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How to Operate a Mini Sewing Machine
The affordable price and straightforward features of mini sewing machines make them a great choice for sewers and crafters of all ages and skill levels. Whether you’re learning how to sew on a mini sewing machine, or you’re using a mini machine as an alte...
How to Avoid Scams with Zelle
Zelle is a digital payments network that enables users to send, receive, and request money to or from people they know and trust within minutes.[1] X Research source Due to the nature of Zelle's near real-time payment service, people can oft...
How to Start a Petition
Petitions are an excellent way to create meaningful change in the world. Whether it's a complex global issue or simple local election, a petition can get your point across and produce real results. While creating a petition can often look like a daunting...
How to Win a Tennis Match
There are many things you can do to increase your chances of winning a tennis match. Once you’ve reviewed how scoring in tennis works, you’ll want to prepare adequately in the hours and days leading up to your match. Getting plenty of sleep, eating right,...
How to Steam Clean a Mattress
Steam cleaning a mattress is an environmentally friendly way to rid your mattress of dust mites, smells, dirt, dead skin cells, bed bugs, and bacteria. Steam cleaning your mattress will help you to sleep better by removing any allergens and allowing you r...
3 Quick and Easy Ways to Melt Hard Bean Wax
You’ve got your bag of colorful wax beans ready to go, but how exactly are you supposed to melt them down? Thankfully, you don’t need any fancy equipment to do a hard wax treatment at home. We’ll walk you through how to melt your wax down in the microwave...
How to Relax Leg Muscles
Having persistently sore, stiff, or tense leg muscles can make it hard to get around during the day, sleep at night, and live your daily life in general. There are many causes of leg discomfort, and likewise many ways to relax your leg muscles. Common tre...
How to Teach Addition with Activities
Teaching math concepts is easy if you make it fun! Challenge the kids to play games or make crafts where they have to add simple sums before taking a turn or creating a project. You could make them answer an addition problem before passing a ball, for ins...
How to Calculate Combinations
Permutations and combinations have uses in math classes and in daily life. Thankfully, they are easy to calculate once you know how. Unlike permutations, where group order matters, in combinations, the order doesn't matter.[1] X Research source...
How to Analyze an Image
Visual images—whether paintings, drawings, photographs, or stills from a film—can convey a great deal of power, emotion, and meaning. If you’re taking a photography or film class—or if you’re interested in images in general—you’ll probably be asked to ana...
How to Hang on Stucco Without Drilling
Stucco or plaster walls are notoriously difficult to hang decor on. They can crack and crumble easily, especially under the strain of a power drill. But this doesn’t mean that you can’t decorate your walls! Whether you're putting up a frame, a clock, or a...
How to Calculate Permutations
If you're working with combinatorics and probability, you may need to find the number of permutations possible for an ordered set of items. A permutation is an arrangement of objects in which the order is important[1] X Research source (unl...
How to Hit Irons Consistently
When people think of golf, they often think of big drives off of the tee box or the drama of a difficult putt. But much of the game is played in-between these moments, and it’s important to be able to hit good shots with your irons. The keys to consistent...
How to Measure Your Waist Without a Measuring Tape
If you need to measure your waist but don’t have a measuring tape handy, don’t panic! You can measure your waist with a piece of string, a ruler, a dollar bill, some printer paper, or even your own hand. You’ll have an accurate waist measurement in no tim...
How to Train Grape Vines
Grapevines grow by climbing and spreading across trellises, walls, and other surfaces. Growers “train” vines by controlling which way they grow, leading to healthier plants that produce better grapes. The most common way to do this is through spur trainin...
How to Mix Vodka
Vodka is one of the most popular alcohols to use for mixed drinks. Its clean, pure flavor is easy to combine with juice, soda, or flavored liqueurs, and you probably already have several easy mixers on hand. For a quick drink, choose 1 or 2 mixers, such a...