How To
How to Write in Cursive
Writing in cursive is a good skill to have if you’d like to handwrite a letter, a journal entry, or an invitation. Start by improving your writing skill by making adjustments. You can then practice lowercase and uppercase letters in cursive, working your...
How to Get Emergency Drinking Water from a Water Heater
A typical home water heater can provide between 30 and 60 gallons of clean drinking water during a disaster. Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and other power outages may prevent you from having many things, but clean drinking water should not be one of th...
How to Boil an Egg So That It Peels Easily
Have you ever cooked a tasty egg, only to try and peel it, and end up with chips and craters? If you are making an egg salad, a messed up egg white may not be an issue. If are making deviled eggs, however, a messed up egg white will take away from the ove...
How to Make a Lighter Shoot a Huge Flame
You can modify your lighter to shoot out a big flame instead of its regular tiny flame. Be careful, though, because you can burn yourself. If you’re a kid, only do this with adult supervision. To modify your lighter, take off the lighter’s metal hood and...
How to Start Up a Drum Circle
Drum circles are universal. A drum circle is a free/amateur/and communicative gathering of people who come together to make spontaneous music. Anyone can join in, and even share instruments. Every person has a natural human-beat, its just a matter of lett...
How to Get Over a Bad Day
Whether your day was messed up by one terrible incident or a series of minor annoyances, a bad day can leave you feeling sad, anxious, and stressed out. You can start to get yourself back on track after a bad day by taking a little time to deal with your...
How to Become a Professional Boxer
For many people, boxing is a way of life and extreme sacrifices are made in pursuit of becoming a professional fighter. Whether you're already doing this or want to begin to pursue your boxing dreams, there's no better time than now to start taking the st...
How to Read the Qur'an
Reading the Qur’an can be a difficult undertaking, but it doesn’t have to be! You can support your reading process by doing things like choosing a copy of the Qur’an that is easier for you to read, going through the text with an app, or joining a study gr...
How to Get Your Social Security Card
Your Social Security number (SSN) is the absolute truth of your identity. It is a nine-digit identification number that is used to verify your identity and your right to work, and it serves as a record of your earned wages.[1] X Trustworthy Source U...
How to Do Impressions of People
An impersonation is a replication of someone's speech or body language. While most people try to impersonate someone's voice, a truly great impressions take the whole body. Whether you want to impress your friends or an audience, good impersonations requi...
How to Open a Cat's Mouth
Most cat owners will need to open their cat’s mouth at some point. Cats do not generally enjoy the process and they will not open their mouths willingly in many cases. For instance, you may need to open a cat's mouth in order to administer a pill or some...
How to Repair a Wet Book
Whether your evening tea was knocked over onto your favorite book, or you were reading in the tub and your fingers lost their grasp, books have an unfortunate tendency to suffer water damage. Although it is disheartening to witness your book becoming wate...
How to Become a Pharmacist
Pharmacists dispense prescription medications and advise patients on the proper use and potential risks of both over the counter and prescription medications. The number of pharmacy jobs is expected to increase by 25% from 2010 to 2020, a faster growth r...
How to Get Mozilla Firefox Out of Safe Mode
Firefox's safe mode is a way to troubleshoot issues by disabling certain add-ons and extensions and then comparing behavior to Firefox's normal state. When you are finished locating the source of your problem, however, you will need to exit out of this m...
How to Buy Clothes That Fit
Shopping for clothing is a hassle. When you see the perfect outfit on the rack, you take it home only to find out that the size on the tag is completely wrong. Your shirt looks frumpy and your jeans suffocate you, so you have to take the clothes back or s...
How to Break Up a Dog Fight
When dogs wrestle and nip at one another they're usually just getting some playful exercise. Sometimes, though, the roughhousing gets out of control and you've got a full-blown dogfight on your hands. If the fight doesn't seem to show signs of stopping qu...