The Best Ways to Get Something You Dropped Down the Drain
If you’ve ever had that heart-stopping moment of dropping an expensive piece of jewelry down the sink (or had nightmares about the possibility), or if you have kids who like…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: What Is Skibidi Toilet?
This week’s Out-of-Touch guide covers a kidnapping that might not have happened, singing heads coming out of toilets, and people eating borax for their health. So make yourself a girl…
How to Use Your Greywater to Save Money (and Resources)
We use a breathtaking amount of water. On average, every American uses about 300 gallons of water every single day, most of it indoors. Those applications are pretty fundamental, of…
How to Get Rid of the Sewage Smell Coming From Your Shower Drain
You’re in the shower shampooing your hair, and suddenly you catch a whiff of something unpleasant. Something that smells like sewage. Your first instinct is that it’s coming from the…
The 7 Deadly Sins of Personal Hygiene
Photo: VGstockstudio (Shutterstock) Standards of personal hygiene are not universal. Personal, cultural, and religious difference, socioeconomic factors, and a ton of other variants determine how, and how often, we wash…
You Might Be Using the Wrong Plunger
Photo: New Africa (Shutterstock) Whether you rent or own your home, a good plunger is essential: You don’t want to be stuck in the middle of the night waiting for…
Bill Gates Reveals He Once Drank Water From ‘Faecal Sludge’, For A Good Cause
World Toilet Day was observed on November 19American billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates recently reflected on some of the strange things he has done in his life, in a LinkedIn…
Rest Vroom: Japan’s Oldest Toilet Damaged In Car Crash
The toilet was traditionally used by monks as part of their ascetic training.Tokyo: A Japanese man tasked with preserving cultural heritage accidentally ploughed his car into the country’s oldest toilet…
Why You Should Always Have Plumber’s Putty
Photo: A_stockphoto (Shutterstock) If you’ve ever spent any real time perusing your local hardware store, you have probably seen something called Plumber’s Putty on the shelves. Or maybe you hired…
How Bad Is a Leaky Faucet, Anyway?
Photo: Isaeva Studio (Shutterstock) The drip-drip-drip of a leaky faucet can be annoying, to be sure. And it’s certainly not going to do any favors to your water bill (or…