Life Hacks is for using best practices in life.<p>I love this one from Reddit:<p>Staying at a hotel? Ask the Front Desk to borrow one of the hundreds of phone chargers left behind by guests, and leave yours in the car.
The other day my shirt got caught on something and my bottom button was ripped off also leaving a small hole where the button was. I noticed my shirt had a tag on the inside of it with extra buttons attached. I ripped off the tag and used the button while still attached to the tag by putting the button through the hole where the old button was. No needles, no thread... I held my shirt together by the power of life-hacking.
The best homemade pizza: Everytime I make this for someone they text me a picture a week later doing it for someone else.<p>Make a dough, 2 to 24hrs in advance. Take a dough ball and make a crust. Heat a pan on your stovetop as hot as you can get it. Turn the top broiler on in your oven on max as well. Crust in pan, add sauce mozza, parma, salt. quickly. As soon as the bottom begins to get some char, move the pan directly under (or slide the pizza off onto the oven rack) and position it as close as it will go under the blazing hot heating elements. Finish with some basil.<p>This is the key to a crust that is both charred but still soft and moist instead of that crunchy unevenly cooked abomination you get when you cook in a home oven.<p>www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/09/hacker-free-neapolitan-pizza-for-a-home-kitchen-recipe.html
when you need a phone number for the discount at CVS or Safeway, use your local area code followed by 867-5309.<p>(in case you've never heard the song, listen once, then remember...<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo</a>)<p>there is always someone who has used this number for an account<p>You get your discount, they get your points, and the shopping analytics company gets noise.<p>win/win/win<p>Sometimes more than one person has used this number. If they ask you "which one" or "what's the name", just say "the first one" or "Jenny Song", which are popular options for the account.
Buy two of something in bulk so you always have a reserve on hand.<p>Use Reminder app on Iphone for stuff, but also use Things 3 app as I can organize things into projects and it will still pull in the reminders from the Reminder app.<p>Use the Clever Dripper to make really strong coffee. Once you have kids you come to appreciate strong coffee.<p>My local library lets me borrow audio books for free on an app, I use this for learning new things on my commute. If they do not have an audio book I want, I buy it outright on audible rather than paying for the subscription every month.<p>If you have a vegetable or flower garden, and deer eat everything, you can use something called bobbex deer repellent. Or you can also make a similar mix yourself using garlic, onion, and putrefied eggs<p>If you have any fobs on your key ring that have broken, you can get a steel clip and some 30 minute epoxy and repair them.<p>If your tools are scattered all over the place, you can buy relatively cheap durable toolboxes now that can keep everything together. It is far cheaper than having to buy a tool again because you can't find it.<p>Make it a habit to keep your keys in the same place, put up a set of hooks it you have to. This will save you much trouble.
Boil a lot of water on Sunday, put it in bags and freeze it for the whole week when you need to cook pasta, make a coffee or tea. It saves a lot of time!
Offload all the mundane aspects of life into TODO lists in iPhone Reminder app (that are also shared on iPad, and web via iCloud) so that they don't clutter my mind so much. Go through them and execute on tasks whenever you have some otherwise unoccupied time. Have separate lists for different categories of tasks. Mine are currently:<p>- regular reminders - thing to do soon/soon-ish<p>- things I need to do at a specific date, but no sooner, set with reminder for that date & time (ex. go pick up car from the mechanic on Friday afternoon)<p>- recurring reminders (ex. backup laptop weekly, send monthly invoice to client)<p>- list of stuff I'm waiting for (ex. stuff from amazon, reply to email from client)<p>- less important stuff to do/explore, whenever I have some free time (ex. try to find comfortable and not terribly-looking 100% waterproof pants so that I can take long walks in the rain)<p>I also keep a list of recommended media (books, movies, tv series) to consume next.<p>All in all not terribly original, but it took me a while to arrive at this system, so maybe it'll be helpful for someone.
A couple<p>Tape. I own 10 different types of tape. Duck tape, the rainbow colored one, is great for visual identification + slight adhesive. You can just take your keyring / keyfob/ roll a few inches of 1" wide tape, it has many uses.<p>1. Have an idea at night → dump a stickynote with tape on doorknob, remove it morning → logit in computer notetaking platform<p>2. Have an idea anywhere → take a stickynote, dump it in your wallet → logit in computer<p>3. Important reminder to do something? → place it in associated location. E.G. if you need to bring backpack to work tomorrow, clip your wallet onto it. E.G. Need to reminder yourself something tomorrow? Throw a stickynote inbetween keys on keyboard. E.G Need to call someone in the morning → stickynote a reminder on your phone in morning.<p>Done, I strongly don't believe in a todolist app, it adds no value. Discipline is life. Simple is better.
A big part of why tuna salad from restaurants and delis tastes so good is that they start with very dry tuna. When preparing canned/jarred tuna I mix in some dehydrated onions after draining, cover and allow the mix to sit in the refrigerator for 15min. Add mayonnaise and other ingredients when the onions have rehydrated. The onions act as a desicant and get the tuna bone dry while adding some onion flavor.
Using an ebike as an alternative to owning a car or calling an uber.<p>I save a ton of money, in many situations it's faster than a car and it's more enjoyable.
Sorry to be that guy, but I have to mention <a href="https://www.xkcd.com/1715/" rel="nofollow">https://www.xkcd.com/1715/</a> & <a href="https://www.xkcd.com/1567/" rel="nofollow">https://www.xkcd.com/1567/</a>
When I need to apply moisturiser for my hands, I squeeze a bit on the back of my palm (knuckle side) and then rub the other hand over without ever touching the moisturiser with fingers.
I keep empty bread bags for my pack lunches. It saves having to buy sandwich bags.
Even better if the bag is greaseproof paper<p>Keep butter wrappers in the fridge and use them to grease oven trays for baking.<p>WD40 to clean audio jacks with a Q-tip