Occasionally I make toast, and it seems wasteful to heat the entire oven to toast a few pieces of bread. But is this true?

Are more American homeowners outsourcing their yard work than they used to? Plus a look at the ROI of an electric lawnmower.

I’m always interested in saving money, and the Raspberry Pi allows one to save on two fronts: the low initial purchase price, as well as the ridiculously low power consumption of between 3 and 5 watts. Could I use it as my only PC?

I’ve had more free time on my hands recently and with inflation hitting my favorite alcoholic beverage I started making my own beer again a couple months ago.

There’s a lot of good reasons to cut down on holiday gift-giving: it reduces stress, it fights back against the commercialization of this time of year and puts the focus back on family, it’s better for the planet, and according to economist Joel Waldfogel, it’s just darn inefficient!

Disposable razor manufacturers and retailers seem to be colluding to keep consumers ignorant of safety razors so that they can both continue to make massive profits from selling overpriced cartridges.

Target’s RedCard seems like an attempt by the department store to take the fight to Amazon, and in my opinion they’ve laid out a pretty sweet deal which is superior to Prime.

In our current inflationary environment, the price inflation for food purchased at grocery stores is worse than at restaurants. Perhaps counterintuitively though, restaurants are becoming a worse value proposition compared to cooking at home!

Are energy vampires — appliances that continue to use power even when they are turned off or in standby mode — responsible for a decent portion of our electricity bill?

Recommending a free, cross-platform, and very effective software stack setup which I have been using to start writing my first book.