The Nest is a new life-planning solution designed for hip and harried young newlyweds The Nest (which launched online in January 2005) publishes an award-winning quarterly magazine and a book series with Clarkson Potter, plus provides content to MSN and McClatchy-Tribune newspapers -- all 100-percent committed to the phrase “happily ever after.”
“TheNest.com: a go-to resource for today’s hip married couples.” --USA TODAY
Sister to wedding site TheKnot.com, TheNest.com is the go-to advice resource for a vast and loyal community of couples in their 20s and 30s that are building and organizing their lives together -- from buying first homes to organizing their finances, decorating, entertaining, and relating. Powered by a robust online community of just-married members of The Knot grappling with the emotional issues -- and enormous to-do list -- that face people in the first few years of marriage, TheNest.com includes interactive tools, calculators, photo databases, “best of the web” guides, blogging tools, photo sharing, plus expert Q+As and rich editorial advice. Members chat in a mother-in-law-free zone and dish out advice to each other on everything from how to get your permanent roommate to pick up their dirty socks to how to inspect a property when you’re buying your first home to when and how to get pregnant with baby number one.
Tools
- To-Do List: Stay on top of nagging to-dos, from changing your name to coordinating health insurance, with this comprehensive checklist that comes complete with an email reminder service (wouldn’t want to forget your dear mother-in-law’s birthday!).
- Blog: Chronicle the adventures of married life, from day-to-day activities to buying a home to having a baby.
- Address Book: Easily manage thank-you notes, invitations, and the requisite holiday card mailing list.
- Notebook: Earmark or send to a friend advice, decor ideas, recipes, and images from TheNest.com.
- Home Page: Keep friends and family up to date with a personal web page -- with pics of your wedding, honeymoon, new home, and expanding family.
- Recipes: Search hundreds of delicious recipes to answer that ever nagging question: "What’s for dinner?"
- Home Page: Keep friends and family up to date with a personal web page -- with pics of your wedding, honeymoon, new home, and expanding family.
Channels
- Money: How to get out of debt, make a budget, invest, file taxes jointly, buy insurance, and merge your money. Includes a household budgeter, savings calculator, and weekly Q+A with personal wealth management expert Robert Pagliarini.
- Real Estate: First-time homeowners' guide to house hunting, plus how to find the right broker, choose insurance, get a mortgage, and more. Includes a mortgage calculator, mortgage checklists, home inspection and home-buying checklists, and a weekly “Just Moved!” section detailing a couple’s recent home purchase (including price and photos!).
- Decor: How to pick paint colors, organize closets, make tiny spaces feel bigger, and merge his and her styles, plus real home slideshows and a decor gallery with hundreds of inspiring photos (gorgeous bedrooms, living rooms, entryways, bathrooms, home offices, and more!). Expert advice from celebrity designer Celerie Kemble and gardening guru Sean Conway.
- Dinner: Hundreds of easy dinner recipes (with photos!) -- chicken, pasta, slow-cooker, low-fat, and under 15-minute meals. Plus, foodie advice on how to store cheese, stock your bar, and set the table as well as quizzes (wine IQ?), checklists (Top Pantry Essentials), and daily Q+A with foodie Colleen Rush.
- Buying Guides: Advice on all big purchases, from shopping for a flat-screen TV to shutting off your landline, leasing a car vs. buying to sound systems, refrigerators, cars, and couches. Also: the best places to shop online and real people product reviews.
- Love & Sex: How to get along with the in-laws, jazz up your sex life, make couple friends, and date-night ideas, plus between-the-sheets advice from sexpert Dr. Pam.
Community
- Message Boards: Vent about insane in-laws, dish about the daily grind, and trade tips on moving, decorating, dinners, careers, single friends, and more.
- Local Boards: Meet and mingle with other newlyweds in your neighborhood. Review local businesses, read about events, and schedule offline get-togethers.
City GuidesMarried life is full of all sorts of new beginnings. When newlywed couples are ready to buy a home, purchase new furniture, hire a personal trainer, or even find a great spa in their area, The Nest City-by-City Guides are a very helpful (and easy to navigate!) resource.
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Carley Roney
Cofounder and Editor In Cheif, The Knot Inc.
Soon after Carley, her husband, and a couple of friends dreamt up TheKnot.com, she realized that thousands of Knottie brides were sticking around the site’s vibrant community long after the honeymoon. Once connected by their shared wedding planning experiences, these newlyweds were soon talking about moving in together, what to make for dinner, and how to save up for their first house. After witnessing a demand for answers to navigating married life (due to a void of helpful resources), Roney spearheaded the launch of The Nest to offer relief for hip and harried couples. From managing mothers-in-law to mastering marital finances to making the decision to start a family, Roney has all of the know-how on starting out as Mr. & Mrs.
Roney shares her advice for making marriage work on TheNest.com, in The Nest magazine, in her two books, The Nest Newlywed Handbook and The Nest Home Design Handbook, and regularly appears on top TV shows and channels, from NBC’s TODAY, CNN, ABC's The View, and more.
Watch trips for two with Carley Roney on LIVE! With Regis & Kelly.
Rebecca Dolgin
Executive Editor, The Nest
Ever wonder who’s responsible for all of those creative ideas flowing from The Nest? Meet Executive Editor for The Nest, Rebecca Dolgin. Basking in the young-married stage herself, Dolgin can relate to the newlywed issues that Nesties are going through, making her the perfect spokesperson for the brand. Rebecca’s responsibilities -- like managing The Nest magazine production, content syndication, The Nest books, and new products -- have her appropriately and forever emerged in young marrieds’ land where she stays atop all things Nestie.
Riann Smith
Deputy Editor, The Nest
As the deputy editor at The Nest, Riann Smith focuses on the newlywed-to-pregnancy lifestage, taking a stylish, practical approach to what all young marrieds need to know: from merging finances to buying and decorating homes, cooking and entertaining, family relationships, and more. On a daily basis, Smith develops and edits all content for The Nest magazine and oversees content and cross-promotions with TheNest.com. Her editorial experience spans major magazines, from the Deputy Articles Editor at Cosmopolitan to writing for Marie Claire and Redbook. Smith makes regular appearances on national and local television including NBC’s TODAY, CNN, and FOX News.
Brett Graff
Contributing Editor-- Finances, The Nest
Brett Graff is the go-to resource when it comes to reporting the economic forces that affect real people. As the money expert of The Nest, she answers reader-generated finance Q&As both in the magazine and online at TheNest.com/moneyqa. Dubbed “The Home Economist,” Graff has written for a variety of national publications and has been quoted in The New York Times and by the Fiscal Policy Institute, and has made appearances on both PBS and CNN.
Colleen Rush
Contributing Editor -- Food, The Nest
Ethnic grocery stores, supermarkets at off-peak hours, schmancy food emporiums, and farmers’ markets are Colleen Rush’s “Madison Avenue.” As the food and drink contributor for The Nest and regular blogger on TheNest.com, this foodie gets Nesties’ appetites going and serves up useful cooking tips, from how to roast a chicken to how a grill pan works.
Celeste Perron
Contributing Editor -- Living, The Nest
When it comes to talking green, Celeste Perron is our Nestpert for the job. As both a contributor to The Nest and frequent blogger on TheNest.com, she knows how Nesties can help sustain the environment in their everyday actions. She also contributes to a broad range of lifestyle topics, from health to style to decor. Perron resides ever-peacefully in Los Angeles with her husband and toddler daughter.
THREE MONEY MUST-DOS
It’s easy to focus all of your financial attention on holiday spending, but some important financial loose ends must be tied up before the year’s end. TheNest.com tapped its Money Expert (TheNest.com/money) Robert Pagliarini to help narrow down the essential money must-dos to tackle before January 1. After all, finances are one of the top stresses for today’s newlywed couples!
Max Out Your 401(k)
It’s imperative to check in regarding your 401(k) plan before the end of the year, and ask if you can make a one-time contribution or increase your per-check deduction if you haven’t yet reached the contribution limit. If you’re in a situation where you can afford to contribute the maximum amount of $15,500, this will give you the greatest tax benefit. But really, any contribution is beneficial because it will reduce the amount of income you are taxed on for 2007. Have extra vacation days? See if your employer offers the option to contribute the value of those days toward your 401(k)!
Use Your Flex Spending Before You Lose It
If you take part in a flexible spending program for medical or child care costs through your employer, it’s important to check in and see how much money you still have in your account. Most plans are “use it or lose it,” meaning that if you don’t use the remainder of money in your account by the end of the year, it’s gone! Find out what expenses are allowed under the plan and use up your balance by December 31.
Paper Cleanup 2008
Before you start sorting and pitching all of your 2007 paperwork, you need to decide whether you’ll be taking the standard deduction or if you’ll be itemizing. Here’s a tip: If your eligible itemized deductions exceed your standard deduction, it’s in your best interest to itemize. Don’t start pitching receipts and other important papers until you know exactly what you need to keep and what’s okay to throw out. Once you know what you need, make a folder for all of these important documents so you’re ready to go when tax time rolls around.
DUAL PURPOSE VACATIONS FOR COUPLES
Key West, Florida
His idea of a great time is hitting the ocean in a 30-foot Mako boat for the thrills of deep-sea fishing; she’s a bit of a bookworm and history buff -- who also likes time in the sun! The perfect trip for this duo is Key West, Florida. Fresh from a $37 million renovation, The Reach Resort (www.reachresort.com) -- located right off of Duval Street -- is the ideal spot for exploring the sites of Old Town, while still staying within a private retreat. Guests can also relax on The Reach’s 450 feet of pristine, private beach -- the only private natural beach in Key West. He’ll be able to charter the beautiful waters of Key West where fishing legends, like Ernest Hemingway, were born. While he’s at sea, she can tour the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum or the Harry S. Truman Little White House. From $149 per night
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
He wants to practice his Tiger swing while she relaxes like a star. The perfect trip for the golf-lover and spa fanatic -- Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a luxurious getaway nestled in the Teton Range. Stay at the recently renovated, Snake River Lodge & Spa (snakeriverlodge.rockresorts.com), one of Jackson Hole's finest full-service, award winning resorts. Located at the base of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Snake River Lodge & Spa enjoys spectacular views of the adjacent Gros Ventre Mountain Range. He’ll test his swing at one of the leading golf destinations in the country -- the nearby Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis Club. She’ll enjoy the resort's 17,000-square-foot spa, complete with a spectacular indoor/outdoor pool, hot tubs, sauna, treatment rooms, private men's and women's floors, and an extensive range of fitness and exercise equipment. From $250 per night
Turks and Caicos
She's a foodie, he's an adventurer. Head to the Grace Bay Club (www.gracebayclub.com) in Turks and Caicos. Perched on 11 acres of immaculate beachfront, the Grace Bay Club was the first luxury, all-suite hotel in Turks and Caicos offering guests a quiet haven for uninterrupted relaxation. He’ll definitely keep busy with the wide range of activities available, including windsurfing, kayaking, snorkeling, scuba diving, waterskiing, parasailing, deep-sea fishing, jet-skiing, and more! For her, the hotel offers guests the opportunity to enjoy the Conch Package. Included in the experience is a visit to the world’s only conch farm and a private conch cooking lesson with the Grace Bay Club executive chef or sous chef to master the art of conch salad, conch fritters, and more. From $500 per night
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