What's your life hack?
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noun: life hack
a strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one's time and daily activities in a more efficient way.
What are your favorite life hacks in the following categories? (this might take off and cause some discussion, or maybe not!!)
(1) Coal related
(2) Cooking related
(3) People related
(4) Occupation related
(5) Finance related
(6) Hobby related
a strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one's time and daily activities in a more efficient way.
What are your favorite life hacks in the following categories? (this might take off and cause some discussion, or maybe not!!)
(1) Coal related
(2) Cooking related
(3) People related
(4) Occupation related
(5) Finance related
(6) Hobby related
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I'll give a sample
1. Buy coal ahead of time, when it's paid for and it's there, it's a bill that can't be affected by inflation!
2. A little tomato fried in with the butter and then pulled will make your scrambled egg juicy and sweet-like
2b. When making boxed brownies rather than trying to mix in a separate container and then scrape all the mix into a 9x13, just pour the oil into the bottom of the 9x13 and then dump dry mix and other ingredients in and stir it all up right in the pan. Works like a champ! No sticking!
3. Some people are verbal processors, they think as they speak, and sound like they are contradicting themselves at first...but really they think best outloud
4. No occupation is simple, there's always a trick or a catch to make things go great or really bad.
5. Spend less than you make
6. got nuthin!
1. Buy coal ahead of time, when it's paid for and it's there, it's a bill that can't be affected by inflation!
2. A little tomato fried in with the butter and then pulled will make your scrambled egg juicy and sweet-like
2b. When making boxed brownies rather than trying to mix in a separate container and then scrape all the mix into a 9x13, just pour the oil into the bottom of the 9x13 and then dump dry mix and other ingredients in and stir it all up right in the pan. Works like a champ! No sticking!
3. Some people are verbal processors, they think as they speak, and sound like they are contradicting themselves at first...but really they think best outloud
4. No occupation is simple, there's always a trick or a catch to make things go great or really bad.
5. Spend less than you make
6. got nuthin!
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Never touch what ain't yours.
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I find that ignoring ANYTHING the government or corporate media tells me puts me in a great place. This covers every aspect of life hacks.
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When I smell strong cleaners or strong mint smells, I'll get at least one good sneeze.
When my back feels compressed, I know that if I extend my back and sneeze, it'll crack my back from top to bottom.
So... When my back occasionally feels compressed, I'll open up a tin of strong mints and pop one, or a bottle of Lysol, and within 30 seconds I'll feel a good sneeze coming on. I put my hands on my knees, extend my back and wait for it!! AhChoo!!! Zip!!! My back is perfect!!!
It's not much, but it's cheaper than a Chiropractor.
When my back feels compressed, I know that if I extend my back and sneeze, it'll crack my back from top to bottom.
So... When my back occasionally feels compressed, I'll open up a tin of strong mints and pop one, or a bottle of Lysol, and within 30 seconds I'll feel a good sneeze coming on. I put my hands on my knees, extend my back and wait for it!! AhChoo!!! Zip!!! My back is perfect!!!
It's not much, but it's cheaper than a Chiropractor.
YOu got that down to a T!!!!! Good job!Paper wrote: ↑Wed. Jun. 14, 2023 6:55 amWhen I smell strong cleaners or strong mint smells, I'll get at least one good sneeze.
When my back feels compressed, I know that if I extend my back and sneeze, it'll crack my back from top to bottom.
So... When my back occasionally feels compressed, I'll open up a tin of strong mints and pop one, or a bottle of Lysol, and within 30 seconds I'll feel a good sneeze coming on. I put my hands on my knees, extend my back and wait for it!! AhChoo!!! Zip!!! My back is perfect!!!
It's not much, but it's cheaper than a Chiropractor.
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I discovered it by accident, but I know the exact location. I was on a job at a paper mill outside of Florence, SC and I had a cold. I was bending over to put my lock on the lockout box and sneezed.. Zippppp!! It was such a feeling of relief, and I knew that mint or ammonia would make me sneeze. I put two and two together... That was 15 or so years ago and I still do it to this day.
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Pretty funny! And interesting! It's amazing what little tricks we find out to solve the quarks of our bodies!!Paper wrote: ↑Wed. Jun. 14, 2023 11:29 amI discovered it by accident, but I know the exact location. I was on a job at a paper mill outside of Florence, SC and I had a cold. I was bending over to put my lock on the lockout box and sneezed.. Zippppp!! It was such a feeling of relief, and I knew that mint or ammonia would make me sneeze. I put two and two together... That was 15 or so years ago and I still do it to this day.
Take my dad for example, he has a very constricted esophagus, if he doesn't stage his foods he can 'get stuck' as we call it, all my life I remember him pausing, sitting there blowing up his cheeks, pushing on his belley and flexing his abs to try to free things up...decades later he discovered the palm sander (no sandpaper, just rubber pad) would do a better job of loosening it...so now he would traverse into the basement when he was stuck and we'd hear "vvvvrrrrrr" for a while, then he'd come back up and chow down!
Once I came home from college on the weekend and he got stuck again... he said to my sister "J, go get it"....my sister (16ish) went and got her trumpet, dad lifted his shirt and she buried the muzzle into his gut, with a couple red faced muted 'notes' he was free in a jiffy....I mean...you can't make this stuff up!!
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Does it count that I use junk mail to start my charcoal?
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Only if you can light the paper with a fartwaytomany?s wrote: ↑Thu. Jun. 22, 2023 6:17 pmDoes it count that I use junk mail to start my charcoal?
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