What's your favourite / best life hack?

Outlaw Pete

I know it's a bit of annoying term but sure all the kids be saying it these days.

Mine is that I live in a one up one down and part of the downside of that is that there is no bathtub, just a shower. I hate being restricted to showers but that's all I've been able to have since I moved in here over 12 years ago (apart from the odd stay in a hotel that is). So what I did was, last week I ran a hose from the shower and bought one of these bad boys on Amazon. Some bubble bath, projector with the footie, remote control and I feel like bleedin Scarface.

How's about yer selves?

genericguy

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

I know it's a bit of annoying term but sure all the kids be saying it these days.

Mine is that I live in a one up one down and part of the downside of that is that there is no bathtub, just a shower. I hate being restricted to showers but that's all I've been able to have since I moved in here over 12 years ago (apart from the odd stay in a hotel that is). So what I did was, last week I ran a hose from the shower and bought one of these bad boys on Amazon. Some bubble bath, projector with the footie, remote control and I feel like bleedin Scarface.

How's about yer selves?

I don't know what a one up one down is but that idea is quality. It screams "happy bachelorhood"

Very curious as to how you emptied said bath...

weemcd

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

I know it's a bit of annoying term but sure all the kids be saying it these days.

Mine is that I live in a one up one down and part of the downside of that is that there is no bathtub, just a shower. I hate being restricted to showers but that's all I've been able to have since I moved in here over 12 years ago (apart from the odd stay in a hotel that is). So what I did was, last week I ran a hose from the shower and bought one of these bad boys on Amazon. Some bubble bath, projector with the footie, remote control and I feel like bleedin Scarface.

How's about yer selves?

That's gangster!

Alf Stewart.

Deleted User wrote: »

Very curious as to how you emptied said bath...

What else did bath say?

Outlaw Pete

Deleted User wrote: »

Very curious as to how you emptied said bath...

Bucketed most of it and siphon pump for the rest.

Fr_Dougal

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

I know it's a bit of annoying term but sure all the kids be saying it these days.

Mine is that I live in a one up one down and part of the downside of that is that there is no bathtub, just a shower. I hate being restricted to showers but that's all I've been able to have since I moved in here over 12 years ago (apart from the odd stay in a hotel that is). So what I did was, last week I ran a hose from the shower and bought one of these bad boys on Amazon. Some bubble bath, projector with the footie, remote control and I feel like bleedin Scarface.

How's about yer selves?

Well laa dee daa, no recession here!

KERSPLAT!

Opening a beer with a banana

http://cdn.lifebuzz.com/images/63333/lifebuzz-945d8bc0c29a819bc817786c777ea2c7-original.gif

LunarSea

I was gonna say distilled vinegar and bicarbonate of soda for cleaning all sorts about the house but it's nowhere near as cool as the bachelor bathtub

The Rape of Lucretia

Comfortable shoes.
If you're not wearing comfortable shoes, life is just chaos. I mean the greatest accomplishments in history have been made by men wearing accommodating shoes.

Your Face

Always be prepared to get drunk.

Outlaw Pete

Another one I do is I secure three or four of the old type wooden rat traps up under each wheel arch on my car.

Never been clamped yet.

GipsyMoth

The one I use all the time is the keyring on jeans zip to keep the zip up the keyring loops onto the brass button

How long did it take to empty your inflatable bath OP and was the place drenched in water?
It seems liken awful lot of work just for a bath

GipsyMoth

GipsyMoth wrote: »

It seems liken awful lot of work just for a bath

Coincidence!

I was just about to say I too abbreviate "like an" to "liken", it saves me seconds over the whole year...

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I buy spray on body moisturiser so I can just spray myself and not spend ages rubbing it into my skin.
I like your bathtub though

MRnotlob606

Putting ham in cream crackers.

RayM

Running the electricity off the gas and the gas off the electricity. Saves a fortune.

Also, I keep the battery out of my watch and only put it back in when I want to know the time.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Incorporate a meditation practice into your day.

sabat

I remember when I was about 7 my ma bought a paddling pool and when she got back from the shop she was all like "hey kids, check out this amazing life hack I've discovered; it's totally gonna disrupt the heat vs water dynamic."
Or maybe she didn't say that, because it would have been moronic.

Outlaw Pete

GipsyMoth wrote: »

How long did it take to empty your inflatable bath OP and was the place drenched in water?
It seems liken awful lot of work just for a bath

Was a doddle. Drain plug on the base to attach hose and sure I didn't just do it for a bath, was more about the whole experience.

Okay it wasn't a sunken tub in mansion but I could still ly back, soak in the hot foamy radox water, enjoy the footie, and say 'Who put this together? Me, that's who'.

dylbert

Why wast time and effort turning the lights on and off, just leave them on and close your eyes when you want it to be dark.

Andre 3000

This one literally got me better grades in my college essays without doing anything extra.

Find one source that deals with your topic in great detail and just paraphrase from the sources they used and reference them individually. Then you've a reference list that looks like you were reading and researching on the topic for a whole week when in fact you just read one source. If you do this a few more times you'll end up having twenty to thirty entries in your bibliography in no time.

ToddyDoody

Leech leech and leech some more.. off the parents.

They give me dinners for a week where a normal person would give me a clatter.

failinis

Andre 3000 wrote: »

This one literally got me better grades in my college essays without doing anything extra.

Find one source that deals with your topic in great detail and just paraphrase from the sources they used and reference them individually. Then you've a reference list that looks like you were reading and researching on the topic for a whole week when in fact you just read one source. If you do this a few more times you'll end up having twenty to thirty entries in your bibliography in no time.

I thought everyone done this?

Maireadio

Andre 3000 wrote: »

This one literally got me better grades in my college essays without doing anything extra.

Find one source that deals with your topic in great detail and just paraphrase from the sources they used and reference them individually. Then you've a reference list that looks like you were reading and researching on the topic for a whole week when in fact you just read one source. If you do this a few more times you'll end up having twenty to thirty entries in your bibliography in no time.

I did this too. And it helped too because even though we had access to a large amount of journals, we didn't have access to ALL of them so it was impossible to find all the articles you needed.

Turtyturd

Andre 3000 wrote: »

This one literally got me better grades in my college essays without doing anything extra.

Find one source that deals with your topic in great detail and just paraphrase from the sources they used and reference them individually. Then you've a reference list that looks like you were reading and researching on the topic for a whole week when in fact you just read one source. If you do this a few more times you'll end up having twenty to thirty entries in your bibliography in no time.

That one source is generally your lecturer's notes on the topic which saves even more time.

Bonzo Delaney

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

I know it's a bit of annoying term but sure all the kids be saying it these days.

Mine is that I live in a one up one down and part of the downside of that is that there is no bathtub, just a shower. I hate being restricted to showers but that's all I've been able to have since I moved in here over 12 years ago (apart from the odd stay in a hotel that is). So what I did was, last week I ran a hose from the shower and bought one of these bad boys on Amazon. Some bubble bath, projector with the footie, remote control and I feel like bleedin Scarface.

How's about yer selves?

The boring old fart in me is thinking that if that yoke bursts upstairs your in a mess and a whole heap of trouble

Andre 3000

failinis wrote: »

I thought everyone done this?

I don't know my friends' minds were blown after I told them about it anyway as well as anyone I've ever told. I mean it seemed like common sense to me but clearly we're enlightened ones :pac:

wakka12

Andre 3000 wrote: »

This one literally got me better grades in my college essays without doing anything extra.

Find one source that deals with your topic in great detail and just paraphrase from the sources they used and reference them individually. Then you've a reference list that looks like you were reading and researching on the topic for a whole week when in fact you just read one source. If you do this a few more times you'll end up having twenty to thirty entries in your bibliography in no time.

I assumed mostly everyone except the swats did this. Ive always wanted to use multiple sources just to feel good about myself but always end up iwith too little time left for that so end up using one source for the whole essay :pac:

looksee

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

I know it's a bit of annoying term but sure all the kids be saying it these days.

Mine is that I live in a one up one down and part of the downside of that is that there is no bathtub, just a shower. I hate being restricted to showers but that's all I've been able to have since I moved in here over 12 years ago (apart from the odd stay in a hotel that is). So what I did was, last week I ran a hose from the shower and bought one of these bad boys on Amazon. Some bubble bath, projector with the footie, remote control and I feel like bleedin Scarface.

How's about yer selves?

I don't find life hack a particularly annoying term, but I hate 'bad boy' being used as a description for - well pretty much anything.

Outlaw Pete

Bonzo Delaney wrote: »

The boring old fart in me is thinking that if that yoke bursts upstairs your in a mess and a whole heap of trouble

Bathroom / toilet is downstairs in all these old cottages. It's grand anyway. No mess, so far anyway.

looksee wrote: »

I don't find life hack a particularly annoying term, but I hate 'bad boy' being used as a description for - well pretty much anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IyO28IVUKE

bonzodog2

OP, how do we know you're the real Pete?
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20Cent

Don't bother with expensive central locking on your car simply leave the doors open all the time.

Muahahaha

Fold a shirt in 2 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6rjbw0ZA0

Pat Mustard

At the petrol station, stick the petrol cap into the fuel dispenser, for hands-free delivery of fuel.

The petrol pump stops automatically as soon as the petrol tank is full.

Bonzo Delaney

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Bathroom / toilet is downstairs in all these old cottages. It's grand anyway. No mess, so far anyway

Ah your sorted so , knock your self out Tony

Frynge

About 12 years ago I bought 9 pairs of socks and then binned every other sock I had. Since then I have only ever bought the same pair of socks.

I have literally solve a world problem that has plagued mankind since the dawn of socks.

Spanish Eyes

I make a one off purchase of expensive la di da shampoo and shower gel etc.

Refill with liquid soap/shampoo from Aldi of the same kind of colour/consistency. Never heard anyone comment yet. LOL. It's all blx this brand thing anyway, but I do it to prove it.

Outlaw Pete

Reminds me. I bought two of those Dettol electronic sensor dispensers but sure the refills are like two grand or something and so I just fill with shower gel in one and Fairy in the other and it works grand. In your eye Dettol.



Never put Dettol in or even near your eye.

Spanish Eyes

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Reminds me. I bought two of those Dettol electronic sensor dispensers but sure the refills are like two grand or something and so I just fill with shower gel in one and Fairy in the other and it works grand. In your eye Dettol.



Never put Dettol in or even near your eye.

You are on a roll there. It's the package that matters with the logo and all that. LOL and most of us are mugs. Sure it's all just liquid soap cheap as chips packaged to make it look expensive.

I'm not a mug. Just a precious snowflake..

failinis

Life "hack" to look after your teeth as well as you can yourself to save on painful (and costly!) dental visits. Bonus you might keep your own teeth for longer.
Just is handier in the long run if its in any way possible.

scdublin

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

I make a one off purchase of expensive la di da shampoo and shower gel etc.

Refill with liquid soap/shampoo from Aldi of the same kind of colour/consistency. Never heard anyone comment yet. LOL. It's all blx this brand thing anyway, but I do it to prove it.

Handwash and the likes I don't think it makes a different at all, but I always notice a difference in certain shampoo/conditioners. I have really long hair and if I use the lidl/aldi ones my hair is in knots after and it's so painful to brush out. Some of the pricier brands are better in that situation for me anyway.

Weigh yourself and then weigh yourself holding your packed suitcase for travelling to see if it's within the allowed limit. You'd be surprised how many people don't think to do this and end up paying for a kg of extra luggage weight.

Cathy.C

Never fly low again.

chicken foot

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

What else did bath say?

Can I just say, this is the funniest thing I've read all week!!

Akrasia

Instead of spending all those hours reading a book, just watch the movie adaptation instead

If you're ever asked for help with something, do as terrible a job as you possibly can so you'll never be asked for help ever again

Instead of taking an interest in politics and making an informed choice in an election, just pick the name that you've seen on tv the most

s4uv3

Use a scissors to cut pizza.
It's so much better than an actual pizza cutter.

Muahahaha

Paint your toenails with gold paint. That way when you cut them you can easily pick up the nail clippings with a magnet.

Pinch Flat

Muahahaha wrote: »

Paint your toenails with gold paint. That way when you cut them you can easily pick up the nail clippings with a magnet.

It works better if you used a metal that can be magnetised :pac:

Your Superior

Save money on buying expensive binoculars by simply standing closer to the object you wish to see.

Your Superior

Get a glimpse of married life by taping Woman's Hour on Radio 4, then playing it back at a higher volume than the TV while trying to watch something on Sky Sports.

Winterlong

Boil an egg to perfection without costly egg timers by popping it into boiling water and driving away from your home at exactly 60mph. After three miles, phone your wife to take the egg out the pan.

Only date girls called Natalie, Carol, Holly or Eve. Chances are their birthday is around Christmas and you won't have to shell out on seperate birthday and christmas presents.

When out for a cycle -avoid getting a sore behind by simply placing a naan bread over your saddle. This will comfort your ride and when you return home, hey presto! A warm snack.

Before attempting to remove stubborn stains from a garment, circle the soiled area with a permanent pen so that when you remove it from the washing machine you can check the stain has gone.

Calm hysterically crying children in the supermarket by firmly slapping their legs and then tugging them along by the wrist.

Worried that your teeth will be stained after a heavy night drinking red wine? Drink a bottle of white wine before going to bed, to remove the stains.