If you’re anything like the rest of us, chances are that you enjoy a really good life hack when you see one. Cutting corners is like, a talent that everyone can appreciate, from lazy people to productive people!
Picture this, you’re sitting at work wondering how you’re going to get through the entire day. It’s time for your lunch but you forget a spoon for your yogurt. A million things go through your head as to how you can get around this enormous tragedy. You aren’t brave enough to try one of the dirty spoons in the staff room, so you put your thinking cap on to a potential way around the situation. Suddenly, it occurs to you that you can, in fact, use the foil lid as a makeshift spoon. You twirl and twist the foil so that it looks like a spoon shape and you marvel at your own ingenuity in the face of certain yogurt doom. That’s what this list is all about.
There are many different ways to cut corners, but the best ways save you time and effort. From life hacks to product hacks, these 20+ ways of improving your life might just prove you’ve been doing things wrong for far too long!
1) Spaghetti: Never forgetti that spaghetti is the besti. Honestly, there are so many different things you can do with pasta beside eat it. One of our favorite ideas of how you can utilize pasta in a different way is to use it to light difficult-to-light candles with the wick way down in the bottom of the glass. This will save you from burning your fingers and allows for safer lighting in general if you don’t have a longer lighter. Believe it or not, dry pasta also makes for fantastic kindling if you’re ever in need of some when starting a bonfire!
2) Tic Tac Lids: Tic Tacs are one of the best breath mints around. Their delightful pill-like shape gives you the feeling of flavor convenience while the tiny box slips perfectly into almost any pocket. You don’t mind the jiggle sound it makes as you walk because Tic Tacs are amazing. Did you know that Tic Tac lids are also a perfect way to get those little suckers out of the container one at a time? It’s a great hack for anyone who doesn’t like sharing with friends, so you can avoid accidentally spilling out your entire container.
