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Last year, we noticed that our clothes would take a lot longer to dry in the dryer. After the typical ...

A knife’s functionality is only as good as its maintenance. Although there are dozens of ways to sharpen ...

Whether you’re cutting down a tree for firewood, a better view of the lake, or as a guarantee to never ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Sunday to ...

Zippo lighters are cool. Opening up a Zippo lighter with a bit of flourish makes them even ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Sunday to ...

Hammering may seem like the most basic tool technique known to man. And indeed, to the unskilled, ...

You’re on vacation and staying at a rental house with your future in-laws. They head out to do some ...

The OODA Loop — the OODA stands for Observe, Orient, Decide, Act — is a strategic tool designed to ...

A stripped screw is a screw in which the head has become worn or damaged to the point where the tip of a ...

Whether you’re hunting wild boar at night, taking a moonlit walk through the woods, running some kind of ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Sunday to ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Sunday to ...

Beyond tying your shoes, it’s altogether possible the only knots you know are the ones you make up on ...

In a wilderness survival situation, you may need to cut down a small tree. Maybe you need to make a debris ...

There are many skills fathers should pass on to their children: how to ride a bike, how to skip a stone, and ...

The following is an adapted excerpt from The Disaster-Ready Home: A Step-by-Step Emergency Preparedness ...

It can happen to the best of us. You’re hanging around a flagpole with your pals in the freezing ...

You’re driving down the highway and your car’s windshield fogs up, so you blast the defroster. The fog ...

Artificial, plastic Christmas trees may be cost-saving and convenient, but by our (twinkling, ...