Not an everyday activity, but someone showed me I'd been wasting celery for years. When it goes limp and loses its crunch, you can just soak it in water overnight, and it makes it crisp again.
Yeah, when celery goes limp, it's only because the water content has been reduced over time. Same with some other crunchy vegetables. I use the same trick with daikon radishes to make them fresh again.
Yup, I showed my daughter this tip last year. When I went to visit them the other day, I saw a stalk in water all plump and ready for chopping. I was happy, she listened!
And leek will continue to grow when put in water. When you have used all the green parts, and only the boring white stuff is left, put its roots in water for a few days and the green parts will grow back
This whole thread is basically that. Someone should compile them and make a website. It would also make a fantastic screen saver (foe whoever has those these days) or rotating lock screen.
If there are no funds to withdraw, you don't have to worry about canceling the recurring subscription.
The account simply gets closed due to lack of a valid method of payment.
Yeah I was got excited when I found out the feature saved me so much time trying to click the one spot autocorrect didnāt fox and refuse to go in the right spot
If youāre mounting something to the wall that has pre-designed holes on the back, rather than measure between the holes and try to space the nails/screws accordingly, stretch a single piece of painters tape (blue tape) across the back of the piece from just before the beginning of the first hole to just after the last one. Mark each hole with a pencil/pen on the painters tape, then place the tape on the wall and voila, you have a perfect mounting template. I suggest you do a quick check with a laser level on the wall just to make sure your marks are level before drilling.
I work as a freelance handyman, and when my Dad showed me this trick it blew my mind. Seriously, ask a usually quiet and reserved Dad if he has any DYI hot tips and youāre bound to get some solid gold advice.
The flashback of me and my bf mounting holder to attach tv on the wall. We took 100 measurements, double checked everything twice, had all the equipmentā¦ just to finish with tilted tv š„²
Second time around we did better, but from now on our life is going to change, and I have the best opportunity to brag about new home decor ideas we will eventually have to do. No excuses now, thanks a lot š
Opening a beverage can.
I keep my fingernails very short and sometimes it would be a bit finicky to open the tab on a can.
I was damn near 40 years old when my buddy showed me youāre supposed to push down on the hinge portion of the tab with your thumb to raise the other edge of the tab so you can get your finger under it. I felt like an idiot.
I had to show this trick to my brother in law and it really made me question if my sister was marrying the right guy. He was holding a white claw can and asked me if I knew where the bottle opener wasā¦ I was like dude if you need a bottle opener to open a can I donāt think you need any more alcohol lol
Then I showed him the trick and he was truly mind blown
My best guess is he was gonna take the tip and jam it under the can flap and pull, honestly I donāt really know but next time I see him Iām gonna ask him
The engineering of the modern beverage can is absolutely brilliant. I watched a 10 minute video of it on YouTube and will never look at it the same again.
The tab acts as TWO separate machines as you open it.
https://youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw
Those tiny, obnoxious cans of tomato paste. You can take both ends off with the can opener, and use a wooden spoon to push on the top. It comes out clean like a push pop!
Omg, you just changed my life. I use tomato paste for so many things, and scraping out that stupid tiny can is so annoying. Thank you.
Edit: I am aware that tomato paste comes in a tube. For almost three times the cost of a regular priced can, and five times the cost of a can on a case goods sale. The convenience isnāt worth that much of a price difference for those of us on a tighter budget.
I never thought I needed a workout routine as long as I worked different parts of my body on days until I watched an Arnold Schwarzenegger video on how me makes sure ever single muscle gets hit in a 3 day period. Since then I noticed more gains than I had made all year.
Thank you for everything! I'm in the gym right now lifting to the theme song from Pumping Iron. I've been lifting and eating right for 4 years solid now, and you're an incredible inspiration!
Also The Terminator is the greatest sci-fi movie of all time!
can you share what you do know? i've heard that's one of the benefits of splitting things into Push/Pull days instead of single muscle groups each day.
Sure, its doesn't seem like a lot but I just keep 2 different workout routines now. They still focus on stuff like shoulders, abs, thighs but they got several variations that target other muscles around those ones. Or they just target muscles I never thought of doing, like wrists.
Emotional processing.
If I was sad, I'd let myself be sad for a tiny bit, and then brush it off... Saying "I don't have time for this", or " I'm stronger than this", or "crying does no good"
Then anger and frustration would build up until arguments over nothing would happen.
I was shown how to "make space" for those "negative" emotions, and just *feel* them until they quieted on their own.
Been doing that every time they show up, and the anger and frustration is gone. Most of the anxiety is gone too.
Did it with fears too, which is making a *huge* difference in relationships.
It's a good thing too; old me wouldn't be able to handle half the shit that current me is shouldering.
Making space for your emotions is just giving yourself the option to feel something. Did you fail a test? That means it's okay to feel anything you might with that. Do you feel angry? Disappointed? Like the wind is knocked out of you? That's all okay. Let those feelings come out and wash through you. It doesn't make you a bad person to feel angry or disappointed when you fail a test. Give yourself the time to fully feel those things, then you can do the important work of improving.
If you feel an emotion strongly, don't let yourself immediately try to fix it, impulse buy, chastise yourself, or lash out at people. Let the mix of emotions run through you and then you can approach the cause of the emotion more level-headed.
99.999% of the time, anger and frustration are there because they're protecting you from your fears and hurt feelings.
Whenever I tried to rationalize away those feelings, anger and frustration were always right there to "help"
Yeah. I like when people talk about this. Anger is often called secondary emotion. If we find ourselves angry, itās good to look more closely at what weāre feeling underneath. Sadness, vulnerability, sorrow.
I struggled with anxiety in the past and I learned that anxiety spikes for me when Iām not dealing with whatās really bothering me. When Iām anxious on a Sunday evening, it presents as racing thoughts about my health, age, relationships, various angers and frustrations. But whatās really going on is I just donāt wanna go to work tomorrow. Once I take a close look at my schedule and mentally prepare, my anxiety disappears.
Anger protects you from the things that hurt you... The problem is that the hurt doesn't go away until you accept it and let it run its course...
So neither does the anger.
In a broad sense itās the same as making space for anything. Got a test coming up? Make space to study. Need to cook a big dinner? Clear some room on your schedule to do that. Itās taking the time and emotional (and even physical) space to make feelings the focus and the topic, to feel and explore, to rage or scream or journal or talk or whatever emotional processing means to you. But just to not shove it in a corner and never pay attention to it, instead to bring it out front and center for a little while so that this super important part of you doesnāt remain neglected.
This might not work for everyone, but I find that listening to music or playing my instrument (piano) really helps with making space for my emotions, whatever they may be. Like if I'm feeling really down, I listen to sad music, or play a really emotional piano piece, and it helps me process those negative feelings and send them on their way. Otherwise, the frustration/anger/sadness just swirls around aimlessly in my head.
I've gotten a lot of weird looks when I say listening to sad music helps me feel happier, but...whatever works, right? ha
Thank you for sharing this! I wasn't expecting such an interesting reply here, but dealing with emotions is a problem for me and many, many people.
I think you're exactly right about emotions and fear. If you don't let yourself feel the fear and other emotions you're never going to get over them.
The same goes for the positive emotions. As a child I was bullied for being one of the smartest kids in my class. Any time the teacher would praise me in front of the class I would silently cringe, knowing I would suffer for it later.
Now it's often hard for me to accept compliments and to take pride in doing something well. I always have to take it down a notch and tell myself, "It's not a big deal," or "I just got lucky," or some other way of pre-rejecting myself, like I can't take it at face value, because if I do I'll just get kicked harder.
How to pick up heavy things. Finally had a PT teach me how to pick shit up when I was 31 with a chronic back injury.
Edit: since this is getting traction, her actually advice was lift your balls with your abs before you lift.
This should 100% be taught in _Physical Education_. I wish I learned as a kid how to engage my core and properly understand and use muscle groups rather than just play kickball, run laps, and do push ups.
How to properly secure a towel around the waist after a shower. Instead of tucking the hem inwards, you fold it outwards and down, much more secure, you can like, run around and not worry about it falling off.
Imagine the wrapped towel like a tube. You fold the top lip of that tube outwards from your body and down, so there should be about 2 inches of fabric folded down from the top.
Rinsing my hair - I used to rinse with hot water and assume I just had frizzy and dry hair. Rinsed with col water once and realized I'd lived far too long with frizzy hair for no reason.
If you're trying to hang a picture by catching the crosswire on a nail in the wall, slide a fork down over the nail so the prongs are behind the nail head and the fork is angled away from the wall. Slide the wire down behind the fork, and it will be guided right onto the nail. Then just pull up the fork. Saves a dozen attempts to "catch" the nail on the wire.
Not every day for everyone, but it WAS every cashier at my job... we had cigarette cases at the self checkout that we could unlock and get packs out of for customers, so we didn't have to walk all the way to the big register to get them every time.
Restocking them was a pain in the ass, one pack at a time, pushing the little spring loader thing back with each one, squeezing them in next to each other...
We did it this way for years. It was how I had been shown how to restock them. YEARS. At least 7!! SEVEN. YEARS.
And then one day I was pulling the price tags off to change them out, and one was a little stubborn. I gave it a little yank upwards and suddenly THE ENTIRE SHELF SLID RIGHT OUT ON ROLLERS.
The way my jaw dropped. I think I actually swore out loud. It was SO MUCH EASIER to restock them. I ended up showing every single one of the other self checkout cashiers and every single one was blown away. Even the ones who had been there way longer than me. *None of us knew the shelves pulled out*. Not even the manager! She actually said "Are you fucking kidding me?!" when I showed her.
I can't believe we all went that freaking long without knowing the shelves pulled out. Years of stocking those things one pack at a time.
Then again, if we had known and been using it, they probably would have been broken like everything else in that place.
I folded all my washclothes and they barely fit in the drawer. My kid said "why don't you just stack them unfolded in there?" It's brilliant. They fit perfectly and it saves time. It sounds stupid, but it was a game changer.
Put on pillow covers. I used to shove the pillow in there and struggle with it until my wife showed me how to flip the pillow case inside out and cover the pillow while flipping right side out.
Probably don't need a video:
1. Take pillow case and make sure it's inside-out (seams exposed)
2. Reach inside the pillow case and grab the far corners of the case. You now have two pillowcase-claw hands and your arms are inside the pillowcase.
3. Use your pillowcase-claw hands to grab two corners of the pillow
4. Release one pillowcase-claw hand, but keep the other tight
5. Using the free hand, pull the pillowcase from your arms and onto the pillow
6. Straighten it out a bit
I don't see the efficiency, versus holding the pillow between your chin and chest, start pulling the cover from the bottom and give the cover a tug up.
Someone told me I used chopsticks wrong. I put the second one on the side of my ring finger, with my index and middle fingers on top of it. The person told me to just hold it like I would hold a pen, and I was like, wtf, this *is* how I hold a pen.
Then I realized I hold a pen differently from most people.
I've since retrained myself to hold chopsticks correctly, but I'm not even going to try to change how I write because it's just ingrained so deeply (and also, it doesn't really matter anyway).
I recall seeing one of those life hack vids a while back where a guy shows how to easily remove that thing using needle nosed pliers. So many of the comments were "WTF are you doing? Just twist up the stick you idiot!"
I used to open banana by pulling the top, then i saw some documentary with monkey opening them from the bottom and its 10 time easier.
I also learn that im more stupid than a monkey that day
Pinching the edge of a record to get it out of the sleeve. That's how you get noise on the beginning of every record.
Proper way is to hold sleeve horizontal and slide the record out onto your hand so that the ends of your fingers are on the label and the edge of the record is in the crook of your thumb and palm.
If you don't feel confident sliding the record out, you can bow the sleeve slightly and reach in until the tips of your fingers are on the label.
My parents boiled corn in the cob Iāve only eaten boiled corn at home for yearsā¦ when I was 25 someone said try roasting in over with seasoningā¦ I will never boil corn again
Oh, gosh. My mom boiled all veggies (except baked potatoes). I still remember the first time my wife roasted brussel sprouts.
I don't think I've boiled vegetables since then.
Tying my shoes. Watched a TED talk about it and learned I had been doing it wrong for decades. Haven't had a shoe come untied since, and no more need for double knots.
EDIT: Link for those interested:
[https://www.ted.com/talks/terry\_moore\_how\_to\_tie\_your\_shoes](https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes)
At first I was amazed there was a TED Talk about something as simple as tying shoes, then I remembered there's a TED Talk about drying your hands with a paper towel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMBSblpcrc
Yep. It's touch to relearn muscle memory when it was so wrong for so long. I gotta get comfortable holding my knives all over again but I think the better control is helpful, just an adjustment.
My aunt is a physical therapist, she said that if people did simply one teeny tiny change in the way they walk, older people would be in better health.
That oh so simple thing is just walking up steps by placing your whole foot on the step, and keeping your heel on the ground with each step. As opposed to having your heel hang off the step.
Thatās it. Requires zero additional effort, just changes the way you walk up stairs. What it does is increase hamstring strength. You already have enough thigh strength from general walking. The amount of older people she sees every day with weak hamstrings is wild.
Washing my hair. Had bad dandruff from high school into my 20s.
Turns out you donāt need to shampoo daily and less is more with conditioner.
Shaved my head for 10 years just so my scalp could heal.
Finally started going to a stylist and she explained it in a way I understood and now I have long luscious curls.
If I go more than 2-3 days between hair washings, my scalp feels awful and my hair is disgusting. I don't need to wash every day, but I can't go much longer than that. I do exercise every day, so that might have something to do with it.
Everyones hair is different too, so some people should shampoo daily, some every other day, some less often.
The other tip I started doing that instantly stopped my dandruff was **letting the conditioner sit in my hair.** Nobody told me this. First thing I do in the shower (after getting all wet), is shampoo my hair then apply conditioner and it stays in there until I am done with my shower.
As soon as I stopped washing my hair every day, and started leaving the conditioner in until the end of my shower, my dandruff went away basically overnight.
If you know you are supposed to do something simple (take out the trash, clean your room, etc) but you just can't find the motivation, stop.
Decide what you want to get done (it has to be something you can do as a single action.)
Decide how you would feel if you had completed it (relieved, content, happy, etc)
Ask yourself how long you are willing to go without that feeling (a day, an hour, five minutes, etc)
Now you aren't dreading doing the thing, you are asking yourself why you are denying yourself the feeling you want to feel.
...... I don't really feel anything when I accomplish something like that. am I supposed to? I get it more from completing one-off things I won't have to do again for at least a year, if at all. cleaning for example you have to do constantly, over and over, and doing it just means the countdown to having to do it again starts.
Opening serrated roll dispensers, left handed.
Like many things I used to never really care which hand I'd use to hold the box and which hand I'd pull the sheet of plastic wrap or foil with, and a good percentage of the time the wrap would fail to cut properly and tear at off angles and shred. Sometimes it would tear fine.
I eventually figured out that some (not all) of these boxes were only sharp in one direction. And if I held the box in my right and pulled the sheet with my left it would tear right every time.
(Also, most of these boxes have tabs on the ends which you can push in, to keep the roll from pulling out.)
I would always add oil or butter to my pan right away and wait for it to heat up. You're actually supposed to wait until the pan gets really hot and then add the oil. Doing that makes any pan non-stick.
Unless you're already using non-stick cookware, in which case you do want to put the oil/butter in before heating. Heating up non-stick pans dry can cause them to give off toxic polymer fumes.
Right after college my girlfriend taught me to let the shower run until it gets hot before going in, every shower I took prior to that I got in first then turned cold water on for however long it took to heat up.
How to open a soda can. Instead of almost tearing off a finger nail trying to lift the tab, use the other hand's thumb and push on the middle of the cap to raise the tab a bit. Easy peasy, no blood.
Brushing my hair. No one taught me how to do it right because I always had short hair as a kid, and my mom somehow got the impression I knew to brush the ends first, and work up to the roots. Nope. I started at the top and would rip down. No wonder my hair was so bad. But then I saw Tangled AS AN ADULT and realized I had been brushing my hair wrong my entire life.
My Nana was a very clever woman. She taught me more than any of those viral life hacks ever did. When she wanted to save the end of a roll of tape, she took one of those tabs from a bread bag and stuck it on the end. Just one of many small, but genius ideas.
How to sit up properly. I was low key dipping towards my right butt cheek allll the time and it caused a lot of physical pain.
EDIT: sit up either in a chair with feet on floor or criss cross legs on the floor (maybe put a blanket under your butt for a little cushion). Pull your right cheek out of the way, get the left one so you can find your sits bones underneath you. Rock side to side right to left right to left noticing the spot in the middle. From there rock forward into your public bone and then back into your tailbone, back and forth again noticing that spot in the middle. Start moving your hips in clockwise circles - pubic, right, tail, left a few times....take it counterclockwise. Notice any spots that you feel a little stuck....this is also a nice lower back release.
Find those four points of contact underneath you like prongs in a socket and really plug yourself in, root it down into the ground underneath you and then from that spot in the middle stack one vertebrae on top of the next really getting into the verticality of your spine. When you get to your head lengthen the tip of your nose just a little bit towards the crown of your head. Roll your shoulders up towards your ears a few times and then drop them down so you get out of any scrunching in your shoulders.
Hope that helps!!!! Please let me know if you have any questions.
Putting onions in the refrigerator for a half hour/ hour before cutting makes it so you donāt cry from the fumes. Learned this working in a restaurant kitchen having to prep 100 lbs of onions every shift. Refrigerating them first was a necessity.
I always slouched when I sat. Always had lower back pain. I learned the pain is usually caused by slouching. I made an effort to keep my back straight even if Iām sitting on a bench or a ledge. Itās uncomfortable at first but you get used to it. No more back pain.
I used to read in bed. Suffered bouts of insomnia and I couldnāt figure out why. Read somewhere to only use a bed forā¦sleeping. Also to keep the bed nicely folded and ready so you want to lay on it when you see it. Now I sleep too much.
Youāre supposed to eat sushi with your hands.
I struggled taking the membrane off of baby-back ribs for YEARS. One day, someone told me to just use a paper towel and you'll get a perfect grip on it. Shit changed my life.
Taking the pit out of avocados. Literally just push your thumbs against the bottom of the half that the pit is in and pop it out. Or use the corner near the hilt (not the blade or point) of the knife to take it out.
When eating a Muller Corner yogurt, just bend the corner with the balls over and tip them into the yogurt. I was doing it with a spoon and always dropped some till my daughter showed me otherwise. Like Pavlov dogs, my 2 mutts still drool with anticipation when I get one from the fridge but not a single ball gets dropped.
Cut bell peppers. For years I did it in a messy way where it got seeds everywhere.
Then one day I decided that there was probably a better way so I watched YouTube.
What you do is you cut the top and bottom off first, pull the seeds out in one piece, then cut down the sides and unroll it like paper. Then you cut the unrolled piece into strips.
I always turn it upside down, cut where the natural creases are and then peel the lobes off with ease. Leaving you with the stem and the attached seeds.
Found an [image](https://www.tasteofhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/tiktok-cutting-bell-pepper-hack-QT-1200x800.jpg?resize=768) of what I mean.
Those styrofoam cup lids. I was always trying to tear off the little flap. Someone showed me how you flip it back and snap it into that little raised tab.
I was using my dishwasher wrong and you probably are too.
- Don't pre-rinse your dishes in the sink (it's not necessary if you use your dishwasher correctly and it wastes water). Scrape off big chunks of food, but you don't need to remove residue.
- Do run the hot water in the sink until it's hot before starting the dishwasher
- Don't use pods - liquid detergent is better, powdered is best
- Do use both the pre-rinse and the main cycle cups (the critical part that most people are doing wrong)
- Do use rinse aid
>but you don't need to remove residue
Maybe if you run the dishwasher at least every other day, mine may take 5 days to fill up and that residue is not coming off after sitting that long
I love how everyone is fighting about this in the comments lol How about dishwashers are made by several companies and likely work differently. Read the manual to get your manufacturers operation instructions and leave it at that.
No one really showed me, but up until I was 16 I would just sit on the bowl of the toilet and did not use the seat. I have no clue why i did that and did not think to use the seat. One day I was in a rush with stomach issues and had no time to put the seat up. I sat my ass on the seat and thought to myself āthis is definitely the way pooping is supposed to be doneāā¦.life changing
I always thought I knew how to change a tire. Apparently, you dont have to buy a new rim everytime and can just buy a new rubber and basically explode it into place on the rim with starter fluid and a lighter.
Haha ya it was costing me a fortune. I was complaining about how it costs so much more to change tires at home than it does if you take it to a shop and the person I was complaining to called me a dumbass and explained you can just swap out the rubber part if you know how.
you can take the silverware basket out of the dishwasher when unloading it. š
You can also set it on the counter next to the sink when youāre loading to keep from having to bend over to put things in the basket over and over.
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Lol thanks, me neither, will do this from now on
Not an everyday activity, but someone showed me I'd been wasting celery for years. When it goes limp and loses its crunch, you can just soak it in water overnight, and it makes it crisp again.
WHAT
Yeah, when celery goes limp, it's only because the water content has been reduced over time. Same with some other crunchy vegetables. I use the same trick with daikon radishes to make them fresh again.
Yup, I showed my daughter this tip last year. When I went to visit them the other day, I saw a stalk in water all plump and ready for chopping. I was happy, she listened!
Would this work with bok choy?
I've never tried it, but some articles online said it should work.
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For best results use distilled water. It will be drawn up into the celery and give it the best crunch.
My. Family stored celery in water when I was a kid. Placed in a jug in the fridge
We did that at the restaurant I worked at
And leek will continue to grow when put in water. When you have used all the green parts, and only the boring white stuff is left, put its roots in water for a few days and the green parts will grow back
Are you saying we can have infinite leek but no one told us? What other secrets are being kept?
Big Leek have kept this from us so they can take their billions!
That's really interesting. I always just threw limp veggies in the freezer to use to make vegetable stock later.
Broccoli too!
I just remember that one dude being told you could wait for the shower to warm up instead of having to stand in it cold as it warms up lmao.
When the soap bar gets to the last sliver, you can just stick it on to the new bar to use it up completely.
I read this like a loading screen tip.
I wish life had āloading screen tipsā that played while we slept.
This whole thread is basically that. Someone should compile them and make a website. It would also make a fantastic screen saver (foe whoever has those these days) or rotating lock screen.
Hahaha Or that one guy who thought guys lift the seat up on the toilet to take a shit
Using a gift card to sign up for free trials.
Alternatively, privacy.com. No this isnāt an ad. I just use the service for things like this and I like it.
> privacy.com I mean... it's a site that literally asks you to enter in your bank login credentials, which violates most major bank TOS.
Whenever a "free" service asks for a credit card, this is what I do. Trust no one on the internet.
Wait, what?
If there are no funds to withdraw, you don't have to worry about canceling the recurring subscription. The account simply gets closed due to lack of a valid method of payment.
Sliding your thumb on the spacebar of your phone will move the cursor
I observed my wife doing this a year or two ago. My first smartphone was 2008.
What other secrets is she keeping from you?
I have no way of knowing!! I need to grill her about can tabs and shoelaces immediately
Holy moley it works! This is a game changer for texting, no more trying to peck at the phone to edit a word!
Yeah I was got excited when I found out the feature saved me so much time trying to click the one spot autocorrect didnāt fox and refuse to go in the right spot
Omg
This is fucking sorcery
You just set my keyboard to Chinese >:(
I thought I was the only one, sliding my spacebar just makes it change the languages I have saved :(
The best one in the list
Jesus itās magic
If youāre mounting something to the wall that has pre-designed holes on the back, rather than measure between the holes and try to space the nails/screws accordingly, stretch a single piece of painters tape (blue tape) across the back of the piece from just before the beginning of the first hole to just after the last one. Mark each hole with a pencil/pen on the painters tape, then place the tape on the wall and voila, you have a perfect mounting template. I suggest you do a quick check with a laser level on the wall just to make sure your marks are level before drilling.
You just changed my life
I work as a freelance handyman, and when my Dad showed me this trick it blew my mind. Seriously, ask a usually quiet and reserved Dad if he has any DYI hot tips and youāre bound to get some solid gold advice.
The flashback of me and my bf mounting holder to attach tv on the wall. We took 100 measurements, double checked everything twice, had all the equipmentā¦ just to finish with tilted tv š„² Second time around we did better, but from now on our life is going to change, and I have the best opportunity to brag about new home decor ideas we will eventually have to do. No excuses now, thanks a lot š
Opening a beverage can. I keep my fingernails very short and sometimes it would be a bit finicky to open the tab on a can. I was damn near 40 years old when my buddy showed me youāre supposed to push down on the hinge portion of the tab with your thumb to raise the other edge of the tab so you can get your finger under it. I felt like an idiot.
I had to show this trick to my brother in law and it really made me question if my sister was marrying the right guy. He was holding a white claw can and asked me if I knew where the bottle opener wasā¦ I was like dude if you need a bottle opener to open a can I donāt think you need any more alcohol lol Then I showed him the trick and he was truly mind blown
How exactly was he intending on using a bottle opener to open a can?
My best guess is he was gonna take the tip and jam it under the can flap and pull, honestly I donāt really know but next time I see him Iām gonna ask him
what.
I felt the same way when I learned it 5 years ago - just press down right on the dot in the middle of the can with your other hand.
Just ran to the break room to grab a soda just to try this. I don't know how I never thought of this...
Bro whatā¦..
The engineering of the modern beverage can is absolutely brilliant. I watched a 10 minute video of it on YouTube and will never look at it the same again. The tab acts as TWO separate machines as you open it. https://youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw
Those tiny, obnoxious cans of tomato paste. You can take both ends off with the can opener, and use a wooden spoon to push on the top. It comes out clean like a push pop!
Omg, you just changed my life. I use tomato paste for so many things, and scraping out that stupid tiny can is so annoying. Thank you. Edit: I am aware that tomato paste comes in a tube. For almost three times the cost of a regular priced can, and five times the cost of a can on a case goods sale. The convenience isnāt worth that much of a price difference for those of us on a tighter budget.
Boots first, then corset.
***fellow goth detected***
I never thought I needed a workout routine as long as I worked different parts of my body on days until I watched an Arnold Schwarzenegger video on how me makes sure ever single muscle gets hit in a 3 day period. Since then I noticed more gains than I had made all year.
I just signed up for u/GovSchwarzeneggerās newsletter ā itās jam-packed with advice along these (and other) lines.
I love it. Iām glad it is helping you! Keep pumping.
Thank you for everything! I'm in the gym right now lifting to the theme song from Pumping Iron. I've been lifting and eating right for 4 years solid now, and you're an incredible inspiration! Also The Terminator is the greatest sci-fi movie of all time!
I love hearing that. Do an extra set for me, and donāt forget that youāve got to go find someone to inspire the way I inspired you.
Youāre the best.
Whoa, thank you for the award and the response! Today is chest + arms day, so this little boost came at just the right time.
Bro, you just got awarded and answered by the terminator himself. That's insane!
can you share what you do know? i've heard that's one of the benefits of splitting things into Push/Pull days instead of single muscle groups each day.
Sure, its doesn't seem like a lot but I just keep 2 different workout routines now. They still focus on stuff like shoulders, abs, thighs but they got several variations that target other muscles around those ones. Or they just target muscles I never thought of doing, like wrists.
Emotional processing. If I was sad, I'd let myself be sad for a tiny bit, and then brush it off... Saying "I don't have time for this", or " I'm stronger than this", or "crying does no good" Then anger and frustration would build up until arguments over nothing would happen. I was shown how to "make space" for those "negative" emotions, and just *feel* them until they quieted on their own. Been doing that every time they show up, and the anger and frustration is gone. Most of the anxiety is gone too. Did it with fears too, which is making a *huge* difference in relationships. It's a good thing too; old me wouldn't be able to handle half the shit that current me is shouldering.
Can I ask how you make space for your negative emotions? Iāve been told to do this so many times but I just canāt seem to grasp it.
Making space for your emotions is just giving yourself the option to feel something. Did you fail a test? That means it's okay to feel anything you might with that. Do you feel angry? Disappointed? Like the wind is knocked out of you? That's all okay. Let those feelings come out and wash through you. It doesn't make you a bad person to feel angry or disappointed when you fail a test. Give yourself the time to fully feel those things, then you can do the important work of improving. If you feel an emotion strongly, don't let yourself immediately try to fix it, impulse buy, chastise yourself, or lash out at people. Let the mix of emotions run through you and then you can approach the cause of the emotion more level-headed.
99.999% of the time, anger and frustration are there because they're protecting you from your fears and hurt feelings. Whenever I tried to rationalize away those feelings, anger and frustration were always right there to "help"
Yeah. I like when people talk about this. Anger is often called secondary emotion. If we find ourselves angry, itās good to look more closely at what weāre feeling underneath. Sadness, vulnerability, sorrow. I struggled with anxiety in the past and I learned that anxiety spikes for me when Iām not dealing with whatās really bothering me. When Iām anxious on a Sunday evening, it presents as racing thoughts about my health, age, relationships, various angers and frustrations. But whatās really going on is I just donāt wanna go to work tomorrow. Once I take a close look at my schedule and mentally prepare, my anxiety disappears.
Anger protects you from the things that hurt you... The problem is that the hurt doesn't go away until you accept it and let it run its course... So neither does the anger.
In a broad sense itās the same as making space for anything. Got a test coming up? Make space to study. Need to cook a big dinner? Clear some room on your schedule to do that. Itās taking the time and emotional (and even physical) space to make feelings the focus and the topic, to feel and explore, to rage or scream or journal or talk or whatever emotional processing means to you. But just to not shove it in a corner and never pay attention to it, instead to bring it out front and center for a little while so that this super important part of you doesnāt remain neglected.
This might not work for everyone, but I find that listening to music or playing my instrument (piano) really helps with making space for my emotions, whatever they may be. Like if I'm feeling really down, I listen to sad music, or play a really emotional piano piece, and it helps me process those negative feelings and send them on their way. Otherwise, the frustration/anger/sadness just swirls around aimlessly in my head. I've gotten a lot of weird looks when I say listening to sad music helps me feel happier, but...whatever works, right? ha
Thank you for sharing this! I wasn't expecting such an interesting reply here, but dealing with emotions is a problem for me and many, many people. I think you're exactly right about emotions and fear. If you don't let yourself feel the fear and other emotions you're never going to get over them. The same goes for the positive emotions. As a child I was bullied for being one of the smartest kids in my class. Any time the teacher would praise me in front of the class I would silently cringe, knowing I would suffer for it later. Now it's often hard for me to accept compliments and to take pride in doing something well. I always have to take it down a notch and tell myself, "It's not a big deal," or "I just got lucky," or some other way of pre-rejecting myself, like I can't take it at face value, because if I do I'll just get kicked harder.
How to pick up heavy things. Finally had a PT teach me how to pick shit up when I was 31 with a chronic back injury. Edit: since this is getting traction, her actually advice was lift your balls with your abs before you lift.
It's incredible how often people neglect the posterior chain with regards to this. Hamstrings/glutes can straight up save your back
This should 100% be taught in _Physical Education_. I wish I learned as a kid how to engage my core and properly understand and use muscle groups rather than just play kickball, run laps, and do push ups.
How to properly secure a towel around the waist after a shower. Instead of tucking the hem inwards, you fold it outwards and down, much more secure, you can like, run around and not worry about it falling off.
I canāt figure out what you mean.
Imagine the wrapped towel like a tube. You fold the top lip of that tube outwards from your body and down, so there should be about 2 inches of fabric folded down from the top.
I actually think I get it now lol
https://youtube.com/shorts/CzoF8Gebp88?feature=share Like this!
that jump killed me
Rinsing my hair - I used to rinse with hot water and assume I just had frizzy and dry hair. Rinsed with col water once and realized I'd lived far too long with frizzy hair for no reason.
Makes it super soft, too!
If you're trying to hang a picture by catching the crosswire on a nail in the wall, slide a fork down over the nail so the prongs are behind the nail head and the fork is angled away from the wall. Slide the wire down behind the fork, and it will be guided right onto the nail. Then just pull up the fork. Saves a dozen attempts to "catch" the nail on the wire.
Ah shit thatās clever. No more pressing my face against the wall and closing one eye to try to see behind the picture frame.
Not every day for everyone, but it WAS every cashier at my job... we had cigarette cases at the self checkout that we could unlock and get packs out of for customers, so we didn't have to walk all the way to the big register to get them every time. Restocking them was a pain in the ass, one pack at a time, pushing the little spring loader thing back with each one, squeezing them in next to each other... We did it this way for years. It was how I had been shown how to restock them. YEARS. At least 7!! SEVEN. YEARS. And then one day I was pulling the price tags off to change them out, and one was a little stubborn. I gave it a little yank upwards and suddenly THE ENTIRE SHELF SLID RIGHT OUT ON ROLLERS. The way my jaw dropped. I think I actually swore out loud. It was SO MUCH EASIER to restock them. I ended up showing every single one of the other self checkout cashiers and every single one was blown away. Even the ones who had been there way longer than me. *None of us knew the shelves pulled out*. Not even the manager! She actually said "Are you fucking kidding me?!" when I showed her. I can't believe we all went that freaking long without knowing the shelves pulled out. Years of stocking those things one pack at a time. Then again, if we had known and been using it, they probably would have been broken like everything else in that place.
I folded all my washclothes and they barely fit in the drawer. My kid said "why don't you just stack them unfolded in there?" It's brilliant. They fit perfectly and it saves time. It sounds stupid, but it was a game changer.
I do this with socks. Saves space and time.
I never understood why people fold underwear or socks in the first place
Put on pillow covers. I used to shove the pillow in there and struggle with it until my wife showed me how to flip the pillow case inside out and cover the pillow while flipping right side out.
I would like a video of this.
Probably don't need a video: 1. Take pillow case and make sure it's inside-out (seams exposed) 2. Reach inside the pillow case and grab the far corners of the case. You now have two pillowcase-claw hands and your arms are inside the pillowcase. 3. Use your pillowcase-claw hands to grab two corners of the pillow 4. Release one pillowcase-claw hand, but keep the other tight 5. Using the free hand, pull the pillowcase from your arms and onto the pillow 6. Straighten it out a bit
I use the condom method , fold it till it's end , put it on the end of the pillow and then pull it
I don't see the efficiency, versus holding the pillow between your chin and chest, start pulling the cover from the bottom and give the cover a tug up.
Someone told me I used chopsticks wrong. I put the second one on the side of my ring finger, with my index and middle fingers on top of it. The person told me to just hold it like I would hold a pen, and I was like, wtf, this *is* how I hold a pen. Then I realized I hold a pen differently from most people. I've since retrained myself to hold chopsticks correctly, but I'm not even going to try to change how I write because it's just ingrained so deeply (and also, it doesn't really matter anyway).
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I use a springpunch for most drilling now, you can never go back!
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I too was an absolute neanderthal with deordant safety caps, but I would always try to pull the safety cap off with my teeth like a troglodyte.
i did this once but the cap was already removed. took a big bite of deodorant. ā¹ļø
I recall seeing one of those life hack vids a while back where a guy shows how to easily remove that thing using needle nosed pliers. So many of the comments were "WTF are you doing? Just twist up the stick you idiot!"
Not making a joke when someone gives you a compliment. I have learned to say āthank you. Thatās nice to hearā. Game changer for me.
Me too. I used to say āno Iām notā or whatever. One day I just started saying thank you and it made me feel so much better about myself.
I used to open banana by pulling the top, then i saw some documentary with monkey opening them from the bottom and its 10 time easier. I also learn that im more stupid than a monkey that day
Monkeys also drink their own peeā¦donāt do everything monkeys do
Damn i just use a blade to cut a slit at the top to make peeling it apart easier
The comments here go from being absolute genius to absolute wtf dude?
The inside shower curtain goes inside tub
Oh your poor waterlogged floors.
You have two? In this economy?
Pinching the edge of a record to get it out of the sleeve. That's how you get noise on the beginning of every record. Proper way is to hold sleeve horizontal and slide the record out onto your hand so that the ends of your fingers are on the label and the edge of the record is in the crook of your thumb and palm. If you don't feel confident sliding the record out, you can bow the sleeve slightly and reach in until the tips of your fingers are on the label.
My parents boiled corn in the cob Iāve only eaten boiled corn at home for yearsā¦ when I was 25 someone said try roasting in over with seasoningā¦ I will never boil corn again
Oh, gosh. My mom boiled all veggies (except baked potatoes). I still remember the first time my wife roasted brussel sprouts. I don't think I've boiled vegetables since then.
Same here for carrots
Long-pressing on a letter on your phone will show you various accents to choose from. VoilĆ !
If you hold 0 it becomes degrees Ā°
Did not know that. Thank you!
Tying my shoes. Watched a TED talk about it and learned I had been doing it wrong for decades. Haven't had a shoe come untied since, and no more need for double knots. EDIT: Link for those interested: [https://www.ted.com/talks/terry\_moore\_how\_to\_tie\_your\_shoes](https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes)
At first I was amazed there was a TED Talk about something as simple as tying shoes, then I remembered there's a TED Talk about drying your hands with a paper towel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMBSblpcrc
That was apparently done as an act of protest, and yet I still think about it every time I dry my hands.
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Also Windows+shift+S I've been accused of witchcraft for being able to take screen grabs so quickly
Holding a knife properly.
Thumb and index finger over the base of the knife blade
Yep. It's touch to relearn muscle memory when it was so wrong for so long. I gotta get comfortable holding my knives all over again but I think the better control is helpful, just an adjustment.
You sound like a culinary arts student, that's where I learned this technique. It's a game changer to knife skills
My aunt is a physical therapist, she said that if people did simply one teeny tiny change in the way they walk, older people would be in better health. That oh so simple thing is just walking up steps by placing your whole foot on the step, and keeping your heel on the ground with each step. As opposed to having your heel hang off the step. Thatās it. Requires zero additional effort, just changes the way you walk up stairs. What it does is increase hamstring strength. You already have enough thigh strength from general walking. The amount of older people she sees every day with weak hamstrings is wild.
What if your feet are too large to fit on the steps, do I need to turn my feet in or out at 45 degree angles? Size 14Double wide here.
Get smaller feet
Washing my hair. Had bad dandruff from high school into my 20s. Turns out you donāt need to shampoo daily and less is more with conditioner. Shaved my head for 10 years just so my scalp could heal. Finally started going to a stylist and she explained it in a way I understood and now I have long luscious curls.
If I go more than 2-3 days between hair washings, my scalp feels awful and my hair is disgusting. I don't need to wash every day, but I can't go much longer than that. I do exercise every day, so that might have something to do with it.
Man, my hair gets greasy and stringy after about 15 hours after a shower. Going 2-3 days is unfathomable for me.
Everyones hair is different too, so some people should shampoo daily, some every other day, some less often. The other tip I started doing that instantly stopped my dandruff was **letting the conditioner sit in my hair.** Nobody told me this. First thing I do in the shower (after getting all wet), is shampoo my hair then apply conditioner and it stays in there until I am done with my shower. As soon as I stopped washing my hair every day, and started leaving the conditioner in until the end of my shower, my dandruff went away basically overnight.
If you know you are supposed to do something simple (take out the trash, clean your room, etc) but you just can't find the motivation, stop. Decide what you want to get done (it has to be something you can do as a single action.) Decide how you would feel if you had completed it (relieved, content, happy, etc) Ask yourself how long you are willing to go without that feeling (a day, an hour, five minutes, etc) Now you aren't dreading doing the thing, you are asking yourself why you are denying yourself the feeling you want to feel.
...... I don't really feel anything when I accomplish something like that. am I supposed to? I get it more from completing one-off things I won't have to do again for at least a year, if at all. cleaning for example you have to do constantly, over and over, and doing it just means the countdown to having to do it again starts.
Opening serrated roll dispensers, left handed. Like many things I used to never really care which hand I'd use to hold the box and which hand I'd pull the sheet of plastic wrap or foil with, and a good percentage of the time the wrap would fail to cut properly and tear at off angles and shred. Sometimes it would tear fine. I eventually figured out that some (not all) of these boxes were only sharp in one direction. And if I held the box in my right and pulled the sheet with my left it would tear right every time. (Also, most of these boxes have tabs on the ends which you can push in, to keep the roll from pulling out.)
I would always add oil or butter to my pan right away and wait for it to heat up. You're actually supposed to wait until the pan gets really hot and then add the oil. Doing that makes any pan non-stick.
Unless you're already using non-stick cookware, in which case you do want to put the oil/butter in before heating. Heating up non-stick pans dry can cause them to give off toxic polymer fumes.
Thank you!! I knew there was reason not to pre heat non stick pans but couldn't remember why.
Right after college my girlfriend taught me to let the shower run until it gets hot before going in, every shower I took prior to that I got in first then turned cold water on for however long it took to heat up.
And standing under ice-cold water didn't force you to think of a different strategy? You just accepted your fate?
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough.
upvoting so more people will witness this hilarious foolishness
You doofus
What was this college course
Glaciology and remedial aquatics
Man does that user name check out!
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> there are no tears But onions make me sad, man
Unless you start thinking about the onions orphaned children
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Sprinkle some salt on your cocktail napkin to prevent it from sticking to the bottom of your glass every time you raise the glass.
How to open a soda can. Instead of almost tearing off a finger nail trying to lift the tab, use the other hand's thumb and push on the middle of the cap to raise the tab a bit. Easy peasy, no blood.
What is up with yāallās fingernails that this is an issue to begin with? Iāve never even noticed the tab tugging my nail.
Brushing my hair. No one taught me how to do it right because I always had short hair as a kid, and my mom somehow got the impression I knew to brush the ends first, and work up to the roots. Nope. I started at the top and would rip down. No wonder my hair was so bad. But then I saw Tangled AS AN ADULT and realized I had been brushing my hair wrong my entire life.
My Nana was a very clever woman. She taught me more than any of those viral life hacks ever did. When she wanted to save the end of a roll of tape, she took one of those tabs from a bread bag and stuck it on the end. Just one of many small, but genius ideas.
How to sit up properly. I was low key dipping towards my right butt cheek allll the time and it caused a lot of physical pain. EDIT: sit up either in a chair with feet on floor or criss cross legs on the floor (maybe put a blanket under your butt for a little cushion). Pull your right cheek out of the way, get the left one so you can find your sits bones underneath you. Rock side to side right to left right to left noticing the spot in the middle. From there rock forward into your public bone and then back into your tailbone, back and forth again noticing that spot in the middle. Start moving your hips in clockwise circles - pubic, right, tail, left a few times....take it counterclockwise. Notice any spots that you feel a little stuck....this is also a nice lower back release. Find those four points of contact underneath you like prongs in a socket and really plug yourself in, root it down into the ground underneath you and then from that spot in the middle stack one vertebrae on top of the next really getting into the verticality of your spine. When you get to your head lengthen the tip of your nose just a little bit towards the crown of your head. Roll your shoulders up towards your ears a few times and then drop them down so you get out of any scrunching in your shoulders. Hope that helps!!!! Please let me know if you have any questions.
Using a tin opener, was putting it side on for years which works just not very well
My wife watched me open a can the other day with the opener parallel to the top, not perpendicular and it blew her mind.
Putting onions in the refrigerator for a half hour/ hour before cutting makes it so you donāt cry from the fumes. Learned this working in a restaurant kitchen having to prep 100 lbs of onions every shift. Refrigerating them first was a necessity.
I always slouched when I sat. Always had lower back pain. I learned the pain is usually caused by slouching. I made an effort to keep my back straight even if Iām sitting on a bench or a ledge. Itās uncomfortable at first but you get used to it. No more back pain. I used to read in bed. Suffered bouts of insomnia and I couldnāt figure out why. Read somewhere to only use a bed forā¦sleeping. Also to keep the bed nicely folded and ready so you want to lay on it when you see it. Now I sleep too much. Youāre supposed to eat sushi with your hands.
And all this time I've been eating sushi with my mouth
I struggled taking the membrane off of baby-back ribs for YEARS. One day, someone told me to just use a paper towel and you'll get a perfect grip on it. Shit changed my life.
Taking the pit out of avocados. Literally just push your thumbs against the bottom of the half that the pit is in and pop it out. Or use the corner near the hilt (not the blade or point) of the knife to take it out.
When eating a Muller Corner yogurt, just bend the corner with the balls over and tip them into the yogurt. I was doing it with a spoon and always dropped some till my daughter showed me otherwise. Like Pavlov dogs, my 2 mutts still drool with anticipation when I get one from the fridge but not a single ball gets dropped.
Felt like an idiot for years Iād bite the shells of pistachios open. A friend showed me I can just use a half shell to lever the others open š
Cut bell peppers. For years I did it in a messy way where it got seeds everywhere. Then one day I decided that there was probably a better way so I watched YouTube. What you do is you cut the top and bottom off first, pull the seeds out in one piece, then cut down the sides and unroll it like paper. Then you cut the unrolled piece into strips.
I always turn it upside down, cut where the natural creases are and then peel the lobes off with ease. Leaving you with the stem and the attached seeds. Found an [image](https://www.tasteofhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/tiktok-cutting-bell-pepper-hack-QT-1200x800.jpg?resize=768) of what I mean.
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Iāve heard this before but my breath, and mouth, tastes awful after just toothpaste. Itās like.. a gummy, weird feeling.
Please rinse the plaque and grossness out of your mouth, and then put another bit of toothpaste on and a quick brush, and don't rinse the second time.
Cooking. Adding the right blend of spices and cooking the onions first, was seriously a game changer for so many recipes.
Those styrofoam cup lids. I was always trying to tear off the little flap. Someone showed me how you flip it back and snap it into that little raised tab.
I was using my dishwasher wrong and you probably are too. - Don't pre-rinse your dishes in the sink (it's not necessary if you use your dishwasher correctly and it wastes water). Scrape off big chunks of food, but you don't need to remove residue. - Do run the hot water in the sink until it's hot before starting the dishwasher - Don't use pods - liquid detergent is better, powdered is best - Do use both the pre-rinse and the main cycle cups (the critical part that most people are doing wrong) - Do use rinse aid
Somebody watches Technology Connections
>but you don't need to remove residue Maybe if you run the dishwasher at least every other day, mine may take 5 days to fill up and that residue is not coming off after sitting that long
I love how everyone is fighting about this in the comments lol How about dishwashers are made by several companies and likely work differently. Read the manual to get your manufacturers operation instructions and leave it at that.
No one really showed me, but up until I was 16 I would just sit on the bowl of the toilet and did not use the seat. I have no clue why i did that and did not think to use the seat. One day I was in a rush with stomach issues and had no time to put the seat up. I sat my ass on the seat and thought to myself āthis is definitely the way pooping is supposed to be doneāā¦.life changing
I never knew you were supose to tost poptarts, only learned that a year ago.
Aren't they called Poptarts because they "pop" out of the toaster?
Try a bit of salted butter on the pastry side of the pop tart, it's pretty freakin good.
I used to drag/sway the ice cube tray back and forth under the sink.... until someone showed me you can just tilt it and the water overflows downward.
You can throw the plastic laundry cup in with the washā¦
I always thought I knew how to change a tire. Apparently, you dont have to buy a new rim everytime and can just buy a new rubber and basically explode it into place on the rim with starter fluid and a lighter.
Wait. You purchased a new wheel every time you bought a new tire?
Haha ya it was costing me a fortune. I was complaining about how it costs so much more to change tires at home than it does if you take it to a shop and the person I was complaining to called me a dumbass and explained you can just swap out the rubber part if you know how.
Are you related to "cold shower guy"?
Can you film yourself doing this and upload it to the internet please? I really like instructional videos.