5 Clever Ways to Use a Bar of Soap in Your Garden
Even if you prefer washing your hands and body with soap in gel or liquid form, there are still plenty of reasons to have a few bars of soap on…
Basic Car Maintenance and Repairs You Can (and Should) Do Yourself
I have never been particularly interested in cars—they are merely things that exist to get me from point A to point B, and are often overpriced and beleaguered by expensive…
The 7 Deadly Sins of Personal Hygiene
Photo: VGstockstudio (Shutterstock) Standards of personal hygiene are not universal. Personal, cultural, and religious difference, socioeconomic factors, and a ton of other variants determine how, and how often, we wash…
Where You Install Smoke Detectors Really Matters
Photo: KANOWA (Shutterstock) Having smoke detectors with working batteries placed throughout your home is an important component of fire safety, but in order for them to be most effective, it…
12 Things You Should Be Disinfecting (but Aren’t)
Photo: eggeegg (Shutterstock) There’s a difference between cleaning and disinfecting, which means there are different times you’ll need to do both, as well as different products you need to use.…
You Should Claim Money From These Class-Action Settlements
Photo: Billion Photos (Shutterstock) Companies make “mistakes” all the time, and a small number of those incidents turn into class-action lawsuit settlements where those companies owe customers money. But if…
It Might Be Time to Ditch Arlo Cameras
Photo: APChanel (Shutterstock) On its website, security camera manufacturer Arlo says they “build trusted, lifelong customer relationships by creating innovative, smart security solutions that deliver an exceptional user experience.” That…
You Should Get In on T-Mobile’s $350 Million Settlement
Photo: rafapress (Shutterstock) Back in July, T-Mobile agreed to pay out $350 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a number of the company’s customers over a 2021 data…
10 of Lifehacker’s Favorite Home Safety Tips of 2022
Photo: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock) This year, we went over how you can actually make kitchen fires worse by not responding to them correctly. The thing is, though, that a lot of…
Bet You Can’t Spot the Elusive ‘Christmas Asteroid’
Photo: Vadim Sadovski (Shutterstock) The European Space Agency has a challenge for you: Spot asteroid 2015 RN35. They’re calling it the “Christmas Asteroid,” and it’s in view of much of…