We replaced a screen on a screen door with youtube.
Many years ago I learned how to get black sharpie off of a white wall…
Hand sanitizer works like magic to remove ink from white dress shirts. Thanks Google.
^^^oooh, that is useful info given the messy guys at my house!!
I changed out my netbook screen using a YouTube video. Even my techie son was impressed.
S2 found charts that show chemical/taste relationships between various foods and herbs, etc. that he uses all the time in his cooking.
For the quilters out there – Missouri Star Quilt Co’s tutorials are amazing. They do a great job breaking down steps into simple, manageable parts.
A YouTube video taught us how to fold up fitted sheets. Amazing.
When you discover a useful hack or a fix, do you share it with the world? We do it occasionally. When Mr. B. fixed our fridge with a $50 part and some soldering, he wrote detailed step by step fix instructions with photos and posted them on Fixya. Got a ton of thanks for that. Have not done the youtube videos yet! 
I wish people can monetize on it, like how many likes equal to $$. My husband and I built our gazebo/ trellis and did a lot of hardscape by watching a lot of you tube. There is nothing you can NOT do nowadays.
I don’t know how we’d get along without You Tube tutorials.
In our family, we’ve used it to learn everything from how to operate my out-of-town daughter’s sewing machine to how to tie a bow tie. Long live the interweb and who needs privacy anyhow?
You tube taught me to fold a t-shirt in 5 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAxhr0j0thY
mathmom, that video is awesome! I’m going to try that next time I do the wash.
I was able to replace a broken laptop screen fairly easily because I found a Youtube instructional video on screen replacement that used the same model i had, so every screw they removed was in exactly the same place. It made the task fairly easy. If you think Youtube is only for music, there are tons of instructional videos on Youtube!
Speaking of music, we just learned that YouTube has numerous full-length operas, many in HD, and with English subtitles. Also recorded-live performances of virtually any classical piece you can think of.
Okay, that t shirt fold was awesome.
Without a doubt saved hundreds of dollars and hours of time using the Internet for troubleshooting and repairs.
Of course, the Internet can make me giggle just like this poor newscaster.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pMA3x-bc8iM
I felt a little dorky watching my first YouTube “how-to” video the other day at work…but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out how to get the neck strap on my new camera. Who would have thought such a video would exist let alone be so useful. :">
We used it to figure out how to change the battery in our car remote. Who wants to go to the dealer and pay for that? Although, some dealers are nice and will do it for free when you take your car in.
@BunsenBurner - I’d love to know the trick you found for getting more pages out of the black ink cartridge of a Brother printer. We have a black ink only Brother printer and when I googled for way to get more pages printed, they youtube videos I found were all for color printers.
The trick only works for this specific laser cartridge design. On the cartridge that our printer accepts, there is a little optical sensor (basically a window through which some sort of a light signal shines) that “senses” how much ink powder is left in the cartridge: the thicker the layer of ink, the less light it allows through. The problem with that design is when the ink in the window gets low, the printer refuses to print even though there is still a ton of ink in the rest of the cartridge! Taping a piece of non-transparent plastic over this window -carefully - dupes the sensor into thinking the cartridge is full. No youtubes for this - just some dyi site. Mr. came up with the solution on his own; used Google to confirm that it would work because he was not sure if the sensor worked the way we thought it did.
My old Okidata printer - shaking the cartridge worked quite well. I got 100s and 100s of pages more than I was supposed to. The current printer (an HP) doesn’t seem as susceptible to shaking, but I again get many more pages if I just keep printing after it warns me not to because my prints will fade. You know by the time they fade, I’ll be long gone.
The sneaky sensor was apparently put in place to prevent the shaking fix.
We used electrical tape over the sensor. Doubles the life of the cartridge! We have a Brother HL-2170W B&W laser printer, purchased at Costco.
CD, sounds like your printer has the same cartridge design as ours (away from the house so can’t look for the model!). Ours is a color laser jet.