LIFE HACKS
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Ultimately each of us finds some interesting non-obvious solutions to problems but some people are masters. Lately I have become interested in life hacks – ideas and things that make our life easier. Life hacking refers to any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency in all walks of life. The term was primarily used by computer experts who suffer from information overload or those with a playful curiosity in the ways they can accelerate their workflow in ways other than programming (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_hacking).
Some time ago I was looking for a solution to one of the problems I was struggling with and I surfed on YouTube. It appeared that many vlogers tend to create their own life hack videos presenting amazing solutions to all problems you can only imagine. Starting from tips for lazy people through beauty tips for women ending with tech tips.
Here I will present some tips that caught my attention and might be interesting for you
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I guess a lot of students struggle with lack of food problem. If you have almost nothing in your fridge and you are too lazy to go to the store you can visit the website http://myfridgefood.com
Here you can check ingredients that you have in your fridge and you will find out all recipes that contain only these ingredients. This shows how many different things you can cook when you think you can’t do anything.
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A lot of us like coffee and during summer we change traditional coffee for iced coffee. To make iced coffee, we need ice cubes but they melt quickly and our drink becomes diluted, unsavory and does not taste like coffee anymore. To solve that problem, we can use coffee instead of water to make ice cubes.
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When you are in a dark place or just in your room when lights are off and you need light, you can use your phone and a bottle of water. Turn on lighter in your phone and put a bottle of water on it. Your surrounding environment should immediately become much brighter, thanks to the bottle's light-distributing qualities. The bottle will send your phone's light beams out in a wider range, helping to illuminate a larger-than-expected sized area around itself.
Another frequent problem appears using a permanent marker which by accident makes things dirty.
- For clothes use hand sanitiser
- For walls use toothpaste or hairspray
- For wood use alcohol
- For carpet use white vinegar
- For furniture use milk
- For white board use dry ease marker or pencil rubber eraser
- For ceramics or glass use toothpaste with baking soda
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Use binder clips to fix a broken keyboard stand. This should keep your keyboard titled slightly downwards.
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Waterproof (or any shoes). Take beeswax (the lubricating type), and rub it over your shoes. Make sure you cover every part on the outside, and regularly touch up if the beeswax is coming off. Use a blow dryer or any type of heat to melt the surface of the wax, therefore making it invisible.
Obviously there are hundreds of similar tips and this is just an example of a few interesting tips but I hope that it made you interested in them a little bit to do your own research.
Questions
- Do you find above tips useful or not at all?
- Do you have any own tips to share with us?
- Do you like vlogers that make life hack videos? Could you recommend any?
Sources:
- http://youtube.com
- http://coscowichan.ca/life-hacks/
- http://lifehacker.com
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_hacking
Comments
Secondly I though about people in our university and their’s life hacks for surviving every semester. But finally your examples are very good and I will for sure look for new ones. There is some cuisine tips like using little bit of baking soda when you boil eggs this will help in easier peeling shell. I found multiple blogs and vlogers so there is multiple sources to learn from.
Myfridgefood is a great idea. I have never before heard about it. I think that I will try it. Idea with the phone light is simple and great as well.
Of course I think above tips are useful.
Soda, vinegar and lemon juice are good cleaners.
Vinegar is also odor absorber.
Soda can eliminated moth in your wardrobe.
I don’t know vlogers that make life hack videos.
https://www.youtube.com/user/CrazyRussianHacker
I really like the one with coffee, when making iced coffee at home i always get watery thing that kind of looked and tasted meh. I am looking forward to trying it out.
Do you have any own tips to share with us?
Well I can recommend good way to always get fresh french fries in fast food restaurant. Just order fries without salt on them (they will have to make a fresh batch just for you) and order some packaged salt to season them yourself :)
Do you like vlogers that make life hack videos? Could you recommend any?
I dont really watch vlogs at all. I can recommend subreddit dedicated to lifehacks
https://www.reddit.com/r/lifeprotips
I tried to recall some of the lifehacks I know, but nothing came to my mind. Figures :D
I once tried to use binder clips with my keyboard, but unfortunately they wouldn't fit. My keyboard was to thick for the clips I had at that time, but I plan to buy bigger ones some day and try this again. I knew about the coffee ice cubes for some time, but I never had a chance or reason to use this idea. Summer is coming so maybe this year I'll try this out.
As for my own tricks, I've learned that soda and lemon juice are a very effective cleaners. Every now and then I make a liquid with these ingredients and keep it in a bottle. Comes in handy. :)
And coffee beans are a great odor remover.
I don't really watch vloggers that do these kind of stuff, so I can't recommend any. I don't recall any specific life-hacks I use on daily basis, but I also think everyone has them. Some people just do some ordinary stuff in a creative way and don't even notice that untill someone comments on it.
i would recommend this link if any one interesting in more hacks [http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/100-life-hacks-that-make-life-easier.html], some of them are really mind blowing.
Do i have my own tip?
if you have pain in your stomach, You could drink some Coca Cola and the pain will disappear. ))
My favourite lifehack is to use paper clips for chargers ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqpYPgLEC0I
Some of the presented hacks are really useful, in my opinion. :)
I like the fact that nowadays there is such a wide access to the Web. Whenever you stain clothes with something (like the markers you've mentioned in the article), you can instantly google the type of stain and get rid of it. Recently my boyfriend spilled some red wine on his white shirt - I wouldn't have any idea what to do with that, so we googled it and used salt + lemon juice. Worked perfectly :)
I'll show you how to deal with life hacks to make easy your daily life on today How to make a wireless charger at home.
You're gonna love these ideas! With these tricks you can turn any simple things to a very interesting part!
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