How To Of The Day: Naturally Relieve Mosquito Bites
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Sep 172014
Sep 162014
Have you always wanted to know how to move with the stealth of a ninja? If so, enjoy!
We’ve all got reasons to creep around the house from time to time. Whether it’s a sleeping baby in the next room or a sick significant other, sometimes you need to move as silently as possible. The Art of Manliness shows off how to walk like a ninja so you can move around swiftly—and silently. P
The key here is to keep your center of balance low, and walk by using your toes and ball of your foot first. Then creep along placing your feet lightly on the surface paying close attention to how you’re shifting your weight. Done correctly, everyone in the house can remain asleep so you can continue on with your day.
Sep 092014
Here’s an extremely simple way to tell if your alkaline batteries are dead or not. Just drop them from a low height on a hard surface: The good batteries will stay down while the bad ones will bounce like a man on a pogo stick.
You learn something new every day!
This test works equally well for AA, AAA, C, D and 9 Volt alkaline batteries.
It is our understanding that the following chemical reactions occur and helps to explain our observations.A non-rechargeable alkaline battery begins life using zinc powder mixed into a gel containing a potassium hydroxide electrolyte separated from a paste of manganese dioxide powder mixed with carbon powder using a porous membrane. To minimize hydrogen outgassing an extra measure of manganese dioxide is added. As the battery discharges manganese dioxide powder changes to manganese oxide causing the powdered granules to bond both chemically and physically. This packed-sand consistency reduces the antibounce effect exhibited by the gel mixture when the battery was fully charged.
How To Of The Day: How To Kill Ants With Coffee
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Sep 032014
Ants are contributing members of the environment, helping to clean up garbage, rotting food and carcusses. But when ants invade your yard or home in search of food sources, they become less helpful and become more of a pest. Many commercial methods and products are available to kill ants, but these methods contain chemicals that are harmful to you, your family and the environment. Home remedies, such as using coffee and coffee grounds, to kill ants are effective and safer for you and the environment.
Instructions
1 Coffee grounds kill and repel ants.
Observe where ants are entering your home. Make a boundary near the ant entryways with dry coffee grounds. When ants eat this, the grounds expand in their stomachs and kill them.2 Spread used coffee grounds around pet food bowls and other areas where you wish to repel ants. Ants are repulsed by the strong smell the brewed coffee grounds put out. Spritz brewed grounds that are outside with water to keep them fresh and replace brewed coffee grounds in the house every day.
3 Kill ants with boiling hot coffee.
Boil fresh or leftover brewed coffee in a pot. Pour the boiling coffee down ant nests to kill the ants on contact. Boiling liquids kill ants at the source, which is very helpful to exterminating the entire colony.
Sep 022014
A father of two teenagers, Will Reid, made a instructional video for his kids in an attempt to show them how to change a roll of toilet paper. Although the video was intended for teenagers, it can apply to anyone.
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A Southampton dad has turned to social media in a bid to get the message across to his teenage children about household chores.
Will Reid has posted what he refers to as the first in a series of ‘instructional videos’ to show his children James and Beth the basics of life.
Titled ‘how to change a toilet roll’, Mr Reid offers a step-by-step guide on restocking an empty loo roll holder with a fresh roll.
Clearly exasperated at not being able to get through to his kids, he says: ‘Obviously me telling them face-to-face is not working, so I’ve tried to be creative and I’ve come up with the idea of using social media to try to reach you.’
Realising every teenager’s worst nightmare of a cringe-worthy dad, Mr Reid name checks his children at the beginning of the video – making sure that everyone who knows a James or Beth Reid of Southampton are in on the joke.
Using phrases such as ‘I know this is a difficult one’, or ‘that might be a step too far’, Mr Reid’s sarcastic tutorial is sure to get a reaction from James and Beth, although it might not be the one he was hoping for.
Toilet Roll Changing – Teenage Instructional Video