The Best Solar Camp Shower

After 12 hours of research and testing six options, our favorite solar shower is the Advanced Elements 5-gallon Solar Shower. | Continue reading


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We’ve collected our favorite picks—from dozens of guides and hundreds of hours of research and testing—to make your home office more productive and comfortable. | Continue reading


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Stay Afloat During the Coronavirus Recession Whether You’ve Lost Income or Not

Here’s how to get through the coronavirus recession with the least amount of damage possible. | Continue reading


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A Great Shop Vacuum (or Wet Dry Vac)

The best wet dry vac is powerful, easily available, and has all of the basic accessories. | Continue reading


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Why I Love My Fanny Packs

A fanny pack isn’t just an accessory. It’s a state of mind. Author, journalist, and fanny pack aficionado Judith Newman explains why. | Continue reading


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Look Better on Video Calls With These Easy Lighting Tips

A professional video producer shows how you can tweak the lighting you have in your home office to elevate your video-call look. | Continue reading


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9 Tools to Organize Your Kitchen Like a Pro

Organizing your kitchen can make it more functional—and beautiful. In collaboration with T Magazine, we have tips to keep your tools and ingredients in order. | Continue reading


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Doing Home Repairs During Coronavirus? Be Strategic About How You Pay for Them.

Whether you’re trying to fund an emergency repair or spending your free time on a home improvement project, using the right credit card can save you money. | Continue reading


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How to DIY Your Own Dumbbells, Weights, and More for Home Workouts

With these DIY weights and dumbbell alternatives, you can still get in a good workout without specialized equipment. | Continue reading


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7 Things You Need for Better Video Calls

Investing in a handful of tools can improve the quality of your videoconferences, for both you and the other participants. | Continue reading


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How to Cut Your Own Hair (If You Absolutely Must)

Considering a DIY bang trim or haircut? If you can’t get to the salon, here are the tips and tools stylists recommend to cut your own hair. | Continue reading


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Why I Love My Instant Pot

The Instant Pot isn’t actually instant. But for this writer, that’s okay—her affection for it is less about the food and more about her state of mind. | Continue reading


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The Best Nonstick Pan

We cooked 20 dozen eggs, 16 pounds of hash browns, 10 pounds of tilapia, and countless crepes in 19 nonstick pans. Read on to see which pans we recommend. | Continue reading


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How We Find Reliable Retailers and Shop Wisely Online

Here's what we look for when we vet retailers and how you can check them for yourself. | Continue reading


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How to Use Google Classroom Like a Pro

Millions of kids are now being home-schooled using a tool most people have likely never heard of. | Continue reading


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Practical Ways We’re Engaging Kids in the Kitchen Right Now

Here are the tools and cooking projects that Wirecutter staffers are using to get our kids involved in the kitchen. | Continue reading


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The Best Credit Union Credit Cards of 2020

Here are the best credit union credit cards for cash back, balance transfers, travel rewards, 0% APR, and low interest rates. | Continue reading


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Our Favorite Wirecutter Deals This Week

The Wirecutter Deals team is always on the hunt for the best discounts out there. Here are just some of our favorites from this week. | Continue reading


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How to Turn Your TV Into a Giant(ish) External Monitor

If you’re working from home and your laptop display isn’t big enough, follow these tips to turn your TV into a computer monitor. | Continue reading


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Everything You Need to Do Your Nails at Home

Experts advise how to remove acrylic and gel nails, plus prep, buff, and paint natural nails for soothing at-home manicure-pedicures. | Continue reading


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The History of Soap

Soap works—and has for thousands of years. Here’s why, and how it came to be. | Continue reading


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The Best Soap for the Coronavirus? Any Real Soap.

Bar or liquid? Antibacterial or not? Mass-produced or “natural”? To slow the spread of the coronavirus, the best hand soap is any soap, if you’re using it correctly. | Continue reading


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Why We Don’t Recommend Smart Toothbrushes

The novelty of reviewing your toothbrushing habits with an app eventually fades, leaving you with an unnecessarily expensive hunk of plastic and circuitry. | Continue reading


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How to Dye Your Hair at Home (Even Though You Probably Shouldn’t)

If you’re up for temporary solutions, these are the stylist-approved at-home hair dye options that are less likely to damage your hair. | Continue reading


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The Best Products for Maintaining and Shining Leather Shoes

We spent 30 hours researching shoe-care products and methods—and it turns out, you can get all the gear to keep your shoes clean and shiny for less than $100. | Continue reading


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The Best Sewing Machine

After testing more than a dozen machines, we have a recommendation for the best sewing machine for beginners. It’s easy to use, quiet, and reasonably priced. | Continue reading


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Why I Love My Blundstone Boots

Sometimes work boots are just work boots. On rare occasions, they’re also a godsend for tortured feet, a date night accessory, and a global sensation. | Continue reading


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Can’t Take Advantage of Your Credit Card’s Travel Rewards Due to Coronavirus? These Loyalty Programs Can Help.

Some loyalty programs are extending credit card benefits that have expired or are otherwise unusable due to the coronavirus. | Continue reading


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5 Ways to Beat Coronavirus Anxiety So You Can Sleep

Can’t sleep? Try these expert-recommended anxiety reducers. | Continue reading


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Kids Exercise Videos to Help Keep Your Family Moving (and Sane)

Free online exercise videos can help everyone from toddlers to teenagers stay active and calm during a coronavirus self-quarantine. These are our favorites. | Continue reading


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31 Wirecutter-Approved Gifts for College Graduates

Whether your college grad is headed to a new job or a different adventure, these useful gifts will help them on the road to adulthood. | Continue reading


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The coronavirus has made it difficult to get the things you need from Amazon. Here are some other retailers you can rely on in the meantime. | Continue reading


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We Weeded Out the Best Deals to Celebrate 4/20

Having the right equipment can make celebrating 4/20 much easier. Here are the best deals we've found to help you prepare. | Continue reading


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The Best Cat Litter Boxes

A good cat litter box is affordable, with plenty of space to turn around, a low lip to make it easy to climb into, and high walls to stop litter scatter. | Continue reading


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The Best Balance Bike

We subjected 13 balance bikes to a cadre of 2- to 8-year-olds and found that the adjustable Strider 12 Sport is the best balance bike for most kids. | Continue reading


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We Tested One of Amazon’s Best-Selling Pet Cameras. It’s Lousy.

The bestselling pet camera on Amazon is actually one of the worst we tested. | Continue reading


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Why Some Wirecutter Picks Have Bad Amazon Reviews

It might be surprising to find negative customer reviews on stuff we recommend. Why does this happen? It’s complicated. | Continue reading


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How to Cancel a Credit Card (And When It’s Smart to Keep It Around)

Cancelling a credit card can negatively affect your credit, which is why you may be better off keeping your account open. | Continue reading


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The Best Portable Laptop Charger

A portable laptop charger is the ideal companion if you want to charge your laptop while traveling, working remotely, or in an emergency. | Continue reading


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The Best Dog Crate

We considered hundreds of crates, assembled and tried to break the top models, all with the help of dog experts and a veteran trainer. Here’s what we recommend. | Continue reading


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11 Virtual Birthday Party Ideas

Social distancing can thwart the best-planned celebration. Here are 11 ways to make a fuss from afar over your special someone, no matter their age. | Continue reading


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The Best Cat Litter Mat

After testing 17 cat litter mats with 15 cats, we found the Easyology Premium Cat Litter Mat is the best for most cats. | Continue reading


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The Best Store Credit Cards: Retail Cards That Don’t Suck

Sure, many retail credit cards are awful. But we found some that provide great shopping discounts, without the terrible terms. | Continue reading


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Our Favorite Places to Order Coffee Online

Here are the coffee roasters we love that are still shipping during the coronavirus pandemic, along with some other tips for buying in bulk. | Continue reading


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Vets Are Using Telemedicine to Help Care for Your Pets (and Keep You Safe, Too)

Online vet telemedicine pet care options were already growing in availability, but may be especially helpful under isolation and social distancing guidelines. | Continue reading


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The Best Instant Coffee

After thousands of miles on the trail, we’ve found that the mild, smooth brew of Mount Hagen Organic Single Serve Instant Coffee will satisfy most palates. | Continue reading


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These Grocery Credit Cards Earn You Bonus Rewards on Grocery Delivery

If you use grocery delivery to stock your pantry, paying with the right credit card could save you money or earn you bonus rewards. | Continue reading


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3 Ways to Thank and Support Essential Workers

Show your support for essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic by checking in and choosing gifts they can use right now. | Continue reading


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