Homelife
From creative interior design tricks that can improve your wellbeing to strategic plant arrangements that help you reap the most benefits from your leafy friends, this is the place to find everything you need to know to make your house feel like a home.
The 7 best vegetables to plant if you want to offset rising grocery costs
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Not every vegetable belongs in a backyard garden. Some take up space, demand attention, and still cost more to grow than to buy once you factor in seeds, soil, and the time it takes. But some crops genuinely save you money, and if your grocery bill has been Read More...
Will vinegar actually keep bugs out this fall? Pest experts explain what works
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM As temperatures drop, bugs start looking for the same thing you do: somewhere warmer. If you've been reaching for the vinegar bottle as a first line of defense, you're not alone. It's an easy instinct: vinegar seems safe, familiar, and you probably already Read More...
5 research-backed ways to banish aches and feel better at your desk
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center wanted to answer a specific question: what is the least amount of movement needed to offset the effects of prolonged sitting? In 2023, they tested a range of options and found that walking for five minutes Read More...
Age-by-age Halloween tips from a board-certified pediatrician
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Halloween might be the one night a year when the whole family ends up outside together, moving through the neighborhood in the dark. Whether that ends in magic or meltdown depends almost entirely on whether the experience matches the kid you brought with Read More...
Is this nut the most underrated sleepy-time snack? Here's what the sleep research says
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM You're doing everything right at bedtime: you stay away from screens after nine, take a soothing dark shower, sip on that herbal tea cooling on the nightstand, and maintain a reasonably consistent sleep schedule. Yet some nights the ceiling still has your Read More...
Fall nostalgia: why your nervous system reaches for reruns when autumn arrives
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Every fall, something happens in the body before it happens in the mind. The smell of wood smoke drifting through a cracked window, the particular weight of October light slanting across the floor, and suddenly you're somewhere else entirely, back in a Read More...
What to leave alone in your garden this October to help overwintering bees
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Every fall there's a pull to tidy things up. Cut back the perennials, rake the leaves, clear the beds, put the garden to rest. It feels satisfying, honestly, and spring does seem to start from a cleaner place. The thing is, all that leaf litter, those hollow Read More...
6 smart things to do with an empty egg carton before you toss it in the recycling bin
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There's a half-second every time you finish a carton of eggs. The lid flops open, the last two slots are empty, and you're already reaching for the recycling bin. Before you do: cardboard egg cartons are more useful than they get credit for, and once you've Read More...
The common skin care mistakes dermatologists say are working against your routine
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There's a particular kind of Sunday evening spiral that happens when you've spent twenty minutes reading about an ingredient you've never heard of, and you're now convinced your entire routine is wrong. Skin care has never been better at making us feel Read More...
Social physiology: the hidden health cost of eating alone, according to science
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A study published in Science Advances found that eating the same meal with a close companion produces measurably better blood sugar control than eating it alone. In experiments with 108 participants, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Read More...