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title: Life hacks!
contents:
    - PLACEHOLDER COVER

    - "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!"
    - "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!"
    - "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 a speaker!"
    - "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 dishwashing!"
    - "Doritos are great for kindling if you can't find any kindling 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 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!"
    - "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 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!"
    - "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!"
    - "Rub a walnut on damaged 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 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!"
    - "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!"
    - "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 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!"
    - "Toothpaste cleans the silver!"
    - "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!"
    - "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. 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!"
    - "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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