Tips for protecting your car, home from flood damage

Torri Donley

With widespread rain comes the potential of flooding, resulting in damage to your home and vehicle. With severe weather comes the potential for flooding, roof damage and heavy winds. Unfortunately, once the damage is done, it’s hard to recover. RELATED: Tips for safe driving during heavy rain Instead of shelling […]

What a $1M Home Looks Like Across America

Torri Donley

In some places in the U.S., you can buy a lot of home for $1 million. But in others, you don’t get nearly as much square footage, land or amenities for the money. It all depends on the market. To identify what typical million-dollar homes for sale look like in […]

From exhilaration to fatigue, home cooks assess new normal

Torri Donley

It’s been months since the coronavirus pandemic limited restaurant options and caused many people — even the most kitchen-phobic among us — to try to cook more. How are people faring? Some are experiencing cooking fatigue. Others have found they enjoy preparing and eating homemade food more than they expected. […]

10 crazy tips for cosplaying San Diego at home, long lines and all

Torri Donley

So you can’t go to Comic-Con this week, because the enormous pop culture convention – one of the world’s greatest displays of mask wearing – was canceled by a real-life supervillain, the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s some consolation for the 135,000 dressed-to-the-(Seven-of)-Nines fans who annually crowd the San Diego Convention Center and millions […]

10 Home and Away spoilers for next week

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From Digital Spy Home and Away spoilers follow for UK-pace episodes on Channel 5. Next week’s Home and Away episodes see Colby Thorne step up his search for the Diner robber, while Ben and Maggie Astoni reach a crossroads. Here’s a full collection of ten big moments coming up. 1. […]

You’ve found a home you like. Now what?

Torri Donley

When Liang Zhao and her husband decided to start looking for a dream home in late 2018, they were up for the challenge. “We had been renting in New York since 2011, and our parents were like, ‘You both make enough money, it’s time for you to put down some roots […]