This holiday season , make sure to read the reviews before you buy your loved ones presents on that sketchy website. You know the kind: they advertise a beautiful blanket for $5, or a brand-new bike for $10. The prices make you narrow your eyes and wonder what the catch is. Well, the catch is that it's way too good to be true. The same is true of DIY crafts and baking projects. How hard could it possibly be to make some Santa Claus cookies or a Christmas tree puff pastry? Thanks to Photoshop an…

Families and tradition are synonymous with one another; it might be as simple as some small silly thing that you do together every year during the holidays, or it might be a serious, all-encompassing system of decorum that members must abide by. As most of us aren't part of some pseudo-royalty billionaire trust or vying for the succession of our father's multinational mass media company—chances are, more often than not, that most of our family traditions land towards the sillier end of the spec…

It's almost Christmas , and if you haven't decorated yet, come visit our nontraditional Christmas tree display to get inspired! Below are all kinds of creative ideas for the holiday season . People have created trees from so many materials, from entire packs of cards to dozens of egg cartons. Meanwhile, other folks got really creative with their celebrity inspired trees . Up next, if you can handle it, are 30 of the worst computer setups of all time.

Are these people geniuses or just making their mishaps look intentional? In Hollywood the most common advice you'll hear from a seasoned industry professional is that you gotta fake it until you make it. For some people, those same principals apply to their own non-Hollywood lives, especially during Christmas time. Everyone always thought their parents were just being regular people when they hung up the Christmas lights on a two-story house , but now we realize that our parents were actually s…

Leave me alone, Karen!

Christmas isn't for everyone; for every holiday spirit spreader out there who is spreading Christmas cheer, there are at least thirty of us who would much rather that the whole thing went away. It's not that I don't like food or receiving presents, I'm even lucky enough to have a family that I enjoy being around, but years of working retail over the holidays have spoiled the whole dammed thing for me. Years of crowding, intolerant, inconsiderate people clamoring for the best deal possible — bom…