Life Skills: How to Do Almost Anything

An entertaining treasury of tips, hacks, and step-by-step techniques to smooth your way through the world.

How do you give a good wedding toast? How do you fix a clogged drain? How do you bowl without hurting anyone? Questions like these—some highly practical, others wildly funny—make up this engaging do-it-yourself guide. Including illustrations and diagrams and compiled from the Chicago Tribune how-to column "Life Skills," this book is filled with often-humorous instructions on performing a variety of tasks—from technical challenges to social interactions.

• sew a button
• wrap a gift
• shine your shoes
• clean your keyboard
• ask for a raise
• give yourself a facial massage
• flirt
• pack for a road trip
• turn down a request
• teach someone to ride a bike
• photograph a dog
• change a tire
• fix a faucet
• load a moving truck
• end a relationship
• give a tip
• choose an engagement ring
• and more