Category: Fun
Add a little more joy to your weekday with posts designed to bring out the fun in your life, featuring things to do, easy party ideas, games and more
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15 Fun Gift Ideas They’ll Actually Use
You want to give a special gift, something meaningful your [insert friend/relative/beau/dog] will actually use and appreciate, not just relegate to a shelf with an “aww, that’s nice.” Every November, I start a list in Google Keep with ideas for everyone I share the holidays with, as I try to find something that captures (as…
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How to Host a Street View Scavenger Hunt
A long, long time ago (READ: 14 years) in a land far, far away (READ: the glorious suburbs of Tampa, FL), Candace introduced me to the wonderful world of team photo scavenger hunts. Here’s how it would work: Create a list of places, people, actions and things that everyone will need to find (ex. Find…
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20 Zoom Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt Ideas
More than a third of Americans plan on staying home this Thanksgiving (us too), but that doesn’t mean our micro holiday has to be any less festive. Zoom scavenger hunts are one of the least-awkward—and most fun—ways to connect via video chat, so we decided to put a Turkey Day spin on the trend with…
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Exploring The American Dream, the Nation’s First Newly Opened Abandoned Mall
A newly opened abandoned mall?! How can that be? The American Dream in New Jersey isn’t an abandoned mall at all. In fact, it’s the third-largest shopping megaplex in the U.S., just behind the King of Prussia Mall and Mall of America. To call it a mall is practically an understatement: It houses Nickelodeon Universe…
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Your First Look at Dairy Queen’s Fall Candle Line (Yes, That’s a Thing)
Dairy Queen’s Blizzards—those ice cream-and-mix-in-filled cups so hearty you can flip them upside-down and the treat won’t spill out—have their own cult following. And now, that cult is about to get a whole new kind of merch: candles. Yes, candles. What started out as a publicity stunt last year turned out to be wildly popular,…
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How ‘Selena and Chef’ Was Filmed During Quarantine
I’ll admit it: I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole with Selena + Chef. Every Thursday that HBOMax drops new episodes, I find myself binging them all (so far, they’ve shared three each week) in a single sitting, while Googling random questions as they come to mind: Where are those chef’s knives from? (Amazon, apparently.) How…
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Dr. Jart+ Dermask Hydrating Hand Mask: An Honest Review
I’m well-versed in face masks and sheet masks, but it wasn’t until recently that I’d even heard of hand masks. And I never thought I’d want one—until my hands started feeling achy from being so cracked and dry. Lotion and body oil weren’t cutting it. I tried increasing my water intake (maybe dehydration was partially…
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15 Zoom Games You’ll Actually Enjoy Playing
Remember when you used to watch The Jetsons or Smart House and think the future would be all about video chatting? Then the coronavirus pandemic hit and that became our reality. And it got old, fast. It’s a great way to stay connected, sure, but Zoom fatigue is real. So is the awkwardness of staring…
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3 Apps & Sites That Map Out the Coolest Street Art Near You
At this point, you’ve probably hiked every park near you (several times), avoided crowds at the beach, finally read all of those hardcovers on your bookshelf and blazed through your Netflix queue. Coming up with new socially distant ways to explore the world around you might be getting a bit harder, which is why it’s…
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What’s Inside the Summer 2020 Causebox? A Full Review
There’s something about having a surprise box of goodies on your doorstep that makes it feel like your birthday came early. Or has multiplied your birthday. I guess it’s fitting, then, that my husband gifted me a full year’s worth of Causeboxes last year. My final box arrived last week, and it didn’t disappoint. While…
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12 Bizarre Things That Are Livening Up My Social Distancing Days
Now that the coronavirus pandemic creeps into its third month, many of us are starting to talk about our time in self-isolation in phases: “Remember when we were all obsessed with Tiger King?” And “Oh, that was during my eating-cookie-dough-straight-from-the-tube phase.” That sort of thing. We’ve all turned to different things to entertain, distract, educate…
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3 Y2K-Era Digital Distractions That Deserve to Make a Comeback
People are coming up with all kinds of ways to entertain themselves right now—digital happy hours, Zoom raves, YouTube workouts—and as we search for new ways to feel connected without leaving our homes, I couldn’t help but remember the phase in my life when I naturally stayed inside, well, all the time: Y2K. Not because…
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