The Thousands

Remember Art Attack? The pastel-coloured nineties DIY art show with the gregarious host who helped kids discover the creative potential of pipe cleaners and cardboard sheets? I do. When he used garlic powder to make a large-scale image of Dracula I nearly lost my eight-year-old shit.

Well, imagine if someone applied the same step-by-step instruction principle to adult things like ironing pants and overcoming fear. You’d have crisp-seamed trousers and the confidence to address an auditorium. You’re on the road to the top, sir. And when a future admiring public ask for the secret to your success, what will you mumble through a mouthful of caviar, champagne and cookies? "In the year they discovered spontaneous combustion is caused by being a profiteering gasbag and Dr Phil mysteriously vanished, I found howcast.com and I’ve never looked back."

With easy steps and topics as useful as ‘How to stay fabulous when you fly coast-to-coast’, ‘How to make a paper bag puppet of yourself’ and ‘How to get two rabbits to become friends’, it’s the home recipe way to win at life.