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  • How To Buy In Bulk When You Live In A Small Space

    Buying in bulk can be an empowering experience. The combination of the cost-savings, plus the satisfaction of not needing to buy that again for a while, can leave you feeling like you’ve managed to really cheat the system. Until you get home and realise that, uh, you don’t have room for this many cans of…


  • How To Check If Your Hard Drive Is Failing

    Windows: I recently had a suspicion that something was up with my hard drive. Spending a little time to figure out what was going on — and to confirm nothing bad was actually happening — saved me $500+, or the cost of the shiny new 2TB SSD I was contemplating ordering off Amazon.


  • Store Your Kid’s Games Vertically Instead Of Stacking Them

    Store Your Kid’s Games Vertically Instead Of Stacking Them

    My daughter has some stacking shelves in her bedroom closet where she keeps her board games. I put up with them because they’re better than my previous organisation method of nothing, but I’m quickly realising they are less than ideal. If she tries to grab, say, Hoot Owl Hoot, and it’s at the bottom of…