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How to Avoid Pain When Your Braces Are Tightened
Getting your braces tightened can cause a lot of discomfort. The first few hours may be very painful to nearly anyone, regardless if it's your first time or your last time. You can prevent and treat pain and discomfort associated with your braces using a...
12 Ways to Clean Your Iron’s Soleplate, Reservoir & Steam Holes
If your iron is sticky, leaving streaks on your clothes, or has lots of scorch marks or mineral deposits, it’s time for a cleaning. Thankfully, there are a variety of ways to make your iron like new using household cleaners and products you probably alrea...
How to Knit the Knit Stitch
There are only two basic stitches in knitting. One is the knit stitch, and the other is the purl stitch. Learning how to knit both of these stitches, will allow you to follow most knitting patterns. While it might feel awkward knitting at this stage, if y...
How to Knit the Purl Stitch
You probably learned the knit stitch when you first picked up your knitting needles. In order to follow patterns or make knitted projects, it's important to know how to purl. Fortunately, it's easy to create this basic stitch that has a small bump at its...
How to Move to a Foreign Country
Moving to a foreign country is one of the biggest life transitions you can ever make. While it can be challenging and fraught with paperwork, it can also be an immensely rewarding and enriching experience. Whether the move is for business purposes or for...
How to Avoid Bothering Your Busy Boyfriend
Do you wish your boyfriend had more time to spend with you? If your beau always seems to be busy with work, school, or other obligations, it can put a strain on your relationship, especially if you tend to call or visit him at inopportune times. Mismatche...
How to Create a Calmer Household
Kids running everywhere? TV blaring at its loudest and the ping of video games driving you insane? All those constant fights you can hear raging through the door make your head want to explode. Meanwhile, neighbors and friends keep dropping by and your sp...
How to Get Rid of Flesh Flies
Flesh flies are a common pest attracted to decay from animals, garbage, and other organic matter. They are easy to identify because of their bright red eyes and gray stripes. To take back your home from these unwanted visitors, you first need to find out...
How to Clone Pokémon on Pokémon Gold and Silver
Have an extremely powerful Pokémon that you want two of? Cloning is just the way to do this. By abusing a glitch in the game, you can become the most unstoppable Trainer in the world! It's easy to make another copy of a Pokémon and its hold item without u...
How to Dye Hair with Kool Aid
If you want to experiment with a different hair color but don't want to make a long-term commitment, Kool-Aid might be the perfect solution! All you have to do is combine hot water, hair conditioner, and unsweetened Kool-Aid to create a dye paste. You can...
How to Care for a Leopard Gecko
Leopard geckos are hands down one of the coolest (and cutest) reptiles you can keep as a pet. If you've just brought one home, you're probably wondering how exactly to take care of it. We've got you covered! This article will walk you through everything y...
How to Make Money (for Kids)
You don’t have to be an adult to start making money. In fact, you don’t even have to be a teenager! No matter how old you are, even if you’re a kid, there are ways to bank a few extra bucks. There are the traditional jobs like babysitting, shoveling snow,...
How to Know if You're Ready to Wear a Panty Liner
Panty liners are thin pads that absorb small amounts of menstrual blood and fluid. Some people choose to wear panty liners leading up to an oncoming period, during their period as extra protection when they use a tampon or menstrual cup, or in the last fe...
How to Easily Remove a Shirt
Taking off a shirt may seem easy, and most people do it daily without much thought. However, if you wear very tight Ts, tank tops, button downs or compression shirts, they may be deceptively difficult to take off. The methods you choose to remove your shi...
How to Do a Back Extension
Back extensions, also referred to as backward rolls into an extension, are very common in many gymnastics routines. It looks simple, but it is a pretty difficult position to do well. You need to have three basic skills in order to complete the position:...
How to Use Contractions
In common speech, we use contractions all the time. “Don’t run in the hallways,” “I can’t get this bottle open,” “She won’t stop texting during the show.” Many grammar experts argue for the use of contractions in writing, especially in a casual email, a l...