These are the best Labor Day sales happening right now, so you can spend the money you’ve made from all your labor. Keep checking back, as we’ll continue to add more throughout the holiday weekend.
Hey Salty, I live in Oregon, where restaurant servers, by law, are paid minimum wage. In Oregon, minimum wage is $10.25 per hour. Do customers in Oregon need to tip? I totally get it in states where it’s legal to pay servers less than minimum wage (which I think is freaking outrageous, by the way). But what’s up with…
Amazon’s running a Marvel digital comic sale that’s bigger than any Avengers movie today, with literally thousands of titles marked down by 50%. If Marvel published it, and it came out before this week, it should be included in the sale. You’ll find everything from the Guardians of the Galaxy to Darth Vader to Deadpool…
If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times: You should use two-factor authentication everywhere you can. It’s an easily enacted security measure that should give you a lot more peace of mind.
Forget sous vide setups and Smart Ovens; the single most important thing to have in your kitchen is a really good knife. A sharp knife makes everything easier, and it’s a lot safer than a dull knife that can slip off the side of an onion and into your finger (trust me!).
You’re not imagining it: there really are more sweltering-hot days in most cities than when you were growing up. A new tool from the New York Times shows you exactly how your hometown’s climate has changed since you were born.
If you’re stuck at home this Labor Day, but wish you were hiking at a National Park instead, the National Park Service has you covered. In honor of its 102nd birthday, the foundation has started streaming the sound of the national parks.
We’re kicking Tech 911 up to “hard mode” this week—a little—because moving data from one smartphone platform to the other can be tricky. In a perfect world, there would be a quick, easy-to-use solution to getting your text messages from the platform you’re leaving to the platform you’re going to. And there is—you just…
Happy weekend, and welcome back to 3-Ingredient Happy Hour, the weekly drink column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. Today we are kicking off the long weekend with a drink that, much like the fine workers of this country, gets the job done. I am talking about the boilermaker.
A ton of Philips Hue deals, a new Clear the Rack sale, and our favorite electric lighter lead off Friday’s best deals from around the web.
If you’re in the market for a new RSS reader, have we got a deal for you.
So, parents, your kids just finished their first week of school. There may have been some meltdowns. Some big adjustments to your routines. You probably feel like you just climbed a small mountain, one made of school supply lists and back-to-school-night fliers and Pinterest-y front door photos commemorating a brand…
If your Labor Day plans don’t involve lugging bottled water and robot-themed art installations into the Nevada desert with seventy thousand other people, don’t worry—you can watch all the action from the comfort of your couch.
Whether you’re starting or expanding your Philips Hue collection, this weekend is the time to buy more accessories. Everything below is way cheaper than usual, so place your orders before the lights go out on this sale.
If you’re planning on traveling this holiday season, the best time to do that is the middle of October, according to data from travel booking site Hipmunk.
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It’s the perfect time to start running—or to get back into it, if you’ve taken a break. The weather is cooling down, everybody’s settling into their back-to-school routines (good news for students and parents alike), and we just spent a month trying to stand on our heads—so a little plain old jogging is going to feel…
No plans this Labor Day weekend? Here’s one thing you should consider doing, courtesty of Amena Brown, a poet and author:
Yes, it’s happening again. Nordstrom Rack has brought back their Clear the Rack sale and it’s full (and I mean FULL) of really incredible deals, with tons of stuff available under $10. Designer clothing, brands you’ve never heard of, everything in clearance an extra 25% off their already discounted prices.
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
It looks like the latest gadgets to leak early this year belong to none other than Apple.
HBO has some of the greatest shows on television—Game of Thrones, Insecure, Sharp Objects, and of course Breaking Bad. But for people living in Europe, getting legal access to HBO programming is extremely difficult, if not impossible.
Spotify is offering a soothing end-of-summer-balm in the form of a pretty good deal for students.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a new recommendation: “Children should ride in a rear-facing car seat for as long as possible, up to the limits of their car safety seat.”
If you are snack-motivated, dips are more than just a party food—dips are a lifestyle. Dipping something salty and crunchy into something creamy is a sensory experience so delightful, I have been known to eat an entire dinner of chips and dip. Onion dip is a favorite, but it takes a bit of time to do it properly, so I…
There’s always that one person in your life that has nothing on their walls. Add some awesome to someone’s life, or upgrade your own bare walls with rad prints during this 30% off sitewide at Pop Chart Lab. Check out their newest prints, like The Spectacular Survey of Sharks and The Essential Graphic Novels Scratch Off
Bats are adorable and important members of our ecosystem, but they also caused 17 of the 19 rabies deaths in the US between 1997 and 2006. You can be bitten without knowing it, which is why health departments often recommend a rabies shot if you wake up with a bat in your room.
When it comes to raising a healthy vegan kid, the challenges often aren’t so much nutritional as they are social. Raise your kid vegan, and you’ll hear everyone’s opinions and advice about it, whether you ask for them or not. And even within your own family unit, you’ll need to consider how to talk to your kids about…
Frank is a self-described millennial who has been borrowing his parents’ cars to get around. It’s time for him to get his own ride, but it needs to be affordable, reliable, and different. What car should he buy?
If you love inky blacks and vibrant colors—and who doesn’t?—this 55" 2017 OLED LG TV is down to $1149 today at Walmart as a refurb, or an all-time low $1600 for 65", with small additional discounts available if you pick up in a store.
Apple may have officially discontinued the Airport Express network extender, along with the rest of its wifi hardware, but it released a big firmware update yesterday for the Airport Express. As long as you have a second-generation Airport Express (released in June of 2012), the update allows you to stream directly to…
TSA PreCheck, specifically Global Entry with TSA PreCheck, is consistently one of the best investments I’ve ever made. Even with the increasingly longer PreCheck lines, I’m always thankful for being in a line of people who (mostly) understand how the airport security procedures work, and not having to take my shoes…
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert, advice columnist and author of the New York Times bestselling book, My Boyfriend Barfed In My Handbag ... And Other Things You Can’t Ask Martha. Her flagship column, “Ask a Clean Person,” debuted in 2011. Here on Offspring, we’ve launched a new iteration of it, focusing on parenting…
Football season is officially upon us. If you have an Amazon Echo device, then you can use Alexa to keep track of your favorite team, get up-to-the-minute stats about players on the field, and even keep track of your fantasy football team.
We humans are masters of resentment—a characteristic that can be traced back the beginnings of recorded history. Feuds seem to be an indelible aspect of the human condition, but why should this be? We spoke to the experts to find out why we love to hold a grudge, and the importance of letting go.
One of my favorite pieces of food writing is a Reddit post titled “You people make me sick.” What follows after the title is a veritable screed against members of r/GrilledCheese who populate their sandwiches with anything but bread, cheese, and butter. The poster makes a lot of good points, and I thought about each…
USB-C chargers, discounted Apple Watches, and a home security camera with free cloud storage lead off Thursday’s best deals.
If you like a little Google on your wrist, it’s time to start obsessively checking for software updates. According to Google, Wear OS users are getting a big update within the next month that will add (and change) gesture controls on your smartwatch, beef up Google Assistant, and make it easier to track your fitness.
So you’re bad at laundry. Maybe you’ve been able to come home from college every weekend lugging a bag of dirty clothes like Santa, or maybe you never fully recovered from that lipstick-in-the-dryer incident of ‘08. We’re not here to judge. We’re here to help. In this final episode of Lifehacker’s Summer of Adulting…
Christian Selig has created Apollo, a Reddit app for iOS that’s so elegant Apple might have imagined it themselves. The design is beautiful, and the usability is top notch (and much better than Reddit’s official app). It even features a Dark Mode for all your nighttime meme-posting and GIF-watching.
There exists a fine line in cooking between “old school” and “retro,” and it seems to be delineated by nostalgia. Any foodstuff we can point to that has fond memories associated is “retro,” and a return to them is met with paroxysms of delight (Steak Diane, for example—it’s beef but with fire and theater!). Some “old…
Whether you’re watching out for burglars, or just want to be able to see your dog while you’re sitting at work, this 1080p security cam from TP-Link is a great deal at $74, an all-time low.
We’ve been trying to get our feet skyward for most of a month now, and it’s time to take stock of what we’ve learned. Did you manage to do a real handstand? (I didn’t.) Did you accomplish something new? (I did!)
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It’s time to eat a Juicy Lucy and avoid the Mall of America! You gave us your best Twin Cities travel tips in the original comment thread, and here are the highlights.
Packing, for me, can be a weeks-long process. As soon as my flight is booked (sometimes sooner) I begin thinking of every piece of clothing and accessory I could possibly need, lest I be stuck in a cold restaurant without a jacket or going out to a trendy bar without a statement piece. Sure, it’s fun, but it’s also…
If you own any gadgets that charge over USB-C, Amazon’s got a couple of great deals for you today.
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
If last year’s presidential election taught us anything, it’s that voting is important. No matter what your political leanings, voting is important, and something we should all encourage our friends and family to do. Now there’s an app for that.
It’s annoying when you run out of Ethernet ports on your router. That, or when you have a home entertainment center and want wired connections for all your devices, but you don’t want to string a bundle of Ethernet cables from your living room to wherever your router happens to be.
I wanted to hate PopSockets. The idea of buying something to stick to your phone that makes staring at it for long periods of time more comfortable just seemed like playing god. But I have to say, they make phones really nice to hold. If you’ve been meaning to get one, use the code VIP50 and get one for 50% off.
Every September, kids go back to school, and Apple invites a bunch of journalists into a dark room, where it reveals the future of iPhones. That’s the beginning of the global mad dash to stand in line and secure a new Apple device with just a few modest upgrades. The time is now upon us. Are you intrigued? Are you…
