What to keep in mind when you buy your bedroom’s biggest investment piece. Know when it’s time The most important thing about choosing a mattress is making sure you’re doing it often enough. Sales associates might urge you to replace your mattress every five to seven years, but Michael Magnuson, CEO of goodbed.com, an independent …

These days, Christmas trees are no longer reserved just for the month of December — for example, we’ve seen Halloween trees and Easter trees. But when it comes to New Year’s trees, well, that’s nothing new. In fact, there’s a rich history behind the longstanding tradition. Just like how many of us celebrate Christmas with …

Unless you’re a bibliophile, many of us probably have a row of books on our shelves we’ve never read. Chances are you stare at it every time you clean your house and wonder if you’ll ever get to them. But it turns out, even if you don’t read all of them in the next 10 …

Washing our bed sheets can be a chore – first there’s stripping the bed, then finding somewhere to dry them then finally, once we’ve done all that, the battle of getting them on again begins. So advice from a leading expert in the field of microbes about how often we should be cleaning them is …

One of life’s simple pleasures is enjoying a piece of a chocolate bar at the end of a long day. But, if you’re like us, this melty delicacy has a way of always ending up on your shirt, pants, or worse, your couch. Don’t worry: Carolyn Forte, director of the Good Housekeeping Institute Cleaning Lab, …