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How To: Remove blood stains with Martha Stewart's REAL SIMPLE
Blood stains can be tough. These tips will help you remove the toughest blood stains. Learn how to remove blood stains with the folks from Martha Stewart's REAL SIMPLE. Ideally, you'll tackle blood stains while they're still wet, which makes them easier to get out. But they're definitely a challenge. Here's the best way to treat them.
How To: Fold sweatpants
In this how to video, the Beverly Hills Organizer, Linda Koopersmith demonstrates how to fold a pair of sweatpants for neat and compact storage. The way you store your clothes makes a huge difference in the appearance and longevity of your garments. Watch this organizing tutorial and you will be properly folding and storing your sweats in no time.
How To: Fold a slip or a night gown
In this how to video, the Beverly Hills Organizer, Linda Koopersmith demonstrates how to fold a slip or a night gown. The storage of your clothes or lingerie makes a huge difference in the appearance and longevity of your garments. Watch this organizing tutorial and you will be properly folding and storing your slips or night gowns in no time.
How To: Fold a thong
In this how to video, the Beverly Hills Organizer, Linda Koopersmith demonstrates how to fold a thong for compact storage. The storage of your clothes and underwear makes a huge difference in the appearance and longevity of your garments. Watch this organizing tutorial and you will be properly folding and storing your clothes in no time.
How To: Polish wood furniture with a banana
This wood polishing trick might seem a tad crazy, but if you watch the how to video you can see that it works. Watch it and polish your home wood furniture with a banana. It is an eco-friendly alternative to any aerosol wood polish out there. Yes even rotten bananas work.
How To: Set a rat trap safely
This video will demonstrate how to properly set our top 4 Rat Snap Traps. The models reviewed include the two most common traps, the original Victor Metal Trigger Trap as well as their newer Expanded Trigger Trap. Also reviewed are two new designs which are both easier and safer to employ. Baiting these traps is also discussed.
How To: Repair CDs and DVDs with an eraser
Tired of your CDs and DVDs skipping? There's a simple fix to mending all of those scratches and scuffs. And the simple trick involves a pencil eraser and a soft cloth. No more skipping discs or unplayable movies!
How To: Iron slacks
Marti Swanson will give you step-by-step instructions for ironing your nice dress pants, with expert tips on preparing the pants for ironing, ironing the waist band and ironing the seams. Get advice on ironing the pant legs and inner legs of your slacks, as well as tips on ironing darting and zippers.
How To: 10 Reasons Why Your Freezer Is Perfect for Doing Laundry
Your freezer is no one-trick pony. While it does excel at keeping your food fresh for as long as possible, it has a few secret talents it doesn't want you to know about. Like making soda slushies and pyro-friendly smoke mix, as well as reviving dead hard drives. Even better—it can help you do laundry.
How To: Use Olive Oil for Things Other Than Cooking
Everyone knows how fantastic olive oil is as a salad dressing. But did you know that this healthy and superbly tasting oil pressed from full-grown olives can be used in so many other ways than flavouring those greens? I will tell you 20 other uses and benefits that can be done with olive oil.
How To: No Iron, No Problem! A Stupid-Easy Way to Get Rid of Wrinkles
We've all done it—you're rushing out the door when all of a sudden you notice your shirt is embarrassingly wrinkled. Sure you could break out the ironing table, wait about 100 years for your iron to heat up, then carefully go over every last inch of fabric. But you're lazy, terrible at ironing, or, if you're like me, both. So don't work harder, work smarter!
How To: 5 Apartment Improvements You Can Do in an Hour
Presented by Apartments.com When looking for a new apartment, it's hard not to notice the improvements (on large and small scale) needed prior to moving in. While your landlord may be taking care of new carpeting, cleaning the central air vents, and fresh paint on the walls, there may be some additional improvements on your list that you can take care of on your own. Here are five quick improvements you can check off your list before the big move.
How To: Add Essential Oil to Toilet Paper to Eliminate Bathroom Odors
With fragrance-filled sprays, scented candles, diffuser sticks, and other air-freshening products, the scent lasts just a few minutes and doesn't always mask what you were hoping to cover up. When it comes to the bathroom, scented toilet paper might sound like a terrible (and silly) idea, but it's best at eliminating stinky smells over a long period of time.
How To: Fold Your Fitted Sheets Nice and Neat
Folding fitted sheets seems nearly impossible, but with a neat trick it's just as easy as folding a blanket.
How To: Protect Your Home from Mice for the Winter
Brought to you by Tomcat. Falling snow, warm fireplace, delicious hot cocoa, quiet reading time, mouse. Quick quiz - which one is not like the other? Nothing can ruin a perfectly cozy afternoon in your home like a pest on the loose. With dropping temperatures, you may have some unwelcome residents, like mice, looking for shelter from the cold.
How To: Clean Low Water Light Sensor on a Weil McLain Gold Boiler
If your Weil McLain Gold water boiler has stopped working due to a low level water light being on, this video will show you how to clean the sensor.
How To: Clean Your Blender
Put a squirt of dish soap in the blender. 2. Fill blender with hot tap water 3. Put lid on and take the blender for a whirl. 4. Rinse, dry and done!
How To: Prevent a Bathroom Shower Window from Rotting Out the Easy Way
This is a great tip that will show you how to easily protect your bathroom tub or shower window from rotting out due to water damage.
How To: Make a Great Looking American Flag Centerpiece for Dining Room Table
Here's a great tip on how to make a great looking American flag centerpiece for your dining room table.
How To: Quiet Down a Squeaky Hamster Gerbil or Mouse Running Wheel
Here's a quick easy way to quiet down a loud squeaky hamster, mouse or gerbil wheel. This will enable you to finally sleep at night!
How To: Clean Your Dirty Electric Stove Coils with Tinfoil
Learn how to clean the dirty electric coils on your kitchen stove with aluminum foil.
How To: Clean a Blender the Fast Easy Way
This video will show you a quick fast and easy way to clean your blender with liquid soap.
How To: Clean Cooking Grease Out of a Microwave Oven Range Filter
Learn how to easily remove the cooking grease out of your microwave stove top oven range filter. This tip will allow you to reuse the filter!
How To: Use SuperClean for a Fast Easy Way to Clean the Exterior of a BBQ Grill
This video will show you how to use SuperClean for a fast and easy way to clean some of the gross crud off of the exterior of your BBQ grill.
News: 7 Tips for Organizing Your Room
Today I'm going to show you 7 easy ways to organize your room. They are really simple and cheap so I hope you find them useful!
How To: The Best Way to Hang Dress Pants and Jeans So They Actually Stay on the Hangers
If you don't have hangers with clips, hanging up jeans and dress pants can be frustrating. They never stay straight and constantly slide off the hangers. You can always MacGyver your own pants hangers by using clothespins, but if you don't have any, there's another way.
How To: Fix a Wash Machine That Won't Spin Repair Agitator
This video will show you how to fix, repair, replace a broken agitator in your wash machine. If the agitator stopped turning, this is an easy way to fix it.
How To: Install and Wire a Ceiling Light or Chandelier in Your Home
This video will show you how to install or replace a chandelier or ceiling light in your home. We also explain the wire colors and that the white one is power.
How To: Bleed Air Out of the Oil Line on a Boiler Burner
This video will show you how to bleed the air out of the burner oil line on your furnace if you run out of oil. Shown on a Carlin EZPro burner, Weil Mclain Gold boiler. Also would work on most burners the same way including a Beckett.
How To: Change the Exhaust Filters on a Whirlpool Microwave
This video will show you how to change the range and overhead air filters on your Whirlpool microwave. MODEL MH1160XSB-3
How To: Change the Light Bulb on a Whirlpool Microwave Range
This video will show you how to change the range light bulb on a Whirlpool microwave. Model MH1160XSB-3
How To: Reset a Tripped Circuit Breaker Switch on a Fuse Box Panel
This video will show you how to reset a tripped circuit breaker switch on a fuse box panel, and what to look for if they are not labeled.
How To: Use a Milk Crate to Transport a Propane Tank Safely
This video will show you how to make transporting your propane tank a lot safer using a milk crate.
How To: Clean a Porcelain Bathtub with Mr. Clean Sponge or Magic Eraser Remove Dirt
This video will show you how remove the dirt from your porcelain bathtub using a Mr. Clean sponge or a magic eraser.
How To: Clean a Pellet Stove Using a Shop Vac Vacuum Cleaner with Filter
How to clean your pellet stove and glass using a shop vacuum with a special filter.
How To: Connect a Cable Box to a TV Using HDMI Wire Comcast Xfinity
This video will show you how to connect and hook up a Comcast Xfinity cable box to your HDTV using a HDMI wire.
How To: Spice Up Boring Spaghetti Sauce Using Sugar
Learn How To spice up boring spaghetti sauce by adding a little bit of sugar.
How To: Clean a Stainless Steel Kitchen Sink with Steel Wool
This video will show you how to clean a stainless steel kitchen sink with steel wool.
How To: Clean a Microwave with Water No Chemicals Works Awesome Fast & Easy
Here's a really good fast easy way to clean your microwave with a bowl of hot water. GREAT TIP! No harsh cleaning chemicals.
News: How to Dry Clothes - Directions for Dummies
This could happen when you trust a guy to hang out wet clothes. Ladies, beware, guys simplify housework simply because they don't care of it's a chore they just don't want. Watch and learn to be creative about the ways you spice your every day chores up. Most of all, laugh your head off.