Guten tag. Today, we’re discussing the proper way to clean a laptop keyboard. Now, there are two ways to do this: the easy way and the thorough way. The easy way is pretty simple and requires no disassembly. Here it is:
Power off your laptop. Remove the battery and anything plugged into the USB ports. Unplug it. Take out any CDs or DVDs.
First, use canned air. Spray out any dust in all the nooks and crannies, including the ports and plugs. Note: do not hold the canned air upside down or …

Hey nerds, let’s clean your laptop screen. Whether you’re cleaning a Macbook screen, a netbook screen or another LCD screen, you need to follow some extra super careful precautions specific for cleaning laptop screens. That’s because laptop screens, unlike (most) TV screens are not made of glass. An LCD screen is more akin to the skin on a fruit than the shell on a snail – and if you pierce or puncture that screen, you’re screwed.
So, first of all, let’s discuss what you should and shouldn’t use.
Do use distilled water. …

The holidays are nearly upon us – which means at any moment, that phone could ring with the in-laws on the other side saying “Hey, we landed early and we’re on our way to your house. We’ll be there in 20 minutes!” As luck would happen, this typically happens when your house is an absolute pig sty. (After all, who doesn’t put off house cleaning until the last minute?) But don’t freak out. By employing some emergency last minute cleaning tips, you can make your house look passable in no …

Hi, pals. I’ve got some friends who seem to think it’s a good idea to put bleach down your drain once a week. While that may keep things flowing smoothly, I want to warn you that bleach is one bad ass chemical. If you have old pipes or old cast iron or copper pipes, it’s not just going to eat away at all that hair and grease in your pipes – it’s gonna nibble away at the pipes itself.
Also, if you have a septic tank, for galoshes’ sake, do not …

Omigosh – have you heard of this dog vomit slime mold? It’s like this creepy, crawly yellow mold that shows up in your garden and there’s really nothing you can do to get rid of it, according to everyone. Except, maybe you can EAT IT. (WHAT?!) Yeah, no kidding, I ran across this when trying to figure out what the heck it was in my neighbors garden mulch and it really is called dog vomit slime mold (that’s not just something some kid decided to call it). In Latin America, …

Hey, Pals! This weekend, I also cleaned out my air ducts. I mean, I didn’t do what the pros do (hook up a giant air duct blower and blast out all the dusties) but I did what everyone should do on a monthly basis – DIY air duct cleaning!
It’s a good thing I took the time to clean out my air ducts and air vents, too, because I discovered the silent killer: black mold.
It’s pretty simple to do this yourself. Grab yourself a brush and some all purpose vinegar cleaner, …

Yet another job for lemon juice and baking soda! My puppy has this little bed he sleeps on and the mattress part is an egg crate. In fact, I have one of these egg crates on my bed as well, but whenever I need a new one, I just buy a new one. But for doggy, whose egg crate mattress pad gets funky quite often, I like to just freshen it up once in awhile so we don’t blow our entire budget on new egg crates. The process is pretty …

My General Electric oven crapped out the other day and when I was on the phone with the warranty dudes, they wanted to know what the part and serial numbers were. And I had no freaking clue! It turns out that they didn’t either. It can hide in various places on GE ovens. So, in order to find the model and part number for my GE stove and oven, they told me to do the following:

Open the oven door and look for a plate between the hinges.
Lift the service panel …

Yo, pals! So, I was in the market for a new deck earlier this year and they are now calling vinyl “low maintenance” instead of “no maintenance.” Why? Because, honestly, nothing is no maintenance. Anything ignored will become scummy and run down, even if it’s made out of Superman’s fingernail clippings. It’s true, vinyl fences, vinyl decking and vinyl railings are extremely easy to maintain (no stain, no paint, no termites) and if you don’t mind your house looking kind of like a Fisher Price home, then they are probably …

Greetings, dreamers. Ever get those nasty stains at the bottom and on the walls of your pool liner? Yeah, it’s a drag. Most people will try to fix the problem by dumping tons of chemicals in, but really, the best way to get stains off of pool vinyl is to just drain the pool and go at ‘em. After that, you’ll want to keep your pool at the right chlorine levels with the right pH level to prevent stains popping up again. For that, you should refer to Lowes.com’s extensive …