Fall is awesome, until you have to clean all those one prettily colored leaves from your yard, then Fall blows. (See what I did there? Never mind.) Make leaf clean up easier this year by trying this one easy trick.
Why is the woman in the above photo smiling (assuming she is, under that hood and scarf)? Because she knows a few winter-weather life hacks to make the season of snow, ice, and sub-zero temperatures more tolerable. That, or she's inside in a warm photographer's studio, standing in front of a winter scene background, while thinking about what she's getting paid to pretend to be out on the frozen tu
The main difference between the photo above and what happens at my house would be the man and the woman. In this photo, a clearly confused and perplexed "TV dad" type stares in frustration and impotence at a ball of tangled Christmas lights, while the woman in the background looks on...
If you're always looking for ways to make life a little simpler and better, here's the book for you.
David Pogue has 1.5 million followers on Twitter and has just released a second book, Pogue's Basics: Life which is a reference book of 200 simple tips and shortcuts that just make life easier...
If only Abe Lincoln had known about this. Well, to be honest, it wouldn't have made much difference to Mr. Lincoln, because he would be missing a key component of this "life-hack."
You, however, are not lacking the aforementioned component for making wood chopping easier and quicker...
I love life hacks.
What are "life hacks?" Well, according to Wikipedia:
Life hacking refers to any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life. It is arguably a modern appropriation of cutting the Gordian Knot- in other words, anything that solves an everyday problem in an inspired, ingenious manner...
The internet is full of "life-hacks," Little (sometimes big) tricks to employ to simplify every day tasks and chores. The holidays bring even more ideas to the forefront.
The question is, do these life-hacks actually work?
The crew at Mentalfloss takes a look:
And I had such high hopes for the potato chip bag gift wrap....