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Make A Wine Tote Out Of Your Old Clothes

3:00AM Lisa Hoover | Have an old t-shirt or skirt lying around? With little more than a pair of scissors and a sewing machine, you can turn your old clothes into a nifty wine tote for that bottle of Merlot you’re giving to mum. More »
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Open A Bottle Of Wine With Your Shoe

9:00AM Adam Pash | Got a bottle of wine on hand but no corkscrew to get it open? You can argue all you want about whether or not the guy in this video really needs more wine, but you can’t argue with the results. More »
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Boozle Hunts Down Cheap Drinks In Your Area

10:00AM Angus Kidman | Throwing a party but don’t want to spend a fortune on alcohol? Boozle lets you search by location to find the cheapest provider of a given beer, spirit or premix in your area. More »
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White Wine Affects Teeth As Badly As Red

1:00PM Angus Kidman | Conventional wisdom holds that red wine can leave you with nasty teeth stains, but new research suggests that white wine drinkers are even worse off in dental terms. More »
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Use A Sliced-Up Wine Cork To Stabilise Wobbly Tables

1:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | A wobbly table is one of life’s minor, yet avoidable, annoyances. Save the cork from your next bottle of wine to make a travel-friendly wobble fixer. More »
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Turn A Mini Fridge Into A Wine Storage Unit

7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Many mini fridges left over from university can be found tucked away and gathering dust. Put that fridge to use to keep wine chilled and ready. More »
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Alcohol Really Can Boost Your Creativity

4:30PM Angus Kidman | It’s commonly thought that the drivel most people produce when asked for a piece of writing after knocking back a few drinks is proof that booze and creative pursuits don’t mix. But if you’ve ever felt that you do better at creative tasks after imbibing, genetics might actually be on your side. More »
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Moderate Alcohol Consumption Might Not Actually Be “Healthy”

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Remember pretty much every health study in the news over the last few years? The kind that suggested one or two drinks per day (for women and men, respectively) would help you live longer? More »
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Snooth Helps You Find Better Wines

3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Snooth is a search engine and social network for wine lovers covering everything from wine reviews and rankings to vineyard and varietal information. More »
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Make House Wine Taste Better With Soda Water

2:30AM Azadeh Ensha | If you don’t like how a bottle of wine tastes or if an already opened bottle starts to go bad, instead of dumping it, use soda water and ice to make it palatable. Here’s how. More »