#Household Hacks

[hometoursandotherstuff]

The best way to pick your new sofa fabric.

[frombehindthepen]

You've Been Hacked to Hack?

You've Been Hacked to Hack? #DIYprojects #Videos #Solutions #Ideas

Image Credit: israeldavid76 Hack. Is it a compliment, an insult, or a cyber crime? Can you say all of the above little children? Confusing? Well, that all depends on the context you’re using it in. Words can have a myriad of meanings, but there may be only one that defines your personal situation/condition. I’ve previously spoken about hacks in past posts that use a computer to gain unauthorized…

[hinamie]

post-graduation trip airport looks

[tidymalism]

Core 4 aka the 4 box declutter method has been making the rounds on TikTok lately. Here's how it compares to other popular decluttering approaches like Swedish death cleaning, the Minsgame and Konmari.

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[financeprozone]

Freezer Hacks: Slash Bills with ‘Water Bag’ Trick!

Energy bills can be a source of concern for many households, especially as winter approaches and heating becomes a necessity. With shorter days and longer nights, we find ourselves using lights more often, and the gloomy weather may keep us indoors, increasing our energy consumption and causing our bills to soar.

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[mystylevilla]

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[lesbian-disaster-academic]

doing a boring and monotonous task with no one around to talk to? try infodumping to yourself while you’re doing it in order to make it go faster! (<- girl who just spent 45 mins talking to herself in an empty garage about the transition from household/barter economies to capitalism and its effects on kinship relations)

[umihoshi]

some tips for people who just started living on their own

It's been 4 years now, and I'm not regretting a single day that I moved out. No more adapting to what my parents want, no more reporting where I'm going or who I'm bringing over, I can create my save haven the way I like it. For me, it was really the start of becoming myself.

But, there's a bunch of stuff here and there that would've been nice if I had known it from the get-go. And I thought: let's share them!

1 what appliances to invest in?

one thing that is going to come back every single day is cooking. and food is expensive AF if you're not careful. I found 2 great ways to save a bunch of money and they both rely on one thing: Invest in a good freezer! Many grocery stores have systems where they price down things that are close to the shelf life date. One of our local grocery stores can go up to 70% discount! But the problem with those is, you need to eat it right away.... OR DO YOU??? Freezing things close to expiring will let them last for a full freaking month extra. and vegetables go even longer. Plenty of time to use it when you need it (just don't forget to thaw) Be careful though: once you thawed it, you can't freeze it again.

Items are usually also WAY cheaper if you buy them in bulk. Chop them up and in the freezer they go! This one's also great if you don't always have the energy or drive to cook: cook up a large pot of whatever you like, put it in containers and freeze them. I always like doing so with pasta sauce and then cook the pasta fresh~ But it also works great with stews, curry and other types of sauces. stores like IKEA have containers that are just the right size for one meal.

For some of you, the next one may be a no-brainer, but.... My mom was really proud of how fast she was with doing the dishes. She was always like 'why get a dishwasher, I'm faster if I do it myself'. And I have lived up to that same idea up until half a year ago. My kitchen was always a mess, I didn't feel like cooking, inviting people over was embarrassing. I exhausted myself every time visitors would come and I had to fight that monster pile. Please, if you recognize these problems: invest in a dishwasher. Life became SO MUCH easier. My house is clean, my mind is more at ease, social contact increased cuz it's not as big a hassle to clean before guests show up. I really wish I wouldn't have wasted those 3 years fighting a monster that was this easy to tackle in the end...

2 easy cooking

Though it's also a bit of an investment: cooking becomes fucking easy with an airfryer. No oil is added, so it's a bunch healthier. you just put the temperature and timer and it's done. and a lot of things can just fry simultaneously. chuck in some meat and potato's at 400F (200C) for 20 minutes and all you'll have to worry about is adding some vegies with it. springrolls, pizza, potato's, meat. it all gets nice and crunchy too. (prepare vegies in a rice cooker for the same don't-have-to-keep-an-eye-on-it experience. you can cook them simultaneously with rice too!)

Something that became one of my fave dishes of the late is 'stir fried whatever'. it goes like this: Bake whatever meat you fancy, great with egg or tofu too. add whatever vegies (straight out of the freezer is fine). add stir fry sauce in whatever amount seems nice (little for coating, more if you want it to be saucy). make some carbs and you're fucking DONE! no measuring, no thinking what spices to use, it goes with anything and everything. and your local grocery has probably like 5 different flavors. (or at least, it does here. dunno if that's true for America...) like it creamy? add half a cup of soya milk. it takes like 10 minutes tops (not counting the cooking of rice/pasta/potato/bread)

3 think in money or think in space

With tricks like a good freezer, saving money with discount products becomes a whole lot easier. But there are also different discount products that can save you a lot of money. my mom always used to buy like.... packs of 4 toilet rolls. and if you calculate it, buying 3x4 rolls is so much more expensive than buying a 12 pack. But what you'll need for that is space. Try keeping account of a spot like that in your house. cupboard underneath the sink, the spot where they installed the boiler, top shelves you don't often use cuz it's high up, on top of the fridge, garage. I live in an apartment and have a small storage space for my bicycle. Perfect spot for non-consumables. (be careful to keep them out of reach for mice) think toilet paper, tissues, cat litter, soap, shampoo, toothpaste. they'll be good in 2 years too, and you'll still be needing them all the same. I once found this 6 pack of toothpaste for like 3,-! aint no one selling 1 tube for 0,50 when I buy it once I need it.

dunno if this is of any use to someone, but I hope this can help out anyone to safe some money, time or energy! Because it sure did for me.

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

WHy do we as a society have to put in new trash bags, I mean why don’t they just manufacture/package/sell trash bags all inside of each other like russian nesting dolls so that theres a new bag already there when you remove the full one. What the fuck. Kinda reminds me of how we didn’t think to put wheels on luggage until 1970 (one year after we put a man on the freaking moon.) What are we doing

[a-star-that-fell]

things i am doing today

- seeing my psych in person for the first time in 4 years

- going to file the paperwork to get my legal name changed

- groceries

- …???? dogsitting after that i guess?? i haven’t thought that far ahead

[stabbyfoxandrew]

oh my god my parents almost fell for a facebook scam.

someone they know posted that they were selling a car and my parents asked me to help them send a down payment over paypal.

thank GOD they asked me instead of just trying to do it themselves.

[vlodimirvoneverec]

Man it sucks so bad that me and my fiancé just ordered our rings but I feel so little about it because we’re so strapped for cash that I’m basically solely focused on job and side gig hunting so we don’t spend the entirety of November in the red :/ christmas is gonna suck this year guys and it’s all capitalisms fault.

[adhdcopingskills]

With ADHD and other neurodivergencies, it can be beneficial to spend a couple to several extra dollars on a product that is that much more fun or novel or has an extra feature that makes it even easier to use. When you are shopping for mundane things, go online and put the word novelty or cute in front of what you are buying. If you're a geek, see if they have the thing themed for your fandom. This goes for towels, toilet brush holders, crockpots, bandaids, etc. If its something that you WANT to use, you'll use it more often. If there are no cool themed options for the item you want, consider dressing it up yourself. For example, get a fun patterned duck tape and wrap your broom and mop in it.

This can help you remember to do the chore/activity associated with the item.

It can also help with the issue many adhd people have of not remembering if they already have a certain item and then buying more of that item unnecessarily. If the item is cool and fun, you're more likely to remember you already own the item.

[amagicdoctor]

I can't imagine what your doc strange must feel like about Tony Stark's wedding to Emma Frost: Last time he heard of that man, he just started dating Patsy and now he's full on married to someone he barely knows

It's on the same level as Nightcrawler changing jobs from one day to the next

Plus Dr. Strange JUST came back to life and Tony done dated, proposed, and married several other women. Is nothing sacred anymore 🥴

[jacroe]

Just had an epiphany:

I wish to clean my sheets regularly, but because of who I am as a person, I can't always guarantee that I'll have them completely dried and/or have the energy to put them back on the bed before I'm ready to sleep.

So why not take a page from my boy Technology Connections and use the magic of buying two sets of the same pair of sheets? That way I can strip the dirty sheets, add them to the laundry pile that may or may not be worked on immediately after, then remake the bed with a same-same-but-different pair of sheets.

It's genius, possibly life-changing. And I can't wait to explore it when my second, exact same pair arrives in a week