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Thanks to today’s technology, it’s easier than ever to put mundane aspects of your life on autopilot, so you can spend less time stressing out about your tasks and more time doing what you love.

Michael Benninger of Mint.com put together a great article—Easy Ways to Automate Your Life—that features apps and websites that can help you free up your schedule and start living in the future by having your tasks take care of themselves.

Cook Up Tech Recipes

In a world where many of us carry computers in our pockets and have accounts with dozens of online services, it only makes sense to have these different technologies talk to each other. That’s where IFTTT comes in. An abbreviation for “if this, then that,” IFTTT is a free, easy-to-use service that lets users create “recipes” involving different digital triggers (“this”) and outcomes (“that”). IFTTT supports more than 300 channels (think Instagram, Spotify, Gmail, etc.) and can be used in millions of ways to make life easier. Here are some examples of recipes you can create:

• Instantly save your “Liked” Instagram photos to a Dropbox folder.
• Receive a text message whenever your favorite sports team scores.
• Trigger your air conditioner to turn on when the outside temperature hits 80 degrees, or make your lamp emit purple light when it starts to rain. (RIP, Prince.)

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Spend some time playing around with IFTTT and you’ll be amazed by how you can automate your life.

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How to Decide Where to Sell Your Stuff

by Jeremiah Tucker

The best part of a thorough spring cleaning is the purge. The feeling of scouring the house from the basement to the attic, and ridding yourself of all your unnecessary stuff is akin to an existential weight being lifted.

But what's even better than existential lightness? Making some extra money in the process.

Now you could haul all of that unwanted stuff to Goodwill, Habitat Restore, or a similar charity and take the tax deduction. But if you want to make some cash, but you're not sure how or where to sell all your stuff, just follow this handy decision-making flowchart.