Candles in glass jars are decorative, especially during the pre-Christmas season. However, once they burn out, the glass container often ends up in the trash—partly because the leftover wax is ...

The apartment where my wife and child and I live faces a major avenue, with heavy truck traffic. This means that the windows get not just dirty, but filthy. I wash them once or twice a year, which is ...

Non-ammonia based cleaner, works great on helmets and visors. I haven’t found anything that works better. But I’m always looking for an excuse to get down there to buy something, chat with the ...

During a conversation with a friend the other day, she mentioned artificial snow, that stuff you can spray on windows to simulate piles of snow on panes of glass. That got my mind to clicking about ...

Cold causes wax to harden and shrink, making it easier to remove, hence the old trick of using ice cubes to get wax out of carpets. Here’s how to put the same science to work for your candles. Step 1: ...

Before God invented Netflix and PVRs, you had to sit through a battery of commercials every time you turned on the idiot box. Most of them made you wonder why the hell Philo Taylor Farnsworth didn’t ...