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How to Carpet Stairs
Staircases are often some of the most heavily trafficked areas at home. What's more, a nicely decorated staircase can be the beautiful centrepiece of a home if it's presented in the right way. Giving your staircase a fresh set of carpet can be a difficult...
How to Brine Chicken
Brining meats before cooking them is an effective way to increase the moisture and tenderness of the meat before roasting. This is especially important for chicken, which often gets dry in the oven. The process of soaking the meat in salted water causes t...
How to Open a Car Wash Business
Opening a car wash business can be a fun, interesting, and profitable business for somebody with business smarts and perseverance. With the right location, good marketing, and top-notch service, you can draw in numerous customers who need their cars washe...
How to Project Your Voice when You're Singing
Learning how to project your voice when you sing actually makes singing easier. It’s also better for your voice, and it can make your singing sound more beautiful. The best part? It’s not hard to learn! You'll notice a difference just by making simple cha...
How to Ship Food
Shipping food can be tricky, especially if you’re sending something perishable, like refrigerated foods or baked goods. It’s important to ship these foods out as quickly and efficiently as possible, or else they can start collecting bacteria.[1] X Rese...
Everything You Need to Know About Melting Lead at Home
As far as metalworking goes, lead is an incredibly easy and fun material to work with. With a melting point of only 621 °F (327 °C), you can easily melt lead yourself and cast it into all kinds of shapes. But how do you do this safely? And what tools do y...
How to Project Your Voice when You're Singing
Learning how to project your voice when you sing actually makes singing easier. It’s also better for your voice, and it can make your singing sound more beautiful. The best part? It’s not hard to learn! You'll notice a difference just by making simple cha...
How to Reinstall Minecraft
If you need to reinstall Minecraft, you may be wondering why it's not showing up in your Programs and Features list or Applications folder. Because Minecraft is installed using Java commands, you can't uninstall it using traditional methods. When reinstal...
How to Prevent Carpet Dents
Carpet dents are a common problem in many homes. These divots, ranging from small to rather large, are usually caused by the weight of heavy furniture. To avoid these dents in the first place, place your furniture on coasters and move the pieces around re...
How to Reduce Your Bust
There are many reasons why you might want to reduce bust size. Large breasts can cause some serious issues over time, including back pain, poor posture, and troubles with breathing. Additionally, larger breasts have a tendency to sag more noticeably later...
How to Print on Fabric
There are several ways to print on fabric, some of which require a lot of skill and special supplies. Using stencils to print on fabric is a quick and easy method that you can use to put your own designs on anything from t-shirts to handbags. You can draw...
How to Self Detox from Alcohol
There are an estimated 12 million alcoholics in the United States, many of whom need help quitting. An important step in getting sober is detoxification, or detox, a period of about a week when your body rids itself of all the alcohol in your system. This...
How to Remove a Serpentine Belt Using Auto Tensioner
Today's modern vehicles use a serpentine belt to drive the air conditioning system, alternator, water pump, smog pump and power steering pump. Previously, these systems used multiple belts on pulley systems with a number of ways to manually tighten the be...
How to Write a Human Interest Story
How can you craft a human interest story that balances emotion with facts and creates a compelling narrative that draws in your readers? These "soft news" pieces feature stories that highlight light or emotionally poignant subjects. Managing the reader's...
How to Prune Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea is a climbing, flowering vine or shrub native to Brazil. This tropical perennial gained its nickname, "paper flower," for its delicate bracts that come in a variety of colors, including purple, red and orange. The bougainvillea's thick, thor...
How to Study when You're High
Studying high is a bad idea, but it happens. There are a number of challenges you might encounter when studying high. You’ll probably wind up being very tired and groggy or you might be jumpy or wired. Either way, your mind will probably feel muddled. You...