Toddler Needed Emergency Surgery After Swallowing 50 Tiny Magnets From a Building-Block Toy Nobody Recalled, So Federal Regulators Are Warning Parents Directly

by
silver beads on brown wooden table

A child needed emergency surgery to remove roughly 50 swallowed magnets and repair holes torn through the small intestine after ingesting pieces from a Girigi-brand magnetic building block set, prompting the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to warn parents directly on August 28, 2026, after the toy’s seller refused to agree to a recall.   … Read more

121,000 Retro-Style Refrigerators Are Being Pulled From Homes After One Death and 34 Fires, and Yours Might Still Be Running Right Now in the Kitchen

by
Refrigerator with a warm feeling

Galanz Americas is recalling about 121,680 retro-style refrigerators sold at Home Depot and Amazon after the company confirmed 34 fire incidents and one death tied to a wiring defect that can cause the units to short-circuit and ignite, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s recall notice. The popular vintage-look fridges were sold nationwide between … Read more

Nearly Two-Thirds of Homebuyers Say They’d Move Into a Haunted House If the Price Was Right, and the Data Shows Those Homes Really Do Sell for Less

by
gray wooden house

Sixty-five percent of Americans say they’d at least consider buying a home they knew was haunted, and 39% say they’d buy one outright with no hesitation, according to a Rocket Mortgage survey of 1,037 adults conducted in October 2025. That number sounds like a punchline until you look at what actually happens to a property’s … Read more

165,000 More Walmart Dressers Are Being Pulled From Homes Over a Deadly Tip-Over Risk After Liquidators Kept Reselling the Ones Already Recalled

by
a walmart store with a car parked in front of it

Walmart and federal regulators are re-warning shoppers about 165,250 additional Mainstays nine-drawer fabric dressers after finding that units already covered by a May 2026 recall kept reaching households through liquidation resellers, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s August 27, 2026 recall reannouncement. The dressers, made in Vietnam and sold under Walmart’s Mainstays house brand, … Read more

Your Patio Furniture Bill Just Got Real: Outdoor Spending Is Exploding Nationwide

by
brown wicker chairs and table

Outdoor Furniture Is Now One of the Fastest-Growing Categories in Home Spending Global spending on outdoor furniture is on track to climb from roughly $53 billion in 2025 to nearly $87 billion by 2033, according to Grand View Research, a compound annual growth rate north of 6%. A separate analysis from Straits Research pegs the … Read more

Half of Halloween Shoppers Have Already Started Buying — in September

by
a display of scarecrows and pumpkins in a store

Half of Halloween Shoppers Have Already Started Buying — in September By the time your kids start floating costume ideas at the dinner table, nearly half the country has already checked Halloween off their shopping list. The National Retail Federation’s annual Halloween Consumer Survey found that 49% of shoppers had started buying decorations, costumes, or … Read more

Decorating Your House for Halloween Is Now Just as Popular as Wearing a Costume

by
Halloween decorations displayed in front of a house yard

Decorating Your House for Halloween Is Now Just as Popular as Wearing a Costume Here’s a number that stopped us mid-scroll: according to the National Retail Federation’s most recent annual Halloween Consumer Survey, conducted with Prosper Insights & Analytics, 51% of Americans planned to decorate their home or yard for Halloween, and 51% planned to … Read more

Downsizing Could Save You Thousands — But Only If You Live in the Right City

by
Contemporary hotel room interior design with cozy elegance and modern furnishings.

Where Downsizing Actually Makes Financial Sense Right Now, by the Numbers In Memphis, baby boomers whose kids have moved out own 31.2% of the metro’s three-bedroom-plus homes, the highest concentration in any major U.S. market. Cleveland comes in right behind at 30.9%, with Pittsburgh close after at 30.6%. Nationally, that same group, empty nesters, holds … Read more

Want More Birds in Your Backyard This Fall? Here’s What the National Data Shows

by
A vibrant red northern cardinal perched at a backyard bird feeder

Something quietly remarkable happens in backyards across the country every winter: more than a million people, by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s own tally, pause what they’re doing to count the birds outside their window. In the most recent Great Backyard Bird Count, participants logged 8,257 species and filed 467,696 checklists from 216 countries and … Read more