I lived in this awesome room my senior year of college - it had vaulted ceilings, a giant party area with tons of couches, a balcony, and an awesome loft with a skylight. It was perfect, except for one thing: the ladder that went up to the loft was firmly planted right smack in the middle of the room, i.e. right in the middle of the party. People would ...

I had two knee surgeries last summer but I really wanted to hang out with my freinds on the beach. I play a lot of beach volleyball, and so do my friends, so since I wanted to hang out with them, I knew I had to find a way to get out onto the sand. I tried using my crutches (and then my cane) in the sand, but they just sank down and made it hard to get...

I left the headlights on in my piece of junk car for 5 minutes and the battery died. I had no jumper cables and was miles from home. I asked a stranger if he could jump my car, but he didn't have cables either. He said he had a wrench, though. How is that supposed to help?...

when i started my first 60-hr /week job i could never wake up on time for work. i also never had time to workout, so i was starting to pack on some serious LBS....

I was just about to leave my apartment for the weekend when I noticed a giant puddle of water in my bathroom... the water supply valve on the toilet was dripping fast. My landlord couldn't shut the water off until Monday. The water pressure was too high for epoxy or cement. I just about resigned myself to canceling my plans, but then I hatched this pre...

I was installing a new bath mixing valve in our tub. The handles connected well and functioned, but they were super loose which would not only shorten the life of the product but also seemed ugly....

i used to hate that people in some countries don't have toilet paper, or occasionally have bar soap in their bathrooms that looks like it's been there for 6 years, instead of liquid soap dispensers like you have in the USA....

I had a broken piece of antique baseboard I had to glue back together. The repair needed to happen in a timely manner and all but one of my clamps were out with an installer on a large job....

well... the daily issue of waste (waist) removal. and packing TP with you. and packing it out. why would you do that? and have the dry wipes. you need to be clean when you're laying down 20 and 30 mile days; and no shower in the back country. ...