Helping You Help Yourself #26

Rachel —
May 2, 2016
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Last week I spent like an hour filling out a form with text boxes online, and a hiccup in my browser made it all instantly disappear. Don’t be like me! Lazarus is a Chrome extension that will auto-save and let you retrieve text typed into forms.

On how to move out fast, from Rookie.

How to get things done when you’re depressed.

Mantras don’t work for everyone, but here are 21 mini ones you might like. #12 really hit home for me, made me feel very #seen.

Our own dearly beloved Laura Wooley shares how to use spreadsheets to make writing a research paper easier.

Putting a duvet cover back on a comforter after washing is a pain! Here is the easiest and quickest way. I did this just this week, and can vouch for its effectiveness (although I just shake it out at the end instead of unrolling by hand).

Finding a good and cheap bottle of wine for a potluck or social event.

This is somewhat outside the normally pragmatic scope of this column, but I thought it would speak to you: how to paint a giant portrait of your pet on your wall.

I don’t even have kids and I gasped out loud when I saw this: teach your kids to stop interrupting you with this technique.

How to make good coffee at home even if you’re lazy.

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Rachel is Autostraddle’s Managing Editor and the editor who presides over news & politics coverage. Originally from Boston, MA, Rachel now lives in the Midwest. Topics dear to her heart include bisexuality, The X-Files and tacos. Her favorite Ciara video is probably “Ride,” but if you’re only going to watch one, she recommends “Like A Boy.” You can follow her on twitter and instagram.

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