Bethany Allard is a Los Angeles-based shopping reporter at Mashable covering beauty tech, dating, sex and relationships, and headphones. That basically means she puts her hair through a lot, scrolls ...

Gift shopping for a significant other is never easy, especially if they’re a guy who knows exactly what they want (and won’t accept substitutes) or has no idea what they want. As a Strategist writer, ...

In the early 1900s, sometime between the end of World War I and the start of WWII, a bunch of surrealist artists got together and invented a game. In Exquisite Corpse, a small group works together to ...

Well, folks, the day is almost here: Christmas is officially four days away. And if you’re anything like me, you’re still scrambling for a gift or two. Thankfully, there are a bunch of ways you can ...

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‘Tis the season to get your holiday shopping done at Costco. The warehouse continues to add new items to its sales roster and launches promotions daily. In a new email titled “The Season of Giving: ...

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There are arguably more gift guides than ever before now that every Substacker, influencer, and influencer’s cousin is publishing a roundup of some kind or another. One might see this as too much ...

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One Piece’s anime television series debuted on October 20th, 1999, but the premiere episode wasn’t the first time that we witnessed the Straw Hat Pirates sail into an anime project. In 1998, One Piece ...

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