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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Velcro Small Tools To The Toolbox for Easy Access
Having trouble laying your hands on the smaller items in the toolbox?
Think outside the toolbox!
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Art Supply Reduction
I purged about 3/4 of my art supplies I’ve been collecting over the years. The area I kept them in (a floor to ceiling shelf with boxes on each shelf) did not inspire crafts for my family because it was overrun and not terribly well organized. I had done a few passes over [...]
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Quick Halloween Rocking Gravestone
Turn a static foam gravestone into an animated gravestone using K’Nex in about ten minutes.
Quick Halloween Rocking Gravestone
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Quick PVC Halloween Mannequin
Learn to make an easy and imposing Halloween mannequin from PVC for about $6. It packs flat (doesn’t add to your clutter), and holds costumes in ways sure to get a lot of attention from your halloween audience.
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Create A Throw-Away Travel Email For Worry-Free Travel Use
If you are like me you will find a reason to use email while you travel. If you have a Blackberry you are probably set as long as you have connectivity (and the right data plan). Sometimes the internet cafe, library, or other ‘insecure’ location is your only or best option.
There’s lots of articles on [...]
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Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Make New Tools & Prototypes With Friendly (Shapelock) Plastic
Lost an important tool? Make a new one!
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
Build A LEM
What’s a cardboard spaceship without a Lunar Excursion Module!
In honor of our efforts to return to the moon (personally I think we should just go straight to Mars, but that’s another story), why not recycle a few boxes for your kids and put together a Lunar Excursion Module for your kid!
It goes together quickly with [...]
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Community Shred Coming Soon (April 28th) Near You
Shred-It is hosting ‘community shreds’ at various venues around the U.S.
This is a good (free) opportunity to purge paper from your house.
Securely (and environmentally-sensitively) destroying one of the 1.51 cu ft ‘book boxes’ of data can run you about $25. If you’ve ever sat down to destroy one of the boxes through a consumer-grade shredder, [...]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Entropy And Clutter
I made this connection from an unexpected place, and thought process it started was surprising, so I thought I’d share it on a ‘technical decluttering’ blog. Skip reading now if this seems painfully obvious!
The second law of thermodynamics states the the universe tends toward ‘mixed-up-edness’. This (unrelated) article on creationism, beautifully written by Richard [...]
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
Godzilla Halloween Costume
Build a Godzilla Halloween Costume from recycled cardboard & packing material!