A site with tips and ideas for home improvement and repair - 'Do It Yourself"

Home improvement or repair is one of those money saving hobbies which gives you a feel of satisfcation of personal touch alongwith a sense of creativity. Many of us consider 'do-it-yourself'as a favourite time pass or hobby. There are many sites on the world wide web which offer community based forums, communities where you can find lots of free tips and ideas for home improvment and repair.

DoItYourself.com is one of the top 50 sites on the web dealing with home improvement and repair topics. It was named "One of the Top 50 Sites in the World" by Time Magazine. It gets over two million unique visitors per month.

Mission:

To provide consumers with unbiased home improvement and repair information in a community environment.

How to topics covered on the site are: Air Conditioning, Automotive Repair, Crafts and Recreation, Decorating, Electrical and Lighting, Exterior Home Improvement, Gardening and Patio Going Green, Hardware and Tools, Heating and Ventilating, Household and Cleaning, Interior Home Improvement, Painting Personal Finance and Legal Plumbing, Real Estate, Remodeling, Did It Myself Projects

"DoItYourself" provides advice from professionals in over 100 subjects at their forums. Currently the number of members is 156,285 alongwith 1,341,772 posts. You can estimate from few forum topics which kind of information you can discuss or find there:

Automotive Repair, Crafts and Recreation, Decorating, Electrical and Lighting, Exterior Home Improvement, Personal Finance & Legal, Flooring, Gardening and Patio Going Green, Hardware & Tools, Household and Cleaning, Interior Home Improvement, Plumbing Real Estate

There is a section where you can watch videos showing do-it-yourself projects.

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World's biggest crossword puzzle at a building

Are you a crossword puzzle lover?

Well there are many of us who like to challenge their own skills by solving crossword puzzles. Many of us call it a hobby because it is a good pastime for them. Do you which one is the biggest cross word puzzle around the world? (At the bottom of the post you can see the post with details about it) If I say that the world's largest crossword puzzle is painted at the side of a 100 feet tall building, would you believe it?

Yes----- it is true!


'A giant crossword puzzle has been painted on the side of a 100-foot tall building in Lvov, Ukraine. Clues to the puzzle are planted throughout the city, and the puzzle's answers are revealed at nighttime with the use of special lights.

There is one interesting detail about the design of the puzzle. It looks like an empty puzzle during the day-light, but at night when special lights are on the words in the puzzle become visible with a lightly-glowing fluorescent color."

"The questions for this crossword puzzle are located in different point of interests of the city, like monuments, theaters, fountains etc. So people while walking around the city can try to answer the questions and writing down the answers. When the night comes to the city they can meet at this house and check their degree of intelligence."

Worlds Largest Crossword Puzzle: Breaking the 1996 Guinness record, this is the largest English crossword puzzle ever published.

Over 91,000 squares on its grid. Over 24,718 clues, with no repeats, in the 104 page clue book. The puzzle is printed on 6 panels that are folded for easy solving on your lap or table top, or you can mount the panels on the wall - a roll of two sided tape is included. 6 and 1/2 feet of wall space is required for the puzzle. Answer solution grid is on 2 panels that fold out to 4 feet by 4 feet square. Both puzzle and answer grid are printed on sturdy paper stock.

'Online Tips' for home improvement and gardening

There are many people who search the net for home improvement and do-it-yourself ideas, and tips. I am one of those surfers who love to browse the net for useful information offered by many site with do-it-yourself tips and tricks. Your creativity skill is developed by doing home improvement task and at the same time you can save money. Sometimes your saving could go upto hundreds of bucks.

Online Tips.org is one of those sites offering home improvement and gardening tips.

Site is easy to navigate and you would like the quotes at the right side bar:
- "Formula for an interesting life: acquire skills and use them. The more skills, the more interesting."

- "Skills unpreventably give pride and confidence. They won't build your character necessarily, but they'll enable a breadth of experience where character might clarify."

There are cleaning, drywalling, flooring, grout, homeselling, kitchen, lawn care, masonry, ceramic tile and lots of do-it-yourself tips and articles.
You can find cleaning tips like iron, bathroom tub, feather pillow and many more can be found at cleaning tips section and every topic provides many articles covering it.

There are many do-it-yourself posts: 'DIY guides'

Happy new year to all

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850


I like the way Google shows its widget at any occasion. At the time of Olympics, there were many event relating clip arts whenever I opened the home page of my browser.

Let's learn more about celebration of the new year and few quotes relating to the topic.

The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. In the years around 2000 BC, the Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible cresent) after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring).

The beginning of spring is a logical time to start a new year. After all, it is the season of rebirth, of planting new crops, and of blossoming. January 1, on the other hand, has no astronomical nor agricultural significance. It is purely arbitrary.

The Babylonian new year celebration lasted for eleven days. Each day had its own particular mode of celebration, but it is safe to say that modern New Year's Eve festivities pale in comparison.

The Romans continued to observe the new year in late March, but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization with the sun.

In order to set the calendar right, the Roman senate, in 153 BC, declared January 1 to be the beginning of the new year. But tampering continued until Julius Caesar, in 46 BC, established what has come to be known as the Julian Calendar. It again established January 1 as the new year. But in order to synchronize the calendar with the sun, Caesar had to let the previous year drag on for 445 days.

To read more: It's Another New Year...but for what reason?

New Year Quotes:

# Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn

# An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan

# Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown

# The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~G.K. Chesterton