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What’s the best advent calendar? We ask experts—kids! We surveyed the families that read our parenting books to find their all-time favorite advent calendars. Here are the ones that came out on top. FYI: We’ve been reviewing and rating products for the home and families since 1994. To keep things independent, we don’t take money or freebies from brands we review! Our work is 100% reader-supported!

What’s the best light box for tracing? For diamond painting? What about photography? We tried out light boxes from 7 brands before deciding these are the best bets. Yes, all these boxes are A4 compatible—some worked better for different tasks, however. FYI: We’ve been reviewing and rating products for the home and families since 1994. To keep things independent, we don’t take money or freebies from brands we review! Our work is 100% reader-supported!

What’s the best hot chocolate? To find out, we did a blind taste test with 9 different hot cocoas. (Yes, a tough job but someone had to do it). Which was best? Here are the winners, as judged by our chocolate enthusiasts. FYI: We’ve been reviewing and rating products for the home and families since 1994. To keep things independent, we don’t take money or freebies from brands we review! Our work is 100% reader-supported!

What’s the best heat press machine for t-shirts? We asked the pros—readers of ours who are custom t-shirt enthusiasts! We asked for their favorites and then
did another 7 hours of research. We compared overall quality, ease of use and durability. Here are the ones we’d recommend. FYI: We’ve been reviewing and rating products for the home and families since 1994. To keep things independent, we don’t take money or freebies from brands we review! Our work is 100% reader-supported!

What’s the heat press? If you want to create custom t-shirts, tote bags or coffee mugs, a heat press machine can be a fun hobby . . . or a side hustle to generate some extra spending money. T-shirts are probably the most common use for a heat press, so we focused on that for this article. We interviewed four heat press enthusiasts among our parent readers to find their favorite machines. Then we did another 9 hours of research, comparing features and overall quality. Here are the heat press machines we’d recommend. FYI: We’ve been reviewing and rating products for the home and families since 1994. To keep things independent, we don’t take money or freebies from brands we review! Our work is 100% reader-supported!