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You can pay big money for a self-esteem seminar, or you can buy yourself a cordless drill. I recommend the drill.

You can pay big money for a self-esteem seminar, or you can buy yourself a cordless drill. I recommend the drill.

Only the ToolGirl can make unplugging a blocked drain entertaining! Mag Ruffman, with characteristic flair and attitude, encourages readers to confront their terror of household maintenance and accomplish those nagging home repairs and improvements. Accompanied by lots of tips and photos, the author covers a broad range of general home repair and maintenance, renovation, and upgrading projects. She also prides herself on being unconventionally creative in her solutions.

How to paint a ceiling, or make stilts out of five-gallon buckets! And she doesn't hide her bloopers and foibles but shares them with her readers, proving that even experts can make the odd mistake.