- Stupid, dumb life hacks.
Now, I am obsessed with the channel called 5-Minute Crafts.
First of all, they're never five minutes,
it's like an hour to do any of the crafts they suggest,
so their name is total bullshit,
and it's also like their videos aren't even five minutes,
it's like, they're like half an hour long,
and it's sort of like well,
where did you get the name 5-Minute Crafts from?
And then they have videos that are like travel hacks.
Now I don't know about you, but I thought a hack
was supposed to make things go quicker,
and um, just be good.
Like when you see a hack, you go oh my god,
I'm gonna do that.
But with their sort of life hacks,
I look at them and go "what a waste of time."
I was so shocked by this one particular hack
that I wanted to recreate it because I don't actually
think it's useful in any way, shape or form.
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Does anyone else think that is absolutely ridiculous?
I mean, I would just go down to the travel section
at your local chemist and buy a small toothpaste,
and that takes about two minutes.
So it's a two minute life hack.
Now I was just so blown away at the stupidity
of this that I went I 100% want to try this,
just to see if it actually works.
Like she puts this like pellet of toothpaste
in her mouth and then just starts brushing her teeth.
Like, no water.
Why don't we give it a go?
It's actually surprisingly easy to create
these little pellety things.
I thought it would be really hard.
What I love about this 5-Minute Crafts shit
is that they don't really give you any instructions.
They just sort of show through this really moronic thing
that is supposed to save you time,
and then they just disappear
and then it just goes on to the next
really stupid, dumb, idiotic hack.
I guess when they said soda, they meant bicarb soda.
Oh it's really hard to sort of completely coat this thing.
Then I suppose we let it dry.
I just wish they could be a little bit more specific
in their instructions.
I mean, look, I'm not gonna lie,
that was really easy to do.
It just seems utterly pointless.
Why not just leave it in the tube of toothpaste?
So they've been here overnight, right,
and they're firm but they're definitely not,
like I can't pick them up and put them in a jar.
So I think I'm gonna resort to putting them in the fridge.
Just gonna have to go here.
I'm now going out for most of the day,
so when I (fridge beeps) oh right,
for Christ sakes, I'm trying to do a thing.
When I come back, hopefully they're hard.
But like, (groans) nevermind.
All right, so these toothpaste things
have been in the fridge for about 24 hours now.
Oh my god, this hack has taken almost two days to do,
so let's have a look here.
Oh, they're firm.
Okay, right.
I mean, yeah?
Should we go into the bathroom
and brush my teeth with one of them?
Like this is shit, like I'm sorry,
this is actual shit.
Let's go into the bathroom.
Do you like my jacket?
I'm loving my jacket.
Anyways, okay, let me get my toothbrush, hold on.
Let's see here, all right.
It's not coming off my hand, that's a problem.
Okay, ew.
First response is it's a bit bicarb soda-y.
(toothbrush scraping)
You don't actually need water,
you just use your saliva.
And so your saliva will make it lubricanty.
And then you just brush your teeth.
That is all right, because the toothpaste still works.
I mean, it's a really,
it's not a hack.
It's just like for people that have too much time,
they can do that.
My theory is when you put all of those pellets together,
they're just gonna form one giant blob of toothpaste.
So it's a no from me.
There's even a more moronic hack
than that stupid toothpaste one.
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I mean, while you're buying a travel size toothpaste,
why don't you buy some travel sized shampoo and conditioner?
And like, hotels give you this stuff anyway.
Unless you're going into the middle of fucking nowhere
where nobody exists, then maybe you want to put
some soap in a balloon with a toothpaste tube as a cover.
Like, who in their right mind would ever do this?
Don't knock it until you've tried it.
Even though I do.
Let's try this one.
All right, I don't know about you,
but having to wash toothpaste from a toothpaste tube
is very difficult.
I'm gonna put some dish soap in it
because it's all I've got handy.
Ew, it feels like a (laughs)
yeah, it feels exactly like that.
Just a little bit, yeah.
Well there's an insight to what my testicles look like.
Okay, so you put it, okay so I've got the balloon
like you can't see that at all.
I'll have to come and show you.
So you put the balloon in the toothpaste
then you fold this sort of down and over.
That actually works, I mean it works.
Hold on, let me come over.
Like this thing actually works,
but like who is going to travel with this?
Oh that's actually not bad.
But it's stupid, like I'm not gonna cut
a tube of toothpaste, I'm just gonna go
to the shops and buy myself a travel sized thing.
If I saw someone with this in their suitcase,
I'd be like they'll happily accept a lift from anybody.
They are hitchhiking around Australia
and they shouldn't be because they're so poor.
I will pick them up and murder them,
that's like is, don't do that.
Go to the shops and buy one for three dollars,
they're probably not even three,
it's probably like two dollars.
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I don't know about you, but when I go hiking,
I always carry the essentials,
such as a portable gas-lit stove
and a sauce pan the size of my face.
Well here's a shoe and I went into the garden,
found this shoe-sized rock,
so we're gonna give this one a try
because I don't know a single person on the planet
that would ever use this.
Oh I don't want to ruin Mom's good cookware.
It doesn't even fit in here.
By the time this thing actually heats up,
if you took your shoe off and just put in the sun,
it would have completely dried.
This is absolutely ludicrous.
Okay, let's put the rock in the shoe.
So absolutely stupid.
Okay, in it goes, into the, ow, it's hot.
Okay look, it fits so well in there.
Let's put this here
and we'll put it on a timer.
Okay so it's now 10 past four.
We have, ow, that's actually really warm.
We have rock shoe and normal wet shoe,
and we'll see if this dries quicker than this.
My money's on no one gives a shit.
15 minute update.
It's still saturated.
It's just warm.
I don't see any difference.
This hack is just, I'm like,
it's just like are the people at 5-Minute Crafts
under so much pressure that they have to come up
with the stupidest, moronicest,
most like I just want to punch you in the face hacks?
Like this clearly does not work,
and it clearly, no one walks around
with a gas-lit stove when they go on a hike.
I'm currently in the Blue Mountains,
plenty of hikers around here.
They don't take a gas-lit stove with them
to go on a fucking hike.
This rock is like now pretty much cold.
This is stupid.
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