4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1051+ words) A young renter searches for housing in New York City, representing the difficult apartment hunt that eventually led Jannick to a room in Woodside, Queens. Finding an apartment was one of his biggest challenges. Jannick eventually found a room in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1532+ words) Seventeen women sat down with author Cat Willett and told her about some of the hardest years of their lives. They set out to tell her about the beloved animals in their lives, yet what also came out were their…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (556+ words) If you've ever driven around on a Saturday morning looking for garage sales, you know how quickly you decide whether a sale looks worth stopping for. Sometimes you barely slow down before deciding there's nothing interesting, while other times one…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (482+ words) I have a hard time throwing away books, even when they're outdated, damaged, or have been sitting untouched for years. But at some point, you've tried donating them and realized some books simply won't find another reader. That doesn't necessarily…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (471+ words) When I moved into the dorms at UC Berkeley in 1995, I brought the college-kid essentials: some clothes and Doc Martens, some scratchy bedding and a pillow, and naturally given this particular era in tech history, a ginormous beige desktop computer…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (653+ words) If you thrift at Salvation Army often enough, you start noticing a pattern: some things can sit untouched for weeks, while others barely make it onto the sales floor before someone puts them in a cart. The best finds tend…...