Home & Garden

How to Make a HDTV Antenna with Some Coathangers!

January 19, 2010

Today I’m going to show you how to build your own HDTV antenna at home out of some coathangers and other junk you can find laying around that is not only cheaper than the kind you can buy from the store but also works significantly better. On February 17th, 2009 (last year), every TV station [...]

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How to Make a Dreamcatcher

January 2, 2010

A dreamcatcher is a Native American handmade craft based on a willow hoop (although other materials can be used), on which there is a loose woven net which is then decorated with various things such as beads, feathers, leather, etc. The traditional use of a dreamcatcher is that of a sort of coping or comforting [...]

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How to Make a Lockpick Out of a Paper Clip

December 30, 2009

Making an improvised lockpick out of a paper clip is easy and can be done in about 5 minutes or so. It’s not going to open every lock out there, especially high security stuff like Medecos et al, but it will pop open most pin-tumbler locks if the person using it knows what they’re doing [...]

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How to Remove Stickers from Any Surface (including bumper stickers on cars)

December 16, 2009

I have a bone to pick with the people that design packaging and stickers (no product should ever require a tool–knife, scissors, etc.–to remove it from its packaging): the level of rage that I feel upon attempting to remove a sticker or price tag from something I’ve just purchased and having some sticky gooey crap [...]

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How to Make Thermite from Scratch

December 15, 2009

Today, boys and girls, we’re going to learn how to make thermite. Let’s get something straight: thermite is not an explosive. It’s just some powder that burns REALLY (4500 degrees Fahrenheit) hot. Thermite was originally discovered in 1893 and found to be an excellent welding tool. Today, it’s primarily used by the railway industry to [...]

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How to Make a Rain Barrel (aka garden water butt)

December 11, 2009

Rain barrels, or water butts if you drive on the left-hand side of the road, may appear to have a prohibitively high initial cost but will very quickly pay for themselves in water bill savings: lots of homes use small-scale rain barrels to gather relatively small amounts (55 gallons) of water for gardening use instead [...]

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How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs

December 11, 2009

Bed bugs are parasitic insects that live entirely by drinking the blood of, primarily, humans. Bedbugs are mostly only active at night and can usually bite you and feed without you awakening. They were almost completely eradicated as pests in the early 1940s, but have, in the last decade or so, come back in nearly [...]

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How to Get Rid of Fleas in Your House

December 11, 2009

So, I take it you’ve been doing a bit more scratching lately than you might have liked to? Well, either you or your pet have. If you or your pet have fleas, keep in mind that only around 5% of the total fleas in your house are actually living ON you or your pet, the [...]

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How to Make a WiFi Antenna (signal booster)

December 10, 2009

I’m going to show you how to make a really simple and cheap (you’ve probably got everything you need: really just a printer to print the template and some aluminum foil) directional WiFi antenna that will significantly boost your signal beyond what most of the commercial antennas are capable of doing (sounds crazy, but just [...]

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How to Make Soap (homemade lye soap, all natural)

December 9, 2009

Making your own natural soap at home is a very easy and inexpensive process that you can learn how to do in about 10 minutes and then once you’ve got the necessary materials it’ll take about as long to actually make the soap itself (although the soap will need to set for a while longer [...]

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