Dad Hacks: Helpful Hints to Make Life Easier

by Dan Marshall

The author of Life Hacks returns with this indispensable, fully illustrated manual—featuring 112 ingenious yet simple tricks, shortcuts, and ideas—every dad needs to solve a host of everyday annoyances and dilemmas.

Packed with a wealth of advice, Dad Hacks offers invaluable solutions for more than one hundred common problems fathers face everyday. These hacks—“a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency”—use basic materials and familiar techniques in ingenious ways. Tired of replacing your razors? Blast the blade with a hairdryer. The shot of hot air will eliminate residual moisture and help prevent oxidization and dulling.

Conveniently packaged in a portable flexibound format with rounded corners, Dad Hacks provides creative fixes—all fully illustrated and easy to follow—for a wide range of ordinary occurrences,

• Household Hacks

• Food and Drink Hacks

• DIY Hacks

• Gadget Hacks

• Health and Well-being Hacks

• Hacks on the Go

• Car and Bike Hacks

• Hacks for the Kids

• Garden and Outdoor Hacks

• Clothing and Grooming Hacks

With advice for the car, office, house, electronics, travel, and much, much more, Dad Hacks is essential for every tool kit, glove box, and work drawer.

Genres: Nonfiction

159 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 10, 2016

About the author

DAN MARSHALL grew up in a nice home with nice parents in Salt Lake City, Utah, before attending UC Berkeley. After college, Dan worked at a strategic communications public relations firm in Los Angeles. At 25, he left work and returned to Salt Lake to take care of his sick parents. While caring for them, he started writing detailed accounts about many of their weird, sad, funny adventures. Home is Burning is his first book.

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

funny and informative

[Matt Blair · Rating 2 out of 5]

Heavy on the awful dad jokes and light on advice you're likely to put to use, but worth a quick skim.

[Alicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great little book with great ideas.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Silly and fun. Some good ideas. Some very much not.

[Rachel Jerdin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was on sale for $1 or $2 and I'm always interested in hacks

So normally, this is not a book I would get, but I always find some treasures in collections such as this. It had illustrations, so if you weren't quite sure what he was explaining, the pictures help. He has a sense of humor which is pleasant. And, these were dad hacks. Not all pertain to mom's or women, but many helpful. It would make a nice gift for a new dad.

[Champaign Public Library · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recommended by Laura W.

Nice little book about how to do things an easier way. I thought most of the tips were pretty good except for the tip to wear your hoodie backwards so you can fill the hood up with snacks (like popcorn) to eat.

[Julian Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating and full of supremely useful ways to make life better.

Every page is a gem and this should be a coaching book for life.

Childishly simple - devastatingly effective.

Brilliant.

[Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some are silly, some are helpful and some are common sense!

[Braxton Story · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some decent tips on various mundane tasks, per the usual with the "hack" style books. Not a lot relating to dad-hood however.

[Linda Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some good dad hacks!

I liked this book, because like my dad, it offers lots of helpful life hints. I know that I will remember and try several of them.