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Newsweek  by Hannah R Buchdahl “Greg Martin wasn’t sure what to expect when his mother died last May, forcing him to return to his childhood home for the first time in nearly 18 years. The house, located on a pleasant block in San Diego, had always been cluttered, but now it was virtually uninhabitable. “There were piles as tall as me, six feet or so,” Greg said. “Where there used to be floor, there were trails—a foot and a half high, so you’d be walking on stuff.” Greg was forced to navigate through piles of magazines, papers, and books, plastic...

One of the first things you use in the morning and one of the last things you use at night – bathroom vanities play a significant role in everyone’s daily routine. One of the most important aspects of the vanity area is the lighting, especially when it comes to grooming processes like cosmetics and skincare. Vanity lighting should be beautiful enough to admire, but also practical enough to suit your everyday needs. Why compromise? In this post, we’ve collected 51 fabulously functional and beautifully designed bathroom vanity lights to suit any interior style, encompassing a wide range of feature sets...

Depending on unreliable people can cause heartache in your life.  Depend on yourself, first. First, a footnote.  A reader writes, in response to an earlier posting, that you should "keep your house"" rather than downsize in retirement, as if you go into a nursing home, "Medicaid can't take that house away from you!"  Technically, that might be correct, as Medicaid never takes anyone's house away from them, they can only deny coverage based on your assets.   It is also important to note that they can't take the downsized house away from you, either.  And if your house is worth more...

And as you are forced to drive around town in order to get a tree, ornaments, wreaths, and mistletoe, you’re going to want to swing by Home Depot because they are selling some awesome Christmas inflatables that will make all of your neighbors extremely jealous and guarantee Santa spends some quality time at your house on his annual flight. Our favorite of the bunch has to be the RV from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, as we wish we could have the Griswold family over to create some holiday hi-jinks. You can get it for $199 and it might even make a...

After photographer Andrew Marttila discovered his old roommate's cat had a minor (read: major) obsession with catnip, he pulled out his camera to try to capture the cat's crazy reactions. Over 100 "high" cats later (who kind of look akin to toddlers with sugar rushes), Marttila, who runs the iamthecatphotographer Instagram account, took enough photos to compile into a book that is going to look amazing on every cat-lover's coffee table. After stumbling upon Marttila on Instagram and promptly laughing hysterically at all of the adorable cat photos on his page, I had to know more - and as it...