Oh come on. I’ve somehow managed to survive into my late ‘60s without contracting any dread skin diseases, and I only wash my towels and washcloths every few weeks. I also put them in with all my other laundry. I use hot water because we have very hard and cold well water here, but would not do so if my water was…

The wool dryer balls my sister gave me several years ago are still in great shape. Why? Because I only use my dryer once a year or so. The rest of the time, I save my clothes and the planet by either drying my laundry indoors on a rack, or outside on a clothesline.

See the recent PBS Nova episode dealing with THC and CBD in humans. One scientist noted that the dosage of CBD in most treatments bought in states like mine that have legalized recreational and/or medical cannibis sales are likely far too low to be actually affecting our endocannibinoid systems, so perceived effects…

Our credit score is around 830. But our mortgage is paid off, we pay off our credit cards balances every month, and we pay cash for our vehicles (currently aged 22 and 13 years), so we don’t actually need a good credit score . . .

No.  We explicitly rejected the standard UV reducing-coating offered when we replaced most of the windows in our house, for good reason.  In Alaska the sun is your friend and solar gain helps heat rooms on the south side in winter.  Plus when you are only getting five hours/day of light from a sun 4 degrees above the…

If you own a Dremel tool, you can buy a blade shapening jig that will pay for itself after one or two uses.

As someone who is swiftwater rescue trained, I want to warn anyone planning to use a SUP in my state (Alaska) that all waters here, including lakes, are considered too cold year ‘roound for those inflatible waist floats.

I like snakes. But I can assure you that there are none in my yard, or in any other yard, in my entire state! No other terrestrial reptiles, either, for that matter, and very few amphibians.

Distilled water has zero flavor, since water is flavored by minerals. It’s useful in steam irons and hydroponic gardens, and maybe for making baby formula, but that’s about it. “Spring water” has no fixed legal definition. Lots of companies put tap water in plastic and sell it for 1000 X or more than the local cost.…

Where do you think that emusified fat eventually goes? “Away” is not an answer that demonstrates any awareness of how sewage collection and treatment systems work, or the fact they all ultimately flow into rivers, lakes or the ocean. In the case of Chicago, the effluent flows into the Chicago River, except when it’s…

As someone who used to work for a water and sewer utility serving 2.4 million people, I can tell you that way too many of those people somehow believe that their water comes from underground mountain streams from far, far away, and that their sewage just somehow magically disappears after it goes down their toilet,…

“What to do if you visit Australia” — hope you have lots of vacation time and money saved, because everyone has to quarantine for 14 days at their arrival location before they would be (maybe) allowed to travel to visit places like Uluru! Really, Lifehacker, looks like you are deperate for content right now.

Obviously the utility of this advice varies substantially, based on where you are located. Here in USDA Zone 2, no one in their right mind is planting anything for harvest this year.  I’m just hoping my golden raspberries get enough warmth and not too much rain so they ripen without rotting before our first frost, due…

Sarah would likely help moderate Republican Lisa Murkowski next year if she did this because she would split the far-right vote. Murkowski does not have the support of her party here in AK (because she defied Trump) and will be running against a far-right Trumper, Kelly Tshibaka, who was endorsed by the state GOP.…

Like most Lifehacker click bait, this “advice” hardly works everywhere and for all time. We seldom need to water our lawn (haven’t done so for the past two summers), and if we did, the water would come from our own on-site well, not a giant reservoir built with federal tax dollars that has destroyed most of the…

While cleaning up our campsite on the morning of July 5th several decades ago, my former b-i-l reflexively threw a bunch of “dud” fireworks left over from the previous evening’s festivities into the smoldering campfire with the other paper trash. Within seconds we were all hugging the ground in abject fear that one of…

Can’t tell you how annoying it is to see the stock photo of a woman wearing her face mask upside down illustrating this story! We’ve only been doing masks for 17+ months, folks. The pleats should FACE DOWN and the side with the nose wire (clearly visible in the photo) goes UP. You know, over the bridge of your nose.

Tollers actually do their thing by running up and down at water’s edge, which, for some reason, causes ducks to come closer! The dogs do retrieve the ducks from where ever they fall after the hunter shots them, which is not supposed to happen until the duck takes off.

And there’s no such thing as a “chaise lounge.”  The second word is “longue” which translates to “long,” not “lounge.”  The item is literally the French term for “long chair.”  No arms (usually), so I guess it’s a couch.

At least one objective appraisal is also needed in many “buy out” situations, e.g. divorcing couples where one decides to buy the other’s share of the family’s home, or joint heirs where one or more decides to buy out the others’ interest in inherited real estate. In some cases, the parties decide in advance to get…