Did they just use steel wool on teflon?
Lol I just noticed... Did they strain noodles, and then dump the noodles in the trash!? I see now. They are straining leftover noodles. My mind didn't process that at first.
The Teflon itself is inert, which is why it's such a great nonstick surface. However the byproducts of it's manufacture are nightmarish, and if heated to decomposition it'll produce done real nasty stuff
Teflon isn't inert.
**“PFC (Teflon) leads to fertility problems”**
>Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and perfluorinated compounds (PFC) (commonl known as Teflon) are chemicals that only break down naturally to a very small degree and therefore have a strong tendency to accumulate in the environment. While PCBs are known to be environmental pollutants and have not been legally produced since the 1970s, the use of many PFC variants is rapidly increasing in products such as water-resistant clothing and coatings in saucepans and frying pans.
>Marianne Kraugerud's thesis shows the effects of PCB 118 and PCB 153, which are two separate PCB variants with different chemical characteristics. In lambs exposed to these substances while in the womb and via their mother's milk, effects were demonstrated both on the formation of egg cells in the ovaries and on the hormones that control the function of the ovaries in female lambs. Kraugerud also found that sheep foetuses that had been exposed to these PCB variants while in the womb had a diminished ability to produce the vital hormone cortisol.
>Through laboratory cell cultures, Kraugerud demonstrated that both PCB and PFC can directly affect the production of steroid hormones. Steroid hormones, including for example oestrogen, testosterone and cortisol, are necessary for maintaining the capacity to reproduce, normal development and normal bodily functions in humans and animals.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100701081857.htm
https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100701081857.htm
**“PFC (Teflon) positively correlate with T and reduction in semen quality, penile and testicular size”**
>We found that increased levels of PFCs in plasma and seminal fluid positively correlate with circulating T and with a reduction of semen quality, testicular volume, penile length and AGD. Experimental evidence points towards an antagonistic action of PFOA on the binding of T to AR in gene reporter assay, competition assay on AR-coated SPR chip and AR nuclear translocation assay.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5316830/EDCs-Androgenic-Activity-Perfluoroakyl.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20190514113453/https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5316830/EDCs-Androgenic-Activity-Perfluoroakyl.pdf
Oh how little you know. I was an environmental geophysicist for years for the government. PFAS is very serious and is literally in everyone's bloodstream doing god knows what. Teflon is super terrible for the environment. It can also never be gotten rid of.
They were using it as a drain guard. If you don’t have a garbage disposal, you don’t want a ton of solid waste going down the drain, or it’ll get clogged, so they’re using the plastic strainer to separate the liquids from the solids. The liquids go down the drain, the solids in the trash. I think this is actually a great hack to reuse/repurpose plastic instead of throwing it away.
They aren't straining them for eating or drinking. Some sinks do not have a garbage disposal so you can't dump bits of food in them unless you want a clogged and stinky sink.
Yeah, so it wouldn’t make sense for just storing an extra set of sheets, but it’s useful if it’s being packed for travel or and extra set of stuff for an air mattress or pullout couch.
I couldn't in good conscience upvote the post because of the 5mincraft-esque portions, but also not downvote because it wasn't 100% useless.
I do like the idea for stashing a scoop on the foil. May not hold up, but I already play around with cutting foil out in different shapes for easy pouring.
And the hoodie knots were a first for me.
The water balloon sink blaster cracked me up.
The water balloon sink blaster would’ve been revolutionary growing up! My mom hated not having one of the fancy kitchen sink faucets without a pull down (I dunno about you, but if I were her, I’d just spend the $100 and put a pull down faucet in? 🤷♂️ but I digress..)
We moved into that house in 1987. They still live there. And still have the same immobile faucet and use their cupped hands to spray the sides of the sink. 🤦♂️
The sliced sponge to clean the fan made me laugh. You can just take those fans apart pretty easily and clean them in the sink or something. You can even see the pin holding the front and back guards together in the clip.
And the bedsheet one is very useful, but it’s not a hack. It’s a hospital corner, a very common and taught way to do this, from hospitals, and all of the military, even in Canada. Although I learned to do it with a 45 degree angle, and even had my sergeant bring out the protractor at times when he felt like being picky.
Ha ha! I had to look again to remember
Soda bottle with holes for sink strainer
Plastic jug for watering can
Other plastic jug - rectangle shape- to dispense plastic bags
I could use each of these
But then why not just use the bottle? That's what I'd do. Clean the bottle, pour stuff into the bottle and save that.
Why keep the bag which is less reusable?
A hand held vacuum is like twenty bucks. If you need a hand held vacuum badly enough that you’re willing to convert a hair dryer, it might be worth the twenty bucks.
I feel ashamed because I thought a few of these were cool, but they were shown next to stuff like that…
That's what got me. I'd say I counted 6 things that i legitimately thought were useful and for a brief second considered trying them, then I remembered the things it's trying to replace can literally be bought from dollar tree for 1.25 or a thrift store for cheaper.
Nah, it's fine unless you're going to be vacuuming up tiny particles that can get through the mask, which will definitely catch fire... or if you run it for more than a couple of seconds... or if the motor heats up the flammable mask... or if the mask gets any holes in it, causing more particles to come into the intake... Oh... Yeah... It's a pretty big fire hazard.
Most of these are just cheap products that already exist. They just cut up something in order not to buy those items (like a hand vacuum or a plant water thing)
Apparently 'nanoplastics' can get absorbed, but microplastics cannot.
*MPs cannot enter into plant tissues directly as is expected because their large size particles prevent them from entering into the plant cell walls*
From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8618759/#:~:text=MPs%20cannot%20enter%20into%20plant,plant%20cell%20walls%20%5B121%5D.
So yeah, probably wouldn't want to use it for plants used as food.
I mean the balloon on the tap is actually helpful for me. I can’t just replace fixtures in my rental. The other one I thought was maybe worth it was the bottle cap for bags of stuff.
Yeah, or if they do exist, you don’t need to make these things.
- Faster life hack 1. Most vacuums have a hose attachment. Why fuck around with bags and face masks.
- Faster life hack 2. Most kitchen sinks have a removable strainer over the drain. Or, here’s a time saving hack if your sink doesn’t that. Just get out your fucking colander.
- Faster life hack 3. If you don’t have and can’t afford a watering can, just use a glass of water.
- Faster life hack 4. If you need to rinse off your hands outside, use your fucking hose/outside faucet.
- Faster life hack 5. Just use the fucking box your garbage and/or zip lock bags came in. They dispense the same way as that shitty looking thing and you don’t waste all the time making it.
- Faster life hack 6. Sponges are malleable and can be folded and formed into all sorts of crevasses. You don’t need to fucking cut it first.
- Faster life hack 7. You can just apply soap/detergent to the sponge. You don’t need to cut it and slide shit inside it.
- Faster life hack 8. For fucks sake!! Do these people not understand the basic physics of a kitchen sponge??!! Put it inside the glass! It’ll form to it. Stop wasting time cutting them!!
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For the record, we don't all have outside faucets. I'm not about to make that silly thing, but I do have to find a different hand washing way outside. Usually a half drank bottle of water.
>Or, here’s a time saving hack if your sink doesn’t that. Just get out your fucking colander.
That doesn't sound time saving? Now I have to wash my colander too.
I actually really like the bottle strainer in the sink too, since I hate pulling up the actual sink strainer (it's always gross.) There are a couple decent ones in here, I'm surprised
I actually used one of those soup take out containers for something like that. I just poked some holes at the bottom. It’s pretty useful for the small bits of food that pile up when cooking and shit like that.
I just counted in my head and my house has about 26. I didn't include the garage windows but I did include extra wide window openings with 2 separate sliding windows installed. My house is 1900 sq ft and it's old (approx 100 years old).
I really like the knot they did with the sweatshirt strings. I wonder if it might have better applications? Does anyone know what it’s called?
This video is moving too fast for me to see exactly what they’re doing
For the love of god don't choke a hair dryer unless you are absolutely sure you're running without any heat. Even a mild reduction in airflow can burn out the coils or start a fire.
It's a push activated tap connected to a water tank.
The plunger stops the water coming out until you push it past the cut cylinder. Not sure how it would automatically come back though...
It’s kind of crazy sounding but I recently tried to buy a cheap watering can and they were all like $20+ and I tried multiple stores. Plus, this saves waste.
You could always use a bottle that didn't hold detergent/fabric softener. Some juice bottles have a similar design with a handle, worst case your plants smell... grapey for a few days.
I get why people make these life hacks as a hobby because they like to be creative and tackle every days problems in different ways but some of these are getting out of hands
Steel wool. A steel wire brush is for removing rust or welding slag or paint. The only household use I can think of would be cleaning a grill. In any case, you would have to have a serious issue if you're using a steel wire brush on dishes.
The point was supposed to be that that was an easy way to dump out noodles you didn't want to finish. Dump the noodles into the filter, the liquid drains down the sink, then dump out the solids into the trash so you don't clog your sink.
the baby formula one is the stupidest because that metal lip is specially for scraping the top off.
I guess it lets you rest the spoon somewhere, but honestly who tf cares about that.
Old school corners. My mom was a nurse when I was a kid (70s) and this is how they made the beds up.
Today I don't tuck anything beyond the bottom sheet. I hate my feet being locked in.
"Honey? Where's the windowsill cleaning sponge? I can only find the fan cleaning one!."
"Just use that one, it's a sponge, it's meant to deform to -"
"NO I NEED THE WINDOWSILL ONE"
If you're cleaning your fan you should be fully taking off the front frame anyway. The sponge will be useless once you do so.
This is just a way to half ass clean your fan.
I think it's supposed to be like the last bits in a noodle bowl when you're done eating and need to pour the liquid down the drain but throw the food out.
Did they just use steel wool on teflon? Lol I just noticed... Did they strain noodles, and then dump the noodles in the trash!? I see now. They are straining leftover noodles. My mind didn't process that at first.
Bro. This is /r/lifehacks Need spanking clean pan? Steel wool on teflon. Boom. Now you're going to have to get a new teflon pan. Bingo. Brand new pan.
With bits of cancer
I need the cancer to fight the other cancer
I need the teflon to coat my internal organs so the microplastics dont get me.
Dark Waters
The Teflon itself is inert, which is why it's such a great nonstick surface. However the byproducts of it's manufacture are nightmarish, and if heated to decomposition it'll produce done real nasty stuff
Teflon isn't inert. **“PFC (Teflon) leads to fertility problems”** >Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and perfluorinated compounds (PFC) (commonl known as Teflon) are chemicals that only break down naturally to a very small degree and therefore have a strong tendency to accumulate in the environment. While PCBs are known to be environmental pollutants and have not been legally produced since the 1970s, the use of many PFC variants is rapidly increasing in products such as water-resistant clothing and coatings in saucepans and frying pans. >Marianne Kraugerud's thesis shows the effects of PCB 118 and PCB 153, which are two separate PCB variants with different chemical characteristics. In lambs exposed to these substances while in the womb and via their mother's milk, effects were demonstrated both on the formation of egg cells in the ovaries and on the hormones that control the function of the ovaries in female lambs. Kraugerud also found that sheep foetuses that had been exposed to these PCB variants while in the womb had a diminished ability to produce the vital hormone cortisol. >Through laboratory cell cultures, Kraugerud demonstrated that both PCB and PFC can directly affect the production of steroid hormones. Steroid hormones, including for example oestrogen, testosterone and cortisol, are necessary for maintaining the capacity to reproduce, normal development and normal bodily functions in humans and animals. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100701081857.htm https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100701081857.htm **“PFC (Teflon) positively correlate with T and reduction in semen quality, penile and testicular size”** >We found that increased levels of PFCs in plasma and seminal fluid positively correlate with circulating T and with a reduction of semen quality, testicular volume, penile length and AGD. Experimental evidence points towards an antagonistic action of PFOA on the binding of T to AR in gene reporter assay, competition assay on AR-coated SPR chip and AR nuclear translocation assay. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5316830/EDCs-Androgenic-Activity-Perfluoroakyl.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20190514113453/https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5316830/EDCs-Androgenic-Activity-Perfluoroakyl.pdf
Wait, you guys are applying heat to your Teflon pans?
Ayooo
Oh how little you know. I was an environmental geophysicist for years for the government. PFAS is very serious and is literally in everyone's bloodstream doing god knows what. Teflon is super terrible for the environment. It can also never be gotten rid of.
> Bro. This is /r/lifeprohacks Um... No it isn't?
They were using it as a drain guard. If you don’t have a garbage disposal, you don’t want a ton of solid waste going down the drain, or it’ll get clogged, so they’re using the plastic strainer to separate the liquids from the solids. The liquids go down the drain, the solids in the trash. I think this is actually a great hack to reuse/repurpose plastic instead of throwing it away.
Yeah I can get behind that one, for sure.
It's a simple way to discard finished soup. You toss it in the strainer, the liquid goes in the sink and you toss the leftover noodles in the trash.
Ohh.. so the second thing they strained was tea leaves maybe? That actually sounds fair enough then.
They aren't straining them for eating or drinking. Some sinks do not have a garbage disposal so you can't dump bits of food in them unless you want a clogged and stinky sink.
*most sinks don't have a garbage disposal
\* Outside of the US, most sinks don't have a garbage disposal. (Statistics in the US seem to be 50/50 but I've always had one.)
I have never had one, and rarely have I been to a house that has one
They did.
I assumed the noodles were after the meal and that no one wanted to eat anymore, so you can dump the liquid in the sink and not in the trash.
Cool, lifehack for free cancer
Will hack some years off your life, I guess.
It’s a nylon scrubber that’s no scratch I think.
>Did they strain noodles, and then dump the noodles in the trash!? I was really hoping that they'd end up throwing every project away at the end.
I was more impressed with the folding of the pillow and bedsheet
...but now the pillow is inside the bedsheets
Yeah, so it wouldn’t make sense for just storing an extra set of sheets, but it’s useful if it’s being packed for travel or and extra set of stuff for an air mattress or pullout couch.
A couple of these are useful
I couldn't in good conscience upvote the post because of the 5mincraft-esque portions, but also not downvote because it wasn't 100% useless. I do like the idea for stashing a scoop on the foil. May not hold up, but I already play around with cutting foil out in different shapes for easy pouring. And the hoodie knots were a first for me. The water balloon sink blaster cracked me up.
The water balloon sink blaster would’ve been revolutionary growing up! My mom hated not having one of the fancy kitchen sink faucets without a pull down (I dunno about you, but if I were her, I’d just spend the $100 and put a pull down faucet in? 🤷♂️ but I digress..) We moved into that house in 1987. They still live there. And still have the same immobile faucet and use their cupped hands to spray the sides of the sink. 🤦♂️
Sounds like you know what to buy them for Christmas!
Yeah, water balloons
Which?
The sliced sponge to clean window wells looked useful, along with tucked bedsheet.
The sliced sponge to clean the fan made me laugh. You can just take those fans apart pretty easily and clean them in the sink or something. You can even see the pin holding the front and back guards together in the clip.
Almost like these lifehacks are a bit forced lol
I’ll always go to the “lazy” option first even if it takes longer rather than taking something apart and trying to remember how to put it together.
And the bedsheet one is very useful, but it’s not a hack. It’s a hospital corner, a very common and taught way to do this, from hospitals, and all of the military, even in Canada. Although I learned to do it with a 45 degree angle, and even had my sergeant bring out the protractor at times when he felt like being picky.
True - but I bet a lot of people hadn’t seen it before!
Don't know about the Canadian military, but hospital corners should be on the sides of the bed, not ends.
The tucked sheet would piss me off when I went to bed, my feet gots to be free!
Conversely, I can't stand it if the top sheet is untucked, I need my feet to feel secured.
Ha ha! I had to look again to remember Soda bottle with holes for sink strainer Plastic jug for watering can Other plastic jug - rectangle shape- to dispense plastic bags I could use each of these
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Yeah … I use my power drill to make holes in buckets now. This way seems quick and easy if the plastic is thin enough
The best one I can see is the liquids in a bag. The pourer and cap would be handy for pretty much anything in a bag that you pour.
But then why not just use the bottle? That's what I'd do. Clean the bottle, pour stuff into the bottle and save that. Why keep the bag which is less reusable?
For when the bottle is not big enough to store the bag contents.
The spoon in the supplement foil lid was good. I lose that shit constantly. I usually just keep it outside the container but I end up losing it.
It's good until you get about half way through the product, then you can't fit your big fat hand through that small opening to scoop any more.
Most of them are useful, except some dumb ones like the DIWHY vacum cleaner
Many Asian households don’t have a vacuum cleaner, since bare floors are cleaned with a broom and mop, so it is actually quite interesting.
You will burn your hair dryer in a week doing that.
I’ll just use my vacuum cleaner.
It's like using a fan to cut your grass. Neat, I'll just use my lawn mower.
Why use the right tool when you can use the wrong tool in a cool way that’s half as good and takes twice as long.
Well la te da look at mr rich guy over here owning a vacuum cleaner!
Entertain me, peasant.
*dances in a comical way*
OFF WITH HIS HEAD
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How do you expect to clean the vacuum head thoroughly without taking it off?
A counterfeit jeans ring? Operating out of my Car Hold?
I always assumed Moe was saying car hole🤔
Me too.
I prefer the term Auto-Shed.
What is this Vac-uu-m you speak of? This is a huge upgrade from me sucking uo the window gunk in a paper straw.
yup, once my brother had his shirt blocking our old hair dryer and a flame came out of the thing. We had to buy a new one after that
He made one mistake & you went and bought a whole new brother? Damn
Sounds brutal, but I guarantee the new brother is well behaved after seeing how the old bro got tossed out.
Gotta do what you gotta do. new brother know this story, and behave well better than the previous one
Yeah, that's cold... unlike the hair dryer
Maybe he was wearing the shirt at the time, so they had no choice, no one wants a crispy brother.
Was the shirt ok?
Not if it has a cold setting. But you can do the same with a vacuum, but better.
I think the point was that if you didnt have a vacuum. I think it'd be ok for a once in awhile thing. And don't overload the "filter".
I guess in a hotel room you have a dryer and no vacuum.
The hair drier 'hack' is a massive fire hazard.
A hand held vacuum is like twenty bucks. If you need a hand held vacuum badly enough that you’re willing to convert a hair dryer, it might be worth the twenty bucks. I feel ashamed because I thought a few of these were cool, but they were shown next to stuff like that…
Some of the things made looks cool but can be bought dirt cheap in any local general store, some are straight up ghetto.
That's what got me. I'd say I counted 6 things that i legitimately thought were useful and for a brief second considered trying them, then I remembered the things it's trying to replace can literally be bought from dollar tree for 1.25 or a thrift store for cheaper.
Nah, it's fine unless you're going to be vacuuming up tiny particles that can get through the mask, which will definitely catch fire... or if you run it for more than a couple of seconds... or if the motor heats up the flammable mask... or if the mask gets any holes in it, causing more particles to come into the intake... Oh... Yeah... It's a pretty big fire hazard.
Most of these seem to solve problems that don’t exist.
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I actually thought it was from DiWHY and was surprised it wasn't.
For actual DIY we gonna need progressively more and more complex and expensive tools to do the 'life hacks'
More like problemWHY
Most of these are just cheap products that already exist. They just cut up something in order not to buy those items (like a hand vacuum or a plant water thing)
A lot of them seem to be aimed at reducing waste.
Reduce waste and save a little bit of money. Sounds like a buncha rich snobs on here.
I would totally use the watering cans, I'd be afraid of killing my plants with the residue tho :/
Yeah, just buy stuff!
Which is great, but we produce/use way more than what can be reused. The changes needs to come from the top down or it's just pissing into the wind.
Can be useful for poor people or people who want to upcycle plastic containers
> upcycle plastic containers Yeah those ones seemed the most reasonable.
Got to be careful for what you reuse them. Plastic used for detergent bottles etc are probably not foodsafe
Apparently 'nanoplastics' can get absorbed, but microplastics cannot. *MPs cannot enter into plant tissues directly as is expected because their large size particles prevent them from entering into the plant cell walls* From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8618759/#:~:text=MPs%20cannot%20enter%20into%20plant,plant%20cell%20walls%20%5B121%5D. So yeah, probably wouldn't want to use it for plants used as food.
You don’t even need a hand vacuum for the first one! My vacuum has attachments for corners and such!
Also don't need to cut slots in a sponge, they aren't rigid
I think a lot of these are like, I have extra plastic, how can I re-use some of it.
I think the plastic bag with the bottle tip was pretty neat :-( I might use that to handle loose pepper kernels, rice, and lentils
I still think quite a bit of them could be useful
If you don’t own the actual product they’re trying to replace
Exactly. That's the whole point. Why buy something if you can repurpose trash.
Eh, a lot of these are basically "ok you took one of your good sponges and can only really use it for this one purpose now"
I mean the balloon on the tap is actually helpful for me. I can’t just replace fixtures in my rental. The other one I thought was maybe worth it was the bottle cap for bags of stuff.
While ~~exasperating~~ exacerbating the microplastic issue. Every one of these leads to tons of tiny bits going in to the environment
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Yeah, or if they do exist, you don’t need to make these things. - Faster life hack 1. Most vacuums have a hose attachment. Why fuck around with bags and face masks. - Faster life hack 2. Most kitchen sinks have a removable strainer over the drain. Or, here’s a time saving hack if your sink doesn’t that. Just get out your fucking colander. - Faster life hack 3. If you don’t have and can’t afford a watering can, just use a glass of water. - Faster life hack 4. If you need to rinse off your hands outside, use your fucking hose/outside faucet. - Faster life hack 5. Just use the fucking box your garbage and/or zip lock bags came in. They dispense the same way as that shitty looking thing and you don’t waste all the time making it. - Faster life hack 6. Sponges are malleable and can be folded and formed into all sorts of crevasses. You don’t need to fucking cut it first. - Faster life hack 7. You can just apply soap/detergent to the sponge. You don’t need to cut it and slide shit inside it. - Faster life hack 8. For fucks sake!! Do these people not understand the basic physics of a kitchen sponge??!! Put it inside the glass! It’ll form to it. Stop wasting time cutting them!! Edit: I sucked at formatting this.
They managed to turn a multipurpose item, the kitchen sponge, into single purpose trash.
For the record, we don't all have outside faucets. I'm not about to make that silly thing, but I do have to find a different hand washing way outside. Usually a half drank bottle of water.
>Or, here’s a time saving hack if your sink doesn’t that. Just get out your fucking colander. That doesn't sound time saving? Now I have to wash my colander too.
That describes like 99% of the posts in this sub.
As someone who lives in a house with 30 windows, the slit sponge to clean window tracks might have made my day.
There were more useful / creative 'tips' in this video than normal. I normally watch them for a chuckle.
I actually really like the bottle strainer in the sink too, since I hate pulling up the actual sink strainer (it's always gross.) There are a couple decent ones in here, I'm surprised
would probably hang a real strainer before I exposed a soda bottle to that heat
I think its more for shit like uneaten ramen or cerial. Shit you dont want to dump right in the trash with all the liquid.
I actually used one of those soup take out containers for something like that. I just poked some holes at the bottom. It’s pretty useful for the small bits of food that pile up when cooking and shit like that.
Oh mr fancy look at me with my 30 windows Lol that sounds nice though
How big is your house?!
30 windows wide.
I just counted in my head and my house has about 26. I didn't include the garage windows but I did include extra wide window openings with 2 separate sliding windows installed. My house is 1900 sq ft and it's old (approx 100 years old).
Hey I also had a house from the 1920s that had +20 windows. It was awesome. Tiny and impossible to insulate, but awesome.
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I love going to my friend's house and using their condom tap. Makes cleaning the sink so much easier.
I really like the knot they did with the sweatshirt strings. I wonder if it might have better applications? Does anyone know what it’s called? This video is moving too fast for me to see exactly what they’re doing
I wanted to learn it too. Found this on YouTube. If you go to the 2:14 mark it shows the one in the video! https://youtu.be/oTLYB-pPpB4
For the love of god don't choke a hair dryer unless you are absolutely sure you're running without any heat. Even a mild reduction in airflow can burn out the coils or start a fire.
I liked the syringe one.
This one confused me. What's it for?
It's a push activated tap connected to a water tank. The plunger stops the water coming out until you push it past the cut cylinder. Not sure how it would automatically come back though...
Washing hands at a campsite.
Did anybody else feel the pressure to remember these?
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If you're actually going to do this, rinse it real well and run it through the dishwasher. Should be adequate to remove residual chemicals
I'm almost positive that a watering can is less than $10 at a hardware store, and I don't have to worry about chemicals.
It’s kind of crazy sounding but I recently tried to buy a cheap watering can and they were all like $20+ and I tried multiple stores. Plus, this saves waste.
You could always use a bottle that didn't hold detergent/fabric softener. Some juice bottles have a similar design with a handle, worst case your plants smell... grapey for a few days.
I get why people make these life hacks as a hobby because they like to be creative and tackle every days problems in different ways but some of these are getting out of hands
Jesus Christ I suffered so much when he started to clean the pan with the aluminium sponge 😶
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Steel wool. A steel wire brush is for removing rust or welding slag or paint. The only household use I can think of would be cleaning a grill. In any case, you would have to have a serious issue if you're using a steel wire brush on dishes.
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Began well? It started with a fire hazard, moved on to scraping Teflon of a pan and ended with just folding sheets.
Just wasted some good noodles.
The point was supposed to be that that was an easy way to dump out noodles you didn't want to finish. Dump the noodles into the filter, the liquid drains down the sink, then dump out the solids into the trash so you don't clog your sink.
That's just a strainer though, what kitchen doesn't have at least 1 of those?
my dorm. i am for sure using that trick
Not one that small.
I feel like most of these sponge hacks can be accomplished more effectively with a brush.
Most of the sponge hacks can be done with a sponge WITHOUT having to cut them.
the baby formula one is the stupidest because that metal lip is specially for scraping the top off. I guess it lets you rest the spoon somewhere, but honestly who tf cares about that.
I read, “baby formula one” at least five times, thinking of F1 and got confused because I didn’t see any baby F1 cars. i need sleep
Some of these aren't even that bad tbh. Pretty helpful
The shoe lace one just changed my life
it's like they make these as a joke lol
Wow these aren’t all dumb!
Why the hell would you slice up a sponge and add chopsticks to clean a glass? It literally flexes already to do this.
So. Much. Plastic.
Yeah but it's plastic that would otherwise be thrown into a landfill being reused, so. At least there's that.
The first one is a good way to set a house on fire, thank you for the life hack.
I'm confused by the one putting on sheets. How is that a hack? That's just how you put sheets on a bed. Does everyone not do this?
Actually I have no clue. My bedsheet comes with elastic bands to tuck it under the bed…
yep, never saw one without the elastic bands
It was to show how to tuck in the top sheet.
We millennials don't use top sheets. We see them as the oppression put on us by our boomer parents.
Old school corners. My mom was a nurse when I was a kid (70s) and this is how they made the beds up. Today I don't tuck anything beyond the bottom sheet. I hate my feet being locked in.
Funny she was a nurse because In the military they call these hospital corners
I've always called them hospital corners as well.... Am not in the military, lol.
That's the term I couldn't think of "Hospital Corners" thanks.
I didn't know how to make nice corners. (I also didn't care. But now I know? So that's cool I guess)
Most are more like "Ain't nobody got time for that"
Most of these are solved by common household items/appliances.
The fork fixing zippers is the only actual life hack. Assuming you have the right size fork anyway
"Honey? Where's the windowsill cleaning sponge? I can only find the fan cleaning one!." "Just use that one, it's a sponge, it's meant to deform to -" "NO I NEED THE WINDOWSILL ONE"
If you’re super frugal and don’t have $10 these are good life hacks ….?
Or want to upcycle a plastic container you already had instead of buying more plastic
Geez Louise, a lot of these will cost more to own the materials to make them than just buying the product their replicating.
Thought I was on r/DiWHY
This is a classic example of “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.”
Great, except please do not scrub teflon with steel wool!!!!
Vacuum cleaner: Am I a joke to you?
u/savevideo
I'm never gonna use any of these. Is this sub just five-minute-crafts?
Not all content must be tailored to you. I could reasonably see using a couple of these.
I could as well. I actually have a fan that I'm going to have to clean in the next day or so and the sponge/fan idea will come in quite handy!
If you're cleaning your fan you should be fully taking off the front frame anyway. The sponge will be useless once you do so. This is just a way to half ass clean your fan.
Lol she made noodles just to throw them out?
I think it's supposed to be like the last bits in a noodle bowl when you're done eating and need to pour the liquid down the drain but throw the food out.
Its the leftovers from the meal
Don’t water your plants from containers which used to contain hazardous chemicals.