The combination of a recent move, a succession of junk-food-filled holidays and an unusually harsh winter have wreaked havoc on this author’s exercise regime and fitness level. A couple weeks ago, I ran across an app called Quick Fit, which.
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We’ve long been looking for an excuse to do a post on the Snuggie or Slanket. If you’re not familiar with these As-Seen-on-TV specials, they combine all of the comfort and warmth of a blanket, but with sleeves and a.
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Finding speakers for a small space can be tricky. Standalone models are often ungainly and use up precious floor or shelf space. While we use the Amena Invisible Speakers in the LifeEdited apartment, we found a couple amplified speakers that do.
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Nester is a Canadian company that makes adaptable, transformable furniture that would work well in small homes. The two pieces on offer are the Kameleon table and the Repeater chair. The former is a table that transforms from 15″ x.
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One of the marvels of Kickstarter is that successful products tend to be either: A. common products done well (backpacks, dress shirts, etc) or B. products whose usefulness is so profoundly obvious, you wonder why no one made it up.
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Books are great. They are instigators of imagination, chroniclers of the ages, companions in meditation and erudition. They are also some of the clumsiest, heaviest, most space-intensive objects most of us carry. When this site first started, we presented what.
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Of the 100 gallons the EPA estimates an average American consumes daily (Europeans are half that), 17% is lost going down the shower drain. And the water is just the start. In most American homes, our shower water is typically.
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As 2013 draws to a close, we wanted to take a trip down memory lane (propelled by Google Analytics) to see what you thought was interesting in the last year. The conclusion: many different things. You wanted to edit your.
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Perhaps it’s because this author recently had to put all of his furniture in storage while his future home is being renovated–whatever the reason, I’ve become very fond of furniture that’s easy to disassemble and store. First it was the.
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Many of us carry around several cards in our wallets: a personal credit card, debit card, business expense card, family account card, award card, etc. This stockpiling of cards leads to bloated and cluttered wallets. A startup called Coin has.
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