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Your Mower Sat All Winter and Now It Has Opinions

The box says pull the cord. The box hasn't met your shed. How to wake a hibernating mower without wrecking your Saturday or your shoulder.

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GuideCan You Fix ItWes Dunbar6 Oct 20266 min

The Doorknob Hole in the Hallway, Fixed the Way It Really Goes

A patch nobody can find later takes three coats, two days and one door stop you should've installed in April. Every step, honestly.

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Nobody walks into the plumbing aisle on purpose

Ten lines from the busiest aisle on a Saturday morning, and the fix behind each one, so you're not the next guy holding a wet sandwich bag.

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Overnight Cinnamon Rolls You Start Friday and Bake in Your Slippers

Do the work Friday night, and Saturday is just coffee, a 350-degree oven and a kitchen that smells like a bakery by 8 a.m.

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Replacing a Toilet Flapper Takes Ten Minutes and Two Trips

The cheapest plumbing fix in the house, written the way it really goes, including the second trip to the store nobody plans for.

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GuideHomeWes Dunbar6 Oct 20266 min

Getting the lights on the roof and yourself back off it

Every step is correct. The asides are what really happens. Holiday lights on the roofline, done safely, with only one trip back to the store.

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Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuideFoodWes Dunbar5 Oct 20267 min

The hand without the knife is the one that cuts you

Pinch the blade, claw the food, and learn five cuts slowly. Speed takes care of itself once your other hand knows its job.

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The Bathroom Sink Clog Is Always Hair, and It's Always Gross

Skip the bottle of drain cleaner. A plastic strip, a bucket and twenty patient minutes clear almost every slow bathroom sink in the house.

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GuideHomeWes Dunbar6 Oct 20266 min

Hanging a heavy picture straight on the first try

One frame, two hooks, zero extra holes. The way it really goes, plus the bathroom scale trick nobody mentions.

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GuideMeal PlansNina Castellan5 Oct 20266 min

Ten Freezer Dinners From Four Pots in One Afternoon

Stop cooking ten recipes. Cook four big batches, split them ten ways, and don't ask what's for dinner again until next month.

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Your cast iron is sticky because you used too much oil

Gummy, blotchy, flaking skillet? It's almost never the pan. It's the oil, the heat, or the soak. Fix all three.

GuideRecipesWes Dunbar5 Oct 20267 min

A Sunday Roast Beef Dinner Timed for One Oven

Low oven for the beef, hot oven for the potatoes, gravy from the pan in between. Get the schedule right and the rest falls into place.

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GuideMeal PlansNina Castellan5 Oct 20266 min

Feeding Six on a Budget Starts With Tomorrow's Lunch

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Your pie crust is tough because you were stingy with the water

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Build the Chicken Coop for the Raccoon, Not the Hen

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StoryHistoryWes Dunbar4 Oct 20267 min

Before Paul Bunyan Was an Ad, He Was a Few Thousand Real Men

The north woods camps ran on pine, pancakes and nerve. They built the Midwest, nearly burned it down, and left a lesson in how to clean up after yourself.

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Food6 min read

Bake your first sandwich loaf by the dough, not the clock

A soft, sliceable sandwich loaf takes flour, yeast and a free afternoon. The trick is knowing when the dough is ready, whatever the recipe says.

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