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Cougars are classy, experienced women who don’t play games. Therefore, they can be pretty tough to hookup with. If you want to hookup with a cougar, you MUST know what you’re doing.

Fortunately, many rules of dating once understood, will help you land pretty much any woman you want.

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It’s the same with hooking up with cougars. It doesn’t matter where you’re from or what you look like, as long as you do the right things you CAN hookup with a cougar.

In this article, I’m going to show you how to hookup with a cougar.

5 Steps to Hookup with a Cougar

1. Sign-up For Cougar Dating Apps/Sites

When it comes to having sex with a cougar, the first thing you should do is use an online dating app. There are lots to choose from and some work better than others.

The easy option seems to be Tinder. It’s free, it was originally created as a hookup app, and you can tweak your searches so that only cougars show up.

The problem with using Tinder is that the cougar must tweak their age range in their settings so that you show up for them. And because most cougars possibly won’t look for men that are younger than 35, you might be wasting your time. This is because you can’t message anyone on Tinder until they’ve matched with you.

A much better option is to use a dating app that doesn’t set restrictions on who you can message. POF, for example, allows you to search for anyone and everyone of any age range. And because you don’t have to match with a cougar before you can message them, it’s ideal for finding cougars. Plus, POF has a reputation for being great for hookups.

You could also give OKCupid a go, too. It’s more of a long shot than POF but – like POF – it’s free to send messages. However, like Tinder, you can’t send messages to women until they’ve matched with you first.

A third option is AdultFriendFinder. I’m a big fan of AFF, and there are thousands of cougars on this site who are ALL looking for hookups. It’s really easy to get chatting to older women! The only snag is that AFF is a premium dating app that requires a fee.

Another option you’ve got is CougarLife which is – as you’ve probably guessed – aimed at cougars who are looking to date/hookup with younger men. Like AFF, though, you have to pay in order to send messages.

Whichever site you sign up to, I highly recommend that you make it known in your profile what you’re looking for. This will certainly help you land more dates on apps like Tinder and OkCupid. Be straight, be direct, and let the women know that a) you want a cougar and b) you want to hookup.

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2. Visit Martini Bars

Away from dating apps, there are a few places in the real world where you can go to land a hook up with older women. Perhaps the most obvious of these is a martini bar.

A martini bar is a sophisticated setting where mature men and women go at night. These places can be kind of expensive, but they’re super classy. They’re typically avoided by the younger crowd, which means you’ll have a wide array of older women to pick from. Plus, you might even be the youngest guy in there – which is great if you’re looking for a cougar!

Because martini bars are classy and laidback, you’ll need to wear your smartest clothes. Wear your best shoes, dab yourself in cologne before heading out and take a wingman along with you.

It shouldn’t be too hard to find a martini bar in your local area. Just use Google to find one. All you need to search for is either “martini bar near me” or “wine bar near me.”

3. Offer To Buy a Cougar and Her Friend a Drink

When you make your initial approach to a cougar, don’t get caught up in too much small talk too quickly. The smartest thing to do is to introduce yourself (and your friend) before moving swiftly onto drinks.

In other words, you’ll want to ask the cougar you’re talking to if she and her friend would like a drink.

It’s really important, by the way, that you involve her friend in the conversation. If you ignore her friend, she’ll just think you’re really rude and you won’t have any luck.

And if she says she doesn’t want a drink? Just move onto the next one.

That said, you might be faced with a situation where the cougar is clearly into you but her friend is cock blocking you. This happens often – but don’t give up. Make your intentions known but don’t leave the friend out. If her friend feels as though the two of you are going to ignore her for the rest of the night, she will do what she can to stop you from talking to the cougar! So be polite and respectful to her and keep her on your side. Pay her a compliment, too.

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4. Go To a Club

Clubs are great places to find hookups because you get to dance up close and personal with women on the dance floor while flaunting your sexual prowess. With sexy music pumping through their bodies and alcohol making them horny, cougars are hot and ready for you to come along and gyrate with them.

If you go to a club with the intentions of hooking up with a cougar, just make sure it’s a club that older women frequent. There are plenty of these in big cities, although from experience cougars tend to prefer Latino-inspired clubs.

Once there, you need to show confidence, you need to be a willing dancer, and you need to be ready to flirt like a maniac on the dance floor. Whisper things in her ear, get up close to her and – when the time is right – go in for the kiss. She needs to know as soon as possible what your intentions are.

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5. Whatever You Do … Don’t Mention Her Age

There are, of course, things you should say to a cougar that you’re hoping to hook up with. But there are also things you shouldn’t say.

And one thing you must NEVER do is mention her age.

Cougars know how old they are. Some of them know they look good for their age! But they don’t need you to bring attention to it. If you do, you will instantly kill the attraction.

See, whilst you might think you’re being nice by saying things like, “you look great for you age,” or “you literally have no wrinkles,” you’re not flattering her – you’re just annoying her.

Hooking up with a cougar will take time, and you’ll need patience. However, you will get there a lot faster if you sign up for hookup sites like AdultFriendFinder. Just make sure to be confident, to be direct, and – if you go to a martini bar – to be classy, smart, and flirty.

A frozen outdoor water faucet or hose bib could be your worst nightmare.

Frozen pipes are like blood clots. Very dangerous. And when they rupture your house and your wallet will suffer enormously.

I don’t regularly check my outside faucets in the winter. So if they’re leaking water I won’t know until we get our $429 water bill in the mail.

This has happened to me, not at my personal house but at a rental home. Needless to say, my eyes almost popped out of my head when I saw a bill for that much.

By the end of this post, you’ll be able to install a frost-free sillcock, work with SharkBite push-on pipe connectors and sleep like a baby without the weight of frozen pipes on your mind. As an added bonus you won’t need to know how to solder copper pipes to do this quick project.

Here are the supplies you’ll need:

• Frost-free sillcock (they’re also called anti-siphon freeze-proof sillcocks)
• Bosch 1 1/4 inch boring drill bit
• SharkBite female straight connector (there’s a picture below)
• Sharpie marker
• Container to catch water (from cut copper pipe)
• Two #8 or #10 wood screws or 3/16 inch by 1 3/4 inch Tapcon screws
• Hammer Drill if you have brick or stucco siding
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Buy a frost-free sillcock in every size. Why?

Because it’s much easier to return 3 sillcocks than it is to run to the store 3 extra times.

Installing a new frost-free sillcock or hose bib (whichever you’d like to call it) is a lot easier than you’d think. Especially since soldering has been made obsolete by SharkBite fittings.

It’s less painful to do this project than it is to write an ENORMOUS check to the water company.

Let’s dive in.

Removing the Old Outside Water Faucet

A frost-free hose sillcock or hose bib has a stem that is 6 to 12 inches long. It prevents cold weather from freezing your pipes because the stem washer & seat valve reside inside your house.

As an added benefit the anti-siphon stops water or other liquids from being siphoned back into your water supply. This is only relevant if you’re maniacal (think Emperor Palpatine, the crazy guy who technically killed Darth Vader) and have a hose that is connected to your outside water faucet resting in gasoline or some other toxic chemical.

An easy installation requires about 4 to 5 inches of copper pipe between your house’s rim joist (a 2 by 8-inch wood beam) and an indoor shut-off valve.

Turn off the indoor shut-off valve that supplies water to the outside water faucet. If the indoor shut-off valve has a small bleeder valve turn it until the water drains.

If your indoor shut-off valve doesn’t have a bleeder valve don’t worry, neither does mine. The water will drain out of the indoor water line when you cut the indoor copper pipe.

Leave the outdoor water faucet open to allow excess water to drain from it.

Cutting Out the Old Valve

Measure back 4-5 inches from the rim joist inside your house. Make a mark with a sharpie. If your mark is close to a copper fitting, like an elbow or T, make it 2 inches away from the fitting. This will allow you to push a SharkBite fitting onto your copper pipe inside the house.

Place a container under the mark on the inside copper pipe. Use a pipe cutter to cut the indoor copper pipe at the mark and catch any water that comes out of it in the container. Debur the cut pipe with emery cloth or fine sandpaper.

Go outside and unfasten the screws that hold the old outside water faucet to the outdoor wall. If you don’t have any screws then you’re in luck. In my case, I just had to pull the old unit out of the brick.

Here’s a quick video that sheds more light on this step, don’t bother with popcorn-it’s only romantic at the end (LOL).

That wraps up the removal of your old outside water faucet or hose bib or whatever the heck you want to call the thingy that you hook up a hose to in the summer.

How to Install a Frost-Free Sillcock

Measure the distance from the back of the old hose bib’s mounting bracket to the end of the copper pipe that’s connected to it. My measurement was roughly 8 3/4 inches. But my indoor copper pipe could move easily 2 inches toward the rim joist. What I’m saying is there was a lot of play with the copper pipes which gave me wiggle room with the fitting process.

So I decided to use the 8-inch frost-free sillcock because the SharkBite fitting will add about an inch to the total length. But like I said earlier, I highly suggest you buy every sillcock length available and take them home.

You can buy a straight SharkBite connector that has a female threaded end that will go on the end of the sillcock. Here’s a picture of the SharkBite bag that has the fitting you need for this project.

Add Teflon tape, about 4-5 revolutions, on the male threaded end of the new frost-free sillcock. Hand tighten the female SharkBite fitting as much as you can then tighten it 1/2 to 1 revolution with channel locks to create a good water-tight connection.

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Go outside and check to see if your new frost-free sillcock will pass through the hole in your exterior siding. If it does with no problem you’re good to go.

If your hole needs to be wider and you have wood or vinyl siding use a 1 1/4 inch boring drill bit to accomplish this task.

If you have brick and your hole is too narrow you will need to visit a home store and purchase a 1 1/4 inch masonry bit. When I rushed to Lowe’s to get this bit, the biggest size they had was 1 inch but it worked out just fine. You’ll also need a hammer drill with a 1/2 inch chuck.

Thank you Bosch Tools for making practically indestructible masonry drill bits. You’ve saved my butt many times 😉

Inside your house, you’ll need to place a mark 3/4 of an inch in from the end of the indoor copper pipe you cut. For some reason, the SharkBite female straight connector only goes on about 3/4 of an inch instead of the typical 1 inch.

Push the female SharkBite fitting onto the copper pipe until it meets up with this sharpie mark.

You’re almost done. Turn on the water and check for any leaks. I’m betting you won’t have any. But if you do, ask me how to fix them in the comment section, I’ll try my best to help.

Securing the Frost-Free Sillcock

If you have wood or vinyl siding this part of the project is super straightforward.

If you’re like me and have brick, this part of the project sucks just a little bit.

Turn off the water to the frost-free sillcock and disconnect it at the SharkBite fitting.

If you don’t know how to do this it’s simple, use the little orange tool (aka the disassembling clip, but I like the little orange tool better). Push the tool against the SharkBite’s release collar and pull the copper pipe out with a twisting motion.

Go outside. Place marks on the wall where you need to secure the sillcock flange with screws. If you have wood or vinyl siding you can use #8 or #10 oval head wood screws. Two-inch screws should be fine.

If you have brick-like me you’ll need tapcon screws. I used 3/16 inch by 1 3/4 inch long screws and had to drill holes in my brick using a masonry drill bit. You need a hammer drill for this step and don’t think a normal drill will work because it won’t.

This is what friends or neighbors are for, ask them if they have a hammer drill. If they don’t have a hammer drill chances are they have no idea what you’re doing and you’ll impress them the next time you speak to them at a party or at the bus stop.

Make sure to add the plastic flange to the back of the sillcock, it helps angle the outdoor hose bib down so that water drains correctly.

I also added some clear silicone caulk around the outside water faucet’s flange to ensure termites won’t invade my house in April (the normal time they like to party hard and house crash).

Reassemble your frost-free sillcock and test the fittings by turning on the water.

BIG TIP COMING UP. Make sure your frost-proof sillcock tilts down toward the ground. This allows water to drain out of it and prevents residual water from freezing during the winter months.

You didn’t do all this work just to have the new sillcock freeze and burst. So take the time to tilt it downward, add shims or stuff plumbers putty under the sillcock inside the rim joist to give it the proper slope. Here’s a quick video explaining a few of these tips.

Here’s the finished look, sorry for the goofy coloration in the picture-it was dark by the time I finished up.

What’s Next

Now you know how to install a frost-free sillcock, test for leaks, and use SharkBite fittings.

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In a prior post, I shared how to replace a section of copper pipe using SharkBites and PEX.

The tips could save you several hundred dollars.

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