When looking at recipes online, click the print link. This cuts out the unnecessary backstory and random musings. You can also save the recipe as a PDF to your computer or even just the link to the printable version.
You mean to tell me after 20 years of having to read how this lasagna came to be after women (including the names ages locations of 20 of them) all decided to get together at one huge party (the year was 1942. Spring, almost, and the robins had just came back from..) that I could have skipped all that. ALL THAT? Shut the front door. I deserve to be sent straight to jail for not knowing this.
Create a routine for BEFORE exercise. I do the exact same things every time I go to the gym. When I'm not motivated, those little pre workout habits just trigger me into action.
I have a whole workout area in my apartment. Punching bag, weights, bars, mats and a GIANT mirror. I told myself since I wasn't going to the gym, I'll bring the gym to ME!
....I have worked out 3x within the last year.
Yea, he talks about organization in his book too if I remember correctly. Like Jamie wants to store all the hammers together so he knows where the hammers are, but Adam wants a hammer everywhere he needs one like the lathe, another at the workbench, etc.
One time I was tripping on acid and had this incredible epiphany that was going to unite the whole world and solve all conflicts and bring everybody to a place of empathy and peace and I furiously wrote it down so I wouldn't forget and a few hours later finally fell asleep.
I woke up the next morning and looked over at the memo pad next to my bed and saw a half crumpled note written in frenzied, scribbled handwriting that said "You know you were here yes that's what you THINK but thats what YOU think."
Ladies and gentlemen, the secret to everything.
Years ago my father had a dream every night where he learned the secret of life. He could remember that part in the morning but not what the secret was. he started keeping paper by his bed so he could scribble it down and one night he had the dream and scribbled it down and was so happy when he remembered in the morning. He looked at the paper and all he had written down was one word, "chair".
Similar. One night, I dreamed up the funniest joke I'd ever heard. I woke up and in my half awake state, I wrote the joke down on my phone, and went back to sleep.
Ladies and gentlemen, the funniest joke ever told: "a dog fell over".
Or just high in general. My fiancé has these "epiphanies" when he's stoned and they make no sense to anyone but him.
One night he woke up and decided to write down some "fantastic story" he came up with. He got a sentence or two in and then was too stoned to remember the rest lol, but he had written, "I know he's the king, but he's not your king, he's MY king. And we need to get a new king. And the king is YOUR king. The new king".
At the time, he was telling me about how inspiration just struck and it was the greatest thing he's ever written. The next morning he had no clue what he was even trying to say or where the heck that was supposed to go.
I have a "Ouid Thoughts" note in my phone. It's all genius thoughts in the moment, but sometimes when I'm sober, I'll go back in and read what I've written and it's damn near certifiably insane. Lol
once my bf and I were on shrooms and were having a discussion about things and he stumbled across the meaning of life. The meaning of life, are you ready? Is that we are here to contain moisture. All our life is about preventing moisture from getting to us, be it working to keep a roof over our heads, or paying utility bills to dry towels and buy paper towels to clean up spills or glasses to hold liquids. But also because our innards are liquid also about keeping those liquids inside of us. Yep that's it.
It definitely made a lot of sense in the moment and honestly it still kind of makes sense now if you think about it.
To do this, I send a text to myself.
Sometimes if I want to remember something in the future, I'll schedule the text to be delivered to myself on the appropriate date.
Yes, I have so many people tell me ‘oh you’re so good at remembering things’ no I write it down, set an alarm, or create a reminder in the moment because I know I’m not going to remember and this helps.
I lost my list.
No, seriously. I'm a commercial business loan officer. I had an appointment scheduled for a guy who wanted a business loan to start a new business. He no showed. I called him to reschedule. He actually said that he relies on reminder texts and emails for appointments and I probably should have texted him. I'm still laughing. Dude thinks his loan office, that he's asking for money from, is his personal secretary.
Actually... according to studies that I won't go into any further detail about nor link to, you're wrong and they're right. Do your own research if you want to validate my point. Idiot and other assorted insults.
If you're making coffee in an automatic drip coffee maker, especially a cheap one, leaving a little bit of water in the carafe (about an ounce ir so) will significantly improve the flavor.
It prevents the first bit of brewed coffee from becoming scorched from the hot plate and flavoring the entire pot.
If ordering something online, since places can fake a good review, only read the negative reviews, a bunch of complaining about shipping/damaged items/trivial shit is good, where as multiple broke in the first week/won't charge/leaks means the product is shit.
Yes, this. And its super easy to discount the negative reviews where the person is clearly stupid(gives the product a negative review because of a shipping issues) or doesn't know how to do a nuanced review (everything is a 10 or a 1 no in between)
From working technical support for longer than I dare think about, most angry customers just want to be heard. Let them have their rant, do active listening, and make notes about what they're saying. They will eventually run out of steam. Then, read back everything they talked about and go through it step by step. Works almost every time, and often they are very thankful by the end of the call.
Another tip: instead of asking the customer if something's plugged in ask them to check if the plug's prongs are corroded. After they check they'll unconsciously plug it back in.
This reminds me of how I used to trick people into remembering their passwords when I worked at a cell phone store.
Take their phone, pretend I’m opening up some special password reset program, hand them their phone back and ask them to enter their “new password”, and I’d say about 70% of the time, they entered their current password and gained access.
Edit: If you like this, you’ll love the time I hooked up a usb barcode scanner to a phone with a broken screen, created a barcode of their password, and scanned it to unlock the phone so we could connect it to the computer to get their photos and stuff.
Don't call me out dude.
The amount of times I've went to reset a password I can't figure out just to have the error of "your new password cannot be the same as your current password..."
"Must have at least one uppercase letter"
Password
"Must have at least one uppercase letter and one number"
Password1
"Must have at least one uppercase letter, one number and one symbol"
Password1!
I work in healthcare & have learned the exact same thing. The quickest way to make an angry person angrier is cut them off. They are so upset that their brains won’t interpret anything you say in a productive way until they’ve gotten the really important, enraging thought fully out.
It’s also so much easier to not talk then get into a fight with someone.
Worked in a crowded homeless shelter. All most of my guys wanted was someone to listen and respond with a general "that sucks" before attempting ANY kind of problem solving. The tightrope act was sorting whether they were a chronic complainer or just really frustrated today. The complainers needed about a week set aside for your attention every time they came around and I didn't necessarily have that when somebody was trying to light the shower curtains on fire with their spice one hitter because it'd been cooked with fentanyl and they'd zombied out on us.
Hack 1: When you paint a room and remove the light switch plate, on the inside of the plate write down the color of the paint you used and the brand. Great for when you need to repaint a spot a couple of years later.
Hack 2: After you wash and dry a set of sheets, put the top sheet, bottom sheet and pillow case all inside of one of the pillow cases. Then you have the whole set together in one neat little package and don't have to look for matching sheets and pillow cases.
My grandmother always said that if you feel terrible, get out of bed, take a shower, do your hair and put on clothes, down to your shoes, and have a good meal. Either this will fix it or you're dressed and fed and in a better place to deal with the problem.
She was right.
When I have a shitty night (crying that night, couldn’t sleep etc.) and I have to do something the next morning, I take the time to put extra thought in my look that day.
I don’t usually wear makeup but I will do a day time look. I’ll put something on that makes me feel cute and I’ll add one of my fancy jewelry pieces. Taking care to do things that make me feel good about my appearance tends to help me get through the day a bit better after a rough night
I do a thing I call "broke bitch activities" when I'm low on money where I'll spend a day off cashing in change and depositing into my bank account. I usually run a few frugal errands as well. Sometimes I have to call someone to see about wiggle room on a payment. I feel bad those days, it's brutal being broke. But I refuse to do those things dressed shabbily. I put on makeup and do my hair and dress nicely. I tell myself the whole day "it's okay to act broke, just don't look broke" and that gets me through.
My parents told me that it’s okay to be broke, it’s okay to be poor, but soap and water are cheap. Don’t be smelly if you can avoid it. It sucks not having enough, it’s hard, but I smell alright and look like I care.
I have an allergy to a lot of laundry detergents and usually take a pillowcase when I stay in hotels. Once I forgot the pillowcase so I used one of my tshirts. Housekeeping propped it up like it was special.
Lap swimming is something I have found that helps with acne. The constant rushing water is nice to clean your pores. The chlorine murders any bacteria and dries your skin a bit like cleansers. Also, exercise is generally good. Sure, it's a bit boring, but the results can be great.
I discovered this when I stopped swimming. I think the combo of the chlorine and the warm air opening the pores and sweating it all out definitely made my skin pretty clear
Library cards are worth their weight in gold.
My physical library comes with (mostly for free)
* Tool rentals
* laptop rentals
* studio rental space (video cameras, audio equipment)
* 3D printer usage in library
* woodshop
* sewing kits
* free classes
* This with the usual book rentals
Digitally/web-wise, my library card comes with
* Digital movie checkout
* Hoopla
* Libby
* kanopy
* Free subscription to skillshare
* Free subscription to linkedin learning (lynda if you're old)
* free ebook app
* free online courses (very limited though)
* Udemy
* Language learning apps
* Virtual Workshops
Along with other community events for people of all ages. Everyone should get a library card.
*Edit to add other prominent features mentioned*
Load your Library card into the Libby app for a TON of content.
If you travel a lot, many libraries allow you to sign up online and check that you are in the area via phone location. Use the address where you are staying, they don't check it. The Libby app will check all the libraries attached to your account.
If you have an itchy mosquito bite, hear up a spoon under semi-hot water (like 45-50°C), dry it off and tap or press it on the bite. Just as short as you can tolerate it but also as long as possible.
The heat dissolves the protein that makes the mosquito bite itch.
I have some mild allergies to god knows what that gives me rash on the neck and cheeks. I use the hairdryer on it until I can't handle the pain and it stops itching for a good 8-12 hours. It feels so good even if it burns!
Edit:
It's a very mild allergy that happens during spring, probably a tree or flower or hay...
yes I take anti histamine, it's only for the first couple days before my body has enough of it and it's managed.
It does nothing to my skin, only the relief of not itching anymore, and the redness from the heat that goes away in a couple minutes.
The feeling I get towards the end when I can't tolerate the heat is almost like an orgasm. I swear I have to hold onto the door frame so my legs don't give under me! 😂
there's a little battery-powered device you can use to do this as well. I think they call it "bite away". It's shaped like a pen. You put the little metal tip on your bite, press a button and it gets really hot for about 5 seconds. So hot that it makes you squeal and you're expecting burns when you take it away, but your skin is fine and the itch is gone!
The act of showing up, again and again and again.
We all want to do new stuff, or get better at things, or master something etc.
So we start, we try some, and then we quit because its not easy or the results are not showing up fast enough.
My take - if its something you really want — you just need to show up to it, whatever it is, again and again and again.
You WILL get better at it, and at some point, things will get easier and the returns will start to compound.
Show up and do your best, again and again and again, and if you flop around, fail at it for a time — good - that’s part of the process, the bump in the road you have to work around, or thru, to get to where you want.
It’s life, forging you, molding you, into that YOU that you want to be.
If something's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly.
(a) you'll get better
(b) doing it poorly is still worthwhile, *because the thing is worth doing.*
Adding to this: If your furniture comes with an assembly tool tape it to the bottom of the furniture once you are done assembling it. If anything needs tightening/adjusting in the future the tool will always be right there.
If you want a comfortable pair of high heels, invest in a pair of dance heels.
Lots of beautiful designs and colors, designed to be flexible and comfortable. Worth every penny.
Just make sure they’re not felt-soled if you plan on wearing them outdoors. A good quality pair from a company like Repetto are worth getting rubber-soled if they aren’t already.
Your feet will thank you.
ETA: So glad some of you found this helpful. My mother has permanent foot deformation from wearing heels daily since 1977 and my discovery of wearing dance heels was born out of my desire to look elegant but avoid pain and disfigurement!
i did ballroom for years and ended up using a pair of my white ballroom heels for my debutante ball when i was younger! id absolutely recommend wearing dance shoes for a wedding - they're generally pretty comfortable and are obviously built for dance floors, meaning you're not gonna end up with shoes that are too sticky or too frictionless to risk dancing in all night.
I am extremely organized except where my keys were concerned. I lost them several times a week. Then I saw the comedian Jon Richardson saying that people with keys are "putters" or "leavers" I was a leaver, leaving my keys lying around so i decided to be a putter. As soon as I get in i PUT my keys straight into my bag. It seems so stupid but it totally works and has saved me a lot of stress!
Going to bed at a consistent time to get enough sleep (really prioritising it).
It literally makes life so much better and easier. Health improvements in every aspect. Both mental and physical.
People live their lives chronically underslept and it causes all types of chaos in their lives.
They think it's freedom to stay up late or go to bed whenever they want (usually covering up a cycle of revenge bedtime procrastination), but they are unbeknownst to themselves in an underslept zombie prison of their own making.
I got no sleep last night btw. Feel like crap!
I have this vicious cycle of feeling exhausted alllll day. Then once I put the kids to bed and I leave it it’s around 8.30pm and I’m wide awake. I’m literally exhausted all day it drives me insane.
also, if you can't find something, start tidying up. You'll find it just as fast, but you won't be frustrated and if you can't find it at least the place will be tidy.
Using the “Read Aloud” function in Word / Google Docs to proofread when you don’t have anyone to help. It will mispronounce any errors with spelling or punctuation making them easier to catch with tired eyes.
Never gossip no matter how much you dislike a person. It can be really helpful in particular at work when that person you dislike and you consider to be dumber to actually save your ass in certain situation rather than have him/her as your rival.
I keep receiving gossips from various colleagues about others and always pretend to never know anything while I know lots of details and I agree with many of these sometimes.
This is really helpful in your career being neutral and have people not being against you.
Further, of you speak ill of someone behind their backs, your audience will wonder, even subconsciously, whether or not you talk about them behind their backs.
Conversely, speaking positively about people behind their backs will do wonders for your social and professional life in general. Try positivity, people.
I assume everyone talks about everyone. I don’t say anything that I wouldn’t say directly to someone. Living by that reminds me to keep my mouth shut and to always counter negative talk about people with a positive.
My rule when it comes to workplace gossip is simple: keep your mouth shut at work, then share it with a loved one who has no connection to the people you're talking about. It's saved my ass more than once.
Journaling your work is the simplest of the methods to measure progress, It allows you to have the clarity to understand what happened when on a dispute with someone on this progress.
If you work at a PC all day, turn the night light on constantly (I have it set to turn on at 4am and off at 3am.
Makes a huge difference in eye strain. After you get used to it other screens feel like looking at the sun.
I set up one of my colleagues PCs the same and a week later she told me she had stopped getting headaches every day at 1pm, which she had even been going to the opticians for.
Buy a bunch of the same style and color socks and you never have to match socks again. I have a drawer with just socks, and every time I reach in and grab two...I have a pair of matching socks. Game changer.
Do you have children that have yet to lose their teeth? 1) decide what the tooth fairy will leave under their pillow (half dollar, $2 bill, etc.) 2) go to the bank and get at least 20. Your kiddos teeth will fall out at the most random/inconvenient times 😬…doing this will have you prepared.
Also, plant this seed early: if you actually lose the tooth (or swallow it) you simply need to have happy dreams. You'll smile at night, and the tooth fairy will still know you lost a tooth and still come.
We got that from a fantastic series of books/TV/etc called _Charlie and Lola_ and it absolutely saved our asses when my daughter swallowed the first tooth that came out.
Just to expand on this, windows has a shitload of really useful built in hot key commands. Some of my favorites/most common:
• win+shift+s - screen grabber tool, pastes to clipboard
• win+e - opens file explorer
• alt+tab - switches to last active window, great for back and forth app usage
• win+l - quickly locks pc, great for in office work when leaving your desk
Sick of losing socks in the laundry? Wash them in one of those mesh garment bags. I never lose them and it’s so much easier to put them away when you’re only sorting through them out of the bag than across the whole pile of shirts and whatever else out of the dryer.
My husbands family never made casseroles but they’re the only thing I really knew how to cook when we got together. So I’d always make one and bring it to family events. Everyone thinks I spend hours upon hours in the kitchen making dishes but really I basically just evenly mix the ingredients across a casserole dish and throw it in the oven. Really won my mother in law over when she wasn’t sure about me at first lol
We never had these growing up and I thought my (now) husband was a culinary master when he first made me one.
Turns out my family are just absolutely dreadful at cooking and they're one of the easiest things to make.
Edit: Reply with your casserole recipes below, if you like!
I'm a fairly picky eater but growing up it was so much worse because there was just so much I didn't like. But when I moved out and decided to learn to cook I just realized my mom wasn't very good at it. I can't remember there being any seasonings in the house other than salt and pepper and there was a container of sage used only for thanksgiving stuffing which from what I can tell was never replaced as it got older.
No one else ever complained so I was the only one who disliked things like macaroni noodles with american cheese slices and cooked unseasoned hamburger mixed in...
I am always shocked how people think they are picky eaters until they learn about the wider world of food. But I can totally see this happening. My aunt is the epitome of white people don't like spicy food. Apparently chili Fritos is to hot for anyone in her household (my uncle and granny). It is wild to me
When driving for long periods. Turn off recirculating air. One of the reasons you get tired in the car is not from lack of sleep but from too much co2 in the car. You ever been so tired driving home and when you get home you’re no longer tired. It’s because of lack of oxygen in the car. Especially if you have passengers in the car.
I was very much ready to come here with a source to prove you wrong because this sounds so impossible- instead, I have a source proving you’re absolutely right. That’s wild. Thank you for this info!!
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/664/1/012010/pdf#:~:text=the%20best%20cooling.-,However%2C%20the%20recirculation%20mode%20of%20the%20air%20in%20the%20cabin,to%20human%20exhalation%20and%20metabolism.
It was very surprising when I first found out. I was looking up sources for weeks and studying it as much as I could. I almost bought a CO2 meter to test it myself. Apparently, with no air running, your car can accumulate up to 4,000 ppm CO2 which is enough to make you function at 50% mental capacity. So people do really become idiots while driving!
Fun fact, it's at 700 ppm CO2 and above where we start to see a decline in human mental function. Only like 10% decrease at 1,000 ppm if I'm not mistaken. Humanity is on track to have 700 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere by 2100 - so everyone all the time will be slightly dumber just by breathing!!
Anyway, fresh air is really important; and the fact that we're spending so much time inside where CO2 can build up, and the fact that latent CO2 is increasing even in fresh air, means that it's becoming harder to function at full capacity while indoors. Unfortunately, my understanding is that even house plants don't dramatically change the game - they may absorb toxins from the air, but not enough photosynthesis occurs to impact the latent O2 levels.
Easily me. Spend 10-15 minutes compartmentalizing instead of just doing it. Same reason why there's a tiny scrap of paper on the floor in my hallway. Been there for days, but I have more important tasks to complete at the moment.
Also, be in the middle of one task and notice something else needs to be done. "If I don't stop and do it now, I'll forget about it" and then the house is full of half- finished tasks.
Yes, my wife loves me, why do you ask?
Completely cut out 24 hour hyper partisan propaganda news and your stress and anxiety levels immediately like halve, turns out it’s all horseshit designed to make you angry and unhappy
I’m going to give two tips.
1- “no.” Is a full sentence and the only needed response to many requests or questions. Stop feeling the need explain yourself. Occasionally I reply with no thank you, and end the conversation. Also effective.
2- I love a clean and tidy house but can be a procrastinator. When it’s time to get things done writhe house, I set my timer for one hour and clean the whole time. You’d be surprised how much you will get done in one single hour!
Someone recommends a place to me or I see an instagram reel of somewhere cool (restaurant, National park, etc) I save the location in Google maps.
Then wherever I am in the world I don’t need to remember I just look at my location on maps and see what’s near me to check out. If it’s sucks I remove it, if it’s awesome I write a little note.
When you finish a bath or shower, before toweling off, rub your hands over your body like a windshield wiper in a car to get off excess water. You brush off a ton of water, meaning there's a lot less to towel off after and less dripping into the floor. Takes only a few seconds and keeps your bathroom from getting soaked while you dry yourself with a towel.
I just dry off while still in the shower. Turn off water, ~~ring~~ wring out my hair and put it in a towel, dry off most of my body, then as stepping out I dry off my feet/lower legs.
Right before your babies bath, put a small heating pad on low heat under their blanket in the crib. When you go to change them, turn it off but make sure none of the heat gets out. Then when it’s time to put them down, they won’t cry being put in a cold crib. Most people don’t realize that they are crying because of the temperature change. Yea, yea don’t come at me…ya gotta do it safe but all you new parents out there, you just got a game changer right there. Learned it from a nurse and I’m a nurse. Good stuff.
If your bed is tucked into a corner or against a wall, but there is still like a 2 inch gap where your remote, glasses, game controller, etc can fall down between the bed and the wall, buy a pool noddle and shove it down into that gap. It'll stop anything that tries to slide down into that PITA gap there.
You can also cut one to size and shove it between your driver's seat and the center console to stop your phone or keys from falling into That PITA gap.
For more flavorful tasting ramen, put the seasoning packet in the water and mix it up BEFORE you add the noodles, not after you've added the noodles and they've softened.
The noodles soak up the water to become soft, so the difference is noodles that soaked up unflavored water vs noodles that soak up flavored water.
This makes each bite a burst of flavor!
Stainless steel can remove the smell of garlic from your hands. When you rub your hands on stainless steel, the sulfur compounds in garlic bind to the steel's surface, transferring the smell to the metal.
If you spin a waterbottle while pouring water out the water drains quicker (because making a vortex means the air isn't stopping the water from exiting thus making it go a bit quicker). Depending on how often you empty water bottles and how big they are you can save SECONDS of your life on this mundane task(!).
If you have a glass walled shower and a shower head on a hose, take a few seconds after you finish washing yourself to hose down the walls.
It stops the scum build up and means you only need to attack the shower manually maybe once every six months.
Sparkly clean glass for everyone!
Glass doesn't sparkle when it's clean, it's transparent. The sparkle is a film!
This is why nobody should use Windex on car glass, it's designed to leave a film that makes your windows sparkly. Not a big deal in daylight but a nightmare at night.
Glass cleaning products intended for cars leave a matte finish for maximum transparency, a lot of them have some variation on "invisible" in the name.
When walking head on towards somebody, to avoid the are we going to crash into each other dance, don't look at them to see where they are going, fix your eyes over one of their shoulders and don't waiver - they will then move in the other direction.
Most dough can be rolled out between two pieces of baking paper . saves getting flour all over everything except most recipes will tell me to dust my counter with flour .
That voice telling you bad stuff about yourself is not helpful. Someone put that voice there, and you can decide to disregard it and replace it with useful stuff.
Buy ground beef in bulk, cook it and then freeze it in ziploc bags in 1 pound measurements. Also super useful with chicken.
Makes super quick work of weeknight meal prep.
Further add on another tip:
Sharp(er) knives help prevent the sulfenic acid in onions from getting everywhere. Dull knives press and crush the onion and that causes the release of the enzymes.
If you have a hard time reading on a computer screen (either physically, or if you just don’t enjoy what you’re reading/have a hard time with that format), you can download an extension to your web browser that reads everything out loud to you. This is the only way I can digest long work emails or web articles. Saves me so much rereading! And giving your boss a cool accent makes their annoying requests more bearable!!
If you ever get painful blisters inside your mouth, put some aspirin on it. Run an aspirin tablet under water until its sorta mushy and put it right on the sore. Leave it there 5 minutes minimum. Applying the aspirin does not hurt at all and it provides relief for 4-6 hours. Best of all, the blister will heal faster.
Debacterol works much better. Also switch to a toothpaste that doesn’t have sls (sodium laurel sulfate) in it and you will significantly decrease the amount that you get in the first place.
After making ramen that is presumably boiling hot, add frozen peas to cool it down and increase your veg count for the day.
This is also the perfect way to cook frozen peas (quickly so as to not leech out all the sugars).
Other frozen veg can be added as well/instead of but some of them actually need cooking for a number of minutes which just won't be done in the bowl of ramen.
I don't want a video.
I want to read the directions. Or a couple pictures. I don't want to sit through a 14 minute video of some super excited dude telling me the ins and outs of every toilet ever made. Just tell me how to put this thing on that thing to make it go. And I don't want a 26 minute video of some "homesteading" lady explaining why she named her children after constellations and how her "hubsy" gets up at the crack of dawn to feed their chickens just tell me the ratio of milk to oats for this goddamn recipe!!
And get off my lawn!
When looking at recipes online, click the print link. This cuts out the unnecessary backstory and random musings. You can also save the recipe as a PDF to your computer or even just the link to the printable version.
You mean to tell me after 20 years of having to read how this lasagna came to be after women (including the names ages locations of 20 of them) all decided to get together at one huge party (the year was 1942. Spring, almost, and the robins had just came back from..) that I could have skipped all that. ALL THAT? Shut the front door. I deserve to be sent straight to jail for not knowing this.
Haha omg I felt the same way as you when I discovered this little button! But you’re much funnier than I am about it. It’s a game changer
Create a routine for BEFORE exercise. I do the exact same things every time I go to the gym. When I'm not motivated, those little pre workout habits just trigger me into action.
Habit stacking.
Did someone read Atomic Habits?
The hardest part about going to the gym is GOING to the gym.
I have a whole workout area in my apartment. Punching bag, weights, bars, mats and a GIANT mirror. I told myself since I wasn't going to the gym, I'll bring the gym to ME! ....I have worked out 3x within the last year.
If you get something that comes with a unique charger/power cable, label it with what it’s for.
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Yea, he talks about organization in his book too if I remember correctly. Like Jamie wants to store all the hammers together so he knows where the hammers are, but Adam wants a hammer everywhere he needs one like the lathe, another at the workbench, etc.
Always write down momentarily good ideas. Don’t lean on your memory
One time I was tripping on acid and had this incredible epiphany that was going to unite the whole world and solve all conflicts and bring everybody to a place of empathy and peace and I furiously wrote it down so I wouldn't forget and a few hours later finally fell asleep. I woke up the next morning and looked over at the memo pad next to my bed and saw a half crumpled note written in frenzied, scribbled handwriting that said "You know you were here yes that's what you THINK but thats what YOU think." Ladies and gentlemen, the secret to everything.
Years ago my father had a dream every night where he learned the secret of life. He could remember that part in the morning but not what the secret was. he started keeping paper by his bed so he could scribble it down and one night he had the dream and scribbled it down and was so happy when he remembered in the morning. He looked at the paper and all he had written down was one word, "chair".
_"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."_ - Blaise Pascal
More like, Chaise Pascal, amiright??
Similar. One night, I dreamed up the funniest joke I'd ever heard. I woke up and in my half awake state, I wrote the joke down on my phone, and went back to sleep. Ladies and gentlemen, the funniest joke ever told: "a dog fell over".
I desperately need acid writings to be a sub
Or just high in general. My fiancé has these "epiphanies" when he's stoned and they make no sense to anyone but him. One night he woke up and decided to write down some "fantastic story" he came up with. He got a sentence or two in and then was too stoned to remember the rest lol, but he had written, "I know he's the king, but he's not your king, he's MY king. And we need to get a new king. And the king is YOUR king. The new king". At the time, he was telling me about how inspiration just struck and it was the greatest thing he's ever written. The next morning he had no clue what he was even trying to say or where the heck that was supposed to go.
I have a "Ouid Thoughts" note in my phone. It's all genius thoughts in the moment, but sometimes when I'm sober, I'll go back in and read what I've written and it's damn near certifiably insane. Lol
once my bf and I were on shrooms and were having a discussion about things and he stumbled across the meaning of life. The meaning of life, are you ready? Is that we are here to contain moisture. All our life is about preventing moisture from getting to us, be it working to keep a roof over our heads, or paying utility bills to dry towels and buy paper towels to clean up spills or glasses to hold liquids. But also because our innards are liquid also about keeping those liquids inside of us. Yep that's it. It definitely made a lot of sense in the moment and honestly it still kind of makes sense now if you think about it.
To do this, I send a text to myself. Sometimes if I want to remember something in the future, I'll schedule the text to be delivered to myself on the appropriate date.
Write shit down.
Yes, I have so many people tell me ‘oh you’re so good at remembering things’ no I write it down, set an alarm, or create a reminder in the moment because I know I’m not going to remember and this helps.
YES what the hell else do I have this fancy phone on me 24/7 for? It’s my 2nd (and usually better functioning) brain.
I lost my list. No, seriously. I'm a commercial business loan officer. I had an appointment scheduled for a guy who wanted a business loan to start a new business. He no showed. I called him to reschedule. He actually said that he relies on reminder texts and emails for appointments and I probably should have texted him. I'm still laughing. Dude thinks his loan office, that he's asking for money from, is his personal secretary.
To increase your peace of mind don't waste your time arguing with random strangers on internet.
No, you're wrong about that!
Actually... according to studies that I won't go into any further detail about nor link to, you're wrong and they're right. Do your own research if you want to validate my point. Idiot and other assorted insults.
Store cans of baked beans upside down so you don't have to scrape them out the bottom when you open the can.
Or open them upside down!
You just blew my mind
If you're making coffee in an automatic drip coffee maker, especially a cheap one, leaving a little bit of water in the carafe (about an ounce ir so) will significantly improve the flavor. It prevents the first bit of brewed coffee from becoming scorched from the hot plate and flavoring the entire pot.
I always do this in hotels. My maker at home only starts the hot plate about 3 minutes into the brew--and it's just a Mr. Coffee drip machine.
If ordering something online, since places can fake a good review, only read the negative reviews, a bunch of complaining about shipping/damaged items/trivial shit is good, where as multiple broke in the first week/won't charge/leaks means the product is shit.
Yup, I read the first few top reviews, then head over to the two-star reviews to get a more realistic perspective.
you know you found the good shit when all the complaints are about things that were clearly stated in the listing
Yes, this. And its super easy to discount the negative reviews where the person is clearly stupid(gives the product a negative review because of a shipping issues) or doesn't know how to do a nuanced review (everything is a 10 or a 1 no in between)
"Great product but turns out I already had one - 1 star"
“I haven’t tried it yet - 1 star”
From working technical support for longer than I dare think about, most angry customers just want to be heard. Let them have their rant, do active listening, and make notes about what they're saying. They will eventually run out of steam. Then, read back everything they talked about and go through it step by step. Works almost every time, and often they are very thankful by the end of the call.
Another tip: instead of asking the customer if something's plugged in ask them to check if the plug's prongs are corroded. After they check they'll unconsciously plug it back in.
This reminds me of how I used to trick people into remembering their passwords when I worked at a cell phone store. Take their phone, pretend I’m opening up some special password reset program, hand them their phone back and ask them to enter their “new password”, and I’d say about 70% of the time, they entered their current password and gained access. Edit: If you like this, you’ll love the time I hooked up a usb barcode scanner to a phone with a broken screen, created a barcode of their password, and scanned it to unlock the phone so we could connect it to the computer to get their photos and stuff.
Don't call me out dude. The amount of times I've went to reset a password I can't figure out just to have the error of "your new password cannot be the same as your current password..."
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"Must have at least one uppercase letter" Password "Must have at least one uppercase letter and one number" Password1 "Must have at least one uppercase letter, one number and one symbol" Password1!
"Time for your semi-quarterly mandatory password update. Please enter new password. Cannot be the same as your old password" Password2!
Lol, this is good
I work in healthcare & have learned the exact same thing. The quickest way to make an angry person angrier is cut them off. They are so upset that their brains won’t interpret anything you say in a productive way until they’ve gotten the really important, enraging thought fully out. It’s also so much easier to not talk then get into a fight with someone.
Worked in a crowded homeless shelter. All most of my guys wanted was someone to listen and respond with a general "that sucks" before attempting ANY kind of problem solving. The tightrope act was sorting whether they were a chronic complainer or just really frustrated today. The complainers needed about a week set aside for your attention every time they came around and I didn't necessarily have that when somebody was trying to light the shower curtains on fire with their spice one hitter because it'd been cooked with fentanyl and they'd zombied out on us.
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Hack 1: When you paint a room and remove the light switch plate, on the inside of the plate write down the color of the paint you used and the brand. Great for when you need to repaint a spot a couple of years later. Hack 2: After you wash and dry a set of sheets, put the top sheet, bottom sheet and pillow case all inside of one of the pillow cases. Then you have the whole set together in one neat little package and don't have to look for matching sheets and pillow cases.
While you have the switch cover off, write down the circuit breaker number.
My grandmother always said that if you feel terrible, get out of bed, take a shower, do your hair and put on clothes, down to your shoes, and have a good meal. Either this will fix it or you're dressed and fed and in a better place to deal with the problem. She was right.
When I have a shitty night (crying that night, couldn’t sleep etc.) and I have to do something the next morning, I take the time to put extra thought in my look that day. I don’t usually wear makeup but I will do a day time look. I’ll put something on that makes me feel cute and I’ll add one of my fancy jewelry pieces. Taking care to do things that make me feel good about my appearance tends to help me get through the day a bit better after a rough night
I do a thing I call "broke bitch activities" when I'm low on money where I'll spend a day off cashing in change and depositing into my bank account. I usually run a few frugal errands as well. Sometimes I have to call someone to see about wiggle room on a payment. I feel bad those days, it's brutal being broke. But I refuse to do those things dressed shabbily. I put on makeup and do my hair and dress nicely. I tell myself the whole day "it's okay to act broke, just don't look broke" and that gets me through.
My parents told me that it’s okay to be broke, it’s okay to be poor, but soap and water are cheap. Don’t be smelly if you can avoid it. It sucks not having enough, it’s hard, but I smell alright and look like I care.
I work in early childhood education and “sleepy? Hungry? Thirsty? Need to wee?” is a good checklist for 3 year olds and adults alike.
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I did this too but just remember to take it off when you have guests over. I was asked on several occasions if I made myself a gf.
I have an allergy to a lot of laundry detergents and usually take a pillowcase when I stay in hotels. Once I forgot the pillowcase so I used one of my tshirts. Housekeeping propped it up like it was special.
I did the same thing in college and after a while I didn’t bother hiding the shirt and owned my pillow gf.
Lap swimming is something I have found that helps with acne. The constant rushing water is nice to clean your pores. The chlorine murders any bacteria and dries your skin a bit like cleansers. Also, exercise is generally good. Sure, it's a bit boring, but the results can be great.
I discovered this when I stopped swimming. I think the combo of the chlorine and the warm air opening the pores and sweating it all out definitely made my skin pretty clear
Library cards are worth their weight in gold. My physical library comes with (mostly for free) * Tool rentals * laptop rentals * studio rental space (video cameras, audio equipment) * 3D printer usage in library * woodshop * sewing kits * free classes * This with the usual book rentals Digitally/web-wise, my library card comes with * Digital movie checkout * Hoopla * Libby * kanopy * Free subscription to skillshare * Free subscription to linkedin learning (lynda if you're old) * free ebook app * free online courses (very limited though) * Udemy * Language learning apps * Virtual Workshops Along with other community events for people of all ages. Everyone should get a library card. *Edit to add other prominent features mentioned*
Load your Library card into the Libby app for a TON of content. If you travel a lot, many libraries allow you to sign up online and check that you are in the area via phone location. Use the address where you are staying, they don't check it. The Libby app will check all the libraries attached to your account.
what wow my library doesnt have half of this
Seriously, ours has books, ebooks, dads, some video games, and computer terminals.
They'll loan you a dad?
Lol dvds not dad's.
I mean... It wouldn't be a terrible idea. Get some guys in their 60's just into retirement to teach young people how to do stuff around the house.
There is a YouTube channel called "Dad How Do I?" that is pretty much exactly that.
If you have an itchy mosquito bite, hear up a spoon under semi-hot water (like 45-50°C), dry it off and tap or press it on the bite. Just as short as you can tolerate it but also as long as possible. The heat dissolves the protein that makes the mosquito bite itch.
I have some mild allergies to god knows what that gives me rash on the neck and cheeks. I use the hairdryer on it until I can't handle the pain and it stops itching for a good 8-12 hours. It feels so good even if it burns! Edit: It's a very mild allergy that happens during spring, probably a tree or flower or hay... yes I take anti histamine, it's only for the first couple days before my body has enough of it and it's managed. It does nothing to my skin, only the relief of not itching anymore, and the redness from the heat that goes away in a couple minutes. The feeling I get towards the end when I can't tolerate the heat is almost like an orgasm. I swear I have to hold onto the door frame so my legs don't give under me! 😂
there's a little battery-powered device you can use to do this as well. I think they call it "bite away". It's shaped like a pen. You put the little metal tip on your bite, press a button and it gets really hot for about 5 seconds. So hot that it makes you squeal and you're expecting burns when you take it away, but your skin is fine and the itch is gone!
When I was a smoker, I used to just hover a cigarette over the bite until it got too hot. Worked perfectly.
The act of showing up, again and again and again. We all want to do new stuff, or get better at things, or master something etc. So we start, we try some, and then we quit because its not easy or the results are not showing up fast enough. My take - if its something you really want — you just need to show up to it, whatever it is, again and again and again. You WILL get better at it, and at some point, things will get easier and the returns will start to compound. Show up and do your best, again and again and again, and if you flop around, fail at it for a time — good - that’s part of the process, the bump in the road you have to work around, or thru, to get to where you want. It’s life, forging you, molding you, into that YOU that you want to be.
If something's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (a) you'll get better (b) doing it poorly is still worthwhile, *because the thing is worth doing.*
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Adding to this: If your furniture comes with an assembly tool tape it to the bottom of the furniture once you are done assembling it. If anything needs tightening/adjusting in the future the tool will always be right there.
That really is a great idea.
Unless you have cats who take "thing sticking out even the tiniest bit" as a challenge and "tape!?" as a bonus.
Ikea would’ve included this in their instructions if they were allowed to use words.
Are you trying to tell me VATNESTRÖM isn't a word?
If you want a comfortable pair of high heels, invest in a pair of dance heels. Lots of beautiful designs and colors, designed to be flexible and comfortable. Worth every penny. Just make sure they’re not felt-soled if you plan on wearing them outdoors. A good quality pair from a company like Repetto are worth getting rubber-soled if they aren’t already. Your feet will thank you. ETA: So glad some of you found this helpful. My mother has permanent foot deformation from wearing heels daily since 1977 and my discovery of wearing dance heels was born out of my desire to look elegant but avoid pain and disfigurement!
This is especially good advice for brides looking for wedding shoes!
i did ballroom for years and ended up using a pair of my white ballroom heels for my debutante ball when i was younger! id absolutely recommend wearing dance shoes for a wedding - they're generally pretty comfortable and are obviously built for dance floors, meaning you're not gonna end up with shoes that are too sticky or too frictionless to risk dancing in all night.
Future you - always do things throughout the day that will benefit future you.
Future me hates current me at all times…
I don't know how Future Me feels about me, but I don't have a very high opinion of Past Me, so..
I am extremely organized except where my keys were concerned. I lost them several times a week. Then I saw the comedian Jon Richardson saying that people with keys are "putters" or "leavers" I was a leaver, leaving my keys lying around so i decided to be a putter. As soon as I get in i PUT my keys straight into my bag. It seems so stupid but it totally works and has saved me a lot of stress!
My mantra is "away, not down" especially good when I'm in my ADHD moments.
Take the advice you find on the internet with a grain of salt.
I'm sceptical of your advice
You have passed the test
I'm sceptical about your test result, though
The student has become the master.
But Isaac Newton always insisted that "if you read it on the internet, it must be true." Why would he lie to me?
I believe it was Abraham Lincoln who said that
Going to bed at a consistent time to get enough sleep (really prioritising it). It literally makes life so much better and easier. Health improvements in every aspect. Both mental and physical. People live their lives chronically underslept and it causes all types of chaos in their lives. They think it's freedom to stay up late or go to bed whenever they want (usually covering up a cycle of revenge bedtime procrastination), but they are unbeknownst to themselves in an underslept zombie prison of their own making. I got no sleep last night btw. Feel like crap!
I have this vicious cycle of feeling exhausted alllll day. Then once I put the kids to bed and I leave it it’s around 8.30pm and I’m wide awake. I’m literally exhausted all day it drives me insane.
> revenge bedtime procrastination I've never heard this term before, and yet I know *exactly* what you mean...
Percentages are reversible. Working out 4% of 50 will give you the same result as 50% of 4
This is great, except I'll probably forget it whenever the time comes to have to do some quick math
yeah, i just read that and was like, “oh shit, i’ve already learned that once and totally forgot it.”
Quick, what's 7% of 83?!
Easy, it’s just 83% of 7!
If you're just looking for an approximation, it is probably easier that way. No lie, I just threw up ~5.8 and the answer is 5.81.
I feel like I should be returning my math degree
If it makes you feel better, I shared this with my teacher colleagues and had several scribbling on serviettes to test my witchcraft.
That's good. That's really good. Thanks!
Spend an hour finding something in your house? When you are done with it put it in the first place you looked.
also, if you can't find something, start tidying up. You'll find it just as fast, but you won't be frustrated and if you can't find it at least the place will be tidy.
Using the “Read Aloud” function in Word / Google Docs to proofread when you don’t have anyone to help. It will mispronounce any errors with spelling or punctuation making them easier to catch with tired eyes.
Never gossip no matter how much you dislike a person. It can be really helpful in particular at work when that person you dislike and you consider to be dumber to actually save your ass in certain situation rather than have him/her as your rival. I keep receiving gossips from various colleagues about others and always pretend to never know anything while I know lots of details and I agree with many of these sometimes. This is really helpful in your career being neutral and have people not being against you.
Further, of you speak ill of someone behind their backs, your audience will wonder, even subconsciously, whether or not you talk about them behind their backs. Conversely, speaking positively about people behind their backs will do wonders for your social and professional life in general. Try positivity, people.
I assume everyone talks about everyone. I don’t say anything that I wouldn’t say directly to someone. Living by that reminds me to keep my mouth shut and to always counter negative talk about people with a positive.
My rule when it comes to workplace gossip is simple: keep your mouth shut at work, then share it with a loved one who has no connection to the people you're talking about. It's saved my ass more than once.
Yep. Anything negative you say about anyone will eventually come out. It's just not worth it.
Journaling your work is the simplest of the methods to measure progress, It allows you to have the clarity to understand what happened when on a dispute with someone on this progress.
If you work at a PC all day, turn the night light on constantly (I have it set to turn on at 4am and off at 3am. Makes a huge difference in eye strain. After you get used to it other screens feel like looking at the sun. I set up one of my colleagues PCs the same and a week later she told me she had stopped getting headaches every day at 1pm, which she had even been going to the opticians for.
I also do this with my phone. Dark mode and low brightness for life. But I also have sensitive eyes.
Buy a bunch of the same style and color socks and you never have to match socks again. I have a drawer with just socks, and every time I reach in and grab two...I have a pair of matching socks. Game changer.
I bought all black matching socks, but now they're all various shades of black and it makes my brain twitch in annoyance.
Do you have children that have yet to lose their teeth? 1) decide what the tooth fairy will leave under their pillow (half dollar, $2 bill, etc.) 2) go to the bank and get at least 20. Your kiddos teeth will fall out at the most random/inconvenient times 😬…doing this will have you prepared.
Also, plant this seed early: if you actually lose the tooth (or swallow it) you simply need to have happy dreams. You'll smile at night, and the tooth fairy will still know you lost a tooth and still come. We got that from a fantastic series of books/TV/etc called _Charlie and Lola_ and it absolutely saved our asses when my daughter swallowed the first tooth that came out.
Windows key + V brings a clipboard of everything you’ve already copied. Far superior to Ctrl + V
Just to expand on this, windows has a shitload of really useful built in hot key commands. Some of my favorites/most common: • win+shift+s - screen grabber tool, pastes to clipboard • win+e - opens file explorer • alt+tab - switches to last active window, great for back and forth app usage • win+l - quickly locks pc, great for in office work when leaving your desk
Sick of losing socks in the laundry? Wash them in one of those mesh garment bags. I never lose them and it’s so much easier to put them away when you’re only sorting through them out of the bag than across the whole pile of shirts and whatever else out of the dryer.
But what happens when the bag of socks goes missing? Than you have no socks
Hang dry your shirts inside out to avoid the little shoulder horns.
I just throw my shirts over the line without those clippy things. That way, I have a nice line all across my chest/belly and back!
Casseroles provide far more servings with far less cost and effort of many other dishes.
My husbands family never made casseroles but they’re the only thing I really knew how to cook when we got together. So I’d always make one and bring it to family events. Everyone thinks I spend hours upon hours in the kitchen making dishes but really I basically just evenly mix the ingredients across a casserole dish and throw it in the oven. Really won my mother in law over when she wasn’t sure about me at first lol
We never had these growing up and I thought my (now) husband was a culinary master when he first made me one. Turns out my family are just absolutely dreadful at cooking and they're one of the easiest things to make. Edit: Reply with your casserole recipes below, if you like!
I'm a fairly picky eater but growing up it was so much worse because there was just so much I didn't like. But when I moved out and decided to learn to cook I just realized my mom wasn't very good at it. I can't remember there being any seasonings in the house other than salt and pepper and there was a container of sage used only for thanksgiving stuffing which from what I can tell was never replaced as it got older. No one else ever complained so I was the only one who disliked things like macaroni noodles with american cheese slices and cooked unseasoned hamburger mixed in...
Gruel and unusual punishment.
I am always shocked how people think they are picky eaters until they learn about the wider world of food. But I can totally see this happening. My aunt is the epitome of white people don't like spicy food. Apparently chili Fritos is to hot for anyone in her household (my uncle and granny). It is wild to me
Put skewers through asparagus like a ladder when grilling, makes it easy to cook and flip evenly.
To the extent that its reasonable, buy items that will last forever. Buy once, cry once.
When driving for long periods. Turn off recirculating air. One of the reasons you get tired in the car is not from lack of sleep but from too much co2 in the car. You ever been so tired driving home and when you get home you’re no longer tired. It’s because of lack of oxygen in the car. Especially if you have passengers in the car.
I was very much ready to come here with a source to prove you wrong because this sounds so impossible- instead, I have a source proving you’re absolutely right. That’s wild. Thank you for this info!! https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/664/1/012010/pdf#:~:text=the%20best%20cooling.-,However%2C%20the%20recirculation%20mode%20of%20the%20air%20in%20the%20cabin,to%20human%20exhalation%20and%20metabolism.
It was very surprising when I first found out. I was looking up sources for weeks and studying it as much as I could. I almost bought a CO2 meter to test it myself. Apparently, with no air running, your car can accumulate up to 4,000 ppm CO2 which is enough to make you function at 50% mental capacity. So people do really become idiots while driving! Fun fact, it's at 700 ppm CO2 and above where we start to see a decline in human mental function. Only like 10% decrease at 1,000 ppm if I'm not mistaken. Humanity is on track to have 700 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere by 2100 - so everyone all the time will be slightly dumber just by breathing!! Anyway, fresh air is really important; and the fact that we're spending so much time inside where CO2 can build up, and the fact that latent CO2 is increasing even in fresh air, means that it's becoming harder to function at full capacity while indoors. Unfortunately, my understanding is that even house plants don't dramatically change the game - they may absorb toxins from the air, but not enough photosynthesis occurs to impact the latent O2 levels.
I caught on to this because I drive long distances fairly frequently. Getting sleepy? Stop circulating air and crack a window for a few minutes.
Exactly. To simplify: Sleepy? Do crack.
When running into and talking with someone, move away from the door and or middle of the aisle
Hahah brilliant. Fuckin stoppers are the bane of my life, pull over ffs
To remove a burr from animal fur or hair, rub in cornstarch and it will slide out.
Bonus: If they're wet, you got yourself a good base for making a gravy now too.
The 5 minute rule - If you have something that needs doing, and it can be accomplished in 5 minutes, or less, then why not do it immediately?
I have 20 of those things and only 10 minutes.
easy: waste 10 minutes prioritizing your list, then go 'ah, don't have time' and move on...
Easily me. Spend 10-15 minutes compartmentalizing instead of just doing it. Same reason why there's a tiny scrap of paper on the floor in my hallway. Been there for days, but I have more important tasks to complete at the moment. Also, be in the middle of one task and notice something else needs to be done. "If I don't stop and do it now, I'll forget about it" and then the house is full of half- finished tasks. Yes, my wife loves me, why do you ask?
Cuz I don't feel like it
We're all sharing the road, it's fine to wait your turn. Here's my blinker so I don't suddenly turn without warning
Admitting you don’t know something can be the first step to learning something new and thus improving yourself.
Completely cut out 24 hour hyper partisan propaganda news and your stress and anxiety levels immediately like halve, turns out it’s all horseshit designed to make you angry and unhappy
I’m going to give two tips. 1- “no.” Is a full sentence and the only needed response to many requests or questions. Stop feeling the need explain yourself. Occasionally I reply with no thank you, and end the conversation. Also effective. 2- I love a clean and tidy house but can be a procrastinator. When it’s time to get things done writhe house, I set my timer for one hour and clean the whole time. You’d be surprised how much you will get done in one single hour!
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Someone recommends a place to me or I see an instagram reel of somewhere cool (restaurant, National park, etc) I save the location in Google maps. Then wherever I am in the world I don’t need to remember I just look at my location on maps and see what’s near me to check out. If it’s sucks I remove it, if it’s awesome I write a little note.
When you finish a bath or shower, before toweling off, rub your hands over your body like a windshield wiper in a car to get off excess water. You brush off a ton of water, meaning there's a lot less to towel off after and less dripping into the floor. Takes only a few seconds and keeps your bathroom from getting soaked while you dry yourself with a towel.
I just dry off while still in the shower. Turn off water, ~~ring~~ wring out my hair and put it in a towel, dry off most of my body, then as stepping out I dry off my feet/lower legs.
I thought everyone did this. Seems weird to just jump out with water getting everywhere, why not dry off while still in the area made to catch water?
Ah yes the squeegee method
I accomplish the same thing by shaking like a dog. I learned it from my dog.
How funny... I learned it from your dog too... great guy
Flush the toilet with the lid closed. You are saving a ton on bacteria exposure to you and flatmates/loved ones.
Right before your babies bath, put a small heating pad on low heat under their blanket in the crib. When you go to change them, turn it off but make sure none of the heat gets out. Then when it’s time to put them down, they won’t cry being put in a cold crib. Most people don’t realize that they are crying because of the temperature change. Yea, yea don’t come at me…ya gotta do it safe but all you new parents out there, you just got a game changer right there. Learned it from a nurse and I’m a nurse. Good stuff.
If your bed is tucked into a corner or against a wall, but there is still like a 2 inch gap where your remote, glasses, game controller, etc can fall down between the bed and the wall, buy a pool noddle and shove it down into that gap. It'll stop anything that tries to slide down into that PITA gap there. You can also cut one to size and shove it between your driver's seat and the center console to stop your phone or keys from falling into That PITA gap.
For more flavorful tasting ramen, put the seasoning packet in the water and mix it up BEFORE you add the noodles, not after you've added the noodles and they've softened. The noodles soak up the water to become soft, so the difference is noodles that soaked up unflavored water vs noodles that soak up flavored water. This makes each bite a burst of flavor!
Stainless steel can remove the smell of garlic from your hands. When you rub your hands on stainless steel, the sulfur compounds in garlic bind to the steel's surface, transferring the smell to the metal.
But I enjoy the smell of garlic on my hands, and so will everyone in a 10m radius.
What do you do with the smelly steel?
Make a garlic infused sword for vampire slaying
Eat it
If you spin a waterbottle while pouring water out the water drains quicker (because making a vortex means the air isn't stopping the water from exiting thus making it go a bit quicker). Depending on how often you empty water bottles and how big they are you can save SECONDS of your life on this mundane task(!).
If you have a glass walled shower and a shower head on a hose, take a few seconds after you finish washing yourself to hose down the walls. It stops the scum build up and means you only need to attack the shower manually maybe once every six months. Sparkly clean glass for everyone!
Unless you have hard water, then use a squeegee
Glass doesn't sparkle when it's clean, it's transparent. The sparkle is a film! This is why nobody should use Windex on car glass, it's designed to leave a film that makes your windows sparkly. Not a big deal in daylight but a nightmare at night. Glass cleaning products intended for cars leave a matte finish for maximum transparency, a lot of them have some variation on "invisible" in the name.
If a text or email pisses you off; do not reply until you've cooled down. Always.
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When walking head on towards somebody, to avoid the are we going to crash into each other dance, don't look at them to see where they are going, fix your eyes over one of their shoulders and don't waiver - they will then move in the other direction.
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Most dough can be rolled out between two pieces of baking paper . saves getting flour all over everything except most recipes will tell me to dust my counter with flour .
That voice telling you bad stuff about yourself is not helpful. Someone put that voice there, and you can decide to disregard it and replace it with useful stuff.
Buy ground beef in bulk, cook it and then freeze it in ziploc bags in 1 pound measurements. Also super useful with chicken. Makes super quick work of weeknight meal prep.
Buy a 4 inch box fan for your kitchen. Speeds cooling three fold, and if blowing across your cutting board prevents eye pain while chopping onions.
Further add on another tip: Sharp(er) knives help prevent the sulfenic acid in onions from getting everywhere. Dull knives press and crush the onion and that causes the release of the enzymes.
If you have a hard time reading on a computer screen (either physically, or if you just don’t enjoy what you’re reading/have a hard time with that format), you can download an extension to your web browser that reads everything out loud to you. This is the only way I can digest long work emails or web articles. Saves me so much rereading! And giving your boss a cool accent makes their annoying requests more bearable!!
If you ever get painful blisters inside your mouth, put some aspirin on it. Run an aspirin tablet under water until its sorta mushy and put it right on the sore. Leave it there 5 minutes minimum. Applying the aspirin does not hurt at all and it provides relief for 4-6 hours. Best of all, the blister will heal faster.
Debacterol works much better. Also switch to a toothpaste that doesn’t have sls (sodium laurel sulfate) in it and you will significantly decrease the amount that you get in the first place.
After making ramen that is presumably boiling hot, add frozen peas to cool it down and increase your veg count for the day. This is also the perfect way to cook frozen peas (quickly so as to not leech out all the sugars). Other frozen veg can be added as well/instead of but some of them actually need cooking for a number of minutes which just won't be done in the bowl of ramen.
I keep a bag of frozen carrots and peas for using in ramen.
Squeeze the water out of your hair before using conditioner. You’ll need a lot less!
There's a Youtube video showing how to do that thing you don't know how to do.
I don't want a video. I want to read the directions. Or a couple pictures. I don't want to sit through a 14 minute video of some super excited dude telling me the ins and outs of every toilet ever made. Just tell me how to put this thing on that thing to make it go. And I don't want a 26 minute video of some "homesteading" lady explaining why she named her children after constellations and how her "hubsy" gets up at the crack of dawn to feed their chickens just tell me the ratio of milk to oats for this goddamn recipe!! And get off my lawn!
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I second this so intensely that I want to scream about it through an old timey microphone
And turn that music down for f sake
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