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How to heat your room efficiently?
How to heat a medium-sized room more efficiently in winter time without pay too much for electricity?
I've already insulated my window and door by using some weather seal strips.
So my first guess was to use the tea candles or some heating system in…
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How to waterproof your shoes?
Are there any home ways to coat your shoes (made of material like canvas or cotton) to be water resistance?
Some time ago I've tried Ultra Ever Dry, but it was too smelly, toxic and the coating layer was too visible.
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How to fix a dented ping pong ball?
It happens very often when playing a ping pong and it's very easy to crash the ball.
If that happens, are there any easy tricks to fix the ball?
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What is the best method for cutting the top off a wine bottle?
I have seen lots of methods for cutting the top from a wine bottle and tried a few. However, I noticed that when I remove the top of the wine bottle, the area cut is always really jagged. Nothing a lot sandpaper and time cant fix, but I would really…
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Finding primary keyboard keys in the dark - alternative to purchasing adhesive dots
In a dimly lit room, I find it challenging to find some commonly used computer keyboard keys, such as F1, F5, -, and *.
As such, I was considering purchasing some adhesive stickers with little dots/nipples on them:
The problem with such products…
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How to clean up spilt sugar?
Today, while making a cup of coffee at a fundraising event, I spilt some sugar on a hard floor. We had no dustpan and brush or vacuum, so effectively, we resorted to picking up the sugar from the floor.
How could I have more efficiently and quickly…
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How to stop graphite from smudging in a notebook?
I am a very committed drawer and sketch artist, so I obviously have piles of sketchpads and sketchbooks. The only problem is that the graphite/charcoal from my 2B sketch pencils smudge on the papers above it. This is very annoying and inconvenient.…
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What is the best way to open letter envelopes?
I have a stack of incoming mail containing envelopes of various sizes and shapes. What is the quickest, easiest way to extract the contents?
My current technique is to give each envelope a quick shake to drop the contents to the left side, then use…
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Suggestions on keeping a computer chair from moving or being climbed on?
My 4-year-old son is fairly high-functioning on the autism spectrum and he is a climber. We have been able to mitigate or redirect most of his climbing using various lifehacks, but there remains one thing I can't figure out a way to beat and it is…
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How can I organize books of many sizes for usability?
I have a collection of (physical) books that I plan on growing. I want to organize them in a way where I can easily find a book, remove it, and replace it in the same spot.
I have books that are many different sizes. Height is a big enough problem…
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How can I keep cookies from going stale as long as possible?
I like soft chocolate chip cookies.
Unfortunately, even in an airtight container, cookies will go stale after a couple days.
Is there a way I can prevent this from happening? Not necessarily indefinitely, but at least keep them fresh for more than a…
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Alternatives to buying new foam for the headphone and microphone?
For headphones like these:
The foam at the mic and the earphone have torn off. On searching for replacements, the cost of buying a set of replacements is almost the cost of the headphone itself.
Without the foam, sounds do not get captured well…
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How to level a picture frame hung on a single nail?
I spent an hour perfectly measuring the position of 3 nails to hang 3 identical picture frames on my wall. Everything went fine and I'm certain that from a mathematical point of view the nails are exactly in the right positions.
But once I hang the…
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How to prevent pickpocketing in busy bars?
My iPhone X got stolen from my pocket a couple of months ago. I switched back to my iPhone 5. Last weekend an acquaintance of mine jokingly put my iPhone 5 out of my pocket and I immediately felt the little pressure of having a phone on your pocket…
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How to get out of the public restroom with clean hands?
Some public restrooms are just nasty to say the least, but even the ones that look clean may have many nasty germs inhabiting them. I'm not interested in the full process of keeping everything of myself clean while in a public restroom. I'm only…
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