27+ Oddly Useful Life Hacks You'll Wish You Knew Sooner

I'm putting together a bunch of weirdly random but extremely cool and

useful

tricks that you'll want to know, let's do this, we have a lot of tricks to follow and I'll go over them in no time. order in particular because today I feel out of control. Did you know that your cheese grater is perfect for destemming your herbs? This literally blew my mind because I've tried real destemmers and it works better than the designed ones. To do this, literally tear off all the leaves and you are left with only this. I don't know, this is brilliant.

If you ever fight with parchment paper, which I probably like every other day. I recently learned a trick that literally. It changed my

life

and the woman was like, "If you're struggling to get the parchment paper to stay in the container while I'm here, she said it's because your parchment paper is dry, it's dry paper and I was like, I don't know." Yeah". this is real, but basically she says wet it and I was like this seems wrong, um, not bad, if you wet the parchment paper, now you can fit it inside any saucepan or anyone, this has literally changed my

life

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I used it several times, it didn't affect the cooking of my item at all and now I will always remove the parchment paper when I'm cooking, okay, next trick, if you have white dishes that look like this. I always thought they were real. it scratches like it does on my white plate, but it's not, it's actually just the color of the cutlery that has transferred to the white and you can remove it using the pink stuff, which, let's face it, the pink stuff is a miracle product. Use it on everything, I never thought of using it here, you can literally pink remove all the marks on your white dishes.

Honestly, I

knew

it was going to work the first time I did it and it still was. It kind of blew my mind that the scratches went away anyway, the pink thing will take it away look how beautiful they are now I'm going to spend an hour washing all my dishes um you don't have to spend a lot of money on magic erasers I know they're very Expensive, you can literally make your own, you can buy these melamine sponges in bulk on Amazon. I think I bought a zillion of them for 10 bucks, something like that, and then whatever you want to do. is to create a spray bottle, you're going to add warm water, you're going to add a tablespoon of baking soda and a teaspoon of borax, and then this is going to be the perfect solution for making your own magic erasers so you can use them.

I like it a lot. of scratches on my walls thanks to the kids, so I have plenty of options to show you how this works. Basically you can take your solution and spray it directly on this scratch, but I think it's better to just spray it directly on your sponge and there you have it, you have a magic eraser that costs you a fraction of what a real magic eraser does and works just as well. okay, maybe better. I'm not sure. Well, now I have a trick for cleaning the bottom of your toilet. Why does it get so gross, especially when we have kids who are potty training?

It's just disgusting, shaving cream. I saw this trick of Angela Jean cleaning. I'll link it below, but I was watching a video one time and she was talking about using shaving cream in the base bath and I was like, okay, I'll try it and it actually works really well, you spray it on, you let it sit for I don't know, 45 minutes, if you want 10 minutes an hour, there are no rules here and then you just wipe it all down and not only does it leave the base really clean, but it also makes your bathroom smell really, really good, and while I was at it I thought, well? do you know what shaving cream in the toilet?

It also works very very well and not only do I like making this shaving cream but it has emulsifiers and cleaning agents that are very similar to those found in household cleaners so this is legit but I sprayed it all in of my toilet and then I used it to scrub and let me tell you, my toilet was very shiny and again everything smelled very, very good, okay, we're back in the kitchen, I told you we were going to be all over the place, um I have a son who loves grapes and eats a lot of them and I saw this trick to remove all the grapes from the stem: you just put them between a kitchen towel and roll them back and forth.

I made this vine. I rolled it up. because I don't know 30 seconds or so and then he removed most of the grapes, you'll see that some are still left like on the vine, but then I just removed all the grapes that had come off and gave the rest of the Vine a little more like Shake on the kitchen towel and they basically all came off. This is much faster and better than removing them one by one. The food I love to eat but hate making is pumpkin until I learned a few. tricks to make it easier one, um, peel your squash with a vegetable peeler.

I learned this trick a couple of years ago and I don't know why I haven't been doing this my whole life because this is the way to remove the peel. from a pumpkin I mean, obviously, why didn't I think of this? I always thought about trying to peel it by hand, which is crazy, and then two, when it comes time to cut a squash, don't just cut it the way you're going to cut it. whatever you're going to add with your knife on top apply a little bit of pressure and then just move it back and forth and this pumpkin is going to cut through a lot easier so you can see I did it down the center and I'm going to make the two stems and again I'm just going to put a little pressure on the knife and then just rock it back and forth, the easiest way to cut through a squash, okay, everyone loves a good roast chicken, no one likes to take the whole thing off. meat. because you always feel like you can't get it all out.

I always hate this task at the end of the day, when we've had rotisserie chicken, if you take the whole chicken and put it inside a Ziploc bag and then just SMH, which honestly, doing it feels a little gross now that I filmed it and I like to look at it, it looks a little gross but it works, you just massage it and all the meat will literally fall off the bone for you, so you're not trying to cut around the perfect little bones and around the cartilage or whatever, you literally just it slides out and then you can take the bones out, throw them back in the bag and now you have them all.

Chicken neatly separated inside your little Ziploc bag for whatever you want to do with it. I usually save a little for tomorrow's lunch and then roll up the rest, label it, and keep this bad boy in the refrigerator for when I need some quick soup or enchiladas. Okay, from the kitchen to the laundry room, why not? I'm going to teach you how to fold a fitted sheet that you thought you couldn't, but you can start with the fitted sheet inside out and then whatever you want. What we're going to do is look for two corners and I don't think it necessarily matters if you're doing a short side or a long side, but for this tutorial I went with long sides essentially what you're looking for is the corner seam and then you want to take your little fingers. and then do a little pinch, you know, little pinches, pinch your fingers like a lobster or just a human being with two fingers pinching, you want to hold your hand and you want to pinch. the end corner of each one pinches in the corner, so now you're holding one corner with your right hand, you're holding one corner with your left hand, then you're going to bring the right corner to the left corner using your left hand.

You're going to pinch so now you're holding both corners and you're going to fold the right corner over the left corner to check that everything is done right, you should be holding two corners in your hand and the two seams should be lined up. together along the top, the most important thing with this method of folding fitted sheets is that the two corners and the seams are now together, things will look like a mess at the bottom so you will probably start sweating. This time, if you're like me, you're like, "I can't, I'm not doing this right, just stay with me, it's okay, things are still messy, move forward a little bit to the bottom of the sheet area and you." You'll just take everything that's still upside down and put it right side out, if it's right side out, whatever, then you'll transfer what's in your left hand to your right hand, it's easier to work this way. to go down to the bottom of the sheet and it will look for the other two corners and you will find that the two corners have probably encountered each other, so they are probably nested and close to each other. but again the point is that your pincher finger is going to grab both corners and you're going to lift it up, so now you'll have two corners and your right hand with the seams on top of each other.

You will have two corners pinched in your left hand with the seams on top of them and then again you will bring your right hand to your left hand, now with your left hand you are going to pinch the four corners and fold. At the top again we can check that we've done it right because now you'll have all four corners pinched in your left hand, all four seams should essentially be stacked on top of each other and it's time to get down to the ground. You're basically going to take what you have and lay it flat and this is the second time in this folding method that you're probably pretty sure you're doing things wrong, just keep going, okay, it's going to come together at this point, don't worry.

Don't worry too much about where the tight edge is, we'll move to the opposite corner and you can turn this into a sort of right triangle, so don't worry. too much over the bunched end and focus on the other edge, getting a nice 90° angle if you come off your sheet and then just position the rest of the sheet as you go to create as much of a rectangle as possible. can, so we're going to start from the edge that looks the most bunching, we're going to fold everything in thirds along the length in an H shape and then you're going to fold it one more time, press If it's good to make it as flat as possible again, so you're going to start from the end that has the most excess fabric again, where those corners are, where the excess bunching is.

You're going to fold once and then we're going to fold again and there you have it guys, you have successfully folded a fitted sheet and since we're talking about sheets, I'm going to show you how I learned to fold all my sheets into a little bundle that makes They are much easier to store, so once you have folded the fitted sheet, which you now know how to do thanks to my very

useful

tutorial, you will fold the two pillowcases with it and then take the top part. sheet to group it all together, so you're going to fold a top sheet like you do, like a hot dog and then a hamburger, and then once you've folded it twice, you're going to fold it lengthwise. about three times, so you created like a long band and then what you're going to do is take the bundle that you created with the fitted sheet and the pillowcases that you're going to put on. in the center of this strip and then you're just going to fold everything together and now you've created a nice little perfect package.

I mean a bundle of joy, that's not right, but a little bit, there is a little bit of joy involved in this process and now you can easily store all your sheets together. You know exactly where all the pieces are. Whenever you want, you need to take off the sheets. You say I know exactly where the tights and the top are. the pillowcases are fine and since we are talking about folding, I have to share with you one of my favorite folding tricks that I have shared a lot and that has to do with bath towels and beach towels, folding them like that is not like that. the way to go because they're going to fall apart they're going to get dirty you're going to reach for one and the one underneath is going to fall off you want a spa towel, I mean, fold your spa towels, especially beach towels because it makes it so easy throw them in bags like carry-ons, your kids' swim bags or whatever, so let me show you how to fold them.

Looks good, doesn't it? It's elegant, it's very easy, so start by simply throwing out everything you can fit. You don't have to throw it, put it on the ground and you'll turn a corner and then you'll fold it down from the top and then you'll turn the whole thing over and then you'll basically just roll it up. from the non-diagonal end, you want to roll it up as tight as possible, but you don't have to go too crazy about it and once you get to the end, you're essentially just going to take the little flap of that diagonal end and tuck it in now that you have a perfect little towel that It will store more easily and travel more easily inside bags.

If you've ever had trouble removing stickers from something like price tags, why do they make them on things like that? glue that just won't come off. I'm not really sure there are many ways to do it, but I found the best way is to blow it out with the blow dryer on high heat for I don't know 15 seconds 30 seconds. It doesn't really matter until you feel it start to recede, you'll know and then it will come off if there's any sticky residue, now you can use nail polish, but it'll really come off like 95% of it, okay?

The next trick is totally random, but ladies, if you're not checking out the men's jeans section I don't know why they've kept this a secret from us. First of all, men's jeans sizing is much easier, they are just numbers and the numbers are literally justinches of waist and NSE and jeans for men. They actually fit me very well last year. I actually bought a bunch of men's jeans at Walmart to try this trick and I'm wondering why they look, why they look like jeans I recently spent $60 on these are $12 Walmart jeans, you guys $112 and Lo I'm sorry, but you can't pretend that this Jean's butt wasn't made for a woman.

I don't know why they control men's jeans, why they make men's jeans for women and then sell them for $12, it's honestly a scam and let's end it now with this life hack. If you have grout that has turned gross and yellow, there are things called grout pens and you can literally paint them white. again and that's all I have to say about this trick. I love how easy this look is. Now it's white. That was very easy if you cook in the kitchen, which is where I hope you're doing your I'm not sure where. otherwise you'd be cooking, um, but if you like to use your tablet, two little Command hooks on your counter will hold your tablet or even your phone so you can see your recipes and, if you're more of a cook-a-book type of person kitchen hangers you take one of the hangers that people use for pants and then you just hang it on a command hook or even a closet handle and it will hold your cookbook on the page you want, if you have a garbage bag If you have a trash bin where the bag is constantly falling into the bin, which we all know is very irritating, two Command Hooks upside down on each side and then you can use the handles to simply hook them onto the Command Hooks and this will prevent your Garbage bag falls into the container.

Why is it so difficult to put on a bracelet? I'm not too sure, but you can actually fix this very easily with just a piece of tape, just stick it in place and then you can clip the bracelet on and you're done if you ever have a war tub that's been stained with red sauce, which It's all of us because who doesn't like good red sauce as leftovers, it's one of the best leftovers there is. It's a little bit of dish soap with a paper towel and a little bit of warm water, put it in the tupp.

We shake it very well and then you are going to pour the water. You can literally see here that all the color came out into the water. and now you have a nice clean tupp Bo. The next trick is for your shower. If you have a glass shower, you know that glass tends to fog up over time and get water spots over time, and a really easy trick here is to actually just treat it with rainex rainex is usually used on people's windshields to help the water hit, but if you can get the water to hit the glass showers then it will prevent some of that fog and some of those hard water stains, so just treat it according to the instructions and then you can see that the water will be much better.

Okay, this is super random, but I learned this about Scrub Daddy. I don't know how I didn't know that, but it's designed very specifically. the smile is not only cute but it does multiple things one is perfectly designed to go inside bowls and cups two the mouth is the perfect size for spoons and then the little eyeballs are the perfect size for gripping knives and other kitchen utensils it is cute but I also designed it with a purpose when I learned to use my oeder mop to clean my cabinets. No, it changed my life. How many times have I said that in this video?

But this video is a compilation of all these cool tricks I've learned. It changed my life, so there you have it, you use your mop, which is one of those similar ones, like you know it makes all the water sound really good and then you can clean all your closets, it's a lot easier than doing that. On the other hand, It is extremely satisfying and allows you to reach the high points very easily. Now I do this once a month, it is very satisfying and very effective. I don't even remember when I learned this trick, but I find myself using it all. of time and it's how to close cardboard boxes even though they have little tabs, the little tabs never stay closed for you, so the trick is to fold three of the corners and then push in from the short edges like you're pushing them.

I don't really know how to describe it, you can see it in the video here and then the long piece that you haven't folded yet will now just go into the piece you created and your box will stay closed. I pretty much use this on all of our cereal because it's easier, okay, so this trick is for band-aids and it's about how to remove them without them hurting. I feel like it's an especially good trick if you have kids, so I have a Band-Aid here and I'm going to put it on my arm like where you have those fine arm hairs because everyone knows that the worst place to take off a Band-Aid is already. regretting this. a little because if it doesn't work, I know it will work.

I've done this before, okay, you want some Vaseline or Vaseline, we'll just put it on the band-aid, best for you. What we do is we just let it sit for 10 minutes or so, so it's been about 15 minutes or so and now we'll be able to remove this band-aid right away, it stuck a little bit as you can see, but it didn't stick to any of my hair. , it didn't hurt that it came off at all, so this is a great trick if you don't want to have to remove a band-aid from a hairy spot or if you have kids.

How fun about the band-aids, as always, thank you very much for stopping by and looking. I hope you're having a fantastic day. Remember to be kind to yourself and others and I'll see you all in my next video.