May 13, 2013 Video: Red Green, Move It or Lose It Okay, you've spent the last five minutes aligning all the lumps in the couch with the dents in your reclining body, and you're settling in for an afte...

May 09, 2013 This Giveaway Is Gonna Floor You OK, we're guilty of picking that juicy, irresistible, low-hanging pun fruit when we say that this giveaway is gonna floor you. But it's true. In our B...

May 06, 2013 In Las Vegas, Wish You Were Here As the entertainers out here in Las Vegas like to say, "Thank you! We're here all week!" It's true, we are here at the HANDY/Gardening How-To Test ...

April 25, 2013 Giveaway May Change Your Luck "I never win anything!" We've said that ourselves, and we've certainly heard it when it comes to running a sweepstakes. But we're hoping to change ...

April 15, 2013 4 Tool Testers Win Free Vegas Trip It's hats-off time here at HANDY! We've found four winners for our fourth annual Top Tool Tester Contest. We were wowed that more than 1,000 Handym...

April 08, 2013 Red: Do Others Think You're Rich? Red Green is a blogger for HANDY. Perception is everything. Here are ways to make neighbors think you're rich: Have magnetic signs — Excelsior ...

April 01, 2013 Save Energy Costs: Ax Shade Trees Huh? This is a head scratcher. It seems members attending last week's annual meeting of the National Society of Home Construction (NSHC) in Las V...

March 28, 2013 Giveaway: 5 Bosch Jobsite Radios We're pretty upbeat about today's giveaway. Normally, we award one prize in our sweepstakes, but we're pumping up the volume for this Bosch Jobsite Ra...

August 23, 2012 Giveaway: Ridgid Table Saw The development of DIYers starts with owning hand tools and then grows by investing in such power tools as a drill/driver, circ saw and an oscillating...

February 02, 2012 Sick of Winter? Sink Into This It's a no-brainer that there's such a hubbub about home-and-garden shows this time of year. People have had it with the dormancy, darkness and dreary ...

June 02, 2011 Shop Humor: Origins of Celibacy During his first three years of marriage, Frank — a big DIYer — tackled several huge home-improvement projects. At first, Frank's wife Pat loved how t...

May 31, 2011 5 Reasons to Join Us on Facebook We love talkin' tools, projects and all things home related. If you've got an insatiable appetite for home improvement and tool talk, then you'll be i...

March 23, 2011 What Happens in Vegas ... Gets Published! The TOOLBOX and the Handyman Club of America have selected four Top Tool Testers to try out the latest tools and offer feedback from the Product Test ...

March 17, 2011 A St. Patrick's Day Pick-Me-Up With a bit o' luck, you may shut down the shop a wee bit early to celebrate St. Patty's Day. We'll join in, but we're skipping the green-beer-inspired...

March 09, 2011 Birdfeeder Humiliates Squirrels Squirrels humiliate us, openly. Day after day, these twitchy little twerps get the better of us. Even in winter, when there aren't many live plants to...

March 03, 2011 Tip: Fix Ice Dams with Pantyhose Talk about the winter of our discontent! With record snowfalls and frigid temperatures all over the country, this is it! And that big snow can lead to...

February 14, 2011 DIY Valentine: 2 Adirondacks on a Beach Never call us DIYers unromantic! Not only can we create this sort of dream scene on the beach (or at least in the garage), we also are the only romant...

February 07, 2011 How Did That Nail Get There? Good question. There's no hole in the wood "finger" on the far left; and the space between each finger is too small to insert the nail through holes i...

February 03, 2011 Great Party Needs a Great Grill Here's a little secret about DIYers: Behind that measured, methodical, nothing-musters-me façade of folks who fix up their homes, there lurks a party ...

January 24, 2011 Juggling Chainsaws ... or Not Don't know whether it's authentic, but this Discovery Channel video hooks you right off the bat with the following claim: ...

January 10, 2011 Taking a Limp Duck to the Vet A man took his limp duck to the vet, who listened for the bird's pulse with her stethoscope. "Sorry, your bird's dead." "Y...

January 06, 2011 Vegas, Free for 4 Tool Testers! The TOOLBOX is teaming up with the Handyman Club of America in selecting four tool buffs — our Fantastic Foursome — to join us at the 2011 National Ha...

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