Tips and Hints

Thanksgiving can be a good time to introduce someone important to your family. I did it with Glen. Everyone was there in one place so it just made sense. Here are a few ways to bring a date to Thanksgiving without it being a disaster.

You know I'm all about doing as much stuff online as I can. Sometimes it's just faster and easier and now it can save us money!

The holiday shopping season is upon us and I don't like going to crowded stores with rude associates and empty shelves. I like staying inside where it's warm and shopping online. Here are a few online shopping scams to watch out for and how to avoid them.

One of the most stressful times of the year is coming up. Here are a few pointers for a low stress holiday season.

Everyone seems to gain weight through the holidays, myself included. I always chalked it up to the colder weather and that metabolism slowed down over the holidays. Turns out it was just me that slowed down. Here's how to get through the holidays without gaining a spare tire.

Looking for a job? Here’s how to do it while you’re still employed.

This year, like years past, kids probably got a lot more candy than they can eat before next Halloween, so here are a few things that you can do with the candy your little ghosts and goblins can’t eat.

As shoppers make a mad grab for stuff, shoving anything and everything into their carts and figuring out whom to give it to later, there are some things shoppers should stay away from.

Most will tell you not to even put it in your mouth, but these cool dentists are here to tell you what to eat because it's the day after Halloween and they know you're going to do it anyway.

Halloween is tomorrow, so I scared up some tips for a safe Halloween for you and your little goblins.

I love cereal. It has always been one of my favorite foods. I did an experiment in high school with generic versus national brand breakfast cereals and posed the question of would we really know the difference in taste if we didn’t see the label first? Sometimes we could and sometimes we couldn’t, so now the question is, are generics as good or better than the national brands?

A recent report on what’s really in a chicken nugget makes you wonder why they’re called “chicken”. Trust me. If you didn’t see the report, you don’t want to know. Here are a few really good alternatives to fast “food”.