Kaitlin Mahar

Feb 4, 2025 | nytimes.com | Kaitlin Mahar

Valentine’s Day can help you reaffirm your romance, remind true friends that you care, or even extend some much-needed love to yourself. But unlike your affections, some Valentine’s Day discounts are overstated. Fear not. We’ve got the real deals. Whether you’re showing love and appreciation to a special someone or simply treating yourself, we’ve curated 15 exclusive, expert-vetted deals on thoughtful Wirecutter-approved gifts that the recipient will adore.

Dec 10, 2024 | nytimes.com | Kaitlin Mahar

Your social feed may be full of beauty influencers touting the “splurgeworthiness” of pricier products, but that doesn’t mean those products are actually worth it—or that you have to splurge at all to get a holiday glow-up gift for yourself or others. We see better-than-usual discounts on many of our more popular beauty picks, from drugstore to deluxe, during end-of-year sales—like Sephora’s current “Gifts for All” sale, on now through December 15.

Nov 3, 2024 | nytimes.com | Kaitlin Mahar

Tons of Presidents’ Day sales trumpet deals on mattresses, sheets, and pillows. But most of them stink. We’ve scoured these often-overhyped discounts to highlight only the best deals on our expert-vetted mattress, pillow, and bedding picks, along with additional price drops on recommended electronics, furniture, appliances, and clothing.

Oct 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | Kaitlin Mahar

Mastering your to-do list can seem like a Sisyphean task. But a good to-do list app should help you regain control over your routines and keep chaos at bay. Our to-do list app picks, Todoist, TickTick, and the Apple-exclusive Things 3, are a breeze to use, have thoughtful designs, and feature flexible organization schemes, so you can conveniently hop in, address your obligations, and enter new tasks—then get right back to the doing.

Oct 11, 2024 | nytimes.com | Kaitlin Mahar

My name is Kaitlin, and I have Raynaud’s, a common condition in which my extremities experience decreased blood flow and therefore get quite chilly in cooler environments. It’s also the excuse I give my partner after I’ve used their unsuspecting legs to thaw my ice-block feet in the middle of the night. Although I live in Southern California, the temperatures can still drop pretty significantly. And if my feet are cold, I can’t sleep (and therefore neither can my partner).