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Life Hacks

A couple of money-saving tips:

1) If you really want to aggressively save money at some point, my tip is always sleep on any non-essential purchase, no matter how small the amount. If you still really want it the next day, sleep on it again. If you still want it on the 3rd day, buy it. But you'll be amazed how much you don't buy using this method..

Usually there are none left the second day because the price was just right on the first day.

However: that'll just mean you save that much more (or will have to pay the full price for the item).
 
I've found this infographic to be a useful source of Life Hacks. It's too big to post here, so I'm linking it.

It's an interesting read, but the eye patch thing is a total urban legend, and who has 2 cups of salt to waste just to get a cold soda?

Whether or not Pirates used an eye patch is not supported by historical documentation (a bit different than an urban legend, but still). However, the use of the eye patch in this way can work (Myth Busters tested it out).

ETA: This is a cool one for Hard-boiled Eggs:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrFIo4P8z80[/yt]
 
Yeah, they're not all winners. The "send a file called 'School Project' but make it an mp3 or jpg instead of a doc" is less of a hack and more of a "desperate last minute attempt." I've known some professors who wouldn't give you credit or extra time for that.

School policy at my place - it's the students responsibility to make sure they have back-ups, if you hand in a file that is corrupt, you'd just get a big fat zero, you wouldn't get extra time.
 
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About the first one: If the plastic isn't made to store food in it might (WILL!) allow dangerous chemicals to transfer from the plastic to the food stored in it. That's why there's a special little sign printed (or molded into) plastic that's safe to use for food-storage.
 
I've done the seat heater thing to keep my pizza a little warmer.

Not sure how effective it is. The seat heat isn't that hot.
 
ETA: This is a cool one for Hard-boiled Eggs:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrFIo4P8z80[/yt]

That trick for the hard-boiled eggs is finicky. A number of things have to be "just right" for it to work. A better tip is this:

After chilling the egg in cool water, tap one end to start cracking the shell. Peel a gap straight down to the other end. Now towards the center peel back on the two edges that border the gap using your thumbs, kind of like opening a small book. The egg will come out and there will be just a small clump of shell bits and two large shell pieces, making it faster to do and less messy.
 
I like [that] sauce bottle for pancake mix ones...

There's only two problems with this. If you add fruit, like blueberries, it won't work. Also, pancake batter is sticky. A nice thick layer will adhere to the inside of the bottle, at least one whole pancake's worth. So, you lose that pancake and cleaning out the bottle is a pain. It's a good idea if you're going camping, though, and want to make plain pancakes rather easily.

The best way I've found to pour pancakes is to use a medium sized measuring cup with pour spout. This way you get the same result, plus any fruit in the batter is no problem and it's easy to get all of the batter out.
 
I tought Life magazine hacked some phones at at first.

Wery dissapointed, i tought something interesting happened.
 
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