How to Keep Perspective When Everyone Around You Is Dieting

It may seem like everybody you know gets weird about their eating every January—maybe it’s Whole30, maybe it’s a sugar “detox,” maybe it’s a wholehearted commitment to keto. What to do if you’re not on that bandwagon and it’s all a bit too much? Anti-Diet author and registered dietitian Christy Harrison has some tips…

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Author: Beth Skwarecki on Vitals, shared by Beth Skwarecki to Lifehacker

A bag of Cope’s corn holds the cure for the midwinter blues

Many people who are stuck in the midwinter doldrums dream of garden-ripe tomatoes and juicy, blushing peaches, but I dream of corn. Sweet corn, when it finally arrives in July, feels like summer’s reward for surviving winter’s chill. At my favorite farmstand, the corn you buy at 10 a.m. was still on the stalk at 6…

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Author: Stacey Ballis on The Takeout, shared by Virginia K. Smith to Lifehacker

Five Bookshelf Upgrades That Cost Less Than $25

Bookshelves do way more than just house books — they’re also a focal point, from a design perspective — in many of the rooms in our home, they also serve as design focal points, and as a way through which we express our tastes, our style, our values. If your bookshelves could use a little freshening up, here are five…

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

Add Sour Cream to Your Caramel Sauce

I am always looking for excuses to put sour cream in and around my mouth. I consume it all the usual ways (tacos, nachos, dips), but I’ve also been known to add it to leftover pasta (yes, even a tomato-based sauce!) and scoop it into my face with nacho cheese Doritos. This is why it’s surprising to me that I’ve never…

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Author: Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker

Is It Okay To Pull Through One Parking Spot Into Another Empty One?

I’m not sure I fully realized how contentious this concept is, or how divided people are about this relatively simple concept: when you’re in a parking lot with spots that meet back-to-back, is it okay to drive through one empty spot and directly into the empty spot connected to its end? A question a child might ask,…

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Author: Jason Torchinsky on Jalopnik, shared by Virginia K. Smith to Lifehacker