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| Can't decide on a resolution for 2025? NPR's Life Kit has expert guides to make any goal a reality. We'll share a few of them every week this month. View all 25 guides here. |
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| When our homes are at their messiest, we can feel shame. Remember that this is not a moral failing. You don’t exist to serve your space; it is the contrary, says KC Davis, a licensed therapist and author of How to Keep House While Drowning. Davis has a “Five Things Tidying Method" to restore a messy room.
🧽 In any space, there are only five things: trash, dishes, laundry, things that have a place, and things that don't. Tackle them in this order.
🧽 Grab a trash bag or can and move around the room collecting garbage, but don’t take it out yet. Continue to work on this until the space is livable again.
🧽 Gather all the dirty dishes and find a place to pile them. It can be a sink or even a laundry basket without holes in the bottom.
🧽 Collect laundry that’s lying around. Try not to get stuck on this step and put it aside to be washed later.
Check out the rest of the steps to help you declutter before cleaning.
Life Kit has several more guides to help you navigate life skills in 2025. Check out some of them here:
➡️ Do you want to get a tattoo but are not sure what to expect in the process? Check out this advice from Noemi Barajas, who works at The Original Goodfellas Tattoo and Piercing in Orange, Calif. |
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Check out what NPR is watching, reading and listening to this weekend:
🍿 Movies: Make room for these eight underseen and off-the-beaten-path movies from 2024 that didn't have big names, big studios and big marketing departments behind them.
📺 TV: Betty Gilpin plays a mom determined to get her and her son across the frontier in the Western series American Primeval. Along the way, they get caught up in a brewing war between the federal government and a Mormon militia.
📚 Books: Here are 12 books that, once you finish, you just have to tell someone about. They could make a great addition to your book club’s lineup.
🎵 Music: In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., pianist Lara Downes examines how musicians have followed in his footsteps. Listen to the playlist featuring many of them, including Bob Dylan, Odetta and Sam Cooke.
🎮 Games: Check out NPR’s 25 most-anticipated games to be released this year.
❓ Quiz: Wow! Another week, another perfect score for me. Do you think you can match that? |
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| | Hino Motors, a Toyota subsidiary that produces commercial trucks, has pleaded guilty to submitting false emissions data to regulators for more than 100,000 heavy-duty trucks. The company will pay $1.6 billion in fines and penalties. |
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| | Conan O'Brien will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in March. Past recipients of this award include Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg and Kevin Hart. |
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