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There is a worrying trend developing among new households
Sales of both new and existing homes rose last month. That always happens during the spring. However, the data are seasonally adjusted, and were relatively weak earlier this year. There is an...
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54% of American adults living with friends or relatives plan to move out...
Young people want to own a home just as much as their parents did. Unfortunately, a lot of them have to get out of their parents' house first.During the economic recovery, the number of shared...
View ArticleThis robot wakes you up in the morning and checks if you turned off the oven...
French tech startup Blue Frog Robotics has created BUDDY, a family-oriented household robot. The design was inspired by robots from pop culture like R2-D2 from "Star Wars" and Disney's "WALL-E." Chief...
View ArticleThis Swedish house was designed by 2 million people — and it is surprisingly...
Swedish Housing website, Hemnet.se collected user preferences from 20% of Sweden's population. Using this information, architects Tham Videgård Arkitekter designed The Hemnet House, or 'House of...
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These 10 cities have the most bars per household
If you live in San Francisco, you're in luck.Because your city officially has the most bars per household in the US.In honor of Oktoberfest, Trulia put together a map showing the top 10 metro areas...
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The uncomfortable truth about how often you should wash your bed sheets
When you settle in for the night, the last thing you probably think about is what may be lurking in the nooks and crannies of your bedding.And your ignorance is most likely bliss, because it turns out,...
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The gross truth about your bed sheets
When you settle in for the night, the last thing you probably think about is what may be lurking in the nooks and crannies of your bedding.And your ignorance is most likely bliss, because it turns out,...
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8 nasty things that are lurking in your mattress
Your bed is the dirtiest object in your room. This fact gets significantly harder to swallow when you consider that you spend about a third of your life sleeping in it.That means that you're rolling...
View ArticleThis Swedish house was designed by 2 million people — and it is surprisingly...
Swedish Housing website, Hemnet.se collected user preferences from 20% of Sweden's population. Using this information, architects Tham Videgård Arkitekter designed The Hemnet House, or 'House of...
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This is the dirtiest object in your house
You can't see them, but your house is teeming with germs.Your mattress, bed sheets, and bath towels alone harbor several different kinds of fungi, bacteria, and allergens such as dust mites and...
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People don't wash their bed sheets enough, and it's disgusting
I hate to break it to you, but your bed sheets are filthy.No matter how clean you are as a person, your sheets are teeming with all kinds of germs and debris.Philip Tierno, a microbiologist and...
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RANKED: The dirtiest objects in your kitchen
It shouldn't come as a surprise that your home is one of the dirtiest places you come into contact with on a daily basis.Your bed sheets, towels, mattress, and kitchen sponge are all swarming with...
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Your kitchen sponge is the dirtiest object in your home — here's the only...
If you're like most people, you use a kitchen sponge every day to clean your dishes. But is the sponge itself clean?The answer is probably no."That thing is very dirty," Philip Tierno, a microbiologist...
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Japan's economy just received some rare good news as household spending rebounds
There was some rare good news for the Japanese economy on Tuesday with household spending figures for February topping expectations.According to the government, household spending rose by 1.2% in the...
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Spring cleaning? Don't forget to clean the dirtiest object in your house
Every spring, I jump at the excuse to turn my house upside down and dust and mop every nook and cranny in honor of "spring cleaning."Sure, it's not as fun as strolling through the Cherry Blossoms at...
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2 'unconventional' measures will make you skeptical the housing market is...
There's a strong case that the housing market is set up for another boom. Wages are rising, millennials are old enough to start buying their first homes, and demand is at record levels.Unfortunately,...
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RANKED: The dirtiest objects in your kitchen
It shouldn't come as a surprise that your home is one of the dirtiest places you come into contact with on a daily basis. Your bed sheets, towels, mattress, and kitchen sponge are all swarming with...
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A microbiologist explains why he hasn't slept without this on his bed in 25...
New York University microbiologist Philip Tierno hasn't slept a night in 25 years without something on his mattress that few people even think of buying.It's a super-thin, largely invisible cover that...
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How often you should wash your bed sheets, according to a microbiologist —...
We spend more than a third of our lives in bed — but that place can quickly blossom into a "botanical park" of bacteria and fungus, according to New York University microbiologist Philip Tierno.If left...
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