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How to Easily Uncrystallize Honey – Dad Hack

Mark — Mon, 02 May 2011 13:22:00 +0000

You get up early on the weekend to feed your kids, your old-lady is still in the sack and you want to make some delicious stone-cut oatmeal. Your water is boiling and you go to your pantry to get some dried fruit and honey for flavoring. Your honey looks odd though.

Shitballs. That’s crystallized. You aren’t using that honey today. Or are you?

If you happen to have a baby at home who’s still using a bottle, you’re in luck. Get out that baby bottle warmer, fill it with an ounce of water and drop in your jar of honey:

If your jar doesn’t fit. That’s ok. Set it in the top as best you can and let that steam go to work. A bottle warmer is perfect for this because it gently heats the honey and it’s made so that it won’t melt plastic bottles, so if you’ve a got plastic little bear, his ass won’t melt.

By the time your oatmeal is done, your honey will be perfectly liquid allowing you to easily add it completing a delicious breakfast.

Save Money with RSS Feeds

Mark — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:56:00 +0000

I am one cheap S.O.B. If I can get a deal on something I do. One way I’ve found a lot of great deals for my family is by using RSS feeds.

If you’re not familiar with RSS feeds, imagine getting customized news feeds sent right to you. You’ll need an RSS feed reader to act as the centralized delivery location, I’d suggest Google Reader for this. It’s very good and it’s free.

Most websites will have a orange icon that looks like that one up there. All you need to do is click on it and say that you want to subscribe with Google Reader or the reader of your choice. Just about every website now has rss for news, weather, blogs and even sales.

RSS Feeds to Save You Money

Craigslist – Ever wish you could know when a new item was posted to Craigslist? Now you can. With Craigslist, you can save any search as an RSS feed which is great because you can specify what you want to get results for. Here are some that I like to keep an eye on: Baby & Kids, Toys & Games, and Farm and & Garden. We’ve gotten some great deals for our son by following these, a great example was the huge box of clothes we got for $50. It was about $300 worth of clothes. And the farm and garden one is great during the summer when people have excess garden bounty.

Bens Bargins – I rarely buy any electronics without watching the prices for a few weeks on Ben’s Bargins. I like that you can get RSS feeds for a specific category of products.

Deal News – This site tracks deals all over the internet for just about every kind of product. They too let you drill down to specific items, Babies and Kids, for example. My favorite part about Deal News is that they’ll tell you how the current deal relates to previous deals on that item, so you’ll know right away if this is the cheapest they’ve ever seen an item.

Clean Up a Broken Beer Bottle With Bread : Dad Hack

Mark — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:47:00 +0000

From time to time, every Dad needs a cold beer to make it through the day. And from time to time, every Dad has too many of said beers and accidentally drops a bottle that breaks into a million pieces. Here’s a tip on how to clean up that glass easily and safely.

Start by picking up all the large pieces of glass. Grab a piece of sandwich bread (even a hot dog bun will work) and put it down on top of the glass. Press it down lightly. The small pieces of glass will get stuck on the bread and you won’t have to worry about getting glass in your foot when you get up for Advil in the middle of the night.

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