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There's nothing like a camping trip with the family to create some unforgettable memories and bonding time. Getting away from the daily grind to explore the great outdoors can be both relaxing and energizing. But before you go, make sure you have made the necessary preparations with this essential camping gear list:
Food
Part of the fun of camping is having the opportunity to prepare and eat your meals outdoors the fresh smell of coffee and eggs wafting through the air. One easy breakfast...
Use Your Kitchen Knives Like a Pro
With some know-how and practice, a kitchen knife can be your best friend during food preparation, or it can be a potential source of serious injury. Depending on your skill and what you already know about knife safety, it's always a good idea to hone knife safety skills. The first step in kitchen knife safety is purchasing the most quality set of knives you can afford. Avoid sets that have gaps at the joint where the blade and handle meet. Quality knives should feel heavy and solid in your...
Utility Knife: The Tool You Can't Live Without
From the home and garden to the garage and basement, home owners frequently face repair and honey-do projects that require one of the most basic tools - the utility knife. Its versatility and strength makes it a tool no homeowner should be without.
Looking to add insulation in your home to get a handle on your utility bills? There's nothing like a cold, windy winter to bring out the cracks and areas in your home that could use some additional insulation. You can easily reduce the cost of the...
Hand Tool Safety Protects Artists From Injury
Since childhood, many have discovered the joy of creation through art. Working with the various materials is an exciting and creative venture for many artists. However, research has shown that an artist's craft has the potential to adversely affect his/her health. Art materials and supplies, improperly used, can cause physical injury.
A fundamental aspect of many art businesses and institutions is the hand tool. While indispensable to the artist, hand tools are also involved in many injuries...
How to Set Up an At-Home Recycle Center
With curbside recycling programs available to more than half of all Americans, there's no reason you can't easily set up your own at-home recycling center. Still, the EPA estimates that while 75 percent of what Americans trash every week could be recycled, only 25 percent is. There is still more to be done. Most recycling programs accept certain types of plastics, paper, and glass. Set up and maintenance of your at-home recycling center can be a fast, simple...
The Safety Knife - Don't Go to Work Without It
The reasoning is simple: If employees have access to a good, useable tool, they will use it, preventing potential injury and product damage. In all facets of today's workplace, the safety knife is making its presence - and use - known. Consider, emergency rescue personnel using a seat belt cuter to remove an injured child from a wrecked vehicle, or bakers opening bags of flour effortlessly with food-safe bag cutters. Imagine a disaster animal rescue team cutting string, debris, and plastic...
Slice of History: A Knife Retrospective
The first knives were most likely made of wood, bone and other perishable materials. These ancient tools were shaped by knapping, or percussive flaking of rock, such as obsidian and flint.
As advances in metallurgy were made, materials such as wood, stone, and bone blades were gradually succeeded by copper, bronze, iron, and eventually steel. During the Middle Ages, knives joined the fork and spoon as the prominent pieces of cutlery in the western world. As a result, much of the world's...
Must-Haves for the Outdoor Enthusiast
Hunters, campers and outdoor enthusiasts appreciate equipment and tools that help them enjoy the outdoors more fully. Whether its fishing, hunting, or hiking, the following equipment can make great gift ideas that your outdoor enthusiast will look forward to using on the next outing.
A cast iron roaster and griddle is ideal for preparing wild game and one-pan meals. For instance, the Cabela Oval Cast Iron Roaster & Griddle provides quick and even cooking and the lid doubles as a convenient...
Avoid Camping Conundrums: Advice For Beginning Campers
If you're new to camping, it's is a fun way to get away from it all, but it's advisable to do your homework before heading out into the great outdoors to ensure a safe and enjoyable time for all.
One of the most tempting things to do after purchasing your tenting gear is to try it out for the first time at the campground. Many a first-timer camper has fumbled for hours trying to set up a tent. Set tents up in the backyard before leaving for your camping vacation. Make sure the lanterns, camp...
Freshman Fifteen: The College Student Tool Box
When it comes time to preparing your freshman for college, the list may seem endless - from towels and dishes to furniture and clothes. And you may find yourself returning to the store for items that slipped your mind. Something that may have slipped your mind altogether is a college toolbox. Your budding adult may not be the handiest of the group, but a basic tool kit will come in handy for the million and one little projects your freshman may have to tackle during this new season of life.
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Putting Together a Household Tool Kit
If you're like most, you have many of the necessary homeowner's tools. However, are they all in once place? Can you easily put your hands on that tape measure or utility knife? What's more, when's the last time you could located that brand-new hammer or the screwdriver set your mother gave you last year for Christmas?
Putting together a household tool kit with all the basic tools handy makes household projects and repairs a simple endeavor. These basic tools might be kept in a hall closet,...
Setting Up an Efficient Home Office
Working from home offers many unique advantages to working from an office. From the flexibility of setting your own schedule to eliminating the daily commute, working from home is a trend that is on the rise. However, working from home successfully requires creating an office space that will promote efficiency in the midst of a non-traditional work environment. Consider the following when setting up a professional work space:
Make a detailed list
Before designating a space in your home for an...
We're Movin' on Up: Packing Supplies Must-Haves
It's amazing to think all of your household goods, prized possessions, and furniture can be literally packed and moved to somewhere new. To ensure your household arrives in good condition (including yourself and your family), make sure you have purchased the right packing supplies. Your time and money are valuable - so purchase supplies that will help cut down on work and expense on the other end.
After considering what items will be moved (think of moving as an opportunity to streamline your...
Create Function and Order in Your Office
The most important function of an office is function. If your office is not organized efficiently, chances are, you are going to be less efficient as well. Too often, offices are crammed with office machines, equipment, supplies, and piles of paper that create dysfunction and even stress. Following are steps to creating an office design that's both pleasing and functional:
Clear Pathways
Take good look around. Are there furniture obstacles in your office design? Do they prohibit the flow of...
Safety in the Retail Workplace
The retail environment may appear to be a relatively safe workplace (save the disgruntled shopper or two), and unlike a construction site or workplace that develops chemicals, a retail store doesn't seem to pose any obvious threats. However, retail workers face everyday hazards, from trip-and-fall risks to back injuries resulting from lifting heavy boxes.
With retailers typically setting aside $10-30,000 for each lost time injury, the unforeseen retail injuries can quickly add up. Employees...
The Weekend Woodworker's Top Hand Tools
Woodworking can be an enjoyable and rewarding hobby or profession. When setting up a woodworking area, it's important to stock the right tools and follow some practical safety rules to make the most of your woodworking projects.
Nearly everyone has used a hammer at some point in time. And hammers come in many shapes and sizes. The most versatile and helpful to the woodworker is the claw hammer, which features a smooth, slightly rounded finish head. Choose a hammer that is not too heavy but...
Kitchen Conundrum: How Safe Are Your Food Service Employees?
It's a Saturday night, the restaurant is full, the foodservice kitchen is humming. Employees are focused on serving their customers as quickly as possible. There's not much time now for thinking about safety. However, foodservice safety is a bottom line to any successful business. Regardless of the restaurant's reputation or customer satisfaction, a focus lacking in foodservice safety can lead to serious employee injuries as well as food safety.
A company that has an active safety program not...
Give Them a Hand: Preventing Workplace Hand Lacerations
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 250,000 serious hand, finger and wrist injuries occur in the private industry annually. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics also estimates that approximately 111,000 workers with hand and finger injuries lose days away from work annually - second only to back strain and sprain.
Hand injuries are no light matter, especially in industries where hand tools play a predominant role in the day-to-day operations of a business. In fact, OSHA statistics...
Unsaleable: Reducing the Cost of Damaged Goods
Even with improvements in packaging, shipping practices, warehouse design, and software, cutting the cost of unsaleable products is the constant challenge for those in the grocery industry. According to the June 2005 issue of Occupational Health, the Food Marketing Institute estimated that the grocery industry sustains nearly $20 billion annually in damaged merchandise.
For Mead/Westvaco Coated Board in Stanford, Connecticut, the challenge translates into developing packaging material that...
Make Your Move: Stay Organized During the Packing Process
Moving and relocation can be an exciting time. It can also be a time fraught with worry and apprehension. Placing your entire life inside a bunch of boxes is no easy task. But it doesn't have to be overwhelming. Tackle some of the stress head-on with these tips on how to stay organized during the packing process.
In the long run, it pays to purchase appropriate moving supplies. Sturdy moving boxes, packing tape, bubble wrap, and packing peanuts can purchased at moving companies and...
Expanding Your Business' Bottom Line Through Government Contracts
Hundreds of U.S. companies sell the kinds of products or services that the U.S. Government is interested in buying or needs. Each year, the government purchases goods or services from private contractors that amount to 1 trillion dollars. How can your company benefit from this kind of business and where do you start? Private sector companies that want to do business with the government start with a Purchasing Agent first.
The General Services Administration (GSA) is the federal government's...
The "Packing 411" Gives Holiday Shoppers the Upper Hand on Sending Gifts
When it comes to handling gifts, Santa has the advantage over everyone, but with a little preparation and know-how, consumers still have some tricks up their own sleeves. It may not include a flying sleigh or eight reindeer, but there's no need to panic when it comes to shipping and receiving holiday packages.
"We've seen some wild packages come through the door over the years," said Audrey Jones, The UPS Store franchisee. "All that work to find the perfect gift can be wasted if the package...
How to Replace Windows by Yourself
After reading a window replacement estimate, and once you've caught your breath again, you may be considering a do-it-yourself replacement window project. Replacing windows yourself is not unlike what a professional window company would do, but with a few less extras. Before considering your own window replacement project, keep in mind that replacement windows can vary in their installation instructions, so it's important to pay close attention to those instructions when replacing your...
How to Hang Wallpaper Like a Pro
Wallpaper can transform a room and make a huge difference in its feel and appearance. Today, wallpapers come in a huge range of exciting patterns and colors - making it easier than ever to complement your home furnishings. Hanging wallpaper is relatively easy to learn but does require attention to detail, especially when hanging patterned wallpaper, which requires matching the seams.
Before beginning, you will need to assemble some tools for the job: Wallpaper, a flat work surface, tape...
The U.S. Mail Makes History
Delivering hundreds of millions of messages a day to more than 141 million U.S. homes and businesses is no small feat. Tracking the evolution of the United States Postal Service is a journey into the history of transportation, economics, industrialization, communications and government.
With an act of the Second Continental Congress in 1775, the birth of the Post Office Department, predecessor to the U.S. Postal Service, was put into place. According to the Congressional act, "a line of posts...
The Best Package Opener For Moving Supplies, Shipping Boxes, And Everyday Use
Anyone who works in shipping and receiving - not to mention anyone who's ever moved into a new house or apartment, staffed a mail room, or gotten a package in the mail - knows the improvised solutions people may resort to when receiving a parcel without a good box cutter on hand.
Some workers, faced with a stiffly-wrapped package and no package opener in sight, will opt for brute force. They pull, push, pry, poke and tear on the flaps of the box, all to no avail. They yank on the loose end of...
Adding Logos to Promotional Products
Promotional items are goods given away without charge to the community in an attempt to advertise a business or boost sales or awareness of some particular merchandise or service. They are now an essential part of advertising and marketing and they deserve a closer look.
Promotional items are often distributed at trade shows, used in direct mail and as part of guerrilla advertising campaigns. According to marketing experts promotional items are effective in boosting sales by increasing brand...
Just What The Heck Are Promotional Products?
Promotional items or promotional products include useful or decorative articles of merchandise that are used in marketing and communication programs. The items are usually imprinted or decorated with a company's name, logo or message. Promotional items have a long history in the USA and elsewhere and if you would like to know more about the background of promotional items and how they are used today then read the mini-guide that follows.
The first known promotional products in the United...
The History of Cardboard Boxes
The simple cardboard box plays an important, but unsung role in our modern society. Its hard to imagine how we ever got along before they were invented but they have only been in common use for the last hundred years or so. The story of this simple but important invention follows.
Cardboard boxes are industrially prefabricated boxes, which are primarily used for packaging goods and materials or for moving. The first commercial cardboard box was produced in England in 1817 by Sir Malcolm...
The Power of Promotional Products
Promotional products are items used to promote a product, service or company program and they include advertising specialties, premiums, incentives, business gifts, awards, prizes, commemoratives and other imprinted or decorated items.
Promotional products are the only marketing medium that engages five senses. Customers can see, hear, touch, taste and can even smell promotional products. Promotional products are easily affordable and easy to prepare for shipping and receiving. Their...
Have You Thanked Your Shipping and Receiving Department Today?
In today's globalized environment, shipping and receiving has never been more crucial - or more complex. With Americans buying goods from, and selling goods to, the rest of the world, high-quality shipping and receiving professionals are among the most important links in the supply chain. The numbers tell the story: the US Post office handles over a billion packages a year, representing more than three billion pounds' worth of goods. FedEx delivers over six million every day, while, in the same...
What Kind of Boxes Can I Get For My Packaging Needs?
If you want to store some goods or send them to another destination then you may find cardboard boxes to be the best way to do it. In case you are wondering which kind of cardboard box to use here is a brief introduction to the types of cardboard boxes that are most commonly used today.
Cardboard boxes are industrially prefabricated boxes and are primarily used for packaging goods and materials and for moving. Cardboard boxes can be specified uniquely by defining the size, style, cardboard...
Shippers of Today -- Federal Express and UPS
If you are thinking of shipping a package to or from a location in the USA or abroad then you will probably come in contact with two prominent shipping services, Federal Express and UPS. In case you have wondered how these companies are run or wanted to know more information about these shippers, you can find a short guide to these services right here!
FedEX
FedEx delivers millions of packages every day. While the companys early days are legendary, today's FedEx has grown up into a...
Knife Blades: A Guide to the Different Kinds of Knife Blades
The knife was one of the first tools used by early humans, and in the past thousands of years its use and its design have evolved considerably. Today there are several different kinds of knives, made from a variety of materials, and used as tools, for cooking and other purposes. Lets take a look at the main types of knives that are presently available.
Carbon Steel
Carbon Steel has been used in the making of blades for many years. Knives made from carbon steel are tough and take a better...
Working Safely With Utility Knives and Box Cutters
Thousands of workers are injured each year using box cutters. To avoid injury or damage to inventory, retail workers should use caution when opening boxes and checking freight. Here is a quick guide to safely when opening a carton with a box cutter.
While working with freight and opening boxes, always keep a box cutter with a sharp blade handy. Set the carton on a flat, steady surface. Examine the box to determine the thickness of the cardboard. Thin cartons require less pressure to...
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