Because we tried them for you in October!
The BuzzFeed Life editors are always trying new products, apps, tips, and DIY projects, and we decided it was time to start sharing the best of them with you. Each month, we'll post our recommendations for what's actually worth it. For the sake of transparency, items under "Things We Bought" and "Tricks We Learned" were purchased with our own money and/or were not the result of a PR pitch. Those under "Things We Tried" are items that were provided to us at no cost for the sake of review. Let us know in the comments what sorts of things you'd like us to review next month!
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Plant Nanny — Free for iOS and Android
I've never been very good at staying hydrated. Realizing at 4 p.m. that the only liquid I've ingested all day has been a venti iced coffee from Starbucks is a typical occurrence for me. Whoops. There are dozens of apps that will remind you to drink more water, but most of them tend to be complicated affairs that also track your activity and help you count calories. I didn't want to deal with any of that. I just wanted an app with one function and one function only: to get some water into my parched bod. (It's not, contrary to the title, about remembering to water your plants on time.)
Which is why I was excited when Plant Nanny worked for me. It's like caring for a Tamagotchi, only your pet is a plant with eyes and caring for it means you're *also* caring for yourself. Like a real plant, your digital one will die if you don't give it enough water; trying to keep my plant from wilting inspires me to walk over to the water cooler so much more than I ever did when I was only trying to keep *myself* from wilting! And the glug-glug noise the app makes when you water your little sprout is super satisfying. Now my plant is flourishing and so am I. —Mallory McInnis
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Insulating Window Plastic — $14 for a pack of 9
I need to make a gargantuan disclaimer re: this review, because I did not actually install these myself; my mom came to visit and she did the whole thing. (She also cleaned my blinds, installed curtain rods, and drove me to the grocery store, which in New York City is an unimaginable luxury.) So really this is a review of moms, and if we had a rating system I would give mine all of the stars.
These window coverings work in an almost suspiciously simple way. You attach large sheets of plastic around the perimeter of each window and secure them with special tape. It's supposed to keep drafts from sneaking in, and it actually works! We haven't had a bitterly cold day yet this year so I might be singing a different tune in the dead of January, but those annoying little gusts that plagued me in the early mornings of last fall haven't been able to get in again.
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