Eight Obscure Home Upgrades You Didn't Know You NeededWhen it comes to home upgrades there are always a lot of obvious targets—whether you’re looking for affordable changes with a big impact, DIY renos that don’t require a lifetime of construction experience, or energy-smart changes that will save you money (and, possibly, the world).
You're Going to Live Past 90. Congrats! Here’s How to Pay for It.Advances in medicine mean that reaching your nineties and beyond is more realistic than ever. Start preparing now to avoid running out of money.
These Couples Survived a Lot. Then Came Retirement.This spring, Barbara and Joe, a retired couple in their 60s, sat down with me at a bistro in suburban Connecticut to talk about their relationship. That they were sitting there together at all was something of a triumph.
How to Cool Your Home in a Warming WorldDoes your home become unbearable in hot weather? Increasingly a hot home is an overheating office too.
"It Supercharged My Savings": 31 Frugal Habits That People Say Really Help Them Spend Less MoneyWith the cost of everything being so high these days, I'm absolutely obsessed with finding ways to save money. So when u/cucumberappleblizz asked people on Reddit to share their more unique and unexpected tips for saving money, I had to round up some of the top responses to share them with you.
The Strange Ritual of Commencement SpeechesThey appear every spring, like crocuses or robins or perhaps black flies: commencement addresses.
The Most Messed-up Findings in the Brandy Melville DocumentaryBrandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion, a new documentary detailing a laundry list of alarming, racist, and possibly illegal practices by Brandy Melville, is showing on HBO. The film, directed by Academy Award winner Eva Orner, centers on the reporting of Business Insider’s Kate Taylor.
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Two Hedonistic Texas Taco Chains Could Upend Mexican Fast Food. Is America Ready?Something stops Clay Dover cold as he strolls behind the restaurant’s counter. The CEO of Velvet Taco has been all smiles and high fives since he entered the chain’s location in the Grandscape shopping center, amid the suburban sprawl north of Dallas.
Ditch the Heavy Cream and Make This Dairy-Free Vodka SauceI have no dietary issues with eating heavy cream, but if I’m scrounging around trying to puzzle together a last-minute dinner idea, pasta with vodka sauce rarely materializes. Not because of the vodka aspect (I happen to have plenty of that at the moment), but because I rarely have cream on hand.
Keeping Up With the LaverysDaniel and Grace Lavery and their partner, Lily Woodruff. It’s a Monday morning in March, and Danny Lavery is up first to quietly bake the bread he proofed the night before and to walk the two little dogs Maxim Casaubon Lavery (goes by Bon Bon) and Huckleberry Rigaud Lavery (prefers Gogo).
Home sellers are facing a summer from hellThe age of insane bidding wars and desperate dealmaking is coming to an end. The past few years were very good to people who decided to sell their homes. The massive relocation shuffle meant most homes hitting the market were the subject of bidding wars.
The new class war: A wealth gap between millennialsThe wealth gap between rich millennials and the rest of their age group is the largest of any generation, creating a new wave of class tension and resentment, according to a recent study.
Five Lesser-Known Ways You Can Redeem Airline Points and MilesCredit card points and airline miles are strange aspects of the modern economy. On the one hand, they’re not really worth all that much—airline miles, hotel points, and credit card reward points max out at about 1.5 cents per point, with most valued significantly less than a penny.
This Week’s Sex Diary: The Mom Dating an Ethically Nonmonogamous GuyEvery week, columnist Alyssa Shelasky asks anonymous city dwellers to record a week in their sex lives. The Cut’s Sex Diaries column, first published in 2007, was the basis of a 2022 HBO series.