Life Hacks

[J.R.]

That would be of great help, I will look for an app.

 

Only problem is I never take the smartphone away from the property, relying on a tiny old school Nokia for communication which is extremely rare.

[Lady Elanore]

I use magnifier a lot

[Lady Elanore]

A foodie short cut, if not quite a hack I do with eggs is, fry them in a shed load of butter.

 

So take two eggs, bucket load of butter and fry  pop a couple of slices of toast int' toaster and when everything is done, pop the eggs onto the toast and drizzle the melted butter from the frying pan around the eggs onto the exposed bits of toast. You don't need to butter the toast and if it's cold and your regular butter is rock hard, you don't need to worry as you have bypassed this stage  

[@Lee]

2 minutes ago, Lady Elanore said:

 pop a couple of slices of toast int' toaster 

Why are you toasting toast

[Lady Elanore]

4 minutes ago, Lee01 said:

Why are you toasting toast

I like to get ahead of myself  besides if you give me an alcoholic drink, I'll toast anything and everything 

[mac11irl]

2 hours ago, Lady Elanore said:

and if your arteries are rock hard, you don't need to worry as you can have them bypassed at this stage..

 

ftfy...

[Lady Elanore]

Here's one I used last week. If you want to know if your infrared remote control is working and it's the receiver device that's not playing ball, point the LED end at your smartphone and look at it through the camera app. Phone camera are sensitive to led infrared light so you can see the led flashing. Some remotes are bright enough that in a super dark room you can use the phone camera to see the very weak 'torch like' output of the remote control....it is extremely dim though, but it's fun to try once (and probably only once if I'm honest  )

[Lady Elanore]

I came across this 'hack' ...I think it's a hack, the only different thing is you do it to yourself. If you want to clear your sinuses it seems to work wonders. Try it

 

 

[mac11irl]

it does work. 

i did this last July when i had what felt like fluid in my ear for a week. no pain or anything just really f'king annoying. found this guys videos, tried it and it did work 

[Lady Elanore]

Surprising isn't it. Now if he has something that can help my liver 

[MikeTheThinker]

1 hour ago, Lady Elanore said:

Surprising isn't it. Now if he has something that can help my liver 

Just trying to work what you would press and pull to achieve liver drainage ...

[Lady Elanore]

I've tried to flush it out for many years, but I think I am using the wrong flushing fluids 

[Lady Elanore]

This is quite good. Gordon Ramsey gives 50 cooking tips. Not exactly life hacks, there are some surprising things that he offers up which are foodie hacks I reckon. I knew and had seen many before, but some new ones made me smile 

 

 

[Baxlin]

If you are still into painting doors and/or windows, and worry that they will stick when they are first closed, spray Mr Sheen type furniture polish around the frame before closing them.  

Edited 7 April, 2021 by Baxlin

[Lady Elanore]

Mr Sheen fixes everything. I once had an early model Fiat Uno that started to break down on a long trip, in torrential rain, down the country and after stopping, I liberally applied WD40 to the distributor (Fiat owners always carried WD 40 I think). This worked the first 2 times, (the fix lasted about 50 miles until misfiring once again made me pull over it seemed), the third time I sprayed my WD40 into the distributor I saw a huge amount of white foam expand back out of it!!! Turns out I had accidentally sprayed Mr Sheen into the dizzy  Also turns out that after you scoop out the extra Mr Sheen, it works perfectly as a water repellant and I finished my journey without stopping again! 

 

I checked the cap later to see if the Mr Sheen had tried to catch fire  and there wasn't even any scorch marks where the sparks presumably had been dancing around in the Mr Sheen. Amazing stuff, they should have put that on the spray can imho. 

[J.R.]

Good video, that is the first time that I have ever been able to listen to Potty Mouth Ramsey.

 

Bit confused by one of the ingredients though, "left over wine", what's that all about?

[Lady Elanore]

I actually went immediately and froze my left over cooking sherry. True story  

[KenONeill]

1 hour ago, J.R. said:

"left over wine"

It's what happens when you follow a Keith Floyd recipe often enough that you get alcohol poisoning.

[Ootohere]

Superglue & Bicorbonate of Soda / Baking Soda.  (not Baking Powder).

 

Just amazing for doing strong repairs.  Watch on Youtube. 

 Certainly did the job on my dentures.

[Lady Elanore]

Crikey I've never heard of that one before. Looks fun  

 

 

 

Edited 15 June, 2021 by Lady Elanore

[VWD]

On 14/06/2021 at 18:30, e-Roottoot said:

Superglue & Bicorbonate of Soda / Baking Soda.  (not Baking Powder).

 

Just amazing for doing strong repairs.  Watch on Youtube. 

 Certainly did the job on my dentures.

 

Dentures - find a decent dentist, or better still a local repair place and get a repair on the NHS.

But- I always swore by superglue in the back roads of Africa- 500 mile from a dentist. It worked, unless you really chomped on Biltong.

Edited 3 July, 2021 by VWD

[Tilt]

Topic revival.........

 

If you want to put a mark on a (hard surface) item and want the mark to last, simply mark using permanent marker and place a piece of sellotape over the top of the mark.

 

I have marked a few things this way and even after washing the item in hot soapy water a number of times, the mark is still as easy to see as the first day I did it..... 

[skomaz]

13 hours ago, Tilt said:

Topic revival.........

 

If you want to put a mark on a (hard surface) item and want the mark to last, simply mark using permanent marker and place a piece of sellotape over the top of the mark.

 

I have marked a few things this way and even after washing the item in hot soapy water a number of times, the mark is still as easy to see as the first day I did it..... 

 

Thats exactly what we do with my daughters medication syringes...   Works a treat and lasts ages!!

[Lady Elanore]

[AnnoyingPentium]

One I found off t'interwebs not too long ago...

 

Get some of those rubber (or felt) feet pads you get in big packets and fire them on the corners of photo frames. The wee rubber things should stop the picture from sliding about quite as much on your wall.