Never Spill While Boiling Water Again
If you spend enough time in the kitchen, you will end up familiarizing yourself with cooking on the stovetop. Stovetop cooking can be a great way to throw together a quick meal. Unfortunately, if you get distracted while boiling your water you can end up with a mess on your hands!
To limit your exposure to messy spills from water boiling over, get in the habit of keeping a wooden spoon handy! When you step away from your boiling water, merely lay the spoon across the top of the pot. The spoon will prevent the water from overflowing while you work on other parts of your meal!
Transport Hanging Clothes With Ease
Moving can be one of the most exciting and irritating aspects of life. While it is enjoyable to get settled into a new home, physically moving all of your things there can end up being quite a headache. One of the biggest headaches that we’ve run into during moves is handling our hanging clothing.
To quickly transfer your clothing from one closet to the next, you can utilize garbage bags. No, we aren’t saying that your fashion sense is terrible. Instead, we are suggesting that you use a garbage bag to wrap all of your clothing while your clothing is still on the hangar.
Who knew moving clothing could be so easy?
Improve Meat Freezing Efficiency
Buying in bulk can be one of the best ways to save money while filling up your kitchen. If you make a habit out of buying ground meat, you can likely improve your efficiency by changing your freezing procedure. The majority of shoppers will simply throw their extra ground meat into the freezer without taking any extra precautions. If you’d like your frozen meat to remain accessible, consider flattening the meat as much as possible before freezing it.
Flattened meat will reduce de-thawing times. If you want to cook your meat right when you need it, consider this simple life hack!
Max Out Your Microwave
Whether you are cooking for multiple people or merely in a hurry, using the microwave can be a ton of help. Unfortunately, most microwaves can only fit a single bowl or plate on their revolving surfaces. If you are low on time and need to heat up multiple objects, consider using this simple layout.
By using a mason jar or other glass pieces of kitchenware, you can prop up the second container of food in your microwave. You will likely need to increase your cooking time to account for the extra food, so be careful not to bite into anything that’s still cold!
Organize Your Freezer the BEST Way
Do you find yourself regularly buying frozen veggies? Do you find your freezer overwhelmed by several half-opened frozen food bags from past shopping trips? If you want to organize your freezer while maintaining its accessibility, consider using this life hack!
Purchase a collection of sturdy paper clips/chip bag seals for use in your freezer. As you can see in the picture, you can seel your frozen veggies while keeping them off of the surface of the freezer. Not only will you stop your food from accidentally being spilled, but you will also make your freezer appear larger than ever!
Clean With Coca-Cola
We promise you that this is not a Coca-Cola endorsement, but there are many uses for the beverage. When you aren’t sitting back with a refreshing can of Coca-Cola, you can use your sweet tooth and favorite drink to get other stuff done around the house.
Coca-Cola has many chemical properties that work to erase stains and remove rust. You can pour Coca-Cola into your toilet for a quick cleaning session. You can also soak your screws in Coca-Cola in order to remove the rust from the components.
If you don’t like this lifehack, you can also just drink the Coca-Cola. Perfect!
Dedicated Tank Top Hangar Tip
When the temperatures begin to rise, you won’t find us going far without wearing our favorite tank top. While tank tops are enormously flexible pieces of clothing, they can be a pain in the neck to try and store. After all, tank tops are too light for regular hangers and too nice to be tossed in the sock drawer.
Instead of giving up on your tank top collecting, you can hang all of your tank tops at once with this simple life hack. Simply use a hanger and a clasp to put all of your tank tops onto a single hanger. Easy, right?
Hanging Airplane Screen Lifehack
Nobody likes staring at their phone screen on a long flight. Nobody likes having to watch their television screen bounce around by the person in the seat in front of them. What are you supposed to do on a long flight with just your cell phone?
As it turns out, all you need is a sandwich baggy to enjoy hands-free entertainment on the plane. You can use a plastic sandwich baggy to hang your phone on the seat in front of you. The see-through plastic will allow you to operate the phone even with the screen covered. Now you can play CandyCrush on the plane without using your hands!
Install a Hidden Cutting Board
If you spend enough time in small apartments, you will learn how to maximize space in a small kitchen. One of the best ways to quickly add usable space to your kitchen is by installing a cutting board into one of your kitchen drawers.
The benefits of putting a cutting board into your kitchen drawer are twofold. First, you will have a dedicated area that you can access to prepare your food. The second benefit is that you will be able to stash the area when it is not in use, thus leaving another section of your kitchen free for other purposes.
Simple Hack For Injury-free Hammer Use
Getting work done around the house can make you feel proud and accomplished. Striking your thumb with a hammer while hanging pictures feels, well, less than good. If you want to get your DIY flex on without injuring yourself, consider this lifehack for easy hammering!
In order to hammer nails without causing injury, you simply need to incorporate a clothespin. The clothespin can be used to hold your nail in place while you size up your swing with your free hand. Gone are the days of red thumbs and accidental swear word outbursts! Who said working at home had to be hard?
Enjoy Drip Free Painting With a Rubber Band
If you got roped into painting your buddy’s house, you might want to explore this lifehack before you do. Simply place a rubber band around all of your open paint containers that you will be working with. You can use the rubber band to quickly remove excess paint from your brush. This rubber band trick will also allow you to keep your paint can completely free from drips.
If you want to really make this lifehack work for you, consider matching rubber bands with the paint that you are using. Of course, you can also just lay a tarp down before you paint. Your choice!
Emergency Cup Holder
There is nothing quite like spilling an entire drink in the backseat of your car. That moment of pure panic and regret can be hard to shake, especially as you are scrubbing your car’s upholstery hours later. If you want to have beverages in your car without spill-related fears, you are going to need a cupholder lifehack!
The easiest way to keep your drink upright in your car is to use a large shoe as a support base. While this isn’t the most aesthetically pleasing lifehack in the world, it sure as heck is effective. Give this a shot the next time you bring a Big Gulp into your car!
Turn Your Toaster Into a Grilled Cheese Maker
Who doesn’t like a great grilled cheese sandwich? If you are like most people, you probably can enjoy a slice of the finest comfort food known to man. For those chefs looking to make their grilled cheese as effortlessly as possible, consider turning your toaster into a one-machine grilled cheese producer!
Unplug your toaster and flip it onto its side. Put your bread in with the cheese resting on top of each slice. Now all you have to do is toast your bread like normal, this time with the cheese on top! Once you unlock this life hack, you will never go back.
Simple DIY Ice Pack Kit
When the temperature begins to rise, it can be nice to have a tool to quickly cool you down. This lifehack can also be explored to calm down a potential injury. If you are looking to make a simple DIY ice pack, you’ve come to the right place.
For this simple lifehack, you need a Ziploc freezer bag, water, and rubbing alcohol. Mix 3 parts water to 1 part rubbing alcohol in your Ziploc bag. Add a little bit of glitter to the container to give the ice pack some decoration, if you like. Freeze the bag and use it as much as you like!
Use A Screwdriver For Drip-Free Oil Change
For the savvy automobile enthusiast, changing your oil can be as fun as it is economical. For the rest of us, well, it can be a challenge. If you want to add oil to your vehicle without the use of a funnel, you are going to need a backup plan. Fortunately for you, this lifehack will get the job done.
You can funnel oil directly into your engine via a screwdriver to prevent spills. All you have to do is gently tilt the screwdriver toward the opening of your engine. Let the oil drip down the length of the tool until it enters the engine. Repeat until you are done.
Line Your Trash Can With Old Newspaper
Trash cans are as important to daily use as they are gross. If you don’t take care of your trash can, you will quickly run into an eyesore and odor-causing machine. The easiest way to limit gross odors is by lining your trash can with an old newspaper. Old newspaper is easy to come by and great for soaking up food juices and the like.
By layering your fresh garbage bags with newspapers, you will limit your exposure to odorous smells. Who says that we can’t innovate old ideas? The best part of all? Your local postman will send you all of the junk newspapers that you will need!
Organize Cables With Paper Clips
Cable management is the foundation upon which every cool looking office has been built. If you let your cables dangle everywhere, you are doing yourself a serious disservice. Not only do cluttered cables look like an eyesore, but they are also potentially problematic to the operation of your machine!
In order to quickly and easily organize your cables, get into the habit of using heavy-duty paperclips. These paperclips can keep your cables organized for use whenever you need them all without creating any sort of visual eyesore. For extra cable management, consider zip-typing your loose cables to the post of your desk
