Keep Kids Busy on Your Next Road Trip With ‘Backpack Time’

I think it’s fair to say that kids have a lot more options these days to stay entertained in the car on a road trip. What did we have? Books. Pen and paper. A Walkman, if we were lucky. And eventually, a boredom that ran deep enough to make the alphabet license plate game sound like a good idea.

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Author: Meghan Moravcik Walbert on Offspring, shared by Meghan Moravcik Walbert to Lifehacker

The Best Stuff For Cleaning Marble, Granite And Other Natural Stone Surfaces

I recently got a spate of questions about cleaning natural stone surfaces like marble and granite. And yeah, these ubiquitous materials are kind of a bitch to clean and honestly shouldn’t be as ubiquitous as they are for that reason. ANYway! The problem with natural stone is that it doesn’t love anything acidic, which…

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Author: Jolie Kerr on The Inventory, shared by Ana Suarez to Lifehacker