In this week's episode of Gossip Girl, everyone on the Upper East Side is all about keeping up appearances — and revealing secrets. Blair plots to make over her image, Lily plays puppeteer to save her family name, and Chuck learns that he may have been chasing the wrong mystery about his parentage after all. Relationships turn rocky, too, as Rufus confronts Lily for being selfish. Let's cover Read more

Winter weather offers a great opportunity for cozy, creative dates, so we've come up with fun, inexpensive options to keep your social life humming no matter how low the temperature dips. Take a break from the classic dinner-and-a-movie routine with one of these original ideas. Read more

We talk about love and money quite a bit here on Savvy, and many of you have had a go-round or two with your significant other about the topic. In a new relationship, resolving money issues means adjusting to each other’s spending and saving styles, and coming up with a system you can both live with. But as relationships grow and change, financial situations do too, and many couples find Read more

Thinking of what to get your co-workers can be hard because you need to assess your relationship with them. You need to figure out how close you are to them so you can pick appropriate gifts and not choose ones that cross the line. One of the problems you might find with buying gifts for you co-workers is you don't know much about their personal preferences and it can be weird to ask them. To Read more

Author Leah Dieterich is really good about writing thank-you notes. And not just to people who send her birthday presents or host her for a weekend. Since 2009, Leah has written a thank-you note every day to objects, ideas, places, or people. She's given thanks to clean sheets, men who walk Pomeranians, and her own laziness. At first she kept them in a box, but soon she started a blog so she Read more

The Change-Up, starring Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds, hits theaters this Friday, and I can imagine that plenty of new dads are going to be in the audience (if they can get time off for the night, that is). And while Ryan Reynolds's character may be living the high life, I'm coveting family man Jason Bateman's sweet home, which he shares with the always-fantastic Leslie Mann. There are quite a Read more