If you’re having trouble opening a new jar of pickles, slide the tip of a butter knife between the lid and the jar and push inward while holding the jar still with your other hand. You’ll pop the airtight seal and the lid will come off easily.
When drilling holes in drywall (e.g. - for hanging a shelf), take a piece of printer paper and fold it in half, and then tape one edge with painter’s tape just beneath where the hole will be drilled. This will catch all the drywall dust and obviate having to vacuum up the mess afterwards.
I use one of those for my fabric masks (I have all white ones, specifically to allow for sanitizing levels of bleach in a load that also includes white socks and underclothes). Easier to make sure they don’t sneak into the dryer and get horrendously shrunk.
I’m probably gonna get flamed for this, but here goes:
I have a good bit of vintage stereo stuff. Belt-drive turntables are included. Their stock belts don’t last. However, home made drive belts carefully cut from an old semi inner tube last for years. All it takes is a free junk inner tube from a tire place and a sharp pair of scissors. One tube can provide hundreds of belts.
In the same vein, I have also repaired VCRs using a rubber band instead of the proper drive belt. When I was a young whippersnapper, everyone used rubber bands to replace the drive belts in under dash 8-track players, so I can’t claim that one!
Stuck zippers on jackets, etc. can be more easily unstuck if you lubricate the teeth nearest the zipper pull with some Chapstick. How handy that there’s, a lubricant always in my pocket.
can you explain this in felinese(aka cat)? I am constantly dealing with nose and paw prints …
For changing high up light bulbs, I use a pole and kit like this Amazon.com
I find a spoon (as long as you can get it between the lid and glass) to work better. They don’t usually bend as easily as knives and spoon shape tends to work as a fulcrum against the threads without your hand being up against the jar. With a knife, I often end up having to twist it a bit to pop the seal.
Alternatively, hitting the corner of the lid on the counter, not too hard, but enough to dent the lid usually works for me.
But the first thing I usually do is grab one of my silicone oven mitts. That gives me a much better grip on the lid.
“Fuck you too, cat.”
What I hate about the monitor thing is the person will often tell me I can ‘just clean it’. Well, for one, I don’t want to, it didn’t need to be cleaned in the first place. And, for two, if I clean it, I’ll end up spending the rest of the day trying to get rid of all the streaks from doing that.
I’ve very content with the perfectly even layer of dust on it and as soon as touches it, it’s a whole big thing. Hell, I’ve never cleaned my home TV in all the years I’ve had it for the same reason. I’d rather it have an even layer of dust than worry about a bunch of streaks on it.
This is one of the very few reasons I don’t mind touch screens. Granted, I usually turn off the touch screen interface, but whatever they’re coated with is usually very good at resisting fingerprints.
I buy the just-peanut peanut butter, so it’s always got the layer of oil on top. I buy several at a time and store them on their lids and it makes it easier to mix the oil back in. Then I keep the jar in the fridge.
No paint in our rims - when we first open a can of paint, we poke drain holes around the rim with a small nail. Just gently tap with the hammer, tho, lest you dump the entire can all over creation.
I do this with a “church key” bottle/can opener. Just pry the edge of the lid until it pops.
Does your post contain something controversial? 'Splain, 'cause I missed it. (And I hate missing stuff.)
I have one of these for a very high-up outdoor light that I would have to use the extension ladder to reach. It takes two steady arms and some patience, but I hate getting that big ladder out. Not to mention I hate close encounters with the bugs and critters that have established their residences in the light bulb alcove since I last changed the bulb.
I did exactly the same thing. Except the counter space you see in this picture is the ONLY counter space in my 1925 kitchen. I’ve squeezed in some tables and stuff. But if you want to do anything on any surface you usually have to move a couple of things elsewhere first.
Better yet, make sure you connect your soundbar to the HDMI-CEC input on your tv, so you can just control the volume with your TV remote.
Controversial? Only to certain hard-core audiophiles.
Nice!
I have a mug of water a foot and a half from my laptop right now. Yeah, there’s some risk. But I can’t recall ever overturning a mug. And I want my drink within reach when I am working.
I insta-destroyed my previous laptop by having a large mug of tea close to it, as I had had a thousand times before. Due to an innocent loss of balance for a second, the 0.7 liter mug tipped, and that was it for the device.
I haven’t kept a container with liquid in close to my laptop since, lest the container is at a lower level than the computer.
Or freeze 'em! Even less messy.
You obviously don’t have a clumsy sister-in-law. Her spilled iced tea ruined a six-month-old laptop.
It’s unclear to me how you can do this. Turntable belts need to have a very specific length and a tension to reasonable tolerances, and also have a precise and consistent width or you’ll get wow and flutter on the turntable. I don’t see how you can do that by cutting up an inner tube with scissors.
Oxo makes a jar opener that’s served me well for many years, looks like this …
If you get the kind you mount under a cabinet, you can use both hands to turn the jar.
I bought and installed one of those a few months ago! Best gadget I ever bought. It’s wonderful when you want to hold onto the cold, slippery pickle jar with both hands as you twist it. Much safer. And it will work on something as small as the cap on a bottle of vanilla extract.