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How to Decorate Your House at Christmas
Decorating a house in anticipation of Christmas is almost as fun as opening presents on Christmas morning. Whether you're having guests over for a holiday party or you want to make your house feel cozy and festive for your family, this article explains ho...
How to Begin Tatting
Tatting is an old thread weaving technique that you can use to create lace. If you have never tatted before, then getting started can seem intimidating. However, there are a few simple techniques that will help you to get started with confidence. You will...
How to Make Your Hair Smooth and Shiny with Milk and Eggs
Looking to add a little more shine and life to your hair? Some beauty gurus tout both eggs and milk as great ingredients for strengthening, nourishing, and brightening your strands.[1] X Research source We’ve put together several different...
How to Make a Square from Rectangular Paper
For many paper folding projects, you need to start with a square piece of paper with four equal sides. Most of the paper you have laying around, however, is probably rectangular. Luckily, there are two easy ways to turn a rectangle into a square without u...
How to Hack a Candy Machine
If you're frustrated at a machine swallowing your money or just want to make a preliminary attack against our future robot overlords, humanity has a few tricks up its sleeves.
How to Cope With Your Father's Death (for Young People)
The death of a father is often one of the saddest losses a person will ever have to endure. Your dad may have been your best friend, support system, and the life of the party. Or perhaps you two had a tough relationship, but you still feel really upset ab...
How to Train a Scared Dog to Go Down the Stairs
There could be many reasons why your dog is afraid to use the stairs. They may be new to him, he might have had a scary fall, or he could just be overly careful. Whatever your dog's reasons for being anxious around steps, never force him to use the stairs...
How to Forgive
When someone hurts you, it can feel good to hang onto the anger and resentment that may bubble up after their actions. However, forgiving others can actually benefit you both mentally and physically, and it can help you move on from thinking about what th...
Evacuating a Building: Creating a Plan & Staying Safe in Emergencies
When an emergency such as a fire, flood, or gas leak breaks out you need to be prepared to evacuate. Whether you’re at school, in the workplace, or in any other public space, it’s important to have a solid evacuation plan you can follow closely in an emer...
The Best Practices for Emailing a Teacher About Being Absent
It happens! Sometimes you have to miss school. Whether you have a doctor’s appointment during math class or wake up sick with the flu, everyone misses class occasionally. But how can you let your teacher or professor know you’ll be out? A quick email can...
How to Make Crayon Candles
Making candles from crayons is a fun and easy way to use up your old, broken, or unused crayons. Though you do need to add some candle wax to your crayon wax to make a usable candle that will burn well, the process is pretty simple. Ready to create some b...
How to Pick the Best Day to Start and End Your eBay Auctions
There are several helpful articles available for eBay sellers, but not many cover one very important aspect for eBay auctions: the day you pick to start and end your auction. Not all days are created equal with eBay auctions. By picking the right days, y...
How to Watch Movies Using Telnet
This WikiHow will show you how you can use the telnet client to watch an ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Exchange) text art version of Star Wars through command prompt on a Windows OS, or to do the same on a Mac OS using Terminal.
How to Count up to 10 in Spanish
When you start learning another language, one of the first things you'll master is how to count. This skill serves as a building block to other aspects of the language. Once you know numbers, you'll be able to quantify groups of things as well as understa...
How to Do Color Guard
Color guard in a team context is an activity with military origins, for which flags, mock rifles, sabers, and dance movement are used to interpret music from a marching band. Color guard groups can be found in middle schools, high schools, colleges and un...
How to Create a Successful Project (for School)
School projects can come in a variety of forms, and the exact process you'll need to create a successful one will vary from project to project, subject to subject, and class to class. However, some general steps and best practices can help you tackle any...