From 1987d0c2262d762040ec8e96991b40adc209411f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "kam (from the studio)" Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:17:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] life hacks --- life-hacks/contents.md | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 103 insertions(+) create mode 100644 life-hacks/contents.md diff --git a/life-hacks/contents.md b/life-hacks/contents.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58746b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/life-hacks/contents.md @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +--- +title: Life hacks! +contents: + - "Tie a small piece of bright-colored 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 where it will fall 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 compartement 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!" + - "Bounce batteries to see it 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!" + - "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!" + - "Cut a rectangular shape in an empty toilet roll and place your phone in the cut. Now you have quick and easy speakers!" + - "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!" + - "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 dish washing!" + - "Doritos are great for kindling if you can't find any kidnling wood stick!" + - "Apply nail polish on your keys to identify the different keys!" + - "Use a hanging shoe rack to store cleaning supplies!" + - "Freeze grapes to chill white wine without watering it down!" + - "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!" + - "Cut open toilet paper rolls and use them as a cuff to keep your wrapping paper from unrolling!" + - "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!" + - "Always fold your towels in the same way. Then you can stack them better!" + - "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!" + - "Take pictures of friends holding items you've lent them. The pictures will help you remember which items you lent to whom!" + - "Tie a knot in the left cable of your heapdhone. 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 everyday? Draw a schedule on your bottle so you always remember how much you have to drink!" + - "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!" + - "When boiling eggs, add one teaspoon of baking soda to the water. It'll make the shell come off effortlessly!" + - "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!" + - "Try baking cookies in the front of your car in summer. It will get hoth 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 shower head. Leave it there over night and it will clean everything off with no work!" + - "Use a hair clip to organize long wires!" + - "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 lose!" + - "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!" + - "Rub a walnut on damages wooden furniture to cover up dings!" + - "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 throught he 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!" + - "Hide your emergency money in an empty glue stick!" + - "If you're at a hotel and run out of chargers, 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 loosing your drink and seat!" + - "Drill holes in the bottom of your garbace 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 better that you've definitely done it!" + - "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!" + - "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 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 keyborad 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!" + - "Using newspapers in shoes removes the stink!" + - "Toothpaste cleans the silver nicely!" + - "Using shades while watching mobile for a long helps you stay relaxed!" + - "If you chew apples every morning, your mouth won’t stink!" + - "Citrus flavor 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!" + - "You can preserve herbs by putting them in the freezer!" + - "Use unscented floss to cut delicate food neatly!" + - "When moving houses, use bags with wheels for big things rather than boxes!" + - "Roll your garments to have more space in the pantry!" + - "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!" + - "Use vinegar to eliminate scents from the microwave!" + - "For cleaning your blinds, use towel-wrapped utensils!" + - "Use bubbling water to kill weeds!" +---