50 Life Hacks to Simplify your World

Basq

You may have seen some of these at one stage in the YLYL thread..

.. but some absolute winners in here!

50 Life Hacks to Simplify your World

RandolphEsq

Some other good ones not in the 50;

r3nu4l

Basq wrote: »

You may have seen some of these at one stage in the YLYL thread..

.. but some absolute winners in here!

50 Life Hacks to Simplify your World

I stumbledupon that link a while ago and put some to good use. However, a word to the wise regarding No.11...go easy when wiping a loaded paint brush on an elastic band unless you want to splatter the entire room with paint splodges

CardBordWindow

Just tried the 'Brownie in a Mug'. Not too bad. A bit heavy, but worth the effort. Ice cream is a must with it!

Endaaaagh

Almost make you wish there was a whole forum on boards dedicated to it...oh wait..
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=923

juan.kerr

Some of these are a bit dodgy:

Number 9. Who wants a hole in their strawberry?
Number 11: What happens when the rubber band snaps? Paint all over the shop.
Number 13: Do we really need to encourage MORE drinking?

Plus he seems to be obsessed with cables....

alienacademy

Really like the ideas
thanx for sharing

GBX

juan.kerr wrote: »

Some of these are a bit dodgy:

Number 9. Who wants a hole in their strawberry?
Number 11: What happens when the rubber band snaps? Paint all over the shop.
Number 13: Do we really need to encourage MORE drinking?

Plus he seems to be obsessed with cables....

9: some people prefer no stalk in their strawberries.

bnt

#38 wouldn't work here - and a good thing too, since it's a potential electrical fire hazard. You don't want to see that in a workshop environment. If it's powering something that draws a lot of current, the loop will lead to induction heating, the insulation could melt and the wires short out. Not good.

I don't really get why you would pour pancake mix from a jug into a splotch-inducing ketchup bottle
That's more messy

RandolphEsq

juan.kerr wrote: »

Some of these are a bit dodgy:
Number 13: Do we really need to encourage MORE drinking?

Capt'n Midnight

Many more here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056371112 on the Lifehacking forum

Anyone

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Many more here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056371112 on the Lifehacking forum

Avoid wading through all the old and not very good lifehacks in the lifehacks forum, by waiting until someone posts a Top 50 in the Cool Vids & Pics & links forum.

up for anything

I think I'll be on the beach this summer collecting sun screen bottles while people are away from their stuff.

Evil Phil

Reminds me of Viz.

Precious flower

Read this handy tip (at least I think it is ) in some magazine before and I've been using it ever since! Whenever I make cheese on toast or toasted cheese sandwiches I put the bread in the toaster, when it's toasted put the butter and cheese on and then I pop into the microwave until the cheese is nice and melted. That way the bread doesn't burn like it can under the grill if left for too long, you can properly melt the cheese, instead of having lumps in some places (I like to put on a lot of cheese okay ) and it's mess free!:)

ringadingding

Precious flower wrote: »

Read this handy tip (at least I think it is ) in some magazine before and I've been using it ever since! Whenever I make cheese on toast or toasted cheese sandwiches I put the bread in the toaster, when it's toasted put the butter and cheese on and then I pop into the microwave until the cheese is nice and melted. That way the bread doesn't burn like it can under the grill if left for too long, you can properly melt the cheese, instead of having lumps in some places (I like to put on a lot of cheese okay ) and it's mess free!:)

there are some things in life you just dont feck around with.

Cheese on toast is one of those things.

Grill the thing goddammit

Precious flower

ringadingding wrote: »

there are some things in life you just dont feck around with.

Cheese on toast is one of those things.

Grill the thing goddammit

I don't have to justify my way of making toasted cheese sandwich to you!:p I think it's way better anyway, but my main reason was just it was easier to really melt the cheese without the bread burning before it had melted.:pac:

January

True? False?

Linking cos it's a big image.

http://media-cache-ec6.pinterest.com/550/22/cb/9a/22cb9a4dc32ddb27464f27b75ffe6a08.jpg

syklops

January wrote: »

True? False?

Linking cos it's a big image.

http://media-cache-ec6.pinterest.com/550/22/cb/9a/22cb9a4dc32ddb27464f27b75ffe6a08.jpg

Try it and see.

The reset button may be in different places for different models.

Chet T16

Precious flower wrote: »

I don't have to justify my way of making toasted cheese sandwich to you!:p I think it's way better anyway, but my main reason was just it was easier to really melt the cheese without the bread burning before it had melted.:pac:

We do that, well we'll make toast, make a cheese sandwich then microwave it. It's awesome. Sometimes we'll stall making dinner until its "too late for a big dinner" just so we can have them.

Tried the lighting a piece of Spaghetti to light a candle one. Didn't work and now my sitting room smells of burnt spaghetti.

Number 1 that holds the cables in paper clips, how is the end of the cable supposed to go through the clip if each end of the cable is big?

Newaglish

salonfire wrote: »

Number 1 that holds the cables in paper clips, how is the end of the cable supposed to go through the clip if each end of the cable is big?

They're wider at the base...

alexlyons

salonfire wrote: »

Number 1 that holds the cables in paper clips, how is the end of the cable supposed to go through the clip if each end of the cable is big?

Newaglish wrote: »

They're wider at the base...

eh just squeeze the metal "tab" to remove it, slot through the gap and reinsert the "tab"