share in the moment. A travel companion can not only make…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Travel With Someone Who Sucks
First, there were phone calls. Then we switched to texting, and stopped talking to each other for a while. Still, there was something missing: Phone calls take too long, while texting isn’t convenient for lengthy thoughts. And thus, the voice message was born—a simple way to share your message off the cuff without…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Send Disappearing Voice Messages in WhatsApp
As more and more fitness trackers and smartwatches come out, I’ve noticed that manufacturers are leaning more into their own ecosystems. Apple, of course, has been doing this for years, but Google is starting to do it with its new devices, too, and the Fitbit Charge 6 is a perfect example of how choosing a fitness…
Source: LifeHacker – The Fitbit Charge 6 Integrates More of the Google Ecosystem