EverydayFinds started because most "lifestyle" content is really just an ad in disguise. We built a blog that actually tries the thing before writing about it — and says so when it isn't worth your time.
Every lifestyle site publishes the same roundup, recycled from the same press kits, with the same affiliate links dropped in. We wanted to know what these things were actually like to live with — not what a brand's media kit claimed.
So we started writing the way a genuinely curious friend would: try it first, keep what earns its place, and skip the rest, even when skipping it means an empty spot where a sponsor hoped to be.
Today that means a small team publishing tested, honest posts every week on home, tech, beauty, and budgeting — and updating them when something we recommended stops being worth it.
Nothing goes live on a hunch. Every post goes through the same three checks first.
Where possible, we buy it, use it, or live with the change for at least a week before a word gets written.
If it's not something we'd genuinely recommend to someone we like, it doesn't make the post — no matter how well it photographs.
Products change, prices change, quality changes. We recheck older posts and update them rather than letting them quietly go stale.
A brand cannot buy its way into a post or a "top pick" badge. If it's featured, it earned it.
Plenty of things we try don't make the cut. We'd rather tell you what to skip than pad a list to ten.
When something we recommended changes for the worse, we go back and update the post — even if nobody asked us to check.
Started EverydayFinds after years of being disappointed by "sponsored honest reviews."
Tests every home post in their own apartment before it goes anywhere near publish.
Has a running spreadsheet of every product she's tried, good and bad, since 2021.
Runs the numbers on every "deal" before it's allowed to be called one.
"I've replaced three lifestyle blogs with this one. Every post feels like it was written by someone who actually cares whether it works for me."