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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!
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 wont 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 wont 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!