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How to steep but separate leaves in a teapot without a mesh strainer?
My metal mesh tea strainer rusted so I discarded it, but I have failed to find a replacement strainer because this teapot was likely purchased overseas.
In a teapot, how else can I filter the tea leaves steeped in hot water, from the resultant…
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How to make non-drinkable seawater drinkable?
I've read about desalination and reverse osmosis systems on the large scale, but sounds like it's complex, very energy-intensive and expensive process.
But how can you make it on a smaller scale e.g. at home? Are there any life hacks?
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How to prevent outline marks on trousers?
Some of you may have noticed that if you have fairly tight trousers on - such as chinos - if you have anything in your pocket, such as a phone, ID card, or coins and such things, after a while outlines of the objects become visible on the outside of…
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How to improvise snowshoes?
We rarely have snow where I live, and when we do, I want to enjoy it the most. However, walking in snow is hard, and to get to fun places I need snowshoes.
It seems a very simple device - just a board tied to my boots - but there probably are some…
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How to get rid of bandicoot around house
How to get rid of badicoot around the house.
There are many bandicoots along the border of our house creating holes and every night they dig lot of mud out around the house.
Using poison to kill them doesn't seem to help.
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How to remove superglue from a desk?
I recently went away for the weekend and came back to work to find a pot of superglue was left on its side and now there is glue everywhere.
I have managed to remove the pot of glue from the desk and most of the surrounding paper much of which was…
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How to amplify laptop speakers?
I've a laptop (MBPR) and usually I'm watching movies on my second monitor which is far from my main laptop making the sound a bit low. And I don't want to buy external speakers, as the existing are not so bad.
There are some life hack of putting cut…
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How do I remove USB's plastic fragments from the USB port?
The plastic of my USB thumbdrive had cracked and the one of the fragments was stuck inside the USB port. How can I remove it without damaging my USB port?
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How do I eat a mango without getting sticky?
It's been suggested that the best place to eat a mango is in the bathtub.
How can I eat mango without getting very sticky?
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How to cleanly cut cake into even slices
Whenever I have a cake or some other bread item, I can never get a good cut while keeping the pieces even. Usually I use a knife, but that takes more work than I would like and I usually can't get a clean, straight cut.
Is there any good item or…
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How to remove ice formation inside the car windows
So being so cold as it is. My car doesn't see the sunlight, and therefore there is condensation forming on the inside of the windshields. I could get most of the ice out by placing the heater direction towards it , but that still leaves the back…
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How to eliminate rats from kitchen?
There are few rats in the kitchen and they destroy kitchen equipment and food items. They are coming form window louvers at night. Can you please propose a solution except closing the louvers??
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Eeek! - Resin in my hair
I have long hair and like being out in the woods. Unfortunately this means I sometimes get resin (or sap) in my hair. It's always a pain to get it out, sometimes I have no choice but cutting the "afflicted" strain of hair.
How can I painlessly…
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How can I keep placards dry when demonstrating in the rain?
I'm planning to attend some demonstration these coming days. However, winter is upon us, and there's going to be rain. And the placards are made of paper; thick paper board, but still paper, which will not withstand anything more than a light…
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Manual showering?
I am looking for ways to "shower" comfortably without having running water. So I have some water in a vessel and I have a place where I can get that water onto myself (and it is okay to splash), for example on the lawn or in a shower cubicle where…
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