The work week's (finally) over—now's your chance to get really creative and industrious. Skim through our ten tips for enjoying a cheaper, tastier, and intriguingly fun night out or party at your pad. Photo by Joe Shlabotnik. 10. Find great beer to drink Leaving the house doesn't mean having t...

If you're a contact lens wearer with a cluttered stockpile of extra lens cases, don't toss them out. Use them to protect your bud-style headphones. Instructables user Mowdish shows how to modify an old contact case to both stash your ear buds and keep the wires from getting tangled up. You simply cu...

Former Valleywag consigliere Paul Boutin offers up a handful of great, low-tech fixes to your high-tech gadget issues. One of them involves getting your cellphone away from your warm pocket to boost its battery life. Photo by hsiqueira. If you're planning to be away from your charger for a stretch, ...

Reader Chris Bright had too many remotes from various A/V gadgets and no good place to store them. That lasted until he fashioned a picture frame and fabric into a DIY remote caddy. He writes: A few years ago, I upgraded my entertainment system and it was great. I was happy with the results, but I w...

Add some storage beneath the seat of your bike with this ridiculously cheap and simple hard-backed saddle-bag. It's made from recycled material, and you'll always have a place to stash stuff on the go. Gerry at How to Fix Bikes, a blog about life as an avid cyclist, turned a plastic jar into saddleb...

Craft a supremely cheap and furniture-saving scratch-pad for your feline friends with this tutorial from the Design Sponge blog. It's free and friendly to both the environment and adorable kitties. The post author, like many cat owners, noticed after a few purchases that store-bought scratch pads ar...

Armor Etch is a cream normally used for glass etching cream, but it's also a truly handy repair tool for badly scratched glasses that have a UV or anti-glare coating. David Gulbransen of the CoolTools blog had a pair of glasses that were serviceable, save for where the specialty coatings on the lens...

Whether you've got ink blots on your hands from working too hard or snagging that cutie's number at the concert last night, there's a better way to scrub it off than plain old soap and water. Use a cool teabag instead like my friend James in the video above. For more urawaza, see my previously poste...

Editor: Meet io9 contributor Lisa Katayama. When she's not blogging about robots and futurism, she's spreading the word about how to GTD in the most unexpected ways. Here's a sampling of a few clever tricks you'll find in her new book, Urawaza. When it comes to life and getting things done, we like ...

Got a screw that's stripped the wood around it and won't stay put, but a longer or larger screw won't solve the problem? How-to blog DIY Life says a wooden golf tee and some wood glue is all you need to make that hole as good as new. Just slather the tee with glue and tap it into the offending hole ...