10 Vintage Life Hacks From The 1900s That Actually Still Work Back in the 1900s, cigarette manufactures used to insert stiffening cards into their paper cigarette packs to add strength and help them last longer. Along the way, someone had the bright idea of printing trivia, artwork and even famous people and athletes (Honus Wagner anyone?) …
31 Cheap And Easy Last-Minute DIY Gifts They’ll Actually Want This time of year a lot of us struggle to find that perfect gift for friends and loved ones more so if you’re on a tight budget, the holidays seem more like a burden than a celebration. It can be overwhelming to consider all the people …
9 Old Wives Tales That Are Actually True Most old wives’ tales are just that: tales. Nobody really believes money spiders bring money, or pulling a face when the wnd changes direction will curse you to a life of looking like Carrot Top. Trouble is, we have gotten so used to being sceptical we now dismiss …
21 Kitchen Upgrades That You Can Actually Do Yourself Most of us probably don’t cook in our dream kitchen. Instead, we deal with our kitchens’ quirks and inconveniences on a daily basis. Thankfully, your kitchen can still be a place that you love and cherish, a place you enjoy, and not merely tolerate. You may not be …
The One Tear-Free Onion Cutting Trick That Actually Works! So why do onions seem to make us cry?. When you cut the basal plate or shoot, they release an enzyme. That enzyme reacts in the rest of the onion to release a gas. When that gas combines with water, it creates an acid. If that …
10 Tiny Homes You Can Actually Buy Folks who live in these small houses prefer to keep fewer belongings and cite a myriad of different benefits, chief among them the low cost of owning and maintaining a tiny house. Are you really going to build a tiny home? For most of us the answer is probably …