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Are You Using Your Space Heater Safely This Winter?

Choosing the wrong size heater Using a heater that’s too large or too small for your space can lead to inefficiencies and safety concerns. A heater that’s too powerful may cause uneven heating, with some areas becoming excessively warm while others remain cold.

Learn How to Stay Warm in a Car With No Heat

Install a block heater If you install a block heater on your vehicle's engine, it will heat the engine as well as all of its vital fluids, despite freezing temperatures.

Guide: Stay Warm This Winter Without that Big Power Bill!

Are you tired of paying steep utility bills because the heater was on for the majority of the winter season? There are many ways to cut corners to avoid the expensive bills at the end of the month. You won't believe how simple most of these DIY tips actually are!

Back in the Day, People Knew How to Design Household Items

Once you see the 10 antique household items we’re about to showcase, you too will wish that your hairbrush, stove, or water heater was from the Edwardian or the Victorian era! 1. Can you believe it, baby strollers used to look like THIS? Image Source: Izismile 2.

Pull the Plug on These Electricity Myths

Electric room heaters are the most economical It depends. If you were to heat your entire home with electric heaters to the same temperature you would with an oil or gas furnace, the electric heaters would cost way more.

8 Ways Your Home is Sneakily Draining Your Bank Account

Those Long, Steamy Showers We all enjoy a hot shower or bath, but that monster water heater needs a lot of energy to keep things toasty. If you have an older water heater, you should consider wrapping it in an insulated blanket to save around 20-50$ on electric heating annually.

10 Items That May Be in Short Supply This Pandemic Winter

Patio heaters As people are looking to cozy up to their outdoor spaces for the winter months, while sheltering in place, outdoor or patio heaters are sure to fly off the shelves.

13 Incredibly Interesting Images You Won't See Every Day

Lightning struck this tree and blew its bark clean off A crayfish after shedding his exoskeleton A tomato grown on farm vs. a tomato bought at the market Tracks made thousands of years ago in Pompeii This is what floor heaters really look like Ever wanted a million dollars in cash? This is it.

11 Simple Home Upgrades That Will Save You Lots of Money

Wrap up the water heater in a sleeve Is your water heater on the older side and you feel that it's losing effectiveness, or you can literally feel that it's warm to the touch (which means it's losing heat)?

Cats Have An Innate Ability to Be Really Naughty..

A hot beverage can make an excellent heater. 17. Guilty of stealing leftover corn muffins. 18. This lamp was promptly removed after this chap kept turning it on at night. 19 It's no wonder the room feels so cold...

DIY Solutions That’ll Leave You Both Laughing and Nodding

Very expensive heater 15. Because why should we waste money on buying a shower door? 16. 

Cats Have An Innate Ability to Be Really Naughty..

A hot beverage can make an excellent heater. 17. Guilty of stealing leftover corn muffins. 18. This lamp was promptly removed after this chap kept turning it on at night. 19 It's no wonder the room feels so cold...

How the Cold Winter Months Affect Your Car & What To Do

This includes your car heater and fog headlights. In the long run, the battery's capacity is likely to be diminished. Furthermore, if your car battery is 3 or 4 years old, you should consider purchasing a new one ahead of the cold season.

These 21 Common Household Items Are Toxic to Your Dog

At the same time, many dog owners have no idea that sugar-free chewing gum, scented candles, and portable heaters are equally, if not more toxic to their beloved pet. Do you have anything in your home or garden that could be poisonous to your canine friend?

These People Should NEVER Be Trusted With Technology

"My PC gets slower when I turn my space heater on" Image source: Reddit Related: 12 Unfortunate Tech Fails That Are SO Bad That It’s Funny! 14. This phone stand looks kinda pointy Image source: Reddit Share these funny photos with friends and family!

The BIGGEST Problems Houseplants Face in the Winter

Crunchy or yellow leaves As we use heaters or cozy up near a fireplace to keep ourselves warm, we rarely think of the way all this extra heat could influence our plants. But it does. All that excess heat can dry out the air in your home, giving your plants brown leaf tips or crunchy yellow leaves.

How to Increase Water Pressure in Your Shower: 9 Tips

Locate your shut-off valve, which is usually beneath the kitchen sink or near the water heater, though this can vary. To restore full water supply, adjust the valve level parallel to the water pipe.

Got Wrinkles? You May Be Guilty of These Bad Habits!

Sitting near a heater Central heating and other heating appliances can wreak havoc on your skin during the cold season. They dry out your skin and hair, causing premature aging. Be sure to drink more water and use a moisturizing cream. 7.

What Causes Eye Strain, and How Can You to Prevent it?

This means that we infuse our living spaces with dry, moving air from a fan, heater or air conditioning system, which has a detrimental effect on the lubrication of our eyes. To counter the effect of the aforementioned devices, you can try plugging in a humidifier to add moisture back into the air.

17 Fascinating Facts About Anything and Everything

You can use it to relax, nap, eat, or hang out with friends, and it even has a built-in heater underneath. 15. In the 1830s two French brothers , François and Joseph Blanc , pulled off the first 'cyber attack' in history.