The 46 Most Brilliant Life Hacks Every Human Being Needs To Make Life Easier

I love finding clever solutions to the little snags I come across in cooking, building, cleaning, or just about anything. These are some that I find myself using all the time!

1. Use retail hangers as chip clips

 

 

2. For the always-falling zipper

3.Chill white wine with frozen grapes

4. Fit two bowls into a small microwave

5.Clever trick for the kid when they grow out of it

6. Use a leaf blower and PVC pipes to clean gutters without a ladder

 

 

7. The easiest way to make an ice cream sandwich

8. Unclog drains without expensive chemicals

Pour a half a cup of baking soda and a cup of vinegar into a clogged drain. Once it stops foaming rinse down the sink and your drains will be clear. A cheap and environmentally friendly way to unclog a sink!

 

 

9. When you have to hang something with exact holes, photocopy the back and use it as a template

10. Use dry tea bags for fresh and odour-free shoes and gym bags

11. Stop people from stealing your pens at work

12. Putting your phone into airplane mode will charge it twice as fast

13. Put old newspaper at the bottom of the bin to absorb food juices

 

 

14. Space out a circle in the middle when warming up food in the microwave to heat it up much more evenly

15. Fix a blurry phone camera

16. Wrap a wet paper towel around beer, and put it in the freezer to cool in just 2 minutes

17. Use a clothespin to hold the nail whilst hammering

18. Use a can opener on obnoxious plastic packaging

19. Heat pizza with glass of water to keep the crust from getting chewy

20. After popping microwave popcorn, separate the opening of the bag just enough for the unpopped kernels to fall out and shake upside down over the bowl or the trash

21. Rub a walnut on damaged furniture to cover up dings

22. Create a bright light in a pinch

When camping or just in a pinch, a standard headlamp strapped to a 1 gallon jug of water can illuminate an entire room or tent.

 

 

23. Use staple remover when trying to add things to a key ring

 

 

24. Tell which side an exit ramp will be on

25. A frozen, saturated sponge in a bag makes an icepack that won’t drip all over when it melts

26. Chinese containers are designed to fold out into plates

27. Run the razor across old jeans to resharpen and extend its life.

28. Good sandwich guide

 

 

29. Clean out an old lotion bottle for your beach bag and put your phone, money, and keys in it for better safekeeping at the beach

30. Unwrinkle a shirt in a flash

31. Perfectly cut cherry tomatoes all at once

 

 

32. Keep a pot from bubbling over

33. Soft-drink lids can double as coasters

Avoid getting a tongue lashing from your mom for putting your cold drink on her new coffee table.

 

 

34. Pinching the end of a banana is a far easier way to open it.

35. Adding a teaspoon of baking soda when you boil eggs and the shell will come off easily. 

36. If you don’t have baking soda, then peel away a small hole at the top of the boiled egg and a large one on the bottom. Finally, put the small hole close to your mouth and blow.

37. Stack clothes vertically side by side in the dresser to save a lot of room

38. Charge your phone while traveling

Many hotel TVs have handy USB slots in the back that will charge most smartphones.

 

 

39. Folding shirts doesn’t have to be a tedious chore.

40. Pulling the bones out of a chicken wing makes it easier to eat. Just twist the bone and pull.

 

 

41. Place a plastic bottle on top of a yoke and gently squeeze to separate egg yolks from egg whites

42. Save space when packing a spare change of clothes.

43. Quick and easy iPhone speaker

 

 

44. Use AAA batteries in devices that require AA

Use AAA batteries in gadgets that need AA batteries by filling the gaps with scrunched up tin foil. It won’t last as long as AAs but it’ll help you out when you’re in a pinch!

 

 

45. Avoid Elevator Pranksters

46. Play games without ads.

Putting your phone in airplane mode while gaming will stop those annoying ads from playing!

Good luck! Your life may never be the same again…

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