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title: Life hacks!
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    - "Tie a small piece of bright-coloured fabric to your luggage while travelling. Saves a lot of time to check if it's your bag or not!"
    - "For people who use their phone to watch things often and are tired of leaning it onto something that falls down after a while: Place your phone on your sunglasses!"
    - "When you want to cross words out you don't want to be legible: instead of scribbling over them, write random letters and words over the original!"
    - "Does your dorm smell bad? Tape a dryer sheet over the AC unit and turn it on!"
    - "Waterproof your shoes with bee wax!"
    - "Take a picture of business cards people hand you, just in case you lose it!"
    - "When ironing a button-up shirt, flip it inside-out to easily iron over the button side!"
    - "Put old newspaper at the bottom of your bin to absorb food juices!"
    - "Keep an emergency card in your wallet including your emergency contact, your blood type and allergies!"
    - "Store your Christmas decorations in empty egg trays!"
    - "When travelling, keep a bar of scented soap in the same compartment as your dirty laundry. It will keep your clothes smelling clean!"
    - "Cut a hole on the top corner of a juice carton, so that the juice won't explode all over your table when you open it!"
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        Bounce batteries to see 
        if they're good or bad.
        Drop them on a table.
        If they give one small 
        bounce and fall right 
        over, they're good. 
        If they bounce around
        any more than that, 
        they're dead!
    - "Use a coozie to cover the stick in your car on hot days!"
    - "When taking a picture, squint your eyes to make your smile look much more genuine!"
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        Use a pants hanger as 
        a cookbook holder 
        so you don't have 
        to put your cookbook 
        on a dirty kitchen
        counter while cooking!
    - "Do you need a lantern but you only have your phone? Place your cellphone light underneath a water bottle. It will distribute the light better than the direct beam!"
    - "Use a spring from an old pen and wrap it around your charger. It will keep your charger from bending and breaking!"
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        Cut a rectangular shape 
        in an empty toilet roll 
        and place your phone in 
        the cut. Now you have 
        a speaker!
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        Are your keyboard feet broken? Attach 
        binder clips!
    - "Wrap a wet paper towel around your beverage and put it in the freezer. In about 15 minutes the beverage will be almost completely ice cold!"
    - "Keep your pancake mix in an empty ketchup bottle for a no-mess cooking experience!"
    - "Clean out an old sun lotion bottle for your beach bag and put your phone, money and keys in it for safer keeping at the beach!"
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        Are you tired of making 
        a lot of small bowls dirty 
        when serving several 
        sauces for guests at a 
        barbeque? Use a muffin 
        tin to serve them. It will 
        help you cut down 
        on dishwashing!
    - "Doritos are great for kindling if you can't find any kindling wood stick!"
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        Apply nail polish on 
        your keys to identify the 
        different keys!
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        Use a hanging shoe 
        rack to store 
        cleaning supplies!
    - "Freeze grapes to chill white wine without watering it down!"
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        Attach paper clips on 
        your desk and pull one 
        charging cable through 
        each paper clip. It will 
        help you organise 
        your cables!
    - "Almost finished your jar of Nutella? End it with ice cream!"
    - "Store your cables in empty toilet paper rolls. If you put one cable in one roll each, they will not get tangled up!"
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        Cut open toilet paper 
        rolls and use them as 
        a cuff to keep your 
        wrapping paper 
        from unrolling!
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        To remove the stem 
        from strawberries, 
        use a straw!
    - "For iced coffee and iced cappuccinos, use frozen coffee cubes to ensure the drink doesn't get watered down!"
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        Always fold your towels 
        in the same way. 
        Then you can stack 
        them better.
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        Heavy sleeper? Tired of 
        snoozing past your 
        alarm? Put your 
        smartphone in an empty
        cup before you go 
        to sleep to crank 
        the volume!
    - "Put a wooden spoon across a boiling pot of water to keep it from boiling over!"
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        Take pictures of friends 
        holding items you've lent
        them. The pictures will 
        help you remember 
        which items you lent
        to whom!
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        Tie a knot in the left 
        cable of your 
        headphone. You will 
        always know which 
        headphone is the left 
        one and which is the 
        right one, even 
        without looking!
    - "Lost your earring? Put a stocking over the end of a vacuum and start vacuum cleaning. You will find your earring without sucking it in!"
    - "Are you struggling to drink enough water every day? Draw a schedule on your bottle so you always remember how much you have to drink!"
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        Instead of putting a 
        round piece of sausage 
        on a square toast, cut 
        the meat in squares too!
        You will avoid having 
        nothing in the 
        toast corners!
    - "When you go shopping, take a carabiner with you. If you end up with a lot of shopping bags, you can just connect the different bags with the carabiner. Like this, you only have to hold the carabiner instead of all the bags!"
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        When boiling eggs, add 
        one teaspoon of baking 
        soda to the water. 
        It'll make the shell come
        off effortlessly!
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        Use your hair 
        straightener to iron 
        your collar!
    - "Do you keep your clothing in a chest of drawers? Stack your clothes vertically to see them all!"
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        Try baking cookies in the
        front of your car in
        summer. It will get hot
        enough through 
        the window!
    - "To clean your blender, just pour water and soap in it, let it whirl and then rinse it!"
    - "Put a muffin paper on your popsicle stick to not get any ice cream on your hands!"
    - "To get the built-up residue off of your shower head, tie a baggy of vinegar around a showerhead. Leave it there overnight and it will clean everything off with no work!"
    - "Use a hair clip to organize long wires!"
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        Freeze a saturated sponge and put it in a plastic bag.
        Free icepack!
    - "Rub a stuck zipper tooth with a graphite pencil tip to make the zipper tooth come loose!"
    - "You don't have a citrus press? Put your lemons in between your noodle tongs and squeeze!"
    - "You don't have a corkscrew? Put a screw in the cork and take the cork out with pliers!"
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        Rub a walnut on damaged wooden furniture to cover 
        up dings!
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        Give your kid a pool
        noddle to cuddle with so
        they don't fall out of
        the bed!
    - "Use toothpaste to clear up hazy car headlights!"
    - "You bought a pizza on your way home? Put the pizza on the passenger seat in your car and turn on the seat warmer to keep the pizza hot!"
    - "Drinking with a straw from a can? Put your straw through the tab to keep it from rising out of your drink!"
    - "Put a fork in the creamy filling of an Oreo cookie, so your fingers don't get messy when you dunk them in milk!"
    - "Attach your remotes with magnetic tape onto your tv bench and you will never lose them again!"
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        Hide your emergency money in an empty
        glue stick!
    - "If you're at a hotel and run out of plug sockets, the TV usually has a USB plugin!"
    - "Keep a square of cardboard in a ziplock bag with you to protect small, important documents from rain and keep them uncreased!"
    - "If you need to pee or smoke at a bar, placing your coaster on top of your drink is universal bar language for “I'm coming back”. Prevents you from losing your drink and seat!"
    - "Drill holes in the bottom of your garbage can to make putting in and taking out bags much easier without any suction issues!"
    - "Use an accented letter like 'ñ' in your password. No one will ever be able to guess it!"
    - "Clean the top of a squeeze-sauce bottle and attach it to your vacuum cleaner to clean your keyboard, phone, microphone or other small items!"
    - "Do something unusual when locking the door before a long trip. You will remember that you've definitely done it!"
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        When heating leftovers
        in a microwave, space
        out a circle in the middle,
        it will heat up much
        more evenly!
    - "Don't burn yourself in those hard-to-reach candles, light a stick of spaghetti and light the wick with that!"
    - "Put a small amount of water in a glass when you microwave your pizza to keep the crust from getting chewy!"
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        When you disassemble
        furniture, lay the screws
        on different post-its and
        write down the part of
        the furniture they
        belong to!
    - "Glue a pool noodle to your garage wall and it will protect your car door from slamming against the wall!"
    - "Use a pencil case or sunglasses case to store your cables in your backpack or suitcase!"
    - "Use a clothespin to hold a nail whilst hammering!"
    - "Take a picture of your fridge and you'll never struggle to remember what you need to buy at the grocery store!"
    - "Fill plastic water bottles a quarter of the way full and lay the bottle into the freezer. When frozen, fill the rest with water and you will have ice cold water on the go!"
    - "Roll up the bottom of a chips bag to have better access to the snack!"
    - "Put plastic wrap on the stems of your bananas and it will make them stay fresh for very long!"
    - "Before you throw away a post-it, run it between the keys on your keyboard to collect crumbs and fluff!"
    - "Drinking lukewarm lemon water every morning balances your body pH levels!"
    - "If you put ice cubes in your dryer, your shirts won’t wrinkle!"
    - "Putting newspapers in shoes removes the stink!"
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        Toothpaste cleans
        the silver!
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        Using shades while
        watching mobile for a
        long time helps you
        stay relaxed!
    - "If you chew apples every morning, your mouth won’t stink!"
    - "Citrus flavour candles leave the fragrance for longer hours!"
    - "If a lid is stuck, just pour a little hot water. Leave for a few minutes and then open!"
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        You can preserve herbs
        by putting them in
        the freezer!
    - "Use unscented floss to cut delicate food neatly!"
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        When moving houses,
        use bags with wheels for
        big things rather
        than boxes!
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        Roll your garments to 
        have more space in
        the pantry. Or in
        your suitcase!
    - "Put a lemon wedge in the water. The shells will pretty much tumble off when they are finished!"
    - "To clean a hazy mirror, use shaving cream!"
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        Use vinegar to eliminate scents from
        the microwave!
    - "For cleaning your blinds, use towel-wrapped utensils!"
    - "Use bubbling water to kill weeds!"
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