Whats the best crappy digital camera? Hi! I’m pretty new to photography and all I know about it is what my dad taught me (he really really likes photography) and I’m in the market for a really bad quality cheap digital camera. I’m looking for those super grainy, hazy looking photos — kinda like how they would look back in the 2000’s. Really, I’m mostly looking for something to take…

LPT: Stop crappy gift giving This xmas, avoid giving someone a crappy gift that will just be a waste of money for you and an awkward experience for the receiver. When you give a gift to someone, whether it’s for xmas, bday, etc. ​ Remember that it’s about THEM, not you. Too many people give the wrong gift and then are pissed off that the receiver didn’t act happy enough. I…

Crappy Jack Stands Can Kill You, But Which Ones Are Safe? Everyone who has worked on their own car has likely heard approximately one million times that you should never get underneath a vehicle that is only supported by a hydraulic jack and that it’s only safe once that vehicle is resting securely on jack stands. What if your jack stands suck, though? Read more…

Evil Week: Give a Crappy Handmade Gift for Christmas Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games, or, er, launder some money? We’ve got all the info you need to be successfully unsavory. Read more…

Resilience after making crappy hotel choice I’m the planner in the family. For vacations, I make all travel, lodging, activity, and eating arrangements. I spend a lot of time researching new places. I enjoy the planning and take pride in putting together a quality, enjoyable, cost effective vacation. For the a hotel in Istanbul, I thought I did all the right things. I checked Google and h…

Easy Dorm Room Meals You Can Make in a Crappy Kitchen If I had one wish for college students, it would be that places of higher learning would allow them to keep an Instant Pot in their dorm rooms. But apparently young adults cannot be trusted with heat-generating appliances, and dorm dwellers are often stuck sharing refrigerators and doing most of their cooking in a… Read more…

TikTok’s ‘Overloading’ Trend Is a Crappy Way to Clean Your Toilet TikTok’s latest ad campaign is all about how useful the video-sharing app is for learning new tricks, hacks, and skills—and it is, for the most part. When users aren’t opening TikTok to increase their knowledge, they’re usually looking for entertainment or ASMR. For some time now, one toilet-cleaning trend known as… Read more…

Put Some Olives in Your Crappy Beer It would be fair to say the writers of Skillet are obsessed with brine. We love pickles, olives, and the salty, sometimes tangy liquids they come packed in. Most things are made a little better with salt, acid, and funk, which is why we add these preserved delicacies (and their brines) to a wide variety of foods and… Read more…

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Project 996: Refinishing My Crappy, Yellowed Hazy Headlights I swear, it seems like any time I bring up liking the 996-generation 911, the first thing anyone ever mentions is the headlights. The second is the IMS bearing, the third is bore scoring, but the first is definitely the headlights. Here’s the thing, though: they’ve grown on me over the last nine months, and while I… Read more…