100 Things Every...

The series. One hundred things every man, woman, dad, mom, young person and grandparent should know, do or own.

The mistake is dressing for the thermometer you see at dawn. Layer for the hour you'll be working hardest, and decide in advance where the coat goes.

The four-in-hand covers almost everything, the width matters more than the pattern, and there are days when the tie makes you look worse.

A clothes brush, a proper hanger and a day off between wears will keep a suit sharper than any dry cleaner, and cost you about two minutes a day.

Tip the drawer onto the table, sort it in twenty minutes, and end up with a set that actually charges everything in the house.

Your watch reports about a dozen metrics every day. Roughly three of them can carry a decision. Learn which, and stop arguing with the rest.

Ten minutes with the machine in front of you, and a few model numbers worth memorising, is the difference between a bargain and a brick.

How to keep a console in the main room without hostage-taking the TV, waking the baby, or leaving a nest of cables under the sofa.

Measure the rail, do the hanger math, and build the wardrobe around the closet you actually have instead of the one you wish you had.

Three fibres, three different jobs. Which one to buy first, what goes wrong with each, and how to stop a good jumper dying in eighteen months.

Buy the memory card before you buy the dash cam

The camera is the easy part. Mounting, power and what happens to the footage are where most people get it wrong.