How To Heat Your House Efficiently

Winter is coming, and all across the southern states eyes turn to energy bills and minds towards how to make them smaller. What is the most efficient way to heat your house? As with anything to do with thermodynamics the answer is complicated, but there are some solid rules to help shape your thinking.


Create A Centre-Pull Ball Of Wool By Hand

If you’re into knitting, you know it can be tough to keep your wool under control and tangle free. A center-pull ball of wool eliminates a lot of the hassle, and it’s really easy to make your own.


After Hours: Best Cocktail And Bar Apps

Cupboard full of booze but no cocktail ideas? Planning a party but can’t get the mix right? These handy apps will turn your phone into an instant cocktail recipe guide.


Dispense Plastic Bags With A 2-Litre Bottle

Plastic shopping bags have plenty of uses that can keep them from landfill, but balling them up and tossing them in your pantry can get messy. Instead, mount a 2-litre soft drink bottle to the wall and use it as a makeshift bag dispenser.


Wrap Citrus Fruit In Cheesecloth To Ensure Seed-Free Juicing

When you juice a lemon or lime by hand (without using a special tool), all too often the seeds end up in the juice. To prevent the seeds from coming along for the ride, all you need is some cheesecloth.


Artery Alert: Lord Of The Fries Is Coming To Sydney

Melbourne’s award-winning hot chips restaurant Lord Of The Fries is finally heading to Sydney, with the first store set to open on George street in the coming months. Our bellies are gladdened by this news. Our collective waistbands? Not so much.


These DIY Speaker Stands Add Useful Storage To Small Spaces

If you have surround speakers but nowhere to put them, these DIY speaker stands get them off the ground, don’t look out of place in a home, and add some useful storage inside for CDs or DVDs at the same time.


Cut Lemons Lengthwise To Get More Juice

When you need lemon juice for a recipe, nothing beats fresh-squeezed, but it’s always a struggle to coax a lot of juice out of the fruit. As it turns out, the secret is to cut the lemon lengthwise.


Top 9 Everyday Life Hacks That Take 10 Seconds Or Less

Sometimes, you can do something the fast way, or you can do it the right way. Other times, those two things are one and the same. Here are nine everyday tasks that you can do in 10 seconds or less.


Two Clever Ways To Case A Pillow Faster

Putting on a pillow case isn’t all that hard, but it can start to get a little unwieldy if you have a lot of pillows to case and they’re kind of big. Use these two tricks to get it right quickly, every time.


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