The Latest: Oct 22, 2017

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The Amazon Hangover Cure: Handling the Packaging Monster, Sustainably

We’re online shopping more than ever and, unfortunately, that means bringing unwanted waste into our homes in the form of cardboard boxes, bubble wrap, and other packing supplies. (A problem that gets especially frustrating when I discover the refrigerator-sized box on my porch actually just contains the single pack of face wipes I ordered).

Taryn Williford

Oct 22, 2017

Those ’80s Porcelain Figurines Could Be Worth Big Bucks

Check the attic.

Melissa Massello

Oct 22, 2017

This Pinecone Shaped Treehouse Hangs Out in the Italian Alps

Around this time of year, people are practically itching to hightail it out of town and hole up in a cozy holiday vacation rental, so it’s only natural that the serene sight of this tiny pine cone-shaped treehouse in the Italian Alps has us ready to say arrivederci to home and board a flight ASAP. Called “Pigna” (“pinecone” in Italian), the treehouse of our childhood dreams is a three-story structure suspended 30 feet above ground.

Kenya Foy

Oct 22, 2017

This Floating Tent Turns Bodies of Water Into a Campground

If glamour and camping equal glamping, that must mean floating while camping can succinctly be described as flamping, right? Who knows, but that’s our (really weird) attempt at describing The Shoal Tent by Smith Fly, an inflatable floating raft with a tent topper that allows campers to sleep on the water. Obviously, traditional camping rules don’t apply if you’re using this tent.

Kenya Foy

Oct 22, 2017