Editor's Note: Mark Hetts is on vacation this week. This column originally ran the week of July 11, 2004. Q:You recently wrote about extracting stuck and/or broken bulbs from light fixtures. I work ...

Incandescent light bulbs are known to occasionally shatter in their fixtures—and when they do, it’s both difficult and dangerous to extract the bulb’s threaded base from the socket. Bits of broken ...

Your everyday bar of soap can be used for a lot more than you'd think. Aside from keeping you clean, home and garden blog Gomestic suggests it's a great way to safely remove a broken lightbulb.