To Maximize Credit Card Rewards, Transfer Your Limit Before Closing a Card

Closing a credit card isn’t always great for your credit score. If you’re closing your oldest credit card, for example, it might reduce your overall age of credit— and the credit bureaus often dole out a few extra credit score points for people who have maintained the same credit accounts for, like, decades.

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Author: Nicole Dieker on Two Cents, shared by Nicole Dieker to Lifehacker

Infuse Cocktails With Chai This Holiday Season

A holiday riff on a classic cocktail is a fine thing, but the “seasonal twist” always seems to start and stop with cinnamon. There isn’t anything inherently wrong with cinnamon—it’s accessible and uncontroversial, it reads as sweet without adding actual sweetness, and it is even purportedly good for your blood…

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Author: Daniel Casto on Skillet, shared by Daniel Casto to Lifehacker

We Are Actually Begging You to Make Your Venmo Transactions Private

We get it, it’s fun to choose the perfect emoji when sending or requesting money from friends on Venmo. It shouldn’t be so much fun, but somehow, it is. But everyone needs to find a new way to get three seconds of joy, because you’re putting yourself at risk if you don’t have your Venmo account set to “private.”

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Author: Lisa Rowan on Two Cents, shared by Lisa Rowan to Lifehacker

How to Keep Your Kid’s Gloves Dry in the Snow

We got our first dusting of snow in Eastern Pennsylvania earlier this week, which reminded me that we are fast approaching the first big snowfall of the year. And that snowfall will be followed by a couple of snow days and my son’s burning desire to play in the snow and build a snowman without his gloves getting too…

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

The Future of the Face Computer

Smart glasses definitely got off to a rocky start with consumers. To quickly recap, they were expensive, dorky-looking, and in real life, they didn’t live up to the fantasy painted for us in pop culture. As technologically advanced as something like Google Glass was, the first iteration wasn’t anything like what we’d…

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Author: Victoria Song and Matthew Reyes on Gizmodo, shared by Virginia K. Smith to Lifehacker