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These free knitting pattern sites will take you straight to the patterns, with no need to log in or subscribe or go through any hoops. There’s lots of great stuff here!

Hair dryers tend to collect hair and dust in their vents – that’s the back end with grill. Cleaning that junk out can prolong the life of your hair dryer, and failing to clean it out can cause it to shoot small flames out the back end.

This is one of the simplest, quickest and most affordable furniture upgrades ever.

Over time, cars tend to get little scratches from shopping carts and car doors banging into them. Learning how to touch up paint on a car yourself can save you a lot of time and hassle.

This is a great little money saver, and a great way to recycle something which otherwise would have ended up in the trash. It’s easy to make new candles out of old ones, and it can also be fun and creative.

I thought a double shower curtain rod was going to give me more space for towels. Then I realized there was a much cheaper and simpler solution.

It’s ridiculously easy to make homemade play-dough with this play dough recipe collection. It’s less expensive than buying commercial versions, and you can also add creative touches.

Quilting is a great way to make something beautiful and useful out of fabric that has otherwise outlived its usefulness. Enjoy this collection of free quilt patterns for beginners, intermediate and advanced quilters.

I’m notoriously hard to keep organized. I have so much going on, and am always thinking up new projects, and am easily distracted from getting things done. It’s easy to stay organized with Todoist.

Craftapple has a brilliant idea: the car organizer, a box that sits in your car and holds all that stuff that normally gets dumped somewhere in the backseat or the glove compartment. You can buy the pattern and make it just like they did, or… …you can opt for my version, which involves no working …