From abb7ba709cf796ee64684ccf63cd6edec3820ebc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mirischoeb Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:25:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add 'Life Hack!' --- Life Hack! | 106 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 106 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Life Hack! diff --git a/Life Hack! b/Life Hack! new file mode 100644 index 0000000..44676b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Life Hack! @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +title: Life hacks! + +- 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. + + + + +