As much as the TV cartoons influenced my devotion to Cap’n Crunch — which has waned but never truly wilted — there were also free prizes in the boxes which were a bit more high-quality (to a kid’s mind) than other cereal-box prizes. They’d have comic books and all sorts of great things. One famous […]
Once and For All, Bell Peppers Do NOT Have Gender!
An image of green bell pepper lobes making an extraordinary claim seems to never stop making the rounds on Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook. The written message on the image claims that you should flip over bell peppers to check their gender. The ones with four bumps are females and the ones with three bumps […]
Why Combine Cake Mix and Soda?
Some so-called hacks are anything but a hack. Here’s an easy homemade cake hack! Buy a cake mix and follow the package directions. It’ll change your life! Not a hack. But mixing cake mix and soda pop, now that’s a hack. The reason it will change your life is because it makes a delicious soda […]
Is Baking Soda and Vinegar a Good Cleaning Solution?
I’ve been noticing lately people’s homemade cleaning solutions. Most of them make me laugh. They are simply random mixtures of household chemicals that seem “cleany.” You can use vinegar, baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, and Dawn dishwashing liquid to clean, so why not mix them altogether to make a super-cleaner? Do I need to answer that? […]
Homeopathy is Not a Drug and Other Babbles
Years ago a group from the 10:23 Campaign staged some public mass homeopathic drug “overdoses”. Don’t worry it wasn’t a Jim Jones thing. It’s a simple demonstration of the fact that no amount of a homeopathic drug can harm you because there is simply nothing in it but water and sugar. Such demonstrations are nothing […]
Does Flex Seal ‘As Seen on TV’ Really Work?
Does Flex Seal As Seen on TV really seal as well as the commercials suggest? This test duplicates some of the things the guy in the commercial claims are possible. The results were quite positive. Flex Seal is definitely a useful product for all sorts of sealing jobs around the house.