| Introduction |
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vii | |
| How to Survive the Seven Stages of Marriage |
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1 | (3) |
| Docking a Powerboat |
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4 | (1) |
| How to keep Birds Away |
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5 | (2) |
| How to Drink Responsibly |
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7 | (2) |
| Things Not to Say to the Bride |
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9 | (1) |
| How to Balance your Job and Home Life |
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10 | (1) |
| How to Reduce your Hotel Bill |
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11 | (1) |
| Quick Tip 1: Opening a Pickle Jar |
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12 | (1) |
| Plumbing Made Easy |
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13 | (1) |
| How to Form a Club |
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14 | (3) |
| Home Schooling |
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17 | (2) |
| Reviving Traditions of the Past |
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19 | (1) |
| Use This, Not This |
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20 | (1) |
| How to Apologize |
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21 | (2) |
| How to Get a Job |
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23 | (2) |
| How to Tell if You Have a Problem Teenager |
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25 | (1) |
| Quick Tip 2: What to Do About Squeaky Floorboards |
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26 | (1) |
| Bad Gift Weather Station |
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26 | (5) |
| How to Check your Marital Status |
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31 | (3) |
| How to Preserve Your Internal Kermit |
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34 | (2) |
| Income Tax Deductions That Are Worth a Try |
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36 | (22) |
| Behaviour Modification through observation |
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58 | |
| How to Improve your Gas Mileage on a Long Trip |
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40 | (1) |
| Hang the Expense |
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41 | (4) |
| How to Make Dinner More Romantic |
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45 | (2) |
| Seven Legal Things you Can Do with a Damp Basement |
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47 | |
| Quick Tip 3 Car Pulls to the Left |
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41 | (8) |
| Multiple-Choice Sensitive-Man Quiz. |
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49 | (3) |
| How to Dress |
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52 | (3) |
| How to Survive an Office Job |
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55 | (2) |
| How to Work Tirelessly |
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57 | (2) |
| Important Research For the Do-It-Yourselfer |
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59 | (1) |
| Twelve Ways Liven Up a Party |
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60 | (1) |
| Why We Have Rules |
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61 | (2) |
| Making Alternative Fuel |
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63 | (2) |
| Item That Don't Mix |
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65 | (1) |
| Quick Tip 4 Opening a Sticky Door |
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66 | (1) |
| How to Tell if you're Too Focused on your Job |
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66 | (2) |
| How your Pool Can Shovel Snow |
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68 | (1) |
| Important Life Lessons |
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69 | (1) |
| Less Is Mower |
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70 | (2) |
| People Who Shouldn't Drink Coffee |
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72 | (1) |
| Ten Reasons to Have a Gravel Driveway |
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72 | (2) |
| Reducing your Carbon Footprint |
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74 | (1) |
| How to Set Up your Home Entertainment System |
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75 | (5) |
| How to Have a UFO Sighting |
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80 | (1) |
| The Easy Way to Raise Children |
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81 | (2) |
| Quick Tip 5: Getting the Cork out of a Wine Bottle |
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83 | (2) |
| How to Sell a Questionable Used Car |
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85 | (1) |
| How to Avoid Conflict |
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85 | (1) |
| The Importance of a Ground Wire |
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86 | (1) |
| How to Feel Good About yourself |
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87 | (1) |
| What to Do With your Fitness Equipment |
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88 | (2) |
| Appearances Can Be Revealing |
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90 | (1) |
| How to Babysit |
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91 | (1) |
| How to Balance your Books |
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92 | (2) |
| How to Handle Messy People |
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94 | (1) |
| Quick Tip 6: Fixing a Leaky Roof |
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95 | (1) |
| How to Install a Parquet Floor |
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96 | (2) |
| The Motor-Sail-Cle |
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98 | (1) |
| How to Take Better Pictures |
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99 | (2) |
| Your First Cruise |
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101 | (2) |
| How to Split Firewood |
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103 | (1) |
| Cooking With Acetylene |
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104 | (2) |
| Getting More out of your Furnace |
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106 | (2) |
| How to Get Back at Your Lawn mower |
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108 | (1) |
| How to Sell your Home Privately |
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109 | (2) |
| Quick Tip 7 How to Measure Your Hat Size With a Two-by-Four |
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111 | (1) |
| How to Save Money on Auto Body Work. |
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112 | (2) |
| How to Use an Adjustable Wrench |
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114 | (2) |
| The Benefits of Fishing |
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116 | (2) |
| Wake-Up Calls |
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118 | (1) |
| How to Avoid Identity Theft |
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119 | (1) |
| How to Fight the Aging Process |
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120 | (2) |
| Good in the Clutch |
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122 | (2) |
| Starting your Chainsaw |
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124 | (1) |
| How to Avoid Traffic Violations |
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125 | (2) |
| Quick Tip 8: Getting Rid of a Bad Smell |
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127 | (1) |
| How to Survive Airport Experience |
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127 | (4) |
| How to Spot your Enemies |
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131 | (1) |
| How to Fix a Leaky Faucet |
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132 | (2) |
| The Computer is your Friend |
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134 | (1) |
| Pause For Thoughts: Some Words of Wisdom |
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135 | (1) |
| Choosing the Correct Fastener |
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136 | (22) |
| The Dangers of the "To Do" List |
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| Safety Rules for the handyman |
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140 | (1) |
| The Miracle of Mechanical Advantage |
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141 | (3) |
| Quick Tip 9 Sealing a Drafty Window |
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144 | (1) |
| Passing the Torch |
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144 | (2) |
| Crisis Management |
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146 | (3) |
| Shades of Green |
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149 | (2) |
| The Million-Dollar Handyman |
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151 | (2) |
| How to Catch Mice |
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153 | (3) |
| The Demands of Boat ownership |
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156 | (2) |
| Handyman Fingerprints |
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158 | |
| Deciding Who Should Pay the Bills |
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141 | (23) |
| How to Tell if you're Boring |
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164 | (1) |
| Quick Tip 10: Slippery Stairs |
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165 | (1) |
| Another Pause For Thoughts |
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166 | |
| A Quiet Place |
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161 | (3) |
| The Dangers of Pointing a Finger |
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164 | (6) |
| How to Adjust to Global Warming |
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170 | (3) |
| Beware of Golf |
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173 | (1) |
| Don't Play Too Much Solitaire |
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174 | (1) |
| Friends with Benefits |
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175 | (2) |
| How to Prepare for the Big Day |
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177 | (1) |
| Quick Tip 11 Getting Farther on Empty |
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178 | (1) |
| Power Paint |
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178 | (5) |
| Respecting the Sensitive handyman |
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183 | (1) |
| The Real Ironman Triathlon |
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184 | (1) |
| In loving memory of the Two-Cycle Engine |
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185 | (2) |
| Translating Sailor Talk |
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187 | (1) |
| Old-Guy Practice |
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188 | (1) |
| Animal Defence |
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189 | (2) |
| How to Build your own Airplane |
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191 | (4) |
| How to Get Off the Grid |
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195 | (2) |
| Quick Tip 12 Can you Drink the Water? |
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197 | (1) |
| How to Manage Fire |
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197 | (1) |
| How to Manage Your Expectations |
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198 | (2) |
| How to outsmart a Raccoon |
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200 | (2) |
| Interpreting Body Messages |
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202 | (1) |
| High Steppers |
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203 | (3) |
| The Art of Mind Reading |
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206 | (1) |
| Rarely heard Sentences |
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207 | (1) |
| The Good Side of Bad Reflexes |
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208 | (2) |
| Think Healthy, Be Healthy |
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210 | (1) |
| Quick Tip 13 Should you Be Lifting This? |
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211 | (1) |
| A System For Gambling |
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212 | (1) |
| Remote Possibilities |
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213 | (2) |
| Subjects you Should Not Bring Up With your Wife |
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215 | (1) |
| Supply and Demand |
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216 | (2) |
| Things you Can Learn From your Dog |
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218 | (1) |
| What She Does Not Want |
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219 | (2) |
| The Importance of Being Ignorant |
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221 | (1) |
| The Handyman's Prayer |
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222 | (3) |
| About the Author |
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225 | (2) |
| About the Illustrator |
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227 | (1) |
| About the Photographer |
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228 | (1) |
| Acknowledgements |
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