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title: Life hacks!
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- 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!
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- 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!
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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 compartement 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 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!
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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 a cookbook holder so you don't have to put your cookbook on a dirty kitchen 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 in an empty toilet roll and place your phone in the cut. Now you have quick and easy speakers!
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- Are your keyboard feet broken? Attach 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 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!
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- Doritos are great for kindling if you can't find any kidnling 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!
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- 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!
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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 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.
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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 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!
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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 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 heapdhone. You will always know which headphone is the left one and which is the right one, even 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 everyday? 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!
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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 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!
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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 front of your car in summer. It will get hoth enough through 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 shower head. Leave it there over night 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. Free icepack!
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- Rub a stuck zipper tooth with a graphite pencil tip to make the zipper tooth come lose!
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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 damages 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!
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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 throught he 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 glue stick!
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- If you're at a hotel and run out of chargers, 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 loosing your drink and seat!
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- Drill holes in the bottom of your garbace 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 better 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!
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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 furniture, lay the screws on different post-its and write down the part of the furniture they 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 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 keyborad 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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- Using newspapers in shoes removes the stink!
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- Toothpaste cleans the silver nicely.
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- Using shades while watching mobile for a long helps you stay relaxed!
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- If you chew apples every morning, your mouth won’t stink!
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- Citrus flavor 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 by putting them in the freezer!
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- 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!
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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 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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