How to Find and Use Facebook's Revamped Privacy Checkup Tool

Facebook is starting out 2020 by updating the Privacy Checkup tool it introduced back in 2014, which makes it easier for users to find and change several important account settings. To be honest, outside of some visual flair and updated explanations…

To Build a New Habit, Look to the Past

If you want to add a new habit to your day-to-day life, it’s worth taking the time to reflect on how you picked up your current habits—and whether you can use the same skills to incorporate another habit or behavior into your routine.Read more...

Ask for the Gifts You Really Need When You're Expecting

A baby really only needs so many onesies. It’s nice to have a few different receiving blankets; but twelve blankets is overkill. Babies outgrow so much of what is bought for them before they’ve worn it or used it enough to even make it look secondha…

JetBlue and Southwest Are Having Major Sales Right Now

If you’re on the lookout for an especially good deal on airfares, now might be the time to book your next flight out of town. Right now, JetBlue and Southwest are having major sales. For as little as $44, you can fly on a one-way ticket via JetBlue …

Yes, You Can Clean a Toilet With Mouthwash and Alka Seltzer

It’s hard to write an intro to a post about toilets without making everything filthy.Read more...

How to Welcome the New People at the Gym

January is a wonderful time at the gym. So many new friends! Maybe one of them will end up being your longtime workout buddy. Maybe you can encourage and inspire somebody who’s just getting started. What? No, I’m not being sarcastic. Read more...

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The Best Horror Movies to Watch in the Dead of Winter

They say revenge is a dish best served cold—and the same goes for horror movies. What makes winter the perfect backdrop for a horror movie? Well, take a look at the Shining or Misery, where winter’s harshness renders our protagonists powerless and…

Season Popcorn With Macaroni and Cheese Powder

Cheese popcorn is a very special snack. Usually found in air-puffed bags or seasonal tins, the (ideally) bright orange popped kernels are a perfect combination of salty and tangy. Homemade recipes for cheese popcorn often involve ordering cheese pow…

The Best Way to Store Your Kid's Bath Toys

Chances are, if you’ve got little kids, you’ve also got a vast assortment of rubber bath toys in varying states of mold infestation. We’ve already told you how to clean them up (and even how to prevent the mold in the first place), but once they’re …

Low-Budget Habits And Goofy Tricks I Use To Keep Old Cars Alive Longer

In years of driving old cars, I’ve picked up some habits, maybe superstitions, that I’m convinced have helped keep my decrepit vehicles on the road. For the sake of everyone else’s retirement-age cars clinging to survival, I shall impart some of my …

How to Get the Most Out of Ring's New Privacy Features

Lately, it seems like there’s been a new controversy surrounding Ring’s smart home security products every few days.Read more...

These Airlines Had the Fewest On-Time Arrivals in 2019

If you’re flying Frontier or JetBlue in the near future, don’t be surprised if your flight doesn’t exactly arrive on time. Cirium, a data collection agency that tracked over 5.6 million flights last year, ranked all North American airlines based on …

How to Be Better at Email in 2020

It’s a new year—and if you’re still dealing with an inbox full of emails from 2019, here are three tips to help you do email better in 2020.Read more...

Check Airport Taxi and Ride Share Cost Estimates Before a Trip

Though you probably know roughly how much a ride via taxi or an app like Uber or Lyft would cost from your home to your local airport, when you travel to a new city or country, all bets are off. Living in New York City, I’m routinely surprised at ho…

Buy Your White Kid a Black Doll

It may be something you’ve never really thought too much about: You walk into the store to buy your white child a doll and you reach for the palest version (which is often also the only version). In fact, there’s a good chance that if your child is …

Mute All Your Friends Who Have Annoying Resolutions

We’re not even a full week into January, but chances are there’s somebody on your timeline with a new year’s resolution they just won’t shut up about. Don’t unfriend them—they’ll be back to normal in a month or so. The 30-day mute was made for this.…

How Scammers Can Use Your Old Credit Card Numbers

When Amazon packages started showing up on Chris’s* Connecticut doorstep last fall, he and his wife both assumed the other was buying Christmas presents for the other. But the contents of the packages looked nothing like gifts either of them would w…

Take This Yale Course on the 'Science of Well-Being' For Free

If one of your 2020 goals is to work on more productive habits and increase your own happiness in life, Yale might be able to help you get there.Read more...

How to Watch the Golden Globes Without Cable

The Golden Globes are Sunday. The annual awards show works as a predictor for the Oscars later this year and can be a great opportunity to do a little star watching while you’re getting ideas for movies you should probably add to your watch list pre…

Send Your Phone Back to the '90s With This Free Android Game

Even if I don’t remember much of the ‘90s, I sure remember all that old ‘90s tech, especially the classic look and feel of older Windows operating systems. So when I saw Android Central’s post about the free-to-play Android game Progressbar95, I kne…