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  • Influencers Are Bad at Washing Produce

    Influencers Are Bad at Washing Produce

    Across all of social media, I keep encountering a certain brand of annoying influencer behaviour. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok — all are packed with videos that feature someone (usually a white woman) subjecting fruits and vegetables to an elaborate cleaning and repackaging process, supposedly immediately upon arriving home with them from the grocery store. Not only…


  • Five Ways to ‘Clean’ the Air in Your Home

    Five Ways to ‘Clean’ the Air in Your Home

    There are lots of tips out there — and here on Lifehacker — about how to clean everything in your home, from your toilet to your fireplace to your couch cushions. The stuff in your home gets dirty and needs to be maintained to keep it in good working order, but the same is true…


  • What Pandemic Purchase Do You Now Hate the Most?

    What Pandemic Purchase Do You Now Hate the Most?

    There was one point during the depths of quarantining in 2020 when I convinced myself I was going to get really into painting. Two years later, I can’t bring myself to throw out the barely used paintbrushes and canvases shoved at the back of my closet. We all experimented with different coping mechanisms during the…