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The Beard Itch Peaks Around Day Ten, Then It Quits

Ninety seconds a morning and three cheap things fix the worst month of growing a beard. Most men quit right before it ends.

GuideWoodworkingDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Build a cedar sauna bench and a backrest worth leaning on

Every fastener goes underneath, every edge gets rounded over, and nothing gets a finish. The rest is just careful ripping.

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Your first three weeks back after surgery should feel too easy

Come back from illness or an operation without blowing it up in week three, when you finally feel good and do something stupid.

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Shine By Noon Is A Product Problem, Not A Washing Problem

Oil isn't dirt, and scrubbing it off at 7 a.m. is why your forehead is a mirror by lunch. Ninety seconds, three products, one habit.

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What was your first ever job?

GuideTools & OrganizingDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Shed Kit or Build From Scratch, and What Each Costs

The foundation isn't in the box, the door is always too small, and one of these two routes will cost you a month of Saturdays.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Five health checks worth doing before you turn 30

Your twenties are the cheapest decade of your life to find a problem, and most of what's worth checking fits in one blood draw and a thirty dollar cuff.

Dude.com — 16 advisers who listen, talk and pray with you

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GuideGroomingDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Round face, long face, square jaw, three different beards

Your beard's shape is decided by two lines, and most men cut both of them in the wrong place.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideTools & OrganizingNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

The Home Tool Kit Every Woman Should Own and Where to Keep It

Twelve tools, about $350, and a hall closet shelf beats a garage full of stuff you'll never carry upstairs.

$Shin splints or a stress fracture, and how to tell them apart$

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Shin splints or a stress fracture, and how to tell them apart

One hurts along a stretch of bone and warms up as you run. The other hurts on a spot the size of a dime and gets worse. Learn the difference before you lose a season.

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Plan a cook for eight people

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GuideGroomingDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Razor bumps on curly beard hair aren't a shaving cream problem

The bumps are a geometry problem. Fix the length, the blade count and the direction, and most of them stop showing up.

Delicious.com — Nine thousand recipes and a plan for tonight

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GuideWoodworkingDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Cheap tools that work and cheap tools that'll waste your wood

A $60 circular saw with a good blade cuts cleaner than a $200 one running the junk it shipped with. Where to save, where to spend, and what to buy first.

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How many days a week are you actually training?

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Stretching feels great and it won't save your hamstring

Thirty seconds of toe-touching has never prevented a tear. Strength, a real warm-up and sane load management do. Stretching still earns six minutes a day.