Is there anyone who doesn’t love an Oreo? Since the cookie’s introduction in 1912, it’s become an American household favorite. While the black-and-white version is the original, there have been more than 200 varieties of the classic cookie through the years. Some of them have been huge hits, while others didn’t fare as well. We’re willing to bet there’s at least one Oreo variety that you like, and if you’re the kind of person who likes protein bars, we have huge news. All Recipes shared that Oreo and Clif Builders collaborated to create a wildly delicious protein bar that has people hooked. View this post on Instagram A post shared by CLIF BAR (@clifbar) The New Oreo Clif Builders Bar Packs a Ton of Protein Clif Builders White Fudge Oreo-Flavored Plant Based Protein Bars have 20 g of protein per bar. According to reviews on the Clif Builders website, the White Fudge Oreo-Flavored bars are a huge hit. “This could be the best tasting protein bar I’ve ever had! The flavor is great with no strange aftertaste. I love the crunchy texture. The bar also looks appealing with the white chocolate and dark chocolate stripes. The size is big and filling. This is a great way to get 20 grams of protein. Highly recommend!!!” One fan wrote. This Oreo fan agreed and 100% recommends the protein bar. “If you love Oreos, you’ll love this! You definitely get the flavor of Oreos and it feels like you’re eating a treat! No grittiness or weird aftertaste. 20g of protein is great too although I did mark it down a star because the calories feel a little higher than I would like (280). Definitely a solid choice!” They wrote. The Clif Builders White Fudge Oreo-Flavored Plant Based Protein Bars are available on the Clif Builders website and Amazon. We are adding this to our cart right now. This story’s featured image is by Kevin Carter/Getty Images

Many people live in homes where they feel overwhelmed by “too much stuff.” Some people are naturally good at regularly weeding out and purging things, but those who aren’t can easily reach a point of overabundance where they need to declutter their homes. A “hot mess” mom who goes by The Home Admin on YouTube shared three lessons she internalized to declutter her home by 90%. That may sound like an incredible figure, but many people would benefit from clearing out a majority of the things in their homes. The things that helped her finally do it are simple, accessible mindset shifts that anyone can use.  1. Overwhelm is expected. You can move through it.  It’s daunting to look at a room, closet, or even a drawer filled with stuff and think about how to deal with it. That’s okay. Overwhelm is going to happen. Don’t let it stop you. “Just because you’re going to feel overwhelmed does not mean you have to put things off for a longer period of time or do them later,” she says. “Because the reality is you’re always going to be overwhelmed by the stuff if you choose not to tackle it.” Most people’s natural response to feeling overwhelmed is to freeze up and avoid the overwhelming thing. The key is to acknowledge the feeling but move forward anyway. You can declutter even if it feels overwhelming. The decluttering itself is actually the answer to the overwhelm.  2. Everything in your home demands something of you  No item is benign. They all require something of you. Photo credit: Canva “Every single thing in my home is demanding something from me,” she says. “It’s demanding to be used, to be cleaned, to be put away.” We may not think of a clothing item that doesn’t fit, a toy our kids don’t play with, or a random paper in a pile this way, but every single item in our home requires something of us. Thought, time, energy, space—we give it something of ourselves every time we see it. Or perhaps we can think of it as draining something from us every time we see it. When we realize this, it shifts something in our motivation. It’s not just about getting rid of things we don’t need. It’s about freeing ourselves from things that take our thought, time, energy, or space. “When you have less items, the demand from you can focus on things that actually bring you fulfillment,” she says.  3. The ‘poop rule’ of decluttering @madamesweat Have you ever heard of The Poop Rule? #homehygiene #decluttering #washingtonpost #declutter ♬ original sound – Madame Sweat | kaia naturals – Madame Sweat | kaia naturals Apparently, cleaning expert Jolie Kerr originally coined this idea in The Washington Post in 2025, but it has since gone viral on social media. When you’re not sure whether to get rid of something, ask yourself one question: “If this were covered in poop, would I throw it away or clean it?” Decluttering often involves tough decisions as our brains make all kinds of justifications for keeping things. “Maybe I’ll need this someday.” “Oh, I got this on a special trip.” “This was a gift from someone.” “It’s still perfectly usable.” The poop rule makes it a lot easier to ignore the thoughts that would have us keep things we don’t need and aren’t actually that attached to.  Decluttering takes time, but it’s worth it Tackled the messy old stuff at home today—decluttering brings such a light, uncluttered vibe! Small wins make big days pic.twitter.com/roMkrpq6mE— dogorcita (@dogorcita1) June 4, 2026 Despite wanting to do it, decluttering can be hard for many reasons: It takes time. We don’t know where to start. It requires making a lot of decisions.  We might be attached to our stuff. We might be afraid we’ll get rid of something we’ll need or want later. It requires upkeep. Hopefully, these three simple mindset shifts can help minimize some of the obstacles that keep us in a state of overwhelm. You can follow The Home Admin on YouTube for more tips like these. The post ‘Hot mess’ mom shares the 3 lessons she internalized that helped her declutter her home by 90% appeared first on Upworthy.

On October 26, 1995, just before dawn, a massive avalanche came down off Skollahvilft mountain and slammed into the village of Flateyri in Iceland’s Westfjords. It destroyed 17 houses and killed 20 people. Forty-five people were inside the homes that were hit. Sóley Eiríksdóttir was 11 years old, asleep in her bed, wearing nothing but “knickers and a T-shirt in all that snow,” as she later put it. There had been no warning. One moment she was asleep; the next, she was buried under the rubble of her own home. She would be trapped there for hours. View this post on Instagram Sóley, who shared her story on Instagram, described the strange calm that settled over her once she realized rescuers were near. The villagers were being dug out in the middle of the night by, among others, the crew of a fishing trawler called Pétur Jónsson RE-69. “I heard noise in the room next to mine and I realised that a lot of men were there,” she told the Iceland Monitor. “It made me a lot calmer when I realised people were there.” As the crew tunneled toward her, more snow kept falling on top of her. Then a hand reached through the snow and found hers. The rescuer asked her name and age, and he did not let go. “My left hand was icy cold and I couldn’t feel it anymore. It was all cut up by the glass from the window pane but I couldn’t feel a thing,” she recalled. “I just smiled when they arrived because I knew everything would be ok.” A rescue worker digs through snow after an avalanche. Photo credit: Canva While they worked to free her, Sóley asked about her 19-year-old sister, Svana. The rescuer told her Svana was okay. She wasn’t. Once Sóley was safely out and at the rescue center, she stayed happy, relieved that she and her sister had both survived. But after a while, something started to feel wrong. She kept asking for Svana. Eventually, two men overheard her and exchanged a look, quietly debating whether to tell her the truth. They never actually said the words out loud. They didn’t have to. Sóley understood. Her sister was gone. Svana’s body was found later. She had not survived the cold. It’s a brutal thing to be lied to in a moment like that. But one commenter on Sóley’s post articulated why the rescuer likely made the choice he did: “If that man told you the truth while you were in the position you were, you would have given up easily and passed away from despair.” The lie may have been the thing that kept her holding on. The crew members who responded that night carried the memory for decades. “There was so much destruction, it was impossible to see the direction of the actual village,” Erl­ing­ur Birg­ir Kjart­ans­son told Morgunblaðið. Ragnar Ólafsson said the only thing that kept them digging was the hope of finding someone alive under the snow. Twenty years after the disaster, Sóley brought her own six-year-old daughter, Vilborg Saga, to meet the crew who had pulled her from the snow. It was the first time she had seen them since that night. “Thank you,” she told them, “for giving me the chance to meet you.” View this post on Instagram The Flateyri disaster came just nine months after another avalanche had killed 14 people in the nearby village of Súðavík. The twin tragedies shook the entire country and forced a reckoning with how unprepared Iceland’s mountainside communities were. In 1998, a large A-shaped deflecting dam was built above Flateyri to redirect future avalanches away from the village. Since its completion, two major avalanches have come down, and the village has remained protected. The man who found her hand made a decision in the dark that morning: Hold on, and don’t tell her the worst of it yet. It got an 11-year-old girl through the longest hours of her life. She’s now a mother herself, which is its own kind of answer to whether he made the right call. The post A rescuer found a girl’s hand buried in the avalanche. He held it for hours and told one lie. appeared first on Upworthy.

Kyle Cohen, a fourth-grade teacher in Cleveland, Ohio, posted a TikTok video about how much he made during his first year of teaching. The number got people’s attention. “In my first year of teaching, I taught at a charter school here in Cleveland, Ohio, and I made $31,000 as a fourth-grade teacher with a class of 16 students with a wide range of special needs, and I had my college degree and experience,” Cohen, 26, said in a clip that pulled in more than a million views. The comments split the way these things always do. Some people were sympathetic. Others rolled out the greatest hits of teacher-pay dismissal. One of the most common claims: teachers “only” work eight to nine months a year, so what are they complaining about? @mr.kylecohen #stitch with @itsnitababyyy #teachers #teachersoftiktok #teacherlife #money ♬ original sound – Kyle Cohen, M.Ed. Cohen decided to answer that claim with a calculator. In a follow-up video that has been viewed more than 4.6 million times, he broke down his actual hours. “I work from about 7 to 5, which is roughly 10 hours a day. Multiply that by five, because there are five days in a week—that is 50 hours,” he said. Multiply that by four weeks, and you get about 200 hours a month. Then he added the stuff that doesn’t fit into the school day: “I also am going to add 10 additional hours per week because, if I look at my calendar, I have a lot of meetings and events and things like that as a fourth-grade teacher that I’m required to attend.” He gave a live example: It was 6 p.m. while he was filming, and he had parent conferences running until 8, with more conferences scheduled for the following Monday and Wednesday. View this post on Instagram That brings him to roughly 240 hours a month, and he was clear that he considers that a conservative estimate once you factor in lesson planning, grading, and communication with families, coworkers, and administrators. Then he did the final math. Even granting the “only nine months a year” framing, 240 hours times nine months is 2,160 hours. Take his $31,000 first-year salary, divide it by 2,160 hours, and you get about $14 an hour. Fourteen dollars an hour, with a college degree, teaching kids with significant special needs. View this post on Instagram Cohen’s experience isn’t a fluke. A 2025 report from the National Education Association found that starting teacher salaries nationwide still fall well below the average earnings of other jobs requiring a college degree. Research from the Economic Policy Institute found that teachers earn about 27% less, on average, than comparably educated workers, a gap that has widened significantly over the past few decades. Cohen was careful to head off the “if you don’t like it, quit” responses. “I’m not ungrateful because I absolutely love what I do, and I would not trade being an educator for anything,” he said. “But what I am hoping we have conversations about is the fact that teachers who are ‘only working for eight to nine months of the year’ are being paid inappropriately for the amount of work that they are doing.” View this post on Instagram Speaking to BuzzFeed, he connected it to something bigger than his own paycheck: “Students are experiencing more challenges than ever before as a result of the pandemic. If we don’t address these issues, it’s the students, our future leaders, who are going to face the consequences.” Cohen, who spent two years with Teach For America before moving to his current district, said the videos are meant to start real conversations rather than simply venting. The “nine months off” argument also conveniently ignores that teachers generally aren’t paid during the summer. Many take second jobs, and plenty spend chunks of that “time off” in unpaid training, preparing classrooms, or planning the year ahead. The $14-an-hour figure is the kind of thing that’s hard to argue with once it’s laid out, which is probably why the video traveled as far as it did. You can debate a lot about education. The arithmetic is just the arithmetic. The post A teacher was told he only works 9 months a year. So he did the math on his real hourly pay. appeared first on Upworthy.

Candy lovers are always looking for the next great sweet treat to try and fall in love with. But one of the sweetest surprises is stumbling upon a nostalgic candy they can still enjoy today, one that brings back childhood memories. And that’s exactly what is sold at the world’s oldest candy shop, The Oldest Sweet Shop. Located in Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom, the candy store opened in 1827 and has been continuously in business ever since. The building it’s housed in was built in 1661. The candy store proudly boasts that it has kept its doors open through two world wars and the COVID-19 pandemic. Owner Ben Howie showed off the shop’s extensive candy collection, including its bestsellers. Highlights of the shop A friendly bell welcomes customers into the store, where the walls are lined with candy displayed in glass jars. “Coming into the shop is a bit of a time machine for people,” Howie tells SWNS. “It takes people straight back to their childhood, straight back to all the nostalgic sweets that they [knew] and loved as a child.” The candy is also measured by weight in an old-school way, which Howie notes is “in pounds and ounces and or by the quarter, which is as traditional as you get, really.” “We’ve still got the Avery Scales, which are so iconic and obviously still work and we use them everyday,” he adds. The shop also uses a stunning antique cash register with a long history in the area. “And then we’ve got the till (a cash register) here which also still works. This has actually been in Pateley Bridge for over 200 years, I believe, in various different shops,” says Howie. @yorkshirelist YOU CAN VISIT THE OLDEST SWEET SHOP IN THE WORLD RIGHT HERE IN YORKSHIRE Nestled on the High Street of Pateley Bridge, you’ll find a record-breaking store with bags of flavour. Inside, it’s the epitome of Yorkshire quaintness, with rows upon rows of classic and colourful sweets to gawk at. It’s literally like being a kid in a candy store! Click the link in our bio to read the full story The Oldest Sweet Shop in the World, 39 High Street, Pateley Bridge, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG3 5JZ #harrogate #northyorkshire #pateleybridge #exploreuk ♬ Sunrise – Noctum47 Best-selling nostalgic candy Howie says that the shop’s top sellers are “any of the hard-boiled range,” also known in the United States as hard candy. The candy is made locally in Yorkshire, and the shop’s website notes that most are “made to the original recipes dating back to the 19th century (boiled in copper pans, the way sweets should be made).” He adds that the shop’s Rhubarb and Custard flavor is one of the most popular boiled candy flavors. Other bestsellers include chewier candies from a brand called Lion’s, including licorice, Wine Gums (a chewy yet firm fruit candy), and Mini Gems (formerly called Midget Gems, hard gummies that are still soft enough to chew). Howie’s personal favorites are the Raspberry Bon Bon and Dolly Mixture (a mix of fondant and sugar-coated jellies that he notes is a bit more traditional). Besides candy, the shop also sells chocolate, caramels, and fudge. And if you can’t make it to The Oldest Sweet Shop in person, its sweet treats can also be purchased online. Other bestsellers include Yorkshire Mixture, Sherbet Lemons, Pear Drops, Dusted Milk Bottles, Jelly Babies, Strawberry Bon Bons, Milk Chocolate Caramels, and Fresh Luxury Vanilla Fudge. The post The world’s oldest candy shop is located in the United Kingdom. Its bestselling sweets are old-school classics. appeared first on Upworthy.