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☆ Mumbai, India: Wealth gap on voters’ minds as country’s richest city gears up for election
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Mumbai, India CNN —For millions of Indians, it’s the city where dreams come true – just look around. Vegetable seller Sachin Chaudhary poses for a picture during an interview with CNN in Mumbai, India, on April 16, 2024. A billboard with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi displayed on a road in Mumbai, India on April 15, 2024. Noemi Cassanelli/CNNA man cycles along a road in front of the Shiv Sena headquarters in Mumbai, India, on April 16, 2024. Sanjay Sardesai sits on his motorbike outside of the Indian National Congress headquarters during an interview with CNN in Mumbai, India, on April 16, 2024.

Persons: Mukesh Ambani, ’, ”, Sachin Chaudhary, Noemi Cassanelli, Rajani Bhat, “ I’m, “, ” Rajani Bhat, Narendra Modi, ” Kalpita Shinde, it’s, Helen D’Souza, ” Helen D’Souza, CNN ‘, Shiv Sena, Bhat, chai, Parag Sawla, Parag, Chaudhary, Modi, Sanjay Sardesai, CNN Sanjay Sardesai Organizations: India CNN, CNN, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, India's, sips, Indian National Locations: Mumbai, India, New York, Colaba, Modi, Dadar

☆ Dollar stores are shutting down across America. They did this to themselves
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Dollar Tree believed acquiring Family Dollar would help it compete against larger rivals. “When Dollar Tree bought Family Dollar, they didn’t really know what they were doing,” D’Arezzo said. Many Family Dollar stores were located too close to each other and cannibalized each other’s own sales, too, D’Arezzo said. Family Dollar “needs more work than the company originally thought.”A year later, an activist investor pushed for a sale of the “underperforming” Family Dollar business, and Family Dollar announced it would close 390 stores. Dollar Tree and Family Dollar executives say Family Dollar can still succeed, however.

Persons: Dollar, Ron Holman, ” Neil Saunders, GlobalData, “, ”, David D’Arezzo, Rick Dreiling, Kelly Bania, Carl Icahn, Nelson Peltz —, ” D’Arezzo, D’Arezzo, Dreiling Organizations: New, New York CNN, Visalia Times, USA, Dollar, BMO Capital Markets, “, Street, Justice Department, Bloomberg, Walmart, Costco Locations: New York, West Coast and Texas, West Memphis, ”, California , Nevada , Arizona, Texas, California

☆ 'It saves time, it saves money, it saves stress': 3 decluttering tips from professional organizers
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

After all, how many times have you lost a bill in pile of papers that built up on your desk? "When people declutter and create some order in the home, it saves time, it saves money, it saves stress," says Lori Reese, a professional organizer and owner of Consider It Done in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Here are three tips from organizing pros to help you tackle your spring decluttering project. "The trick is to add that action to a habit, so that you're going to stick to that routine," she says. "Then the rule is when that bag or bin gets full, you just drive it to your favorite charitable organization."

Persons: Lori Reese, Mindy Godding, Godding, Gayle Goddard, Reese, Goddard Organizations: CPO Locations: Harrisburg , Pennsylvania, Richmond , Virginia, Houston , Texas

☆ Journalists keep stealing Air Force One-branded items from the presidential airliner: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Members of the White House Correspondents' Association routinely travel on Air Force One. AdvertisementJournalists traveling aboard the Air Force One presidential airliner keep nabbing its many branded knickknacks. Now the White House is trying to put a stop to it. Following a multi-day trip with the press aboard, members of the Air Force took inventory of the plane and found several items missing, according to Politico. After alerting the White House Travel Office about the missing pieces, White House Correspondents' Association president and NBC reporter Kelly O'Donnell reportedly sent a curt email to her colleagues telling them to knock it off.

Persons: It's, —, Kelly O'Donnell, curt, hasn't Organizations: White, Correspondents, Association, Air Force, Service, Journalists, Politico, Travel Office, NBC, eBay

☆ Interior designers share the 10 things in your kitchen you should get rid of
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Sophia Mitrokostas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

So we spoke to interior designers to figure out which items and design elements you should remove. "Nothing makes a kitchen look messier than countertop clutter," the designer said. Pixel-Shot/ShutterstockRebecca Langman, interior designer and owner of Revision Custom Home Design, told BI that open shelving is rarely the best option for kitchen storage. Advertisement"Go through your dish towels and discard those that are past their prime and no longer complement your kitchen," Jarvis said. AdvertisementToss the cleaning supplies you rarely reach forMake your kitchen neater by ditching the cleaning supplies you infrequently use.

Persons: —, Jill Jarvis, Ehrlich, Jarvis, Rebecca Langman, Langman, Joe Cangelosi, Cangelosi, Shutterstock Langman Organizations: Service, Ehrlich Interiors

Three times over the five hours, Biden told Hur he is a “frustrated architect.”He allowed that his wife, Jill, once offered to send him to architecture school if he’d only stop running for the Senate. “I have them hanging on the walls all over the downstairs, the television room, and some in the library,” Biden told Hur. In subsequent years, as vice president, Biden collected $2,200 a month in rent payments for the guest house from the Secret Service. It was there that investigators found his personal notebooks documenting key meetings from his time as vice president. “I just wanted you to know I picked out the walnut tree that got cut down,” Biden told investigators.

Persons: Joe Biden, Robert Hur, Biden, Hur, ”, Jill, he's, “, ” Biden, Hunter, Beau, Jimmy, I’ve, knickknacks, He's Organizations: WASHINGTON, Senate, FBI, Service, Democratic, Wilmington, Amtrak, White, Secret Service Locations: Wilmington , Delaware, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Delaware, Washington, The Delaware

☆ I'm a wedding planner. Here are 12 common mistakes I see guests make.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Elisabeth Kramer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

I'm a professional wedding planner, and I've seen plenty of bad guest behavior at events. AdvertisementIn my years as a professional wedding planner, I've learned a thing or two about the people who attend my events. Here are the most common mistakes I see wedding guests make, and how to avoid them. AdvertisementWhen you refuse to RSVP, you force the couple to track down the information when they're already way too busy trying to plan their wedding. Alex Gukalov/ShutterstockIt never fails to amaze me what a wedding guest will leave out for anyone to grab — purses, cell phones, credit cards.

Persons: I'm, —, I've, you've, Alex Gukalov, someone's, Tuck, Jayme Burrows, Shutterstock, that's, it's Organizations: Service, Facebook

☆ Hirotake Yano, Japanese billionaire founder of 100-yen chain Daiso, dies at 80
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Hirotake Yano, the Japanese billionaire founder of Daiso Industries who helped popularize the discounted dollar-shop concept, has died of heart failure. Yano’s net worth was about $1.9 billion at the time of his death, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. It has grown into a retail empire, with over 4,360 stores across Japan and more than 990 overseas stores of the end of 2023, according to its website. Daiso first ventured overseas in 2001, opening branches in Taiwan and South Korea. The discount chain made over 550 billion yen ($ 3.6 billion) in sales as of February 2022, according to the privately-held company.

Persons: CNN — Hirotake Yano, Yano, Daiso Organizations: CNN, Daiso Industries, Bloomberg, Tokyo’s Chuo University, CouCou Locations: Hiroshima, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, United States, Seria

☆ Gen X and boomers love Temu. I asked them why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Recent research showed that boomers and Gen Xers shopped more frequently on Temu than younger people. I was surprised when I read a research study recently that said that Gen X and boomer Temu shoppers tended to spend slightly more per order and placed orders more often than younger shoppers. AdvertisementSo I asked readers who were boomers or Gen Xers to write in and tell me: Why do they love Temu so much? The Gen X and boomers denied this — most of them said they ignored the annoying roulette wheels. —LanieA variety of items bought by a Gen Xer on Temu Kristy MeeksA crafter who gets jewelry-making supplies:I shop on Temu mostly for jewelry, crafting and jewelry supplies.

Persons: Gen Xers, —, fanny, Elsa, X, Temu, Xers, Tyrone A, I'm, They're, it's, — Linda, Kristy Meeks, Lydia, I've, Randy, Bill Craft supples, Bill Eldridge The Organizations: Service, Amazon Locations: Temu, Toronto, China

☆ Julianne Moore’s Montauk Sanctuary
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Nick Haramis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +34 min

— HANYA YANAGIHARASpeak Softly In a wild meadow by the sea, Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich’s Montauk house uses just a few materials to say many things. In Moore’s office, a Pierre Jeanneret desk and chair, an Alvar Aalto stool and a Willy Van Der Meeren cabinet. In the oak-paneled living room of Justinian Kfoury’s apartment in a townhouse on Washington Square Park, an Audubon-style print and a Hans Wegner Papa Bear chair. A view of the double-height living room from the curved balcony on the third floor. A sculpture by Huma Bhabha and a configuration of five Isamu Noguchi L7 pendants in the landing that separates the primary suite from the living room.

Persons: it’s, Mishan, there’s, —, Julianne Moore, Bart Freundlich’s Montauk, Bart Freundlich’s, Moore, Tom Volk, Oliver Freundlich, Anne’s, Pierre Jeanneret, Alvar Aalto, Willy Van Der, Ori Gersht, she’s, ” It’s, ”, “, Bart Freundlich, Tomas Maier, Bottega, Andrew Geller, Norman Jaffe, Freundlich, ” Moore, Moore’s, Liv, Caleb, Robert Gurr, Isamu Noguchi, Pierre, Noguchi, Alma Allen, Joseph Dirand, Oliver, “ I’m, ” Oliver, grins, MOORE, Anne Love Smith, Massimiliano Locatelli, Daniel Romualdez, Vincent Van Duysen, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Chapo, Willy Van Der Meeren, Friedrich Kunath, Mark Wilson, Donald Judd, Wilson, Mario Bellini, Karl Springer, Rogan Gregory, Nancy Pearce, Oscar, Alice ”, Alexander Calder, Andrea Zittel, JB Blunk, AFTRA, Hope, It’s, ‘ You’re, ’ ”, Justinian, Hans Wegner Papa Bear, Paavo, Marc Hundley, that’s, Adriana Lara, Nicholas Krushenick, Justinian Kfoury, downtowners, He’d, Trish Goff, Kfoury, Leonid Berman, Jelto ”, Tomma Abts, Paul Cadmus, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Paul van der, ” Kfoury, Joe Roberts, Mary Cameron Goodyear, Kfoury’s, He’s, Wolfgang Tillmans, they’d, Lorna Simpson, Misha Kahn, Michael Anastassiades, Glenn Ligon’s, Frank Bowling, Piet Hein Eek, Miriam Cahn, Paul Pfeiffer’s, Leah Panlilio, Tal Schori, Rustam Mehta, Adam Pogue, Constantino Buccolieri, Michael Kirkland, Cy Twombly’s, Ho, Huma Bhabha, Nairy Baghramian, Coco Fusco, Robert Vinas Jr, Duro Olowu, Mark Ellison, Adam Marelli, Bob Chan, Isamu Noguchi Akari, Danh Vo, Nairy, ‘, Laura Mac Donald, Theaster Gates, Frank Lloyd, Kirkland, Ettore, Parsons, Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham Organizations: Manhattan’s, Yorkers, that’s, Hamptons, WHO, Writers Guild of America, SAG, “, Audubon, Washington, East Village, brac, AS, Fifth, Fort Standard, GRT Architects, Architects, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Soane Britain Locations: New York, Paris, London, Rome , New York, It’s, Washington, Manhattan, Harlem, Montauk, American, Chinatown, York, N.Y, Summerhill, Long, Fort Pond, New York City, Pond, North Carolina, Morentz, Scottish, Japanese American, Belgian, East Hampton, Japan, “, California, Swiss, New York’s Washington, Kennebunkport, England, East, Boston, Lebanon, Maine, Vermont, Venice, Moroccan, North, Kfoury’s, New York’s Harlem, Westchester County, Brooklyn, Italian, Finnish, Rome, Los Angeles, Korean, Berlin, Iranian, Chicago

☆ Inside the Elaborate, Enviable Design of Three New York Homes
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +34 min

If You Can Make It Here Great design for a great city (New York, of course — where else?) In the oak-paneled living room of Justinian Kfoury’s apartment in a townhouse on Washington Square Park, an Audubon-style print and a Hans Wegner Papa Bear chair. “She was eccentric, grand, but not afraid of making weird decisions about design.” In the living room, a 1975 Leonid Berman painting of the Venice Lagoon hangs between the French doors. A view of the double-height living room from the curved balcony on the third floor. A sculpture by Huma Bhabha and a configuration of five Isamu Noguchi L7 pendants in the landing that separates the primary suite from the living room.

Persons: it’s, Mishan, there’s, —, Justinian, Hans Wegner Papa Bear, Paavo, Marc Hundley, that’s, Adriana Lara, Nicholas Krushenick, ”, Justinian Kfoury, downtowners, He’d, Trish Goff, Kfoury, “, Leonid Berman, Jelto ”, Tomma Abts, Paul Cadmus, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Paul van der, ” Kfoury, Joe Roberts, Mary Cameron Goodyear, Kfoury’s, He’s, Wolfgang Tillmans, they’d, It’s, Lorna Simpson, Mario Bellini, Misha Kahn, Michael Anastassiades, Glenn Ligon’s, Frank Bowling, Piet Hein Eek, Miriam Cahn, Paul Pfeiffer’s, Leah Panlilio, Tal Schori, Rustam Mehta, Adam Pogue, Constantino Buccolieri, Michael Kirkland, Alvar Aalto, Cy Twombly’s, Ho, Huma Bhabha, Isamu Noguchi, Nairy Baghramian, Coco Fusco, Robert Vinas Jr, Duro Olowu, Mark Ellison, Adam Marelli, Bob Chan, Isamu Noguchi Akari, Danh Vo, Nairy, ‘, Laura Mac Donald, Theaster Gates, Frank Lloyd, Kirkland, Ettore, Parsons, Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham, Julianne Moore, Bart Freundlich’s Montauk, Bart Freundlich’s, Moore, Tom Volk, Oliver Freundlich, Anne’s, Pierre Jeanneret, Willy Van Der, Ori Gersht, she’s, ” It’s, Bart Freundlich, Tomas Maier, Bottega, Andrew Geller, Norman Jaffe, Freundlich, ” Moore, Moore’s, Liv, Caleb, Robert Gurr, Pierre, Noguchi, Alma Allen, Joseph Dirand, Oliver, “ I’m, ” Oliver, grins, MOORE, Anne Love Smith, Massimiliano Locatelli, Daniel Romualdez, Vincent Van Duysen, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Chapo, Willy Van Der Meeren, Friedrich Kunath, Mark Wilson, Donald Judd, Wilson, Karl Springer, Rogan Gregory, Nancy Pearce, Oscar, Alice ”, Alexander Calder, Andrea Zittel, JB Blunk, AFTRA, Hope, ‘ You’re, ’ ” Organizations: Manhattan’s, Yorkers, that’s, Audubon, Washington, East Village, brac, AS, Fifth, Fort Standard, GRT Architects, Architects, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Soane Britain, Hamptons, WHO, Writers Guild of America, SAG, “ Locations: New York, Paris, London, Rome , New York, It’s, Washington, Manhattan, Harlem, Montauk, American, Chinatown, York, New York’s Washington, Kennebunkport, England, East, Boston, Lebanon, Maine, Vermont, Venice, Moroccan, North, Kfoury’s, New York’s Harlem, Westchester County, N.Y, Brooklyn, Italian, Finnish, Rome, Los Angeles, Korean, Berlin, Iranian, Chicago, North Carolina, California, Summerhill, Long, Fort Pond, New York City, Pond, Morentz, Scottish, Japanese American, Belgian, East Hampton, Japan, “, Swiss

☆ I'm 25 and live on a 30-foot sailboat in Southern California. It's much easier than I thought it would be and costs $820 a month.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

It's much easier than she thought it would be, and she plans to continue living there for years. People are always concerned about us when it's raining — but rain on the boat really isn't a challenge. It's a little uncomfortable because everything's wet, but aside from that we actually really like being inside the boat when it's raining. AdvertisementAdvertisementBut the challenges are actually really fun. Before I would have thought, "Well, I don't know if I'm going to be able to pull that off.

Persons: Mikaella Taylor, Taylor, Brandt, Mikaella, It's, Mikaella Taylor We're, it's, I've, Lexi Johnson, That's Organizations: Service Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ The Post-Vacation Clarity
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | More About Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you’re lucky, you might get out of your home and your head, take some time off and away. ), as I was recently, with that post-vacation clarity, whereby the excesses of one’s everyday life seem gaudy, nearly intolerable. A week spent living out of a suitcase and the concept of owning more than one sweatshirt seems silly. It’s not the stuff itself — having enough stuff is a privilege — but the complications that accompany the stuff. You spend time in a new environment, on a different schedule, maybe eating different things, trying on other ways of living.

☆ Consumers will win in cannabis-credit card clash
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The $376 billion payments network wants its financial partners in transactions for cannabis to crack down on using its debit cards, Bloomberg reported on July 26. The budding industry is running out of convenient options for customers to pay for its products. By definition, payments networks such as Mastercard and Visa (V.N) are middlemen, facilitating the movement of money between parties. In the weed business, that means they take the money from the buyer’s bank account and ship it into the dispensary’s. In Washington, D.C., some cannabis shops peddle quasi-worthless knickknacks such as stickers to customers while “gifting” small amounts of pot.

Persons: workarounds, Mastercard’s, Anita Ramaswamy, Lauren Silva Laughlin, Sharon Lam Organizations: YORK, Reuters, Mastercard, Bloomberg, Visa, D.C, Twitter, Thomson Locations: Washington

German-style Christmas markets crop up all over the world this time of year. For me, a visit to a Christmas market is an essential part of the festive season. Whether with family, friends, or colleagues, a Christmas market and a few glasses of mulled wine always hit the spot. I visited the "Weihnachten an der Spree," or Christmas on the Spree, all-inclusive Christmas market in Berlin, Germany, to see if it was worth it. So if, like me, you like to stroll through Christmas markets and look at stalls full of handcrafted objects, decorations, and other knickknacks, you'll be disappointed.

☆ How to Gift Money for Weddings, Christmas, Birthdays or Any Occasion
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +8 min

A sentimental card or letter can smooth over the transactional rough edges of a cash gift. If you’re sending money electronically, it’s great to note in the card the method by which you’ve sent money: “Check your Venmo for the gift that accompanies this card UNLESS YOU HATE MONEY,” or similar phrasing of your choice. Don’t even give them a gift card, which limits where they can redeem it and adds the pressure of an expiration date. And even if you feel annoyed by an overt request for a monetary gift, don’t decide to opt out with the gift of nothing. If you’d like to receive cashEmbrace transparencyMaybe people used to pretend they didn’t need money or that gifts didn’t…cost money, but those days are happily behind us.

☆ My partner and I reduced our cost of living by 80% and saved over $100,000 after moving into a van. Here why it's the best decision we've made.
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-03 | by ( Pollyanna Brown | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

This is how van life has enabled them to save $108,000 since 2020, as told to PollyAnna Brown. In September 2020, I got a management company to bring me brand deals for user-generated content — content that aligned my channel with sponsored items. By cutting our expenses, growing my business, and doing van life our way, we've saved $108,899.92 in just over two years. Van life also requires more oil changes, and we had to increase our phone plan so that we could hot spot for WiFi. That's how we've approached van life, and we love it.

☆ Full-time YouTuber shares 6 affordable decorating hacks for living in a small space
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-01 | by ( Cory Stieg | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Taber shares the three-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment with two roommates, and together they pay $5,150 in rent each month. Like many people, Taber was unable to use her co-working space during the Covid-19 pandemic, so she created an at-home workspace. Here's Taber's advice for decorating and organizing a small space:Shop for used items onlinePhoto: Beatriz Bajuelos. For example, Taber used the Facebook Marketplace to find a desk nearby and was able to pay for it using the Venmo app. So, she decided to give her bedroom furniture an upgrade using an inexpensive paint and primer combo.

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