How To
How to Find Out Your Blood Type at Home
Knowing your blood type is useful in the event of an emergency surgery or a donation shortage. If you want to find out your blood type, you may not want to set up an appointment at your doctor’s office or a lab and have to wait days for the results. Inste...
How to Hang an Unframed Canvas
There are several ways you can hang an unframed canvas to ensure it still looks great on your wall. If you're hanging a canvas that's stretched over stretcher bars, hammer a nail or two into the wall before placing the top stretcher bar over the nails. Pi...
How to Take an Order in a Restaurant
If you’re waiting tables at a restaurant, it’s important to provide great customer service to ensure your guests have the best experience. One of the most important parts of working at a restaurant is making sure you take each customer’s order quickly and...
How to Work Out Catering Quantities
If you're catering an event and want to plan out how much food will be served, there are some simple ways to get an accurate estimate. The first step is getting a head count of how many people will be attending the event. If you're serving a sit-down meal...
Why Do Gardens Need Potash? Everything You Need to Know
The term “potash” refers to a variety of compounds that contain potassium, one of the “Big 3” nutrients that make up most commercial fertilizers.[1] X Research source Potassium is essential for helping your plants fight disease and grow stro...
3 Quick Ways to Make a DIY No Sew Pillow Cover
Making your own pillow covers is a fun way to change up your decor. Even better, these no-sew pillow covers don't require a sewing machine, and they're easy enough for anyone! If you have fabric adhesive on hand, you can create a custom cover for any pill...
How to Answer a Summons for Debt Collection
Receiving a summons for debt collection can be a terrifying thing. While you might be tempted to ignore it, that's not a good plan. If you ignore the summons, the creditor will get a default judgment against you, even though it's possible that you don't o...
How to Clean a Travel Pillow
Travel pillows are a great accessory for taking on airplanes, trains, and buses. If you’ve used your travel pillow a lot, it might be getting dirty or collecting an odor. Before you clean your travel pillow, determine what material it is made out of. Most...
How to Open a Nursing Home
As more and more people get older, there is increased demand for nursing home services. This is an excellent industry for someone who loves caring for people and helping families. Opening a nursing home, however, is a large and expensive task. If you'd li...
How to Report Fraud on PayPal
PayPal provides a more secure option to transfer money online. Unfortunately, dishonest people have also found ways to use PayPal for fraud. They take advantage of the fact that you trust PayPal to scam you out of money or items you're selling online. If...
How to Stop Knots from Showing Through Paint
Most of the time, a regular primer will help you cover knots in pieces of wood before painting. However, certain softwoods and newly cut woodwork have natural oils and resins that may bleed through wood knots after they’ve been painted if you haven’t prim...
How to Measure Thickness of Paper
Paper thickness matters when you’re printing or making an art project. Thicker paper is often heavier and may absorb ink or paint differently than thinner paper. However, measuring the thickness of an individual sheet is tough. If you’re looking for a gen...
How to Display Clothes on a Wall
Build and mount your own clothing rack or create shelf space to display your clothes on a wall with just a few simple tools and materials! Use industrial pipes and pipe fittings to make your own clothing rack that you can mount to your wall and hang your...
How to Not Blackout when Drinking
Getting tipsy from time to time can be fun, but it can quickly turn scary if you wake up the next day with little or no memory of what happened the night before. “Blackout” is the term for memory loss or impairment that happens when you drink. It’s not th...
How to Install Cabinet Hinges
Installing cabinet hinges correctly is critical when you’re attaching cabinet doors so they’re properly aligned and open smoothly. But with the right tools and accurate measurements, you can easily install your own cabinet hinges. Start by choosing what t...
How to Stop Your Eye from Itching
You don’t have to put up with your itchy eyes! If you can figure why it’s itching, you can stop it.