How to look expensive (without spending big)
Plus: Have a style dilemma? Ask Lisa about it below Given the clobbering most of us have had from interest rates, inflation and other irritating impediments to shopping at Prada (welcome to 2024), it’s probably a good idea to remind ourselves how to get the best from the high street. Skill up, I say. There […]
Gardening: How to spend the winter planning and preparing for the spring
Gardening isn’t usually the first thing that springs to mind when the calendar page turns to January. But with the holidays behind us, there’s no better time to start planning and preparing our 2024 gardens. Of course, that will mean different things in different places. It’s impossible to account for every microclimate in every region, […]
How To Build Good Money Habits in 2024
New Year’s resolutions are easy. It usually goes like this: you make yourself a promise and forget about it by February. But if your 2024 resolution is to get better with money, forgetting about it might prove costly. It can be a monumental task to build healthy financial habits. Doing too much at the same […]
How to detox like the rich after Christmas – without the cost
Throughout my life I’ve toggled between extremes: making a mess (regular overeating or binges) then a vigorous clean-up (ultra-hardcore diets). It’s not all grim compulsion – I also passionately love food, exploring cuisines, and good wine. But my relationship to nourishment, and my body, is unbalanced; the only healthy constant throughout my adult life has […]
How to have a fall safely is you’re over 65
Spread your surface area “When I teach students how to fall, they learn to do it without using their hands, as these are the first parts of the body to get injured when hitting the ground,” says Petrides. Repeated training means he now does the same, instinctively: “On one occasion I was going to dinner […]
How to Make Your Phone Last Forever: 6 Simple Tips – WSJ
Genius bar is telling: No matter how connected we get to our phones, most people accept that they'll soon seem obsolete. The average phone in America … Source link
how to deal with missing your children when you’re away from them
It was last Monday that it truly hit. The recognition that I was going to be seeing my children for half of their childhood since divorcing. My kitchen clock showed 3.15pm, their school pick-up time. A wash of sadness came over me as I thought about them bundling out of school without me to scoop […]
Nothing Beats ’90s Supermodel Beauty. How to Update 5 Iconic Looks for 2024.
BACK IN THE 1990s, when fashion magazines were the size of phone books, the covers routinely featured four impossibly beautiful women who grew so famous, people around the world referred to them by their first names: Cindy, Naomi, Christy and Linda. With their larger-than-life fame (and big hair to match) this pioneering foursome transformed the […]
What to say instead of ‘you can do anything’
Jose Luis Pelaez Inc | Digitalvision | Getty Images Despite your instincts, telling your child that they can do “anything” can be counterproductive. “‘You can do anything,’ is positive, but it’s very generalized,” according to Joanna North, a consultant psychotherapist. “I think that we need to draw it down to specifics for children, and [find] […]
How to cut your grocery bill from cash stuffing expert Jasmine Taylor
Jasmine Taylor knows a thing or two about getting a budget under control. In January 2021, she found herself with $60,000 in student debt and another $9,000 in medical and credit card debt. Vowing to get her finances on track, she turned to YouTube and found “cash stuffing,” a money management strategy in which budgeters […]