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Around his fourth birthday, a boy I was fostering began drawing what he called “ghost families.” He couldn’t quite draw people, but he could draw something that resembled ghosts, and they were darling. Once he landed on his artistic specialty, he lingered there for a while—that is to say, the stacks of colored…Read more...

Hot on the heels of our wedding last weekend (wolf-whistle)—now infamously pushed forward because of Prime Day—my wife and I recently decided to rearrange our apartment in a way that not only better suits our new work-from-home lifestyle but also opens up the space. As I’ve tirelessly chronicled on this godforsaken…Read more...

I’m kidding. The photo is a joke, I’m not here to suggest you store your kid’s sippy cups by wedging them between two tree trunks. That seems like a solution that only works for this one specific sippy cup, and surely you’ve got more than one. In fact, you probably have multiple, as well as plastic water bottles of…Read more...

Todoist is already great for managing projects and to-do lists, but the app’s newly launched “board view” turns those lists into customizable—and collaborative—Kanban boards. The new feature is available for everyone, free users included.Read more...

If you didn’t work from home pre-covid, there’s a very good chance you do so now, and it’s possible that you’ve grown tired of looking at the interior of your living space. I’ve been working from home for about five years now and, as a person who gets bored very easily, stale interiors are a thing I’ve gotten very…Read more...

At the beginning of what would become this pandemic, we were all in some pretty blissful denial about the permanency with which we’d be stuck at home. Schools, offices and other businesses closed, but only for a couple of weeks at a time. Worst-case scenario, we thought, the kids would be home for the rest of the…Read more...

If your kid is resistant to putting away clothing, toys or other items, there is a good chance they just don’t feel like cleaning up. But if it has become a regular battle in which their opposition to the request seems disproportionate to the ask, there could be something deeper at play. They might actually be…Read more...

The two best pieces of pantry organization advice you’ll get will cost you nothing to implement and they are this: Group like things—pastas, snacks, canned goods, baking supplies, etc.—together, and put the stuff you use most often in the easiest-to-reach spots. But still, there are some organizing solutions that are…Read more...

Pretty much everyone is cooking more these days and, perhaps, finding that their spices and seasonings aren’t as well organized as they might like. Is that you? Yes, you there! Hello! Maybe this weekend you might think about putting on some Taylor Swift and really wilding out on your spice collection? Sure! Here comes…Read more...

Being stuck at home sucks. One of the best things you can do—besides absolutely staying at home—is to make some updates to said home. How do you do that? There are lots of ways. For example, you could clean things; your windows, floors, kitchen, surely those things could use a once over. Of course, that’s not very…Read more...

A lot of us already know the value of carrying around some kind of note-taking device, whether it’s old-fashioned pen-and-paper or one of the bajillion smartphone apps designed to help us capture and organize our thoughts.Read more...

If you’re struggling with time management at work, you might benefit from a clearly visible analog clock.Read more...

Sure, it’s great to make a to-do list, but how do you prioritize the tasks—especially when everything seems like a priority? Instead of getting overwhelmed, you need to learn how to prioritize your priorities. Yes, that’s entirely possible, and we’re going to tell you how to do it.Read more...

Cramming a whole Thanksgiving’s worth of ingredients into an already full fridge can be a physically impossible task. If you’re cooking a big meal in a tiny kitchen this year, temporarily evicting the non-essentials will give you all the fridge space you need to stay on top of prep. Read more...

You’re probably familiar with the concept of the SMART goal: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. That kind of goal can get results, but it might not be the best way to get you where you want to go.Read more...

What does $5 get you these days? A small latte, or a cold brew after tip. It will still buy 20 gumballs because gumball machines haven’t been affected by inflation in a few decades. The Maybelline Great Lash mascara all women have been told is a “cult classic” despite it doing nothing but clumping your lashes. Around…Read more...

The folks who revolutionized under-desk headphone storage are back with another hysterically simple storage product to make the most of your limited desk space.Read more...

Let’s get the hard question out of the way, first: What the heck is a mind map? Think of it like a way to organize your thoughts. You pick a general topic, then you draw out branches to subtopics, and each of these subtopics can have branches of their own that go to sub-subtopics, and so on and so forth.Read more...