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If you have a few extra hundred dollars hanging around, you can celebrate Christmas in a castle! Highclere Castle, which was featured on "Downton Abbey," hosts a few Christmas events. It might be too late for Christmas d...

Once you graduate college, you're handed a diploma and--most likely--a mountain of debt. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find a job where you make enough to pay off your student loans and then, maybe,...

Name: Valeria Jacobs, my husband, three kids (two boys and a girl), and a minature pincher Location: Castro Valley, California Size: 1,400 square feet Years lived in: 10 months, renting We live in a cottage-style home. W...

Wish you were on vacay every day? Some tourist destinations across the United States also make terrific places to live. Weather aside, these cities have amenities that year-round residents love--whether that's as an emer...

Name: Leo + Jordan Miller + Alexander Lynch Location: West Village -- Detroit, Michigan Size: 550 square feet Years lived in: 8 months, renting Jordan is an Ohio native who moved to Detroit on a whim in the summer of 201...

Laundry is the most avoided chore in our home. We don't have a good spot to keep dirty clothes, which leads to chasing down little piles on laundry day, then scrambling to find a place to put the clean batches as each lo...

This kitchen had a lot of problems--the ubiquitous over-sink scallop is just the beginning--so its intrepid but inexperienced new owner decided to DIY an entirely new kitchen by herself, including electrical work.

As a freelance writer, I spend the better portion of my week staring at screens. Add in my post-dinner social media scroll ritual and my weekly Netflix binges, and I'm pretty much a walking blue-light zombie--which isn't...

Fun fact: You don't have to cringe every time you reach for the dishwasher detergent and get a glimpse of what's going on under your kitchen sink. Just because that's what happens for most people doesn't mean that's the ...

Holiday shopping lists can get long, and while there are great ways to give someone a gift that costs (almost) nothing, sometimes you do want to wrap up something wonderful and put it under the tree (or win an office Whi...