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How To: Caulking the outside of your home correctly

Keep you home free from moisture. There can be many unnecessary cracks between your home's wood trimmings and the outside. This how to video gives you tips on how to select and apply caulking.

How To: Save energy by maintaining your air conditioner

Maintaining your air conditioning can take up some of your time, but once you get it done you an save a lot of money. This how to video demonstrates how to maintain your air conditioning unit for big energy savings. You wont only be saving your bank, but you will also be saving the environment.

How To: Clean a stove environmentally friendly ingredients

this how to video demonstrates an easy way to clean a really dirty kitchen stove, using only common and safe household items. For cleaning the top of your range you will need salt, vinegar and baking soda.

How To: Clean a coffee maker with eco-friendly ingredients

here is a great housekeeping trick that everyone will love. Clean your coffee maker using environmentally safe, inexpensive, common household ingredients. Watch this how to video and learn how to clean a coffee maker with vinegar, salt and baking soda.

How To: Clean a glass coffee pot with salt, ice and vinegar

Properly clean the glass coffee pot part of your coffee maker using environmentally friendly household ingredients. It is a housekeeping trick that everyone will love. Use salt, ice and vinegar as an eco-friendly safe way of cleaning a glass pot.

How To: Clean a microwave naturally with vinegar

Here's a housekeeping trick that everyone will love. Its easy, cheap, and eco-friendly way of cleaning a microwave or any other household appliance. Watch this how to video and learn how to clean a microwave with vinegar.

How To: Polish wood furniture with a banana

This wood polishing trick might seem a tad crazy, but if you watch the how to video you can see that it works. Watch it and polish your home wood furniture with a banana. It is an eco-friendly alternative to any aerosol wood polish out there. Yes even rotten bananas work.

How To: Polish copper with ketchup

Don't know how to bring all your copper pieces back to life? Then try this handy dandy housekeeping trick. Watch as this how to video demonstrates how to polish copper with ketchup.

How To: Make a homemade carpet freshener with baking soda

Learn some helpful tips on how to keep your how smelling nice and fresh everyday. Make your own carpet deodorizer and refresh your it using only natural, common and safe ingredients. Try mixing in baking soda and your favorite scent to a cleaner house.

How To: Polish wood furniture with lemon and olive oil

There are so many furniture polish sprays out there that sometimes its difficult to choose one. This how to video demonstrates how to polish wood using only olive oil and lemon. Its a safer, greener and eco-friendly manner of polishing and cleaning your furniture.

How To: Clean an oven spill quickly using salt

Like all appliances, the oven has a tendency to get dirty inside. Unfortunately, unlike most appliances, the oven is extremely difficult to clean out. Many ovens have a clean selection that will burn off all the excess items in there, but even those left over ashes can sometimes be difficult to wipe away. If your oven does not have the clean function, the method most people use is to clean it out with an oven cleaner. It will most likely consist of spraying the cleaner on all dirty parts of t...

How To: Organize a dishwasher for easier unloading

Using the dishwasher can be a hassle if it is not emptied in time. The dishes pile up in the sink, and it takes more than one load to clean out. The most important thing you can do is to organize the dishwasher while loading it. Although it may seem obvious, make sure that the plates of the same size and type go together. Do the same thing with the bowls, and any other flatware you have to wash. Even more helpful than organizing your plates and bowls is organizing the silverware and cutlery. ...

How To: Remove Oil Stains from Fabric

Remove oil stains from fabric. Oil and grease stains in fabric can cause ugly marks. Fortunately, they don't need to be very difficult to get out of your clothes. Oils respond well to most soaps and can often be easily lifted if you catch them in time. First, try dabbing at the stain with some liquid laundry or dish detergent.

How To: Stop microwave odors

Microwaves have the annoying tendency to absorb the smell of the foods that are cooked in them. Although most people do not mind this on the day of the cooking, after a week of the smell, it begins to get old. If you want to remove that fishy odor, just follow these simple steps. First of all, make sure that the microwave is as clean as you can get it with regular cleaning supplies. Getting rid of the smell will be so much easier if there are no splatters covering the inside of the microwave.

How To: Make defrosting your freezer easier

For those of you that still have to defrost your freezer, either because you have an older one or because the frost-free mechanism does not work as well as advertised, there is something you can do to make the whole thing a little easier in the future. Unfortunately, before you can use this trick, you have to make sure that your freezer is already defrosted. Just remember that, as you are doing this, that it will not be as bad next time you have to do it.

How To: Make a Furoshiki Japanese grocery bag

Learn how to make a Furoshiki bag, a method used by the Japanese for centuries to carry just about anything you can imagine, from food, groceries, boxes, bottles... even watermelons. A very Eco-Friendly way to reduce waste. make your own Furoshiki Japanese grocery bag today! Makes an inexpensive homemade Christmas Gift. Make a Furoshiki Japanese grocery bag.

How To: Clean fake jewelry at home

Check out this video to learn how to clean fake jewelry at home with toothpaste and water. Rub the toothpaste into your jewelry, rinse with water and dry it with a napkin or a towel. It's as simple as that!

How To: Change your toilet paper

Check out this video to learn how to change your toilet paper (even if you do "know" how to change it, you can learn tips from this video).

How To: Pest proof your yard naturally

Learn how to rid your backyard of annoying bugs without exposing your family to chemicals and toxins.

How To: Apply large wall stickers

Learn how to apply large stickers to your wall. This video was made specifically for the stickers made by Tonky designs but can be used for other large wall appliques as well.

How To: Make Nepresso coffee maker capsules

Learn how to save money by making your own Nepresso coffee maker capsules. Hack your coffee machine with this video.

How To: Build curved archways, coves, columns and walls

In this home construction video Bob Schmidt shows you a building product that will help you build something with a curve in it.

How To: Protect your floor from sewer drain back-up

In this plumbing video Bob Schmidt shows you how to protect a basement floor drain from potential sewer back-up during flood water conditions.

How To: Make a granite counter top templates for your kitchen

In this home improvement video Bob Schmidt shows you some of the things you need to know when making counter top templates for your kitchen remodeling project.

How To: Anchor wood to concrete in your basement

In this video Bob Schmidt shows you how to anchor wood wall plates to concrete during your basement remodeling renovation project.

How To: Drill through ceramic or porcelain tile

In this video Bob Schmidt shows you a simple tip that will help you from dulling drill-bits during the drilling of hard ceramic or porcelain tile.

How To: Tighten a loose gutter

In this video Bob Schmidt shows you how to repair a loose gutter using an alternative to the traditional gutter spike.

How To: Repair a truss style ceiling

Bob Schmidt shows you how to handle a common problem that can occur when you have a truss style roof in your home. Expansion and contraction of roof trusses causing truss lift in winter. Interior wall gapped corner,open corner,rising and falling corner ceiling.