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Your "lifehacks" - Big and small. Stupid and clever.
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I do this without thinking no matter what I drop or if I am wearing shoes and have hurt myself several times because of it.
Once did it on reflex trying to catch a dropped pencil and stabbed a pencil into my wrist because it hit my chair first :(
When re-heating food in the microwave, put a ceramic cup inside with a small amount of water inside. The water will evaporate while heating and re-hydrate your food.
If you get the temptation to make an impulse buy, wait a week. If you still want it, then buy it.
When dieting, try and have a treat day at least once a week. It makes relapses a lot less harder since you're not going cold turkey.
Use a candle warmer to heat your queso/salsa before opening.
When looking for free software, don't google "Free," Google "open source."
Never leave home without your phone, your wallet, and your keys.
Keep social media use to a minimum. Comparison to others lowers self-esteem.
If you get the temptation to make an impulse buy, wait a week. If you still want it, then buy it.
When dieting, try and have a treat day at least once a week. It makes relapses a lot less harder since you're not going cold turkey.
Use a candle warmer to heat your queso/salsa before opening.
When looking for free software, don't google "Free," Google "open source."
Never leave home without your phone, your wallet, and your keys.
Keep social media use to a minimum. Comparison to others lowers self-esteem.
What does the water do? I use the pan to crisp the crust after microwaving to heat the pizza.
There was a thread at the old place called "Life changing hotdog advice" that consisted of nothing but this video:
I can confirm that my life was changed. Nearly a decade of perfect, condiment-soaked hotdogs.
I can confirm that my life was changed. Nearly a decade of perfect, condiment-soaked hotdogs.
It keeps the pizza and sauce moist in the microwave. If you're using a pan, you're doing it the better way
Variant: "a dropped knife has no handle" (never try to catch / interfere with a falling knife)
My sister did that one and kicked her iphone through a window.
It was amusing though, so added to the list.
I thought you were going the Vegas Stakes route for a second. Put half your money in each wallet, that way if you get pickpocketed, they only get 1/2 your money.
Learn how to cook breakfast. Every breakfast place has an hour wait on weekends and most are cooked by people that have no idea what they're doing. Good a good pan, clarified butter, eggs, spatulas, chopped veggies and you can make a better omelet and avoid all the bullshit about which restaurant to waste your morning waiting at.
Put your expired ones in there instead of throwing them away
I put a knife by my toilet seat so whenever a huge turd is having drainage problem I can cut it in two for ease.
I read that somewhere.
I read that somewhere.
I do this with everything, I'm not sure how I've not broken the bone from my big toe to my ankle multiple times.
I taught this myself stocking shelves at the local supermarket. Worked fine on my own usual isle with coffee and tea products. No heavy stuff. Then I had to work the isle with heavy soup cans with hard edges, and the reflex had already sunken in...
I use the same technique for using the oven. If you already knew how to make baguettes you are familiar with using a pot of water or contain water on the bottom. If I do not have a container I just throw water into a hot oven while using 3d air function. I also drizzle water for the crust not to get too dry.
Life changer for eating all left overs that end up a bit dry over night.
If you're making popcorn on a stove, but don't have specific "tools" (like a popcorn maker), use the combination of a pan and and instead of a lid, a metal sieve. The Sieve allows moisture to escape which would otherwise lead to chewy popcorn!
Surely you could save trees too by not using paper and just rinsing the bag afterwards?
If you ever want a "nice" guy to stop talking to you without telling him off, ask him if he knows anyone that sells coke and then get frustrated when he says no. If he talks or texts you back later, ask him if any of his friends have good fighting dogs. Make your life look like a train wreck and his idea of you will shatter and he'll move on.
I can vouch for this, it's how I met my wife
Or you make him think that he has to "save" you and surely you will fall for him in the process
When you reheat pasta stir through some hot water and a pinch of salt after it's heated through. Can't tell you how many times I see people at work chewy through the most claggy lump of pasta you could imagine.
Leftover bagged salad makes a surprisingly nice pesto if you blitz it up with some olive oil, garlic and parmesan.
You can buy magnetic pots that will stick on your fridge to store your dried herbs & spices.
I've managed to clear out a whole shelf for other stuff just by doing that.
Leftover bagged salad makes a surprisingly nice pesto if you blitz it up with some olive oil, garlic and parmesan.
You can buy magnetic pots that will stick on your fridge to store your dried herbs & spices.
I've managed to clear out a whole shelf for other stuff just by doing that.
What? Sketchy advice.
There isn't enough research on melatonin so while it's useful to escape jet lag or catch sleep when you REALLY need to, there are some indications it messes with various functions in our body.
To boot, sleeping too much greatly increases your chances of having a stroke, and melatonin puts some people to sleep for a long time.
Alzheimer's risk is mostly genetic, but highly impacted by not exercising enough in middle age (being sedentary), eating too much sugar/carbs, and yes sleeping too irregularly/little (like 5 hours a night or at totally different times every night).
Edit: melatonin also takes 30-60 minutes to take effect and no more than 6mg should be necessary, unless you have built a tolerance to it.
Your brain naturally produces melatonin if your eyes don't detect light, so the real life hack here is simply to not look at any screens 30 mins before bed.
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My first reaction seeing this was "everyone knows someone who deals coke or atleast knows someone who knows someone who deals".
I don't know what that says about me.
Well then you say yes and you just won yourself a night of fun with her.
Jokes aside, the average westerner wastes thousands of gallons of water a year overwashing their clothes when the items probably have a couple more wears in them.
For the good of the Earth, definitely make the effort to sniff jeans and other items to see if they REALLY need to go in the wash before you use them.
There's a neurobiologist specializing in sleep that recommends this. Says a lot of the research is beginning to shift to lack of restorative, deep sleep causing cellular waste heavily also with alzheimers to not be cleaned up. It's not just screens, any of the blue light kills melatonin production and if you knock yourself out after exposure to blue light it takes 3 hours to build up the natural levels of melatonin.
Maybe I got the immediately before bed part wrong, but the neurologist's name is Matthew Walker - you can google talks he's given about it.
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I find it oddly amusing that what are now being touted as "life hacks" were demonized as "low-class" or "ghetto" when black people did it.
Banks charge expensive fees. Keeping your money at home is at risk of theft of fire. So I found the ultimate solution. Deposit your money at GameStop. Throw all your money down on preorders. Whenever you need cash just go in and cancel a few preorders.You won't pay any fees and if your lucky they might give you some preorder bonuses.
GameStop might not be the most financially secure place to keep your cash.
For us guys: When cleaning up after jerking off use cold water instead of warm/hot water. That way it doesn't turn into a glue-like consistency.
Exercise in the mornings. Bare minimum should be a morning jog.
Sets you up for a productive day š
Sets you up for a productive day š
Whenever you go to do a food shop, go straight to the bakery section (normally at the back) and get a big loaf of freshly baked bread. Then put the loaf in the child seat of the trolley and rip off chunks to eat as you go around.
Makes you less likely to impulse buy because you aren't as hungry, and you're eating one of the tastiest/best smelling things in the store
I have also sometimes doubled it up with a jar of jam/nutella. Make sure it's well secured in the child seat.
People look on with envy every time that I have hacked the shopping experience.
Makes you less likely to impulse buy because you aren't as hungry, and you're eating one of the tastiest/best smelling things in the store
I have also sometimes doubled it up with a jar of jam/nutella. Make sure it's well secured in the child seat.
People look on with envy every time that I have hacked the shopping experience.