It's OK to fake it once in a while.

Lent. No-shave November. By nature, people love to challenge themselves. Changing the routine for a short time gives us a temporary pass to explore another lifestyle — one without meat or with the addition of a lumberjack beard, perhaps. Breaks and fasts can definitely be fun, but they can also teach you a lot about yourself. With a definite expiration date looming on the horizon, people find more willpower to stick to a diet plan or household budget.

Better make the most of your morning hours – you're never going to get them back.

If you're reading this, it's not too late to get your act together and put something, anything together for the big game day.

Your little efforts are just as valuable and worthy of your time and focus as any meeting.

It’s expected that Google would come to our rescue with sorting our e-mail and organizing our calendar. So where does all of this “Google Will Take Over the World” talk come in? Maybe it’s things like this: Next time you get an undecipherable birthday card from Aunt Linda, just head over to Google—it knows enough to help you translate her chicken scratch.Ever accidentally misspelled your search terms in Google? Notice how it offers up a “Did you mean…?

Good news: It’s now OK to start putting up your holiday decorations. Both etiquette experts and your neighbors agree that the day after Thanksgiving (also known as Black Friday and “Blow Your Paycheck Day”) is the first day that the sight of holiday lights doesn’t throw them into an “OMG-it’s-not-Christmas-yet” tizzy. But do you know when to take them down? We’ve got the answer, plus a few other holiday light etiquette tips, when you read more.

Have you ever left the house with a load of dishes soaping up in the dishwasher? Yeah, us too. We never though much of it until we read this news story today: A local Fire and Rescue Investigator is blaming a dishwasher as the cause of a majorly destructive house fire in Oregon.The Oregon homeowner whose kitchen was destroyed in the fire told investigators that he left the house with the dishwasher running.

Your get-togethers don't have to be capital-p Parties. Sometimes it's enough to start with one silly/fun/creative idea.

Ahead of the bustling holiday season and the self-reflective start of another year, we wanted to give you some truths and tools to help you host at home and see your friends more.

After yesterday’s tale of an oven-baked laptop, where a paranoid apartment dweller thought to stash his Mac in the oven to evade a potential burglar’s loot radar, we now know where not to hide our valuables. But the basic idea behind the plan is still smart: If you’re going to be away from home for a while, leave your expensive tech in unexpected places that burglars wouldn’t think to raid. Here are a few better ideas.Headed away for the holidays?