- (FBE) So, what we're doing today is one of the more popular things
found throughout the internet is a wide range of so-called
life hacks. - Life hacks.
I know what life hacks are. I've only seen them.
I'm like, "I should do that."
- Oh, okay. I've seen some of these, though.
It's very Pinteresty or they're ten second videos
of like, "Here's a quick little thing of how to get
ice cubes under your fridge."
- Life hacks I feel are always cool for the 'gram,
but not cool for real life. They look really cool
on the internet. You see them and you're like,
"Whoa, that's so creative!" And you actually try it
and you're like, "What?"
- I bookmark 'em now, because it's like,
wow, I didn't know you could do that.
Like that little loop in the pot, it's meant to hold
your utensils. Yeah.
- I've done the pancake in the ketchup bottle,
you know, instead of ladling it into the pan,
you put it in a bottle and squirt it in.
I've done that one before.
- Sometimes, they can just be really stupid,
but there are some pretty helpful ones.
I've heard of some pretty good ones.
It's basically a better or easier way to do something
that's usually pretty creative and it's supposed to help,
but sometimes it just doesn't work.
- "Use dryer sheets and a fan as an instant air freshener."
That's pretty g-- I've never even thought about that.
Do they just stick on, I guess?
- But, why? Just get an air freshener.
- The smell of dryer sheets is kind of overbearing
and I don't think I'd want that in my house.
I'd rather just get a little air freshener like a Febreze.
- I mean, I guess you can, but just a regular fan is fine
unless your room just smells so dank and bad
that you need to do this. I think that's pretty fine.
- That makes sense. Yeah, definitely,
'cause every time I go in the laundry room in my house,
I'm like, "It smells so good in here. I want the whole house
to smell like that."
- That's just lazy, to be honest, 'cause I don't think dryer sheets
would actually work, 'cause it would probably be
temporary, like it would probably just smell good
for as long as you have the fan on, but what if it's cold
and you don't have an air freshener, but it stinks?
- "Use a coffee maker to cook ramen."
I feel like that's old news. Doesn't everyone do that?
No?
- A lot of these college kids I'm assuming are just eating ramen 24/7
as the typical people would say. - (FBE) Pretty much.
- This could really come in handy in dorms and stuff
just because ramen noodles is the food of college students,
but we don't really have a place other than the microwave
to cook it.
- Points for creativity, but the second picture looks
like it's a brain in a jar. I guess if it works,
but I feel like this one is way over complicating it
with putting it in an actual coffee pot.
I don't feel like that's necessary.
- But how do I use a cup of noodles?
I get the packets. That's not gonna help.
I'm not just gonna put it in the bag.
It's gonna burn through. If you really love noodles,
like everyone else does, you will take your sweet time
to make them good noodles. I know I do.
- Why don't you just microwave it? This is more work.
Now you have to clean your coffee pot.
The next person who's gonna have coffee is gonna be like,
"That's a weird coffee flavor." Just use a microwave
and poke holes in the lid.
- "Heat two bowls in the microwave using this handy trick."
Okay. So that's kinda smart.
- I already do that. I just put them next to each other.
It's not a big deal if they don't move.
I still put 'em next to each other.
- Yeah, I mean, this would definitely work.
Everyone has a cup. One cup, one mug,
whatever it is. You could probably put
a paper towel roll in there if you had to.
- That one, I don't know if I completely believe it.
I still like to make things difficult for myself
and just warm up two separate plates
in the microwave at a time.
- But then, it's off centered. It's not gonna cook evenly.
You have to put it in the center so it cooks evenly.
- I would get scared that they're gonna clash together
and fall on each other just for a mess,
'cause cleaning a microwave is a lot of work.
- "Heavy sleeper, tired of snoozing past your alarm?
Use your smartphone in a cup. Trick to crank the volume."
I've done this before. I've never used it as
an alarm, but I have used this as a speaker.
- I don't do that for an alarm, but I do do that for speakers.
- I do that sometimes in the shower, 'cause my speakers died,
'cause I like to listen to music while I'm in the shower.
I'll put my phone in a cup, so the music is louder,
'cause it just amplifies.
- Now this one's legit. If you can't afford,
or you just don't have an iHome or something to boost up the volume,
yeah, put it in a cup on your desk.
That one's easy.
- Oh, okay. Actually, we've done this before
at parties when we don't have a speaker
or if the aux doesn't work. We normally put it in
a Styrofoam cup or just whatever plastic cup
that we have and use it, so I've used this one before
and it works pretty well, honestly.
- No, I'm not gonna do that. Why don't you just
hook it up to a speaker? That's easy.
Or face it towards a wall so the sound can bounce off.
That's easier as well. Don't have to waste a whole cup.
- "For an easy breakfast, make a scrambled egg
in the microwave using a coffee mug."
Why?
- Ew, microwaved eggs? I thought microwaved bacon was bad.
Come on. I don't like the whole
microwave breakfast thing.
- Now, that is a life hack. I didn't know you could do that.
I knew you could cook cake in a cup.
That still doesn't taste as good.
- I'm not trying to eat microwaved eggs.
If I wanted to go that fast, whether you wanted a quick
source of protein or something like that, the amount of time
it would probably take to heat it up,
you could probably make a protein shake,
or make a peanut butter sandwich or something like that.
- Something about just microwaving raw eggs doesn't sound
too delicious. You scramble them
and then stick it in the microwave to cook it?
I just don't think it would taste very good,
but I guess if you're in a hurry.
- Me and my roommates have sort of looked up
mug cooking things that we could do in our microwave,
but I've never done them because putting an egg--
and I feel like it's not gonna cook all the way
and then you're gonna get salmonella
and then you're out for the rest of the semester
and then what? All because you cooked an egg.
- "Keep chargers from constantly breaking by putting an old
pen spring on them." I've seen this one.
I've never done it, but I really should get around
to probably trying this.
- I should try that one, 'cause I know a couple
of our chargers at home are broken and the wire's sticking out.
- I don't think that one's accurate, 'cause it's still gonna rip.
Mine hasn't, though. You just need to
take good care of it. Take good care of your chargers.
Be responsible.
- That could work, actually. Chargers do this so often
where after you use them for more than a year,
they just decide to give out and all the wiring comes out
and then you shock yourself every time you try to
plug in your phone.
- Wires always frig and fray whenever you bend them around
and then you have to buy a new charger
and it's a whole thing, so yeah, I do know
a lot of people and I think I have used this one before,
but I feel like I still find a way to ruin it.
- There's two things wrong with this picture.
One, that's never happened to me.
Two, this is a very, very old picture, 'cause those chargers
I haven't seen since 'Nam. those things are old.
- Hair straightener. Collar irons.
This is a dude. He's late on the game.
Us women have been doing this for decades.
- If it goes faster than it does to take an iron,
then I guess that would work.
- Hair straightener, collar. Whoa.
I'm gonna test that theory.
- I'd probably try a wrinkle or so, but again, not too much
just because I don't wanna burn my clothes.
- I guess that would work, right? It's just heat and pressure
and I guess it's almost the right size and like he's doing,
you can just clamp it on there and have it iron.
- If hair straighteners can burn your hair, I feel like
they can burn your clothes and that might be bad logic,
but I feel like I'd end up using it wrong and then
my collar is just gonna be burnt off and it
defeats the whole purpose of the thing.
- "Heat pizza with a cup of water to keep the crust
from getting chewy." Huh, okay, I guess.
It kinda gets some moisture going in there.
- I'll be honest, I like the chewy. I like tugging.
- Okay, I do that with my-- I don't do the cup,
I put the water in my rice, so the rice doesn't stay dry
when I put it in the microwave. That's kind of smart.
- I've seen this before. I've never tried it
and I have no idea how the science behind that works,
but I mean, if it works, it works.
- Isn't it because the way the microwave works is it
heats the water in the food and then that ends up
getting rid of it. So, by having the water
it's like ref-- I don't know.
That's my best guess - (FBE) I think so.
Something like that. - Something like that.
- Sure, I'd give this one a shot, honestly, to keep the crust
from getting chewy. But even then, I kind of like
day after pizza just because it's the whole thing of
getting it out of your fridge and warming it up
and it's just that little taste that's different that makes it good.
- Keep buttons from falling off with clear nail polish.
Okay.
- I don't see that would help, really.
I don't know where I would get clear nail polish.
- I feel like I've used clear nail polish for
a lot of things like the inside of jewelry.
I definitely trust this if I felt like anything
was gonna fall off, I'd be like, "All right, let's strengthen
the strings and try it."
- I already know I would never use this
just for the reason being because I hate the smell
of nail polish. At the same time,
it's like I've low key always wanted to get a manicure.
- I've tried this before with tights though,
so you have tights and if you want to prevent them
from ripping, put on clear nail polish,
but then it just leaves these globs of clear gel
that doesn't look good.
- I guess it just acts like a reinforcement or glue
to keep it from falling off. That's a good one, for sure.
I mean, why wouldn't you do it, right?
'Cause the one time I wear a shirt, my button's gonna fall off,
so might as well put nail polish on it.
- "Use your iron and some aluminum foil to make
easy grilled cheese sandwiches." I've heard of this before,
but I don't like grilled cheese sandwiches.
I'm so sorry, world.
- I'm gonna assume this is more of a college dorm thing,
but yeah, I guess it would work.
- So, if there's any place where you don't have a stove
or anything like that, like a hotel room or a dorm room,
or just anywhere else, you could actually do this.
- Lazy! Why?
Why would you use something for clothes for food?
And why would you put it on top of foil?
Wouldn't that be dangerous? You don't know what that's gonna do.
- That one looks like it would take some practice,
'cause you don't wanna completely--
'cause you don't wanna stop and unwrap it every 30 seconds,
like "is it cooked yet? Is it cooked yet?"
And then you could easily over cook it, too.
- Pretty sure I've seen this with waffles and stuff like,
oh yeah, you turn it upside down and you put waffles on it
or pancake mix or whatever. I can definitely see this
being efficient and saving time, but just the fact that it's
ironed grilled cheese kinda alters my thought
and the mindset of how good of an idea this is.
- I like life hacks. They're always fun.
The only useful one I would use is the phone one.
The phone one, the fan, that's probably about it.
There's some better ones out there.
- They weren't really helpful. I was looking for some
that were gonna be super helpful that would change my
entire way of living, but they didn't
except the scrambled egg one. That might be a game changer
for when I run out of cereal.
- There's some of them that I would probably not use
just 'cause of how they are and how they play out,
but if you're short on time, short on money,
life hacks are perfect.
- Thank you guys so much for watching this episode.
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- Let us know in the comments. what we should react to next.
- Bye.
- Hey everybody, Derek here, one of the React Channel producers.
You may not know this, but my life is a disaster.
It's a mess. It's awful.
I can't keep anything straight. What I could use is some life hacks.
If you got some, put them down in the comments.
Make me a better person, 'cause I could use
all the help I could get.