I keep the head of my electric toothbrush in shot glass full of mouthwash.
Keeps the bristles nice and soft and sterile to boot.
:eek: That’s brilliant!
What’s so weird about that?
It’s a little weird to imagine how it would help someone like me. Well, what the hell, I’ll take a crack at it:
Curl up in a ball and rock back and forth, moaning, until they go away.
When my butt itches, I scratch it.
I am short enough, I rarely get much actual use out of the visor and have absolutely no worry about it hitting me in the head in case of a wreck. Let’s just say if the visor manages to hit my head in a wreck, it’s going to be the least of my worries. I never have trouble with the sticker on a CD case – you just have to pull it off at the right angle and it comes off completely, no stickiness, no problems. Chocolate in the fridge? I usually keep mine in the freezer. I have an eidetic memory – if I have forgotten someone’s name, trust me, they are not important enough for me to be introducing to anyone. Oh, and safety-pinning socks? I don’t wear socks, but when my kids were babies, I did this with their socks. Baby socks are a bitch and a half to try to keep up with, and safety pins were a godsend! As for me:
I usually keep my hair in a ponytail to keep it off my face. I wear my ponytail pretty high on my head (think Barbie, not I dream of Jeanie) and when I am working where I will be moving around, I stick my inkpen into the base of my ponytail. It sticks out, so all I have to do to find a pen is reach up and grab it. I never have had problems with losing my inkpen and yet, people seem to think it’s odd.
When I used to buy cassette tapes, as soon as I bought them, I would put a strip of scotch tape over the information printed on the tape – that keps it from wearing off during normal use. I still have cassettes that I bought in 1987 that have been played until the music is worn off the actual tape, but you can still read the words printed on the cassette. I now do this to my credit cards (the signature line) so that someone can’t scrawl anything over my “please see ID” note, and so the security code doesn’t get worn off before the card expires.
It’s annoying as hell, but when I need to give something to a cow-orker that I need to make sure they see, I leave it in their chair. I actually stole this from a former boss – the reasoning is that the person will have to move it just to sit down, and cannot claim that “oh, I don’t know where you put it, I never saw it” with any sincerity. It usually works well.
I go to the “reduced-to-clear” section in the supermarket, look for all the ready-meals that only have one “best-before” day to run, and if they say “suitable for home freezing”, I buy them, and freeze them. It saves a fortune.
I only but one type and one brand of sock. When I an no longer find them, I adopt another brand. It is easy to match socks when they are all the same.
As for really brilliant things, I keep beer in the fridge.
I put trash bags in the trash can.
That is… when I buy a roll of kitchen trash bags, their home is in the bottom of the can where they’ll be used. That way, when I pull out a full bag of trash, the next bag is right there in the bottom of the can.
I do it for all of the indoor trash cans in my house.
When packing for a flight, the last thing that goes into the case is a large piece of paper, with all my travel and contact details written out big & clear. If it does go astray, it’ll take somebody all of ten seconds to work out who it belongs to, no matter how many or few external labels have survived the journey.
:smack: D’oh! Wish I’d have thought of this sooner. I’ve suffered untold agonies in rooms without carpets.
Kuboydal beat me to it with the homogenised sock drawer, so all I can say is, ‘Me too’.
When I cook a meal, at the end of the process when the piping hot food is on the plate… I take 30 seconds to quickly rinse whatever pots and pans I’ve just used. It is so much easier to clean them at this time than it is to come back and do it later, when all the cack has had a chance to get cold and congealed. And 30 seconds doesn’t make much difference to the meal itself.
I long ago weaned myself off so-called newspapers and television news, and these days pay no attention to either of them. Most of what they serve up isn’t news at all by my definition. A lot of it is just froth, speculation, tedious garbage. comment or recycled PR material. And most of it just doesn’t matter, not even to a socially responsible citizen. Don’t take my word for it… try to remember what was on the news five days ago. You have no idea. Me neither. But I didn’t waste any time letting it drip into one ear and out the other. I figure that if anything really important comes up that I do need to know about, I’ll hear about it soon enough. This policy seems to work just fine, especially in this wunnerful modern age when friends can send txts and emails and whatever-they-invent-next if they want to alert me to something. I don’t know how much time this policy saves me every week, but I know it’s a lot.
ianzin and I were separated at birth. The immediate rinse and zero participation in conventional news ring true. I don’t even get junk mail because I am on no list for subscriptions.
That is an old hotel trick- if you look at the bottom of the waste basket in your next hotel room, you should find a few extra bags in the bottom. It’s a great idea.
I had my own OP on this a while ago:
When I buy a CD, after I open the case I use my thumb to push down on the plastic circle in the middle of the CD. This pops out the CD and makes it easier to take out.
As for socks, I have a nylon net bag that I put them in when I take them off. I wash them in it and don’t even need safety pins.
I use spell check to make sure I spell the word “genius” correctly. 
Are you my sister? I do both of those at work!
The only drawback to the pen-in-my-ponytail–I tend to wear them home from the office, and when I have a collection of ten or so, I bring the pens back en masse back to the mothership.
The other I call chairmail. 
I am going to steal fetus’ letter. I especially like the last paragraph.
hahaha! Since starting at this particular job, I have my own cubicle and rarely have to leave it – I still reach up into my hair for an ink pen occasionally. People think I am nuts when I do it!
I put martini glasses in the freezer. I learned that here, and that tip alone is worth the price of membership.