- I've been doing it wrong my entire life.
- If I saw that, I would literally just be like,
"What the hell?"
- That's witchcraft right there.
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- (FBE) So, back by popular demand,
we're gonna show you some life hacks.
- Okay. I love those.
- Life hacks are just cool things that you can do
with unexpected items and stuff that would make
your life supposedly easier.
- I remember when I first started watching YouTube
back in 2012, that was all I would watch
is just "Top ten life hacks that you need."
As a kid, you're like, "I need these."
- I'm pretty sure that I just watch them and think,
Oh great and then forget about them right afterward.
- I'm really interested to see what these life hacks are.
- That's really funny. I know they have other things,
but I like using the Lego and he looks really in pain.
- Oh, he's holding the charger for the phone.
Oh, this is really cool. This is very creative,
very innovative. Is that why you can
just put your phone right into it
and then this little Lego man holds it up?
- That's interesting, 'cause the cable is exactly the size
of the hand and snaps in there.
- I always have to grab it from the bottom
and hook it up and it takes forever.
I feel like this would have been so much easier.
- Definitely saves you maybe a second, you know,
and I mean sometimes you're chilling in your bed
and you're like, "I don't wanna bend down
and grab that charger." First world problems.
Who needs another one?
- Having to take it off and then put it back
in his hand probably takes a few more seconds
than it should. Might be a little bit
more of a hassle than it is a life hack.
- Cute. It's a little tennis ball
sticking out his little tennis ball tongue.
I don't know if I'm-- if this is really
my aesthetic, though. I'm not really a tennis ball
kind of gal.
- If I went to a house and they had a bunch everywhere,
I'd be kinda weirded out, so I get the point,
but I wouldn't do it myself.
- I wouldn't use this, 'cause anything that I wanna hang
is too heavy to hang like that.
- You could just get a hook and put it into the wall
and put things onto it, but I guess, again,
this adds a little bit of humor to the day.
- I'm always losing my keys or losing even pens.
Oh my gosh, that would literally be so much easier
and you get to look at a cute little tennis ball with eyes.
I like that.
- What is that, a rag? That might be useful
in the kitchen, see? You need something
to wipe your hands with? Boom, there you go.
- "Wrap a wet paper towel around your beverage
and put it in the freezer. In about fifteen minutes,
it will be almost completely ice cold."
Now I know if I need a fast cold drink.
- Dude, I wanna try that. I always have beverages
and I wanna cool them, but then it takes forever.
Oh my God, I didn't know you could do that.
- I think I'll try that if I don't forget about it.
We really need cold stuff sometimes. It's been really hot.
- If it works really quickly, then I mean, yeah,
I'd probably do it.
- Growing up in a Hispanic household, I feel like
my mom especially did this. It's pretty useful.
I mean, anything to get it really cold and stay like that,
I'm on board for that. No one likes a hot drink.
- It's a mess. Making the trip from
the sink to the freezer. Life hack,
put cubes of ice in a cup and then you're good.
- "Put pancake mix in a ketchup bottle
for a no mess experience." It's kinda gross
'cause what if there's some ketchup remains
in there and I don't like ketchup. Nah, I don't like this one.
- Now you have to buy a ketchup bottle
and the pancake mix rather than just
the pancake mix thing.
- It just adds another step that's not really necessary
and it's supposed to be convenient.
It's an interesting concept, but I really don't see
the benefit in that.
- If you like to make pancakes, I think it's a great idea.
I don't make pancakes very often,
but I'm sure it probably saves people a lot of time.
- I would just make sure that the ketchup bottle's
really clean.
- During breakfast, I use a bowl for pancakes
and you always get that runoff off the edge
of the bowl and it's just at the end of the day,
it's just a whole mess that you have to clean up.
You know what, I'ma have to use this one.
- Why? To warm your toilet seat
with socks or to not get germs?
I don't know. I don't know what it's for.
- This looks like socks on a toilet.
I'm not sure what the purpose is though.
Maybe either to keep it sanitary, like a toilet--
like when you go to a public restroom
and there are toilet covers.
- Just put toilet paper down. Like, "Oh, hold on.
Let me go to the bathroom with my tube socks."
That's gonna take you so long to then
put them on. And you're touching
the entire thing.
- I do hate sitting down on a toilet and freezing
my buns off. That is awful,
so this would be a warmth aspect in my opinion.
- I get it if your seat is a little cold,
but you sit on there and you'll warm it up
in a couple seconds. This is just weird.
You're gonna get doodoo on the socks and everything.
- Unnecessary. Really weird.
Ew. We'll pass on this one.
- "The right way to squeeze lemons."
That's kind of interesting. That's actually a good one.
Extra tongs? Squeeze lemons.
- I wanna try it, but I feel like
what's wrong with just using your hands?
It's not really that much harder.
- When you do it with your hands,
you can squeeze it with all your force
and only a few drops will come out.
That's bull [bleep]. I don't get what science
makes that possible, but I hate that.
It gives me a good idea just in case I don't
have a squeezer on hand.
- If you use a tong, you put a lemon into it
and you squeeze it, lemon juice will come out.
It definitely works, so if a tong is all you have,
then you should definitely do this.
- It works, but not to the degree that you want it to work.
You just get all the seeds in there, too,
so kinda defeats the purpose of squeezing a lemon
when you get all the seeds in your lemonade.
- I've been doing it wrong my entire life.
That's great. Oh, but what happens
when the seeds come out? I don't like seeds.
Remember when you were younger and they used
to tell you that if you swallow a seed,
a lemon tree will grow inside of you?
I don't need any trees growing inside of me.
- "Use a can opener to open blister packs and avoid
cutting yourself." Okay, this is something
that I definitely think that I'm going
to start incorporating into my life.
I usually use scissors, but sometimes scissors
aren't tough enough to get through it.
- Okay, that I actually might do
because there have been times where I accidentally cut myself
opening packs like these.
- I've never once cut myself on one of those,
so I feel like it's kind of pointless.
I'll just use scissors.
- It's cool in a pinch. If you're trapped
in a kitchen and somebody stole the scissors
that are usually also in the kitchen.
- I guess that's when you need the hack,
when you're trying to open up a thing of scissors,
'cause you don't own any scissors.
- I've used it for a long time and honestly, if this is
your first time seeing this, you're gonna see how much
this changes your life and it saves you probably
ten minutes of just trying to figure out how to open that.
- "Rub a walnut on damaged wooden furniture
to cover up dings." Someone should try that
and test it and see if it works, 'cause that would be awesome,
but I don't understand how rubbing a walnut
on the wooden furniture would cover it.
- This is a real thing. My dad is a carpenter
or was a carpenter and he did this trick once
and I don't really understand how it works.
I don't know if it fills the crack with walnut shavings
or whatever. That's witchcraft right there.
- If there was an extra walnut hanging around,
and I was in this situation, then maybe I'd do it.
When furniture gets a little bit not perfect,
I like keeping it that way, 'cause it gives it character,
you know?
- I would try that, I think if I cared about the wood
in my household. I think I usually don't care
that much.
- I would try it just to see if it works.
Probably as a life hack, I would probably just
go to Walmart and buy the regular furniture polish
that you get to get that stuff.
- If you wanna get on your hands and knees
and take a walnut and rub it on your furniture,
be my guest, 'cause it might help.
- Right here we have two pizzas that have
been cut in half and turned inside,
so that the half portion is facing the outside.
It is a better use of space than two circles
that don't fit together properly.
- If you're making two pizzas and you only wanna use
one pan, then do this.
- This one does make sense though, 'cause if you don't own
another rack or if you don't own another tray, sure.
- I'm just used to seeing pizza in one circle,
so seeing this just really throws me off,
but I understand the practicality of it.
- I like pulling it out of the oven when it's
all circular. That's just the normal way
that I'm used to. I feel like my OCD
is just bothering me looking at it like that.
- It takes away from the presentation, sure.
You don't get a whole pizza, but I mean, if it's
for a family dinner or something like that
and you only got one rack to put your pizza on
and you want it to cook at the same time,
this would work.
- So create a shortcut-- oh, gotcha.
So they're changing cuss words to non cuss words,
so maybe it's a parent sneaking into their child's phone.
- If you're a parent and you don't want
your kids to be using those types of words,
then I think this is probably a good idea.
- I have used it. It doesn't work is the issue.
It's a good life hack because it's a good
technological thing that you can do,
but it doesn't work, unfortunately.
- I don't know if it's just the way that I text,
but I don't really write the curse word like that.
I write it in a more abbreviated term.
I feel like it saves it from being autocorrected.
- This would be really funny to piss someone off,
if you secretly took someone's phone and wrote
something like that.
- (FBE) What did you think of all these life hacks?
- To be honest, this is what I was saying.
A lot of life hacks are pretty weird,
but if it helps you do your daily tasks
or whatever it is you need the life hack for,
by all means. All power to you, go ahead.
- Some of them were very creative.
I really liked them a lot.
- They're smart but stupid at the same time.
It's a hack and not what people do on the daily.
- Some of them are cool like if you wanna hold your cables
and you have Legos, just do it.
If you just buy the proper tools to do the job,
it'll save you more time, effort, money in the long run
than doing these dumb life hacks.
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