If you’re home shopping this winter and feeling frustrated, know that market inventory tends to hit a dry spell this time of year. But don’t fret: There are still deals out there. While everyone else is distracted by ski trips, hot cocoa and watching Elf a half a dozen times, savvy buyers are hustling the […]

The evergreen fir tree has traditionally been used to celebrate winter festivals (pagan and Christian) for thousands of years. Pagans used branches of it to decorate their homes during the winter solstice, as it made them think of the spring to come. The Romans used Fir Trees to decorate their temples at the festival of […]

The largest of the wildfires tearing through Southern California are now bigger than New York City and Boston combined, forcing thousands to evacuate the area—but what about their pets? TV host Ellen DeGeneres brought this question front and center on Sunday, tweeting, “Our house is under threat of being burned. We just had to evacuate our pets.” DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, have […]