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What Your Car Needs at Every Mileage, Oil to Timing Belt

Your odometer is a maintenance calendar. Learn to read it, and you'll spend money on parts instead of tow trucks.

GuideHow ToRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

How to Dispute a Mistake on Your Credit Report

It's free, the law gives the bureaus 30 days, and most people lose on a technicality they never see coming.

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Your Garbage Disposal Hums But Won't Spin

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A Six Lesson Course In Money, From Budget To Retirement

GuideHow ToDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

How to sell a car privately without getting scammed

Meet at the buyer's bank, watch the money land, then sign the title. The rest is paperwork, and the paperwork is where people get burned.

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Why Your Garage Door Stops Halfway and What to Fix First

Five minutes of diagnosis tells you whether this is an eight-dollar can of lubricant or a call to a spring guy.

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The Home Maintenance Checklist That Actually Gets Done

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How to Shut Off the Water Main When a Pipe Bursts

GuideCan You Fix ItWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Fix a Sticking Door Before You Reach for the Plane

Nine times out of ten it's a loose hinge screw, not a swollen door. Find the rub, then fix it in the right order.

GuideMarriageMarcus ValeSep 23, 20265 min

Romance in the Middle Years Is Built at 9 P.M. on a Tuesday

Anniversary trips don't save a marriage. The forty minutes after the dishwasher starts does. Small habits, done badly, done anyway.

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How to Replace Your Birth Certificate and Social Security Card

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Your Dishwasher Won't Drain. Do This Before You Call Anyone

BRO TakeMarriageMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Marriage Is Still the Best Bet a Young Couple Can Make

Waiting until you are "ready" is the most expensive habit in modern romance. Here's the case for the covenant, and what to do in year one.

GuideHow ToRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20267 min

How to Read a Paycheck Stub and Check It's Right

Three pieces of arithmetic will tell you in about four minutes whether your employer paid you correctly. Most men never do a single one of them.

Can You Fix It6 min

Fix a Dryer That Runs But Never Gets Hot

Marriage6 min

Serving Your Spouse Without Keeping Score

GuideHow ToRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

How to Write a Will Without Paying a Fortune

You can get a valid will, a guardian named for your kids and your accounts pointed the right way in one evening, for less than dinner out.

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A Dead Outlet, Diagnosed in the Right Order

Before you buy a receptacle or call anybody, work the circuit from the cheapest cause to the most expensive. Most dead outlets die from three things.

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