Helping You Help Yourself #20
Thank you notes, ripening avocados, what happens if you file your taxes late, some very chill situations, and more!
Helping You Help Yourself #19
Getting ready for tax season, building the best snowman on the block, when was the last time you watered your plants?, grocery lists and more.
This Is How We Do It: Knife Skills Are Life Skills
If you want to be Top Chef of your kitchen, you’re going to need a good knife, and the knife skills to go with it. You’ll be whipping up finely-chopped feasts in no time.
Helping You Help Yourself #18
Giftwrapping, keeping plants alive, not screwing up your meatloaf, ending phone conversations and more!
Helping You Help Yourself #17
Picking locks, cleaning dishwashers, getting your packages delivered by Christmas, pretending to be a mermaid, backing up your computer and more tips for your one wild and precious life.
Helping You Help Yourself #16
Restringing your hoodie hood! Saving on your energy bill! Making mindlessly easy pasta! There’s a cake recipe in here!
Helping You Help Yourself #15
Carving pumpkins, cooking turkeys, iPhone cases, Amtrak tickets, organizing your mail, and more!
Helping You Help Yourself #14
Figure out what’s supposed to be in your fridge, make a soy candle, create your own floor plan, wear your dark lipsticks that you never use, get to know some plants and more!
Homesteady: DIY Baseball Cap Storage
If you’ve been struggling to figure out where to keep all your caps, let this DIY baseball cap storage solution help you out.
This Is How We Do It: DIY Liquid Garden Fertilizer
How to make homemade organic liquid fertilizer.
This Is How We Do It: Refinishing a Table
Everything you’ll need to find a table on craigslist and refinish it so it looks even better than the day it was made.
How to Build the Perfect Cozy Fire for Festive Sexytimes (and/or Scrabble)
Got some fireside plans this festive season? Whether it’s hearthrug sex, board games or a lengthy discussion about social justice you are gonna need to get that baby lit.
We’re All About It: A High Velocity Love Story Starring My Fancy Vacuum
Is that your Tangle-free Turbine tool or are you just happy to see me?
Dear Queer Diary: The Place Where You Journal
This may or may not be located on the street where you live, one of my all-time favorite songs in the grand tradition of musical theater.
Top Ten Ways to Survive the Summer Without Air Conditioning
How to stay chill when it’s hot hot hot.
Dear Queer Diary: Let’s Take This Outside
It is time, my dear queer diarists, to abandon your dim, carpeted hidey-holes and venture out onto the verdant carpet of Mother Nature!
Listling With Minimal Commentary: 17 Things I Found While Packing Up My Apartment
“9. A poster of Greg Sestero from The Room in his underwear, holding a football, autographed to me.”
Dear Queer Diary: I Shall Not Dwell Upon This Miserable Wintry Weather
Five journaling ideas to warm the cockles of your frozen heart.
Our Top Ten Favorite Design*Sponge Posts
The best of the best of Design*Sponge.
Make A Garden Thing: Twig Plant Markers
If one of your plants dies on you, why not recycle it as a warning to others?