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How To: Make Room for Your New Gadgets (And Get Some Cash in the Process)

There's nothing like buying an awesome new gadget, but it leaves you with one problem (besides an empty wallet)—what do you do with the ones you already have? There are plenty of ways to put your old gadgets to use, but if you'd rather get rid of them, you may as well get something out of it, right? Here are five places where you can recycle your electronics and replenish your cash stash.

How To: Make an origami jumping frog

Grow your paper menagerie as well and your knowledge of origami. This video tutorial presents a complete, step-by-step overview of how to make a simple jumping paper frog toy using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. For more information, and to get started making your own paper jumping frog, watch this arts-and-crafts guide.

How To: Fold an origami Arum lily

Grow your paper garden with this crafty how-to. This video tutorial presents a complete, step-by-step overview of how to make a paper Arum lily using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. For more information, and to get started making your own paper bulb flowers, watch this arts-and-crafts guide.

How To: Make a two part folded paper origami box

Put a lid on it! Learn to make the most utile of origami sculptures, the paper box, complete with removable lid! This video tutorial presents a complete, step-by-step overview of how to make a paper box using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. For more information, and to get started making your own paper cubes, watch this arts-and-crafts guide.

How To: Fold a simple origami dragon

Round out your paper menagerie with a fire-breathing behemoth. Make an easy, elegant paper dragon toy using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. This free origami video lesson presents complete instructions on how to make your own dragons from folded paper. For more information, and to get started making paper dragons yourself, take a look!

How To: Fold an easy origami dragon

Looking to add some fantastical creatures to your paper menagerie? Make an easy, elegant paper dragon toy using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. This free origami video lesson presents complete instructions on how to make your own dragons from folded paper. For more information, and to get started making paper dragons yourself, take a look!

How To: Make an origami lotus flower

Looking to add a specimen to your paper garden? Make a 3D paper lotus flower using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. This free origami video lesson presents complete instructions on how to make your own lotus blossoms from folded paper. For more information, and to get started making paper flowers yourself, take a look!

How To: Make an origami modular star

Tired of making simple paper stars? Try something a little more ambitious. With this guide, you'll learn how to fold a 3D modular paper star using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own 3D paper stars, watch this free origami lesson.

How to Dance the Ragtime Dance: Castle Walk

An American Ballroom Companion presents this social dance demonstration from the Library of Congress. Watch this demonstration traditional dance video on the Ragtime Dance: Castle Walk. Not for beginners - this is not an instructional, step by step video. It is an authentic, professional demonstration of the Ragtime Dance: Castle Walk.

How To: Origami a paper duck

This video origami tutorial shows how to use the traditional Japanese art of paper folding to make a duck. All you need is a square piece of paper and nimble fingers. Watch this instructional video and learn how to origami a folded paper duck.

How To: Play an Irish jig and a hornpipe on a tin whistle

Watch this winds tutorial video to learn how to play a traditional Irish double jig, "Saddle the Pony," and a hornpipe, "The Boys of Blue Hill," on a tin whistle. Beginners may have trouble learning by watching in this video, so intermediate tin whistlers will find this video most helpful in learning how to play an Irish jig and a hornpipe on a tin whistle.

How To: Origami Squirtle from Pokemon

This video origami tutorial shows how to use the traditional Japanese art of paper folding to make Squirtle from Pokemon. Anime and Pokemon fans will love to fold their own. Follow along with this video and learn how to make your own paper Squirtle.

How To: Paint clouds in Sumi-e ink

Check out this video to learn how to paint clouds using the traditional Japanese method of Sumi-e ink painting. Clouds are one of the more difficult subjects in Sumi-e to depict because there is no white ink. The white are the areas where you do not paint so shading because very important and painting the clouds becomes more about a sculptural process.

How To: Paint a plum tree in Sumi-e ink

This video is a demonstration of how to paint a traditional Japanese Sumi-e subject in the plum tree. Plum or ume blossoms tells us the spring has come. "Plum blossom, recall me, When it blows in the spring ---" 9th century politician and poet, Michizane Sugawara recites in his famous poem or tanka.