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Health & Wellness

10 Tips to Avoid Weight Gain During the Holidays

It's that time of year when extra calories lurk around every corner -- frosted cookies at the office, eggnog at your neighbor's, jelly doughnuts for Hanukkah or chocolates in your stocking. All these extras add up, and if you're like most Americans, you'll put on a pound or two by New Year's Day. So what's the harm in a little holiday weight gain, especially if it's just a pound? According […]

todayDecember 24, 2019

Fashion

National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day Fans Celebrate With Horrible Style

The Friday before Christmas is a last-minute scramble for thousands of shoppers and many more are dressing the part in honor of National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day.  While ugly holiday sweaters have been around for decades — either by intention or thanks to misguided gift givers — the actual National Holiday began only eight years ago, in 2011. Celebrated annually on the third Friday in December, ugly Christmas sweater lovers […]

todayDecember 24, 2019

Food & Drink

20 Food-of-the-Month Clubs that make great last minute gifts for Your Food-Loving Friends

Did you wait till the very last minute to do your holiday gift shopping? If you're reading this, the answer is, uh, yeah.  Subscription boxes are the gift that literally keeps on giving. With a monthly (or quarterly) gift, your family or friend gets to open something new throughout the year. And with subscriptions for every taste—boozy, cheesy, even a smoked salmon box—you can knock several people off your list […]

todayDecember 24, 2019

Health & Wellness

Wood Burning Fires may make your Yuletide Gay, but they make your Lungs Unhealthy

Decades ago, Nat King Cole gently crooned about chestnuts roasting on an open fire. But since then, scientists have uncovered some troubling truths about wood smoke. Although the image of a log fire is often associated with the holidays, romance and cozy nights inside shielded from plummeting temperatures, experts say wood-burning appliances are a threat to lung and heart health. They emit harmful air pollutants and fine particles that can […]

todayDecember 24, 2019

Home Improvement

Houzz Predicts Top Design Trends for 2020

With 2020 on the horizon, the leading platform for home renovation and design - Houzz - is sharing its Home design trend predictions for the upcoming year.  With a community of millions of homeowners and home renovation and design professionals around the world, Houzz has unique insights into how people are renovating their homes. The Houzz team searched data, browsed hundreds of home design photos, reread past articles and interviewed professional designers to […]

todayDecember 24, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Hold onto your Smart Phones: Motorola delays Razr Preorder and Launch due to High Demand

Motorola’s resurrected foldable Razr was one of the most exciting phone announcements in 2019, but it seems that demand for the upcoming phone was higher than the company expected. Because of that demand, Motorola has announced a slight delay for both the preorder and launch of the Razr, which were originally planned for December 26th and sometime in January, respectively.   There’s no word yet when the new dates for […]

todayDecember 24, 2019

Home Improvement

13 Things You Must Do to Protect Your Garden this Winter

Got your home all warm and cozy for the Winter?  Great.  But if you neglected to take care of your garden, you'll regret it come that inevitable Spring thaw.  Here are 13 must-do's to protect your lawn and garden this season. Move Leaves Get leaves off the lawn before the snow falls. Leaves that remain on lawns as snow starts to pile up tend to mat, which in turn creates […]

todayDecember 23, 2019

Tech Made Simple

The Verge’s Ten Best Video Games of 2019

It’s never easy narrowing down a list of the best games of the year, but 2019 seemed particularly difficult for the editors at The Verge. There wasn’t a single blockbuster that dominated the conversation, but that doesn’t mean it was a bad year for games — in fact, the depth and breadth of titles was impressive. During the voting process, The Verge staff called out forty-five different games as ranking […]

todayDecember 23, 2019

Food & Drink

December 23 is National Pfeffernüsse Day!

To many cultures, the holidays wouldn’t be complete without festive pfeffernüsse (pron.: fef-fer-noos-a). This tempting, traditional, tiny spice cookie appears in profusion just around the time the snow flies in Germany, Denmark, and The Netherlands, as well as in and around Mennonite communities in North America. What is Pfeffernüsse? Popular since the 1850s, pfeffernüsse , also called pepernoten in Dutch, is linked to the December 5th feast of Sinterklaas in […]

todayDecember 23, 2019

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