There is a wire coat hanger in almost every house, and nobody bought it. They arrive with dry cleaning, they accumulate, and they are the only household object most people…
Every box of shoes, every new handbag, every electronic device arrives with a small paper packet of beads marked with instructions not to eat it, and almost all of them…
A light bulb attaches to a fitting in one of two ways. It either screws in on a threaded base, or it pushes in against a spring and twists a…
The Shiny and Dull Sides of Kitchen Foil Are an Accident of Manufacturing and It Makes No Difference
There is a confident person in every kitchen who knows which way round the foil goes. Shiny side in to reflect the heat back, or shiny side out to keep…
Pull the hook on the end of a tape measure and it moves. Push it and it moves back. The rivets that hold it on sit in slots rather than…
The two-button flush plate is now standard on new installations across most of the world, and a surprising number of people have no idea which button does what, or press…