Skills & Know-How
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Oct 12, 2026
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3 min read
For a clean minor cut, their steps are soap, water, pressure and plain petroleum jelly. Here's the pocket kit that's left.
Weather Ready
Sep 29, 2026
About 1 in 60 insured homes files a water or freezing claim a year. The fix is a valve you can find tonight.
Sep 20, 2026
Your keys didn't get lost. They're in yesterday's jacket. The free fix isn't a better hiding spot. Here's what one lockout call costs.
Sep 3, 2026
4 min read
Three of them have a free fallback. The fourth one now has a published price.
Aug 12, 2026
The same fraud on a credit card takes nothing out of your account. That's the whole issue.
Safety
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Aug 4, 2026
More than a third of break-ins use no force at all. For the rest, the fix runs about ten dollars.
Jul 28, 2026
Housekeeping: last week I said this one would be about home security. That’s coming next Tuesday — this one jumped the queue.
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Jul 21, 2026
The $0 move most people skip at bedtime, plus when the stairwell is the wrong choice.
Jul 14, 2026
What a boil-water advisory actually requires — and the three things that get you through it without a stove marathon.
Jul 8, 2026
Five cheap things that work when the AC can't keep up.
Jul 1, 2026
The gap between "something happened" and "help arrived" is where outcomes are decided
Jun 24, 2026
5 min read
Financial emergencies aren't about being broke. They're about 48 hours of clarity when it matters most.
Jun 22, 2026
A simple smart-home security tune-up, better sleep in hot weather, and one smart-home upgrade to ignore for now
Jun 11, 2026
Day 1 is fine. Day 2 is decisions. Day 3 is where people make bad choices.
