PFP Editorial 
Three things a man should be able to make from scratch: a strong cup of coffee, a decent steak, and one cake. This is the cake. There’s an old idea — mostly forgotten now — that knowing how to bake one good cake is part of being a grown man. Not because you’re trying to … Read more
Most fathers think the project they build with their son is for the son. It isn’t. It’s for what happens between them while the work is being done. There’s a kind of conversation that only happens when two people are working with their hands. It’s not a planned conversation. You don’t sit down for it. … Read more
A 30-year financial accounting of the small household tasks families used to handle themselves — and the bill we’ve been quietly paying ever since we stopped. There’s a quiet number that almost no family calculates, even though it lives in their bank statements every year. If you took an average middle-class household and added up … Read more
A solid workbench is the single most useful upgrade a homeowner can make to their garage or basement. Here’s how to build one — even if you’ve never built anything before — using under $80 of materials and a single Saturday. There’s a moment in every homeowner’s life where they stop pretending the dining table … Read more
The skills our grandfathers took for granted have stopped being passed down. Here’s how to start passing them down again, one age and one project at a time. There’s a quiet thing that’s happened in American households over the last two generations. Most fathers under 50 today were not, themselves, taught to use tools by … Read more
The five small skills that, between them, handle most of the calls a typical homeowner makes to a handyman every year. Each takes under an hour to learn and saves hundreds of dollars over the life of a house. There’s a quiet skill gap in American homeownership that doesn’t get discussed enough. A generation ago, … Read more
