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50 Life Hacks to Simplify your World

  • 25-01-2013 3:51pm
    #1
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,774 ✭✭✭✭


    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


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  • #2
    RandolphEsq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭RandolphEsq


    Some other good ones not in the 50;
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  • #3
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭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 :(


  • #4
    CardBordWindow
    Registered Users Posts: 3,191 ✭✭✭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!


  • #5
    Endaaaagh
    Registered Users Posts: 637 ✭✭✭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
    :D


  • #6
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭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....


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  • #7
    alienacademy
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭alienacademy


    Really like the ideas
    thanx for sharing


  • #8
    GBX
    Registered Users Posts: 11,889 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #9
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,955 ✭✭✭✭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.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



  • #10
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


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


  • #11
    RandolphEsq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭RandolphEsq


    juan.kerr wrote: »
    Some of these are a bit dodgy:
    Number 13: Do we really need to encourage MORE drinking?
    larrydavid.gif


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  • #12
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,656 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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


  • #13
    Anyone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭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.


  • #14
    up for anything
    Registered Users Posts: 5,776 ✭✭✭up for anything


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


  • #15
    Evil Phil
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    Reminds me of Viz.

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  • #16
    Precious flower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭Precious flower


    Read this handy tip (at least I think it is :p) 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 :p) and it's mess free!:)


  • #17
    ringadingding
    Registered Users Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭ringadingding


    Precious flower wrote: »
    Read this handy tip (at least I think it is :p) 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 :p) 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


  • #18
    Precious flower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭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:


  • #19
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,865 ✭✭✭✭January


    True? False?

    Linking cos it's a big image.

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


  • #20
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,969 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    Chet T16
    Registered Users Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


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


  • #23
    salonfire
    Registered Users Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭salonfire


    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?


  • #24
    Newaglish
    Registered Users Posts: 2,734 ✭✭✭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...


  • #25
    alexlyons
    Registered Users Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭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"


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