Oldeagle66
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Years ago I learned how to affordability get rid of bedbugs instead of hiring an expensive exterminator and destroying everything. A $10 bag of diatomaceous earth, small hair dye container and plastic lids does the trick.
Your thoughts about learning from Youtube?
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Judycat
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I have a hard time with the videos because the person often takes too long to get to what I need to know and I lose interest. Written instructions are better for me.
How-to videos rarely show situations where you are removing a part and it falls to pieces either. I tried snaking a drain once from a how-to video.
It looked doable for me, but when I carefully inserted the snake, it went right through the trap in the drain. Now what? Grr. All I did was create more trouble for myself.
How-to videos rarely show situations where you are removing a part and it falls to pieces either. I tried snaking a drain once from a how-to video.
It looked doable for me, but when I carefully inserted the snake, it went right through the trap in the drain. Now what? Grr. All I did was create more trouble for myself.
BJintheUK
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I've done lots of different things for a living during my life, and found that there are always tips and tricks that I never knew at the time, but which would have saved me lots of time and effort. That's where I find YT comes in useful.
Although I learned about machining car engines through working with them, there are times when I've learned a simpler way to do things than I thought was possible. So I look for 'how to' videos whenever I need to do something new, and then watch as many as possible in order to distill the best ideas before trying to do the job myself.
Although I learned about machining car engines through working with them, there are times when I've learned a simpler way to do things than I thought was possible. So I look for 'how to' videos whenever I need to do something new, and then watch as many as possible in order to distill the best ideas before trying to do the job myself.
RadishRose
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- Connecticut, USA
I've only used two, but they helped.
JustDave
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I finally read this post from April 28. Don't know how I missed it. Yes this mirrors my experience for working with Linux installation. I actually wiped my hard drive a while back and reinstalled Linux, but now understanding the process, I did it in an hour, where the first time took me a week. But most of that week was spent on finding something I could understand or that was up to date.
JustDave
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I experienced when I built my first house, with a book in one hand and hammer in the other, but on a couple of occasions, I worked alongside a professional home builder, just by observing I learned tricks that sped up my time an improved my precision. That was before there was an internet and before home computers for that matter.
robin416
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Youtube is a wonderful place to get information but you have to be discerning enough to know when whoever's video is sending you down the wrong path.
I've seen it with grooming videos. (I groom my 3 doodles at home) Then there was the guy on another forum that never likes to be told his grand schemes won't work. He wanted to pour a concrete pad in an outbuilding. What he wanted to do was use quickcrete. He didn't even want to listen to those with concrete experience because he saw it YT.
I've seen it with grooming videos. (I groom my 3 doodles at home) Then there was the guy on another forum that never likes to be told his grand schemes won't work. He wanted to pour a concrete pad in an outbuilding. What he wanted to do was use quickcrete. He didn't even want to listen to those with concrete experience because he saw it YT.
Like others I've avoided a lot of problems with household maintenance, auto, health...just a wide variety of problems with the help of YT, but mostly, I use YT as entertainment, my life is much better with YouTube. The advertising that some of the YouTubers do is annoying, but I've noticed lately that YT has added a way to avoid this so that is good.