Happy Valentine’s Day! Hope your day is chock full of cupcakes and chocolate and candy heart things. I am spending Valentine’s Day in an airport, so the kids and I had to exchange cards and gifts yesterday, and my husband and I did our V-Day dinner on tuesday (hey, we beat the crowds and didn’t →
The countdown to Christmas is underway. Which means you have precious time to finish up your holiday shopping (and a couple remaining hours of sanity, perhaps?). Don’t let the stress get to you—you can still manage to get everything done… with a little help. Just check out these handy gift ideas and shopping aids. If →
Motherhood and technology go hand in hand these days. If you tap and swipe right, you can use your smartphone to tame your schedule and gadgets to keep an eye on the kids at all times. I’ve got TONS of time-saving apps and gadgets that help moms simplify and streamline their busy lives, so I went →
Article originally appeared on LearnVest Get Fit GymPact’s motto is “incentivize your exercise,” and they do it with something near and dear to all of us: cash. Make your “pact” by spelling out how many days you plan to hit the gym and how much you’re willing to pay for each day you skip.You prove →
It’s viewer mail time! Hi there- I’m a working mom and rely completely on gadgets and tech to make life a bit easier! I’m wondering if there’s an iPhone app that you can recommend that will help organize my Groupon/Living social vouchers so that I don’t end up wasting them because I can’t seem to →
It’s okay, you can admit it. Sometimes you watch Digitwirl and think, “Great. Another app I have to learn how to use?” Trust me, even I suffer from tech fatigue sometimes— there are so many new websites, gadgets and apps that emerge every day, promising to save us all kinds of time. Of course, I test them all (a small →
Managing your money is the pits. Monitoring online purchases, shoeboxing receipts and keeping track on those elusive cash buys is a hassle… plus even if you have all the information in one place, what to make of it? Spending can get out of hand if we don’t have a bird’s eye view of where our →
It’s tough enough to make my way through the weekly to-do list without adding things like monitor energy consumption or reverse carbon footprint to it. And yet, with Earth Day just a few days away, I do want to feel like I’m helping out Mother Nature in more ways than just hugging the occasional ficus. →
Over time, dust, grime and gunk can wreck your tech, not to mention boost the “ewww” factor (let’s not even discuss that most phones tested in a recent study show trace levels of E. coli— gross). Needless to say, cleaning your tech well and often is just as important for your health as it is →
Quick. Where is your grocery list written? I don’t know about you, but mine used to be on a note pads and scraps of paper and occasionally my palm. (Desperate times…) Then I discovered GroceryIQ, the smartest way to shop. GroceryIQ is a website and app that lets you easily enter everything you want to →