Holiday beauty kits marketed as the “Christmas Tree Look” or “Holiday Glow” routinely cost $50 to $150 for a box of mini-sized products that last three weeks. I checked the numbers. A typical Sephora Favorites Holiday Set ($65) contains 10 deluxe samples. Total product volume is about 2.5 ounces. That works out to $26 per …
Struggling to lose weight? Everyone is different when it comes to working out and shifting stubborn weight. Some areas of the body are notoriously hard to lose weight from, your tummy for example. Others will struggle due to their genetics and some will find it challenging to work out enough to see the difference. There …
You signed a lease that says “no nails, no screws, no adhesive that leaves residue.” Now what? That’s the real question when you want to decorate an apartment for Christmas. Most holiday decorating advice assumes you own the walls. If you’re renting, the standard approach — nails, heavy hooks, staple guns — means losing your …
I have bought maybe forty home beauty devices and products over the last six years. I have returned half of them. The other half sit in a drawer or gather dust on my bathroom counter. After all that trial and error, my actual to-buy list for my home is short. It has exactly eight items …
DIY is, for the most part, a great idea when it comes to sprucing up your home. In fact, you can save a great deal of money by having a go at painting, tiling, and even building furniture and decorative pieces yourself. However, some tasks nearly always fair better when you get a professional involved, …
One thing that I’ve noticed in our kitchen is that it’s not as functional as we thought it would be. That being said, this is the first property that we own and as far as kitchens go, this one is by far the biggest. Having been in our property now for over a year, for …
It’s nice to have no rushed the process of furnishing our first home. As much as I would have loved to kit out our apartment entirely within the first month of living there, it wasn’t possible financially. That and it would have ruined the enjoyment of settling into our home. As someone who is Pinterest-obsessed …
It’s very likely that our next home is going to be the one we have a family in. In less than two years we’ll be married and I think by that point we’ll be thinking of either moving right after or doing it within a year. And so it’s got me thinking about what I …
We’ve been in our apartment for just over a year now and I would say we’re about halfway there to fully decking it out with everything we need. We finally got some art up on the wall the other week and it’s now starting to look a look more like a home that’s lived in. …
After getting our first plants at a nearby garden centre (and even though I’ve killed one of them), I love that we have a bit of indoor nature in our home. It’s amazing how just a bit of greenery can help lift your mood and it’s totally true that it improves the atmosphere and just …
