Over the years, I have carefully cultivated my persona as a guy who can’t fix things. You may laugh, but it’s kept me safely away from numerous repair jobs and household disasters. When the pipe under ...

When only the manufacturer or their approved representatives can fix something, they can charge whatever they want or coerce you into purchasing a replacement, writes Nathan Proctor. Getty Images / ...

Sometimes, stuff around the house breaks. At this time, you must weigh an important question: Do you fix it or toss it? SPOILER ALERT: Some things are just not worth fixing. Fixing may feel like the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not polite, as a general rule, to visit your hosts and criticize the way they do things. Unless, that is, you’re helping to pay the rent. World leaders have spent the past week at ...

Dear Lucas: My husband and I are trying to save money right now, so every time something breaks at our house, he tries to fix it on his own. Electrical, plumbing, you name it, he tries to fix it. He ...

Speed has a bad reputation in business, much of it deserved. Discussions of quality problems at Boeing or the collapse of FTX or even Quibi’s dramatic flameout often zero in on speed: Things were ...

TULSA, Okla — Brandi Maynard is a renter. When it comes to getting her landlord to fix things, she is not always sure how to make the request. "There's a lot of us around here who don't know what to ...

Snow globes, sewing machines, binoculars, a music box, bikes, shoes, knit gloves, an antique toilet seat and a very special ukulele: These are just some of the more than 200 items that the dogged ...