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I Love Watching Life Hacks – And Never Use Any of Them

Friday, 25 August 2017, 11:45 BFH Uncategorized 23

I sit and watch these videos, and the life hacks, and am impressed with its simplistic brilliance… and then never utilize a one of them.

23 Comments on I Love Watching Life Hacks – And Never Use Any of Them

  2. I used that one before the internet was invented.

    What gets me is I will be looking for a crescent wrench and go through 25 tries through metric, etc. all the while knowing about the nut and bolt trick (to make a custom wrench) and I DON’T DO IT!!!

  3. I feel like an idiot on that double hanger mounting trick where you put the tape on the mount and mark it and put it on the wall.
    I’ve had a tough time with that over the years.
    Me stupid.

  4. These ideas are only new to children.
    Here’s one
    Put soda pop in the fridge to drink it cold.
    Turn on light in the room so you can see
    Gee thanks I had no idea.
    And stop using the word hack. Those aren’t hacks.
    Most are common sense

  5. My favorite is using a fork to hang a picture.

    Here’s another one – if your sweater, whatever, is pilled, gently use a cheap safety razor, pulling across the fabric in one direction. This really worked on my sweater, and on a polyester spandex dress. The pills are easily scraped off.

  6. Toothpaste will take scuff marks off most things.
    Don’t brush your teeth with Nutrigena soap no matter how “pure” their ads say it is.

    First place I go to learn how to do something is YT. If it’s out there, someone has videoed it.

  11. I always have my cordless drill around when I been to jack my car up. And how powerful is that drill?i doubt mine would turn the jack alone much less with a car on it.

  12. Oh I love these life hacks! I watch Crazy Russian Hacker, though also forget to do some of the hacks. One I always remember, though, is to turn a loaf of bread upside down before cutting it, so it doesn’t smash down. BOOM, good to go!

  13. My grandfather used soap on nails and screws, sometimes. He was an excellent carpenter. I used to watch and “help” him with some projects as a kid. A wonderful memory.

  14. Fur: I am with you on: I feel like an idiot on that double hanger mounting trick where you put the tape on the mount and mark it and put it on the wall.
    I’ve had a tough time with that over the years.

  15. Bees wax on screws. A couple of clever ideas, but using a Tinners Riveting Hammer to drive brads was a new one on me; oh well, most people can’t drive a nail, never mind an automobile.

  16. I finally wised up on my own and used paper to make a template, TAPING the paper to the wall!!!
    Thought I was a genius.

    Why not just use the tape?
    Why did I introduce paper into the equation?

    Also, I would do a weird thing to mark the wall, pushing a pen tip through the paper, instead of just drilling through the paper on the wall.
    It was a logical mess.

  18. @joe6pak:

    That trick of putting soda in the fridge so it gets cold, does it work for beer too?

    Works like a champ!

    And here’s another Pro Drinking Tip: If you drink vodka like the Russians do, put your bottle of cheap vodka in the freezer and it will taste like the expensive stuff. Sort of.

  19. I found the best life hack decades ago. Works for all projects.

    It’s the local handyman phone book. Of course, I don’t use it much unless it involves heights, electricity, or back breaking work.

    If you want to hang pictures and screw around with forks and lady man type shit, you need to get yourself a Seriously Pink tool kit.

  21. Used so many of these back in Theatre where things had to be done quickly. Of course, those were the olden days before the internet, so I just ‘used my brain and common sense’…and stored the ideas away for future use.

    Man…tech theatre required you to know sooo very many little tricks!!!

  22. PLEASE! Never put anything in a drill chuck except the appropriate accessories that are designed for them. You have no idea how many people have seriously injured themselves doing things like what was shown in this video. Some drills spin at over 2500 rpm. The wire WILL stretch out and rake across a face and possibly take an eye out. The chucks may not properly grip things like scissors (OMG!) which could come loose and fly across the room.

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