Category Archive

Life

We launched as Offbeat Home in 2011, but it has become clear that the site is about much more. In 2013, we relaunched as Offbeat Home & Life, with an expanded focus on Relationships, Budget & Career, Travel, and Style. This is the category for the non-home/rest of life stuff!

Clean out the books you don’t want in stranger-interactive ways

Sometimes when you’re a Reader, books get… overwhelming. They start to take up every end table, the back of every toilet, the dining room table top. You might be ready to part with your books — but only for an appreciative soul.

Seeking agnostic, feminist homemaking blogs

I’ve been trying to find homemaking blogs that are more feminist or agnostic or atheist. Or basically, blogs that don’t talk about submitting to God as a step to becoming a good homemaker. I just want more spaces where I can read and comment without feeling as if I don’t really belong. I’m having difficulty finding many, and I was hoping for some recommendations.

How to get costumes for cheap-as-free

National Costume Swap Day!!!!!!!

…Which I had never heard of before this year, but isn’t it a brilliant idea? People around the world organize swaps and bring in totes of clothes, masks, wigs, shoes, and paint, and also “shop” for their own costume goods.

Celebrating mama sneaker fiends

So what exactly are the highs and lows of combining an obsession for kicks with the responsibilities of parenthood? One of the sweetest highlights is sharing a passion with your kids. As Annie explains it, “It’s great to see my girls find their own love and joy for sneakers. Their reactions to new sneakers are really the true embodiment of how happy I feel with a dope pair of sneakers, and they don’t hold back!”

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: TV Is back

If I’ve seemed a little more chipper lately, it’s because it is an exciting time of year. It is the beginning of the 2011-12 television season.

Other blogs tell you the must-have designer home trends. Today, I want to present you with my curated fall line up of often-overlooked shows I think Homies will dig. Come, let us gather in the warm glow of our teeveeeeees.

DAMN FINE paintings, prints, and samplers pay tribute to Twin Peaks with art

Let’s talk Twin Peaks! Its murky, cloudy, I’m-not-quite-sure-what’s-around-the-bend atmosphere also makes Twin Peaks ripe for the sort of fan art you can enjoy on your walls for a really long time. So let’s shop some.

Looking for work-from-home freelance gigs? IGNORE JOB BOARDS

Here’s the thing that no one seems to understand about freelancing: it’s not about finding job listings — it’s about marketing your skills and whoring yourself non-stop so that work comes to you. Trawling job boards or Craigslist is not marketing yourself, and it’s not networking.

Five ideas to soundproof so you can turn video games up to 11 without waking the dead

Everyone needs a little soundproofing knowledge now and then, but nerds more than most. Here are our solutions for soundproofing your space.