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Fixing the hole in the kitchen floor

For as long as I can remember we’ve been stepping around the issue. The issue being the soft spot in the kitchen floor in front…

Locker Shelves!

A little over a year ago I was given some lockers…school lockers…that were used for employee storage at the agency I worked at. They were…

Organize My Life

With four kids, 3 vehicles and what seems like endless projects on the house and general fix-em’s, I need any help I can get. With…

Another Sugru Post

Yup, another post about Sugru. Well, it’s worthy of at least ten more posts. And we’re not compensated for this, we’re just in Sugru love.…

DIY rain barrel

My mom was green before it was cool. She and my dad have all kinds of little hacks and upcycles around their house that I’m…

Sugru rescues the scratched Harley Davidson fender

When attaching the passenger pillion pad to the fender of a Harley Davidson, I noticed that the rear bracket was at a weird angle, digging…

Reattaching a Paper Towel Holder

Did someone at your work or home get a little aggressive ripping paper towels off the mounted holder above the sink? Same here. But fear…

Hog Pen

A while back my oldest son wanted a pet and we decided that he was ready for the responsibility (or at least learn about the…

Mow on…Wax off

Last Saturday I was trying to decide whether I’d wash the cars or mow the lawn. Well, with rain for like 5 days straight, the…

Finished remote control

Kid-Proofing Your Home

My beautiful wife, Star, asked me the other day where all of the small spoons were. “Are there some in the dishwasher, because the drawer…

You don’t have Skycraft.

You don’t have Skycraft, but you wish you did. Do you need a toggle switch with one of those red safety covers like they use…

Spring Lawn Care Tips

We all dream of a lush, green lawn… a lawn with those cool, alternating, diagonal lines like a baseball field… a lawn that is manicured…

Egg-dying with direct food color application onto the egg.

The best part of Easter… Colored Eggs

Man, Easter is one of those super-religious holidays. My religious knowledge has, let’s just say… lapsed, but apparently a LOT of stuff happened to Jesus…

Spatula Resurrected

Maybe a better title is: “How do I fix my broken spatula?” So I accidentally broke my favorite spatula. I didn’t COMPLETELY break it, I…

How to build a workbench

Ever since I helped Emily (merrypad.com) build her deck in the summer of 2010 my tools have kinda just been strewn about her dining room or…

A comparison of the before and after headlight polishing

How to Polish Headlights… OR… Your Headlights Suck

You see…most of my cars had headlights made of glass. Sealed beam headlights. Not crappy plastic. So that either says I’ve had cool old cars,…

Cans of beans marketed to kids

Brand Synergy + Kids = Vegetables

With four kids, we try to maintain a relationship with each child individually, and since the middle two are twins (and innocently referred to by…