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5 Home Project Ideas for Christmas
Here are five projects you can do to get your home ready for the holidays.
Know How: To Chop Firewood & Start a Fire
Chopping firewood is one of the manliest things a person can do. Coincidentally, it's also one of the best ways to relieve stress. As for the manliest? It may very well be starting a fire.
Dad Stuff: Zombie Car Stickers
Driving down the road, I see these stickers more than the "How's my driving?" bumper sticker. They're plastered on the backs of mini-vans and Subarus. I start making assumptions about your family with three children, two dogs and a cat. I often tease my wife that I'll buy a set for our cars as well, but she knows I'm only kidding.
Know How: Build an Outdoor Trash Enclosure
There's nothing worse than walking outside to discover that a little critter enjoyed your remnants of last night's dinner as much as you did. The evidence is all over the yard. Food scraps, wrappers and anything else you had in the trash is now decorating your backyard, and you have to take your valuable time picking up someone else's dinner. Oh, the outrage. But of course, this could have been prevented.
What Decking Material is Best to Use?
The other day, I walked across the street to check out a house that had just gone on the market. It’s a very cute little craftsman bungalow from the twenties, as are most of the houses in my neighborhood, and it has a huge lot compared to most of the homes on our street. It also has a new-ish deck that the flyer mentioned among the house’s attributes. I had seen this deck under construction from another neighbor’s backyard a couple years ago, and I knew that it was unpermited and had been built by a bunch of non-carpenters. But I didn’t realize just how bad it was.
