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1 month ago | 
mrbellersneighborhood.com | Lily Lopate |Lori Jakiela |Kevin Nolan |Sabine Heinlein
6:50 am Standing in a help-desk line at JFK airport seems as good a moment as any to analyze the catastrophe of my life. Everyone in this line is embarrassed to be here, and I’m no exception. We’re misfits, absent-minded millennials and oldsters who can’t get technology to work, and we have formed an instant community as airport rejects. Before joining this exclusive club, I had to share my reason for being here. “What do you need help with?” the guard asked.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Sabine Heinlein
Dyson’s WashG1 wet cleaner promises to deliver sparkling floors with minimal effort. We tested it out on a variety of messes.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Sabine Heinlein
Handheld vacs ferret out crumbs from cushions, dirt from car seats, and fur from sofas. We recommend the Ryobi 18V One+ Performance Hand Vacuum Kit.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Sabine Heinlein
Carpets are a blessing and a curse. They keep your feet comfortable, beautify your home, provide noise reduction, and give toddlers a soft place to land. But they also harbor dirt, dander, mold, pollen, and pollutants that hide deep inside their fibers. If your home has lots of rugs and carpets of different piles and textures, you need a powerful, well-balanced vacuum with a light touch to tackle all of that grossness without damaging your rugs.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Sabine Heinlein
Turning your everyday food scraps into garden gold is an appealing concept: Spend between $180 and $1,000, plug in your food recycler, dump in your leftovers, and press a button. Voilà, you’ve got compost—or fertilizer—for your garden. Look at you, doing your part for a greener and better world!If only it were that simple. These food recyclers—often referred to as countertop composters—don’t actually produce compost. Yet the companies behind these machines have some awfully big marketing boasts.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Sabine Heinlein
If I told you that, in the name of journalistic rigor, I raised dozens of worms in my New York City living room to harvest their poop, would you believe me? Well, I did. And I swear, it will all make sense when I explain. Let me tell you about my worm farm. I recently spent half a year testing food recyclers–often erroneously referred to as countertop composters—to see if the machines live up to their makers’ claims of turning you into an eco-savior with the push of a button.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
cityfarmer.info | Sabine Heinlein |Michael Levenston
In the end, I decided that worms didn’t belong inside a New York City home. A basement? Maybe. A garage? Sure. A barn? Even better. By Sabine HeinleinNew York TimesOctober 31, 2024Excerpt:If I told you that, in the name of journalistic rigor, I raised dozens of worms in my New York City living room to harvest their poop, would you believe me? Well, I did. And I swear, it will all make sense when I explain. Let me tell you about my worm farm.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Sabine Heinlein
No matter how much I’ve cleaned the day before, I wake up to fur dancing in the morning light. I share my home with two rabbits and three cats, and keeping pet hair at bay can be a uniquely demanding task. If you know what I’m talking about, you may be in the same boat. (Noah’s Ark, that is.)After testing dozens of vacuums, we have six models to recommend that effectively and efficiently tackle pet fur.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Sabine Heinlein
If you were going to design the ultimate destination for vacuum enthusiasts, it would probably look a lot like Mid Missouri Vacuum, a store and repair service that doubles as a vacuum museum. Each Saturday, visitors can tour the museum and gape at more than 600 colorful vacuum cleaners from the last 150 years. The oldest, from 1879, is charmingly named Little Witch. But as is the habit of witches, it didn’t hang around for long.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Sabine Heinlein
Has your carpet seen better days? We tested six carpet cleaners to find those with the best combination of stain-busting power and convenience.
