Alicia Kort

1 week ago | esquire.com | Alicia Kort

You’re reading this because you’ve decided to cause yourself an enormous amount of stress and buy a sofa online. You would think by 2025 that sofa shopping would be a breeze, but if anything, it’s become even more confusing. How do you know who makes good quality couches if you can't sit on them? Is shopping from a direct-to-consumer brand smart? Are traditional brick-and-mortar stores still good? What about Amazon? This is why we’re here to help.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Alicia Kort

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links."You’re reading this because you’ve decided to cause yourself an enormous amount of stress and buy a sofa online. You would think by 2025 that sofa shopping would be a breeze, but if anything, it’s become even more confusing. How do you know who makes good quality couches if you can't sit on them? Is shopping from a direct-to-consumer brand smart? Are traditional brick-and-mortar stores still good?

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Alicia Kort

Parade aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Honestly, cleaning is not one of my favorite activities. It's a chore that I always put off, but I do like to vacuum. I've tested a lot of vacuums as a shopping writer, ranging from a $1,000 cordless vacuum with its own stand to a Dyson. Vacuuming my home makes it feel and look so much cleaner.

1 week ago | kinship.com | Alicia Kort

We’ve all been there. You’re in a very important Zoom meeting presenting your slide and your dog has decided at this moment to sit right next to your desk chair, stare, and whine softly. You laugh meekly and apologize for your pup (though honestly, everyone is probably grateful for the interruption and would love, in fact, to see their little furry face on the camera way more than yours). After the call ends, you turn to your pup.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Alicia Kort

The bathroom has always been my least favorite area of my apartment to clean. It gets dirty the quickest, and the shower just takes forever. I hated bending over the tub and extending my arms long to try to manually scrub the leftover soap scum off of the tub floor, sides, and tile walls. I've always been cursed with a humid rented bathroom that mold and mildew loves to thrive in. About two years ago, I noticed a new phenomenon hit the cleaning product market: The spin scrubber.