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The Secret Yumiverse

Secret Tips from the Yumiverse offers hints and tricks from the comic world of Yumi. Also known as Urawaza or life hacks, Yumi's tips are for the thrifty DIY spirit.

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May 20, 2011

Jim Lahey's no-knead bread is my favorite easy bread recipe. I've written an article about it, with a slight adaptation of Lahey's recipe here. I'd love to see the instructions drawn out Yumi-style! ...

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May 13, 2011

Thank you to everybody who submitted entries to last week's Secret Tips Of The Yumiverse: DIY Contest!  The winner of the contest is Nicholas H Battjes, who shared a very neat trick for peeling an ora ...

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May 13, 2011

ENTER: Write the Yumi-awesome-est How-To.   WIN: Yumi's original artwork! Maybe it's something simple, like how to choose the perfect watermelon, or how to fold an origami crane...Maybe it's a secret ...

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May 5, 2011

My idea for a Yumi-fied how-to guide is this: Learn to juggle.  I thought for the longest time that I couldn't juggle because of some personal deficiency. That, somehow, a connection between the two h ...

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May 5, 2011

It'd be nice to see what a penny will buy these days. Maybe you could draw something showcasing the many uses still available today for a penny (if any). With gas prices rising, it'd be nice to know y ...

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May 5, 2011

Yumi, who knew mouthwash was so useful?! I certainly didn't! ...

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May 4, 2011

This is one of the very first recipes my mom gave me when I moved out. Being Chinese, she didn't bother giving me a written recipe. It's pretty simple, and an excellent way to use your rice cooker: In ...

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May 3, 2011

Over years of almost-daily orange eating, I have developed a 90% effective workflow for removing the peel from an orange in one piece. While this might not seem important, people who see me do it gene ...

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May 2, 2011

I'd love to see a YUMI guide for how to draw hands (No matter what I try, my hands always seem to come out looking like fat sausage balloons, way too large for the body they're supposed to be attached ...