Everyone has a problem at one point or another. It comes with the territory of everyday life. Unfortunately, repairs, luxury, space, or just keeping your house intact can be an expensive or timely endeavor. That is why we put together a list that may make everyone’s lives a little easier. While some are bizarre, these DIY tricks may help some people out. We have scoured the internet and our own experiences to bring everyone some solutions from solving real problems, fixing costly repairs, or saving timely mistakes. Problems around the house should not be as much of a hassle; we have enough of those already. So, without further ado, here are clever life hacks that everyone needs to know. Please enjoy.
Easy Open Medicine Bottle Lid
Easy-open Medicine Bottle (not child proof) Simply close the medicine bottle with the lid upside down. This will make the medicine bottle so much easier to open and is hassle-free. Be sure to keep all your medicine out of the reach of small children, but especially now as it is no longer child proof.
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Use A Rubber Band For No Spill Painting
Rubber Band For No-Spill Painting Wrap a rubber band around the paint can so that you can use it to wipe excess paint off the brush before lifting it up to apply paint to the surface of your project. This will keep paint droppings from staining or ruining your floors. or furniture
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Use Toilet Paper Rolls For Cheap Planters
Planter Rolls Who’s got a green thumb? If you know you’ll be planting some flowers or plants in the near future, start saving your empty toilet paper rolls now. They will double as bio-degradable planter rolls that as they are put into the earth and the plant begins to grow, they dissolve.
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Built-In Past Serving Size
Built-in Pasta Serving Sizes So all you need is: a pasta spoon, pasta, water, and a pot. Simply boil your water as you usually would for pasta. Then, use the small hole in the bottom of the spoon to measure out one serving of pasta for each individual you plan to serve.
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WD-40 Faucet Trick
WD-40 and Your Bathtub If you have a clogged or slow running faucet? First, spray a generous amount of WD-40 into the tub faucet. Then, let it sit for ten to fifteen minutes or so and turn on the water to rinse it out. Be sure to rinse out all of the WD-40
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Drain Clog Salt Hack
Unclog a Drain with Salt All you need is: a clogged drain in your kitchen, salt, running (hot) tap water. First, run extremely hot tap water down your clogged drain (or into the sink). Next, pour a few tablespoons of table salt (or Epsom salt) into the water mix. Let it sit and see if your clog starts to loosen up.
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Cold Damp Paper Towel
Colder Glass Bottles Quicker It may not seem like much of a big deal – but this life hack works quick. If you’ve got a room temp bottle of liquid you want to get cold quick then do this: wrap the bottle in a damp paper towel and stick it in the freezer.
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Turn The Screwdriver Easier
Use a Wrench to Turn a Screwdriver Hold your screwdriver with one hand while you use your other hand to wrench out the screw. Make sure that you use your dominant hand for the wrench instead of the screwdriver to help you get a little extra torque. Just make sure you don’t let the wrench slip.
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Beer In Snow
Beer in Snow All you need is: snow, and a bottle of beer (or 24). All you have to do is place your beer bottle into a pile of snow. The snow will cool down the bottle faster than your freezer because the bottle itself is surrounded by ice instead of just cold air.
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Pant Hanger Chip Clips
Chip Clips out of Old Pants Hangers Have you ever wanted a way to clip multiple bags of chips with the same clip, or the ability to hang clipped chip bags? If so, then you might consider using this hack. Just grab: your bag(s) of chips, and some old hangers with clips.
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Vinegar Water On Shower Head
Shower Head Plastic Cleaning Wrap To clean your shower head with this method, fill a plastic bag with vinegar. Then, attach the plastic bag with vinegar over the showerhead and affix it to the showerhead with a rubber band. Leave the plastic bag with vinegar over the showerhead for a few hours.
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Sun Block Container Safe
Keep Your Belongings Safe Get an old sun screen bottle, hollow out the insides, clean it profusely (you don’t want greasy keys – trust us) and then drop your phone, keys and cash/cards into the cleaned out sunscreen bottle. No one will be the wiser! Just don’t forget where you put them.
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Toothpaste Binder Clip
Binder Clip for Toothpaste The materials that you would need are simple for this one. Just grab: a binder clip and the toothpaste tube that is giving you trouble Simply use the flat part of your binder clip and squish all of your toothpaste to the side of the tube with the lid.
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Water Bag Shoe Stretcher
Stretch Out Stiff Shoes Simply fill the plastic bag with water, leaving a bit of room for expansion — we’ll be freezing the water into ice. Next, place the bag with water in your shoe, being extra careful not to puncture the bag at any point in the process. Finally, place your shoe with the bag of water inside the freezer overnight.
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Smelly Feet Onion Trick
Onions in Your Socks To Cure Smelly Feet Take the onion and place it in your sock with the fleshy side facing towards your foot. Then, relax for thirty minutes or so. Next, remove your sock from each foot and throw away the onions. Finally, wash your feet like you would normally do.
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Creative Spoon From Lid
Use a Lid as a Spoon All you need is the container of your tuna or chicken salad. You can bend the aluminum lid in half and put a dent in it to make a shovel shape. Now you have a handle little utensil — plus, you can throw it away when you’re done using it.
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WD-40 Toilet Bowl Cleaner
WD-40 and your Toilet Have you ever had stubborn toilet stains on your household toilet? Spray WD-40 on the stubborn stains and let it sit for ten minutes or so. Use a standard toilet brush and scrub the stained areas. At this point, the debris and grime should easily be removed from the toilet bowl.
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Binder Clip Freezer Organizer
Organize Your Freezer with Clips Grab your frozen food bags and clip them closed with a binder clip. Then, clip the bag to a rack inside your freezer to keep them from moving. If you want to be ultra-organized, just arrange the bags by colored clips in your freezer so that you can easily find them.
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No More Toilet Paper
Red Cup Under Toilet Seat? – Have you seen the viral photos of placing a red cup under the toilet seat at night? These stem from a hack of placing a toilet paper roll under the seat when there is no more toilet paper. This lets others know there’s no more toilet paper before it’s too late!
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Rubber Band Anti-Lock Trick
Don’t Lock Yourself Out Apply a rubber band to one door handle, then twist it into an “X” shape and fix it to the other side of the door on the other handle to keep the striker in. This way you don’t have to worry about being locked out if you shut the door.
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Nail Polish Removal Hack
Tin Foil Gel Nail Polish Remover Soak a cotton ball with acetone and place over your gel nail polish. Then, wrap your fingertip and the cotton ball with a piece of tin foil. Let your nails soak in the acetone cotton ball for five minutes or so. Then wipe off your nail polish with ease.
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Dustpan Funnel
Dustpan as a Funnel to Fill a Bucket If your sink is too small to fit a bucket, we’ve got a hack that will help you funnel water from your sink into even a very large container. All you need is: a sink with running water, a dustpan with a hollow handle, and a large container.
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No Bottle Opener, No Problem
DIY Wine Opener All you need for this hack is: a pair of pliers, two screws, a screwdriver, and a bottle of wine with a cork stopper. Grab your screwdriver and drive the two screws into the corkscrew with just a tad bit of spacing. Then, use your pliers to grab onto the screws and twist the corkscrew out.
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Muffin Tin Condiment Tray
Condiment Tray There’s a picnic table set for 8. Plates, cups, silverware, napkins, all the works. Everyone sits down with their burgers and fries – but we need condiments! Use a clean muffin tin! A perfect solution.
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Camping Toilet Paper Dispenser
Camping Toilet Paper Dispenser Use a bottle to make a trom the top of the bottle, cut about 230 mm down. From the bottom, cut 60 mm up. The middle section of the bottle won’t be used. Take the toilet paper by the cardboard center and pull it out.
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Easy Clean Painting
Plastic Wrap for a Paint Tray Just grab your paint tray and Press N’ Seal plastic wrap. If you line your paint tray with Plastic wrap or a grocery bag, then the leak proof and airtight seal makes it easy to pour paint on without it ripping or tearing.
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Color Coded Nail Polish Keys
Organize Keys with Nail Polish For this hack, all you need is: your keys, and assorted nail polish colors. Just color-code each key with nail polish and you’re good to go! This makes each key easy to identify.
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Wet Phone In Rice Trick
Phone in Rice Drop your phone in water? If you leave the damaged phone in a bowl or bag full of rice to sit out overnight, the rice will absorb some of the water out of the phone. This might be just enough to restore the phone to its former glory.
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Sunlight Shadow Tracing
Shadow Tracing All you have to do is place the model in a way that casts a shadow on your piece of paper. The sunlight will create a shadow that you can trace so that you can have the silhouette of your model.
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Pants Hanger Recipe Book Holder
Pants Hanger/Recipe Reader We’ve all been trying to read a recipe book while using messy, dirty hands. It doesn’t go well!! Now, hang the recipe up by the hanger and hook it over a kitchen cabinet. You’re welcome.
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Pool Noodle Furniture Safety
Wrap Furniture Legs with Pool Noodles Cut pool noodles lengthwise. Now all you need to do is lift your furniture and put your pool noodle piece through the leg of the furniture piece. You may need someone to help hold the furniture while you place the pieces on the legs
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Cardboard Paint Protection
Use Cardboard to Prevent Paint Stains on Carpet Lay the cheap pieces of Cardboard down on the stairs and apply the tape to them along the edges so that you don’t ruin your existing flooring. Next, be sure all of the seams are taped to prevent leaks. The extra Cardboard will stop the paint that drips down.
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Lipstick Alignment
Lipstick Test for a Door That Won’t Latch Apply the lipstick it to the latch of the door. Next, put masking tape over the striking plate for your door. Next, close the door and re-open it. The lipstick will smear the masking tape and give you the exact measurement of the misalignment.
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Soda Bottle Drip Tray
DIY Drip Tray Cut a loop in the top of the soda bottle lid so that it can fit the dispenser tube of the coffee dispenser. Then, place the bottle over the dispenser spout. Make sure that you can make it fit without the bottle slipping or falling.
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Section Clothes For Moving
Transport Clothes When Moving You can group your hung clothes into sections of about ten items each. Then, take a trash bag and approach the group of clothes from the bottom section. Pull the trash bag up toward the top of the hangers and loop the trash bag handles onto the group of hangers to keep them together.
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Coffee Timer
Hourly Coffee Information with Foam Cups Flip two upside down and open your Sharpie. On one cup, write something along the lines of, “Brewed at”. Have an arrow at the bottom of this cup. On the second cup, have an hourly range that goes all the way around the bottom of the cup. Then, simply place the first cup on top of the second with the arrow indicating what time the coffee was brewed. !
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Seasoned Ice Cubes
Seasoned Ice Cubes First, chop up (or tear up) your fresh herbs. Then, place a portion of fresh herbs into each individual ice cube slot. Next, pour water or broth to fill half of the cube slot and oil to fill the other half. Finally, place your tray inside a plastic Ziploc bag and set in your freezer. Leave the tray in the freezer overnight.
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Glove Trick For Drawing
No Smudge Gloves All you need is: your standard art supplies (paper, pen, pencil, markers, etc….), scissors, and rubber gloves or winter gloves. If you find this makes it harder for you to control your tool, you can cut out all of the finger holes from the gloves beside the pinky and still get all the benefits of this hack.
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Homemade Distressed Jeans
Homemade Distressed Jeans First, take the razor blade and cut into the jeans where you want a genuine “ripped” look. Then use your hands to carefully fray the edges until they’re worn enough to look like they came straight from the factory.
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No Mess Egg Cooking
Tin Foil No Mess Eggs Take a sheet of tin foil and line your pan to cover both the bottom and the sides in a bowl shape. Then, spray the tin foil with cooking spray. Then, crack an egg, or several, into the tin foil bowl and cover with a lid. Let the eggs cook until they are the desired level. When your eggs are done, just lift the tin foil bowl out of the pan and serve as usual. No mess to clean up!
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Freezing Toys For Kids
Freeze Your Kids’ Toys This isn’t so much a hack as it is an fun way to entertain your kids for free. On a hot summer’s day, freeze your kids toys in a casserole dish or mixing bowl that is lined with wax paper or plastic wrap (helps with getting the chunk of ice out easier). Then take them outside and have your kids hammer their toy’s free!
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Banana Peel Wrinkle Prevention
Banana Peel for Wrinkles Take the peel and rub it on your face in little circles in the places where you’d like to reduce fine lines and wrinkles. Finally, rinse your face to make sure there’s no residue left behind from the banana. Repeat this process daily for the best results!
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Homemade Phone Music Amplifier
DIY Phone Amplifier Option A) Make sure the cup is big enough for the phone to rest in and stable enough to not fall over when you put the phone inside. Option B) as seen above. Select a playlist and have your music turned up all the way. Then, just place your phone inside the cup with the speaker side down and enjoy it!
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Cleaning Coins With Vinegar
Clean Coins with Vinegar First, line your sink with plastic wrap. Then, place your coins in the sink and cover them with vinegar. Leave them to sit in the vinegar for thirty minutes to an hour. Then, grab the toothbrush and scrub the debris off of the coins — you’ll notice they shine up like new!
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Iron Clothes Without An Iron
Warm Pot as an Iron Boil water on your kitchen stove in the pot. Once the water is boiling, just put a lid on the pot and take it over to your ironing board. You can now effectively use your pot as a steam iron to get the wrinkles out of your clothing item. Easy and efficient.
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Nesquik as Bronzer
Nesquik as Bronzer Dip your makeup brush into the Nesquik powder and tap the excess mix off of the end of the brush. (You don’t want too much or else it’s likely to make a mess!). Apply the Nesquik in light, gentle circular buffs in the recesses of your cheek, on the top of your forehead near your hairline, on the sides of your nose, and your jawline. Presto!
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CD Holder or Bagel Holder
Bagel Holder Go dig up the old CD equipment out of the attic, and grab the big clear box of blank CD’s. Then, go back to the kitchen where you have a bagel you want to leave for later tonight. Put the bagel in the CD holder and snap the lid on – it’s perfect! Never let a bagel go bad again.
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Binder Clip Cable Organizer
Cord Organizer with Binder Clips Clip the binder clips to the edge of your desk or work area. Then, loop the cords through the handles of the clips to prevent them from falling off the edge of your desk. This keeps your cables organized and safe from foot traffic. Easy and organized!
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Charcoal Teeth Whitening
Charcoal to Whiten Teeth All you have to do is brush your teeth with activated charcoal instead of toothpaste. Make sure that you clean everywhere when brushing your teeth. When you’re finished brushing, rinse your mouth out with water. Make sure you completely rinse out all of the activated charcoal. Once you have all of the activated charcoal out of your mouth, smile confidently with your newly whitened teeth!