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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 wont 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 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!"
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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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