These days, green living is a hot topic. Scan the pages of a range of publications, and you’ll see stories about how people and businesses are working to save water, save energy, and generally save the Earth. But you don’t…
I’m a major fan of Ikea. I love its colossal showroom peppered with model rooms. I love its friendly employees, its focus on sustainability, its array of solutions for small spaces, and — of course — its low prices on…
In 2014, a woman wrote to Consumer Reports with a problem. She said her husband was able to get health insurance at his job for $130 per month, which was about 4% of their monthly income. However, adding her to…
These days, cryptocurrency investments are one of the hottest topics in the investing realm. Investors buy digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin through cryptocurrency exchanges like Coinbase, hoping to sell them later for a profit. Cryptocurrency, or “crypto,”…
Remodeling a bathroom is one of the costliest home improvement projects. According to HomeAdvisor, the average bathroom remodel costs around $10,911 as of April 2020. A high-end remodel for a large or master bathroom could run you $25,000 or more….
When Benjamin Franklin said nothing in the world is certain except death and taxes, he obviously forgot about laundry. Laundry expert Mary Marlowe Leverette, writing for The Spruce, says the average American family does eight to 10 loads of laundry…
Few of us look forward to getting older. For many people, words like “aging” and “senior citizen” suggest growing steadily more frail, bent, and creaky and eventually moving into an assisted living facility to play bridge all day. But as…
You’d never take money out of your wallet and throw it straight into a trash can. But if you’re like most people, you probably spend money every day on things that end up in the trash. Commonplace goods like soda…
Internet service in the United States is a mess. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), nearly 24% of Americans can’t connect to the Internet at broadband speed (25 megabits per second or better). And we’re paying through the nose…
Over the past two years, my husband and I have spent less than $400 per year on clothing. Our secret? We buy most of our clothes secondhand. And clothing is just the tip of the iceberg. We prefer to shop…
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