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title: Life hacks!
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contents:
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- pic: life-hacks.jpg
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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!"
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- "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!"
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- "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!"
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- "Does your dorm smell bad? Tape a dryer sheet over the AC unit and turn it on!"
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- "Waterproof your shoes with bee wax!"
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- "Take a picture of business cards people hand you, just in case you lose it!"
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- "When ironing a button-up shirt, flip it inside-out to easily iron over the button side!"
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- "Put old newspaper at the bottom of your bin to absorb food juices!"
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- "Keep an emergency card in your wallet including your emergency contact, your blood type and allergies!"
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- "Store your Christmas decorations in empty egg trays!"
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- "When travelling, keep a bar of scented soap in the same compartment as your dirty laundry. It will keep your clothes smelling clean!"
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- "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
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if they're good or bad.
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Drop them on a table.
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If they give one small
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bounce and fall right
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over, they're good.
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If they bounce around
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any more than that,
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they're dead!
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- "Use a coozie to cover the stick in your car on hot days!"
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- "When taking a picture, squint your eyes to make your smile look much more genuine!"
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Use a pants hanger as
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a cookbook holder
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so you don't have
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to put your cookbook
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on a dirty kitchen
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counter while cooking!
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- "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!"
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- "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
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in an empty toilet roll
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and place your phone in
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the cut. Now you have
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a speaker!
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Are your keyboard feet broken? Attach
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binder clips!
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- "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!"
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- "Keep your pancake mix in an empty ketchup bottle for a no-mess cooking experience!"
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- "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
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a lot of small bowls dirty
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when serving several
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sauces for guests at a
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barbeque? Use a muffin
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tin to serve them. It will
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help you cut down
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on dishwashing!
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- "Doritos are great for kindling if you can't find any kindling wood stick!"
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Apply nail polish on
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your keys to identify the
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different keys!
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Use a hanging shoe
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rack to store
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cleaning supplies!
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- "Freeze grapes to chill white wine without watering it down!"
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Attach paper clips on
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your desk and pull one
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charging cable through
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each paper clip. It will
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help you organise
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your cables!
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- "Almost finished your jar of Nutella? End it with ice cream!"
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- "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
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rolls and use them as
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a cuff to keep your
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wrapping paper
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from unrolling!
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To remove the stem
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from strawberries,
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use a straw!
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- "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
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in the same way.
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Then you can stack
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them better.
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Heavy sleeper? Tired of
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snoozing past your
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alarm? Put your
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smartphone in an empty
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cup before you go
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to sleep to crank
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the volume!
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- "Put a wooden spoon across a boiling pot of water to keep it from boiling over!"
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Take pictures of friends
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holding items you've lent
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them. The pictures will
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help you remember
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which items you lent
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to whom!
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Tie a knot in the left
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cable of your
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headphone. You will
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always know which
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headphone is the left
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one and which is the
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right one, even
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without looking!
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- "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!"
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- "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
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round piece of sausage
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on a square toast, cut
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the meat in squares too!
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You will avoid having
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nothing in the
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toast corners!
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- "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
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one teaspoon of baking
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soda to the water.
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It'll make the shell come
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off effortlessly!
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Use your hair
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straightener to iron
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your collar!
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- "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
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front of your car in
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summer. It will get hot
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enough through
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the window!
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- "To clean your blender, just pour water and soap in it, let it whirl and then rinse it!"
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- "Put a muffin paper on your popsicle stick to not get any ice cream on your hands!"
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- "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!"
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- "Use a hair clip to organize long wires!"
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Freeze a saturated sponge and put it in a plastic bag.
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Free icepack!
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- "Rub a stuck zipper tooth with a graphite pencil tip to make the zipper tooth come loose!"
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- "You don't have a citrus press? Put your lemons in between your noodle tongs and squeeze!"
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- "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
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up dings!
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Give your kid a pool
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noddle to cuddle with so
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they don't fall out of
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the bed!
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- "Use toothpaste to clear up hazy car headlights!"
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- "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!"
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- "Drinking with a straw from a can? Put your straw through the tab to keep it from rising out of your drink!"
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- "Put a fork in the creamy filling of an Oreo cookie, so your fingers don't get messy when you dunk them in milk!"
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- "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
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glue stick!
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- "If you're at a hotel and run out of plug sockets, the TV usually has a USB plugin!"
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- "Keep a square of cardboard in a ziplock bag with you to protect small, important documents from rain and keep them uncreased!"
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- "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!"
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- "Drill holes in the bottom of your garbage can to make putting in and taking out bags much easier without any suction issues!"
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- "Use an accented letter like 'ñ' in your password. No one will ever be able to guess it!"
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- "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!"
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- "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
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in a microwave, space
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out a circle in the middle,
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it will heat up much
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more evenly!
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- "Don't burn yourself in those hard-to-reach candles, light a stick of spaghetti and light the wick with that!"
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- "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
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furniture, lay the screws
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on different post-its and
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write down the part of
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the furniture they
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belong to!
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- "Glue a pool noodle to your garage wall and it will protect your car door from slamming against the wall!"
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- "Use a pencil case or sunglasses case to store your cables in your backpack or suitcase!"
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- "Use a clothespin to hold a nail whilst hammering!"
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- "Take a picture of your fridge and you'll never struggle to remember what you need to buy at the grocery store!"
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- "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!"
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- "Roll up the bottom of a chips bag to have better access to the snack!"
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- "Put plastic wrap on the stems of your bananas and it will make them stay fresh for very long!"
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- "Before you throw away a post-it, run it between the keys on your keyboard to collect crumbs and fluff!"
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- "Drinking lukewarm lemon water every morning balances your body pH levels!"
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- "If you put ice cubes in your dryer, your shirts won’t wrinkle!"
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- "Putting newspapers in shoes removes the stink!"
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Toothpaste cleans
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the silver!
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Using shades while
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watching mobile for a
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long time helps you
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stay relaxed!
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- "If you chew apples every morning, your mouth won’t stink!"
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- "Citrus flavour candles leave the fragrance for longer hours!"
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- "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
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by putting them in
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the freezer!
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- "Use unscented floss to cut delicate food neatly!"
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When moving houses,
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use bags with wheels for
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big things rather
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than boxes!
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Roll your garments to
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have more space in
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the pantry. Or in
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your suitcase!
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- "Put a lemon wedge in the water. The shells will pretty much tumble off when they are finished!"
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- "To clean a hazy mirror, use shaving cream!"
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Use vinegar to eliminate scents from
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the microwave!
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- "For cleaning your blinds, use towel-wrapped utensils!"
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- "Use bubbling water to kill weeds!"
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