Measure with a bill
All U.S. currency is 6" long, by folding in half you get 3". I have received some strange looks when I pulled out my wallet and started running it over appliances or furniture.
Submitted by Chrles Morris

Cleaning Saw Blades & Other Steel Tools
Use coal oil to clean rusted tools.  Soak in pure coal oil over night, in the morning scrub lightly with a non steel scrubber.  The coal oil leaves a protective film on the tools.
Submitted Mr. Murphy

Pot Magnet
When working with nails, screws, etc. - anything magnetic, especially on top of a ladder or in an otherwise awkward place, I have a "Pot Magnet" affixed to a wristlet made of Ace bandage ON MY RIGHT wrist (I am right-handed - if you are a leftie put it on your left wrist).  This holds the pesky "small magnetic items" handy to pick up with you OTHER hand for driving with hammer or screwdriver or cordless drill or whatever.  Sticking them on the magnet also magnetizes them slightly, so that screws, especially, tend to stick to the phillips-head or square drive driver bit. Also, you aren't digging into your pocket and stabbing your fingers on the points - which are sharp enough in your pocket, but somehow become miraculously dulled on the trip to the wall or whatever they are to be driven into...
Submitted by Mr. Oleen

More Tips 

The "ONIT"
or Bachelor's Chair
"Three in One Chair"
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Folding Table
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Drying Rack Cabinet
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Shoe Cabinet
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Thread Rack
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End Table
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Coffee Table
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Phone Table
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