If you'd like a clever and cheap way to keep windows, goggles, and other glass and plastic surfaces from fogging up, you can use a potato to keep the vision-blocking condensation at bay.Photo by jimmihomeschoolmom.
If you're ever on the lookout for ways to reuse and recycle—or perhaps just to drink a lot of wine—this wine-bottle garden border is a clever and attractive repurposing project.
Shaking a tin can is such an ineffecient way to spread ice-killing salt on your sidewalk and driveway, and casting it about with your hand is hardly an upgrade. A fertilizer spreader, however, is a perfect match for the job.Lifehacker reader Sonicjosh shared a great tip in #tips about spreading salt:
Use a hand held fertilizer spreader to spread salt.
Good news, Indiana Jones wannabes: Wired's How-To Wiki offers a quick, five-step instructional guide for grabbing an item with a whip—so let's get cracking.It's a pretty simple step-by-step process, though remember—simple doesn't necessarily mean easy, and that whip of yours can do some serious damage, so be careful:
If squirrels are looting your bird feeder and the poor birds aren't getting anything, this inexpensive DIY bird feeder can help keep the squirrels at bay.
We've covered building your own pizza oven before, from nice and cheap to really cheap.
Crashing through thin ice into frigid water is an extremely precarious situation to be in—increase your odds of survival with this guide.Photo by Treefell.
While we hope you never find yourself in the kind of survival situation that has you foraging for wild plants to eat, if you should find yourself in such a situation the Universal Edibility Test can save your life.Photo by BarefootGardener.
If you've never abandoned your 4th grade obsession with the night sky (and who has?), Star Viewer is a web-based tool for peeking at some of the most interesting and vivid sights in the night sky.