How To Do "Anything": My List of Fabulous Finds (Week 17)

This week's List of Fabulous Finds is all about "how to do" things.  In less than a year, my youngest child heads off to college. I have been thinking a lot lately about whether or not I have taught him well enough "how to do" all the things he will need to know. 

I worry less about whether or not I've taught my kids enough, when I think about the wealth of information at our fingertips today. The Internet is a powerful resource.

The following links are good examples that the Internet provides information on how to do just about anything.

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This Week's Fabulous Finds:

~ ~ How to sew on a button

A button fell off one of my son's dress shirts this week. I've shown both my kids how to sew a button back on, but this in not a skill that is regularly practiced.  Wondering if help would be available, I searched on-line and sure enough, found a video that gives even better directions for this task than I ever could.

• How to sew on a button 

~ ~ How to fold a suit without wrinkling it

I think my children know how to properly fold clothes, but even I learned a trick or two in this
video. I usually pack my suitcase so tightly, I would never have thought to purposely add a little air!

• How to fold a suit without it wrinkling

~ ~ How to cook oatmeal ... in a rice cooker

As a swimmer, my daughter needed to eat both before and after her (very) early morning swim practices throughout high school. Oatmeal was sort of a staple for her, and we figured out how to make steel-cut oats in the crock pot, so it would be ready to scoop into a thermos right before she left the house. 

I'm not there to be sure my daughter is fueling her college swim practices well - but I happen to know she owns a rice cooker!

• How to use your rice cooker to make oatmeal

~ ~ How to  solve the world's plastic problems

We have all read about how our world and our oceans are becoming buried in non-biodegradable plastics. This week I came across two really fascinating articles posing possible solutions to this problem.

• How to cut down on plastic water bottles? The answer may be to create a biodegradable, edible container.  ...  Edible plastic-free water bottles 

• How to get rid of all the plastic that we do have? Meal worms might be able to give us the answer. ... Worms that can eat plastic

~ ~ How to use an explanation point

A few years ago, I realized I was guilty of overusing the explanation point.  I have been working towards improving this fault, although even in this post you will probably see too many. (It took great restraint, but I didn't add one at the end of that last sentence ... or this one.)  

This article was a helpful one for me to read - but exclamation mark habits are hard to break!

• How to know when (not) to use an exclamation point 

~ ~ How to protect your brain from dementia

This has been quite a week. A lot has been going on, and I have been preoccupied with many details. Perhaps this explains why on Tuesday morning I drove all the way into town for an appointment - only to find out I had the wrong date, and the appointment was on Wednesday! 

Needless to say, when I saw this article on protecting the brain from dementia, I decided I better read it!

• How to protect your brain from dementia

~ ~ How to prepare for winter

Just in case you missed it, I added a little bit to the wealth of information available on the Internet this week, by writing my own post about how to prepare for winter. There's even a handy info-graphic you could use as a "how to know what to do" reminder list.

• 12 Things To Do Before Winter

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What is the most helpful "how to" advice you found on-line this week?

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