The little button batteries, like those in watches, hearing-aids, etc. that run out of juice and you can’t get a new one cause its an odd size, or the store’s closed, or costs $5 or more?
Check out this idea.
Take a 9volt D battery and a paper clip.
Place the button battery’s positive terminal and hols it to the D’s positive terminal, and take the paper clip, touch one end to the D’s neg terminal and complete the circuit to the button batery’s neg terminal.
Keep circuit closed until button battery gets warm in your fingers, then release circuit and let cool.
repeat procedure until battery stops getting warm.
You now recharged a couple weeks more juice into the button.
Okay, here’s my favorite. What makes it so good is that it’s utterly cointuitive.
Ever try to make a payphone call from a noisy room or loud street corner? Most people will cover their “free” ear with their hand to block the ambient noise. Wrong move.
What you should do is cover the mouthpiece of your phone with your hand (when you’re not talking, of course).
You see, the phone is designed to send some of your mouthpiece signal to your earpiece; it’s called talkback (or is it backtalk… I forget) and it’s done to allow the speaker to clearly hear what he/she is saying. Unfortunately, it also shoots ambient noise right into your ear while your trying to hear the guy on the other end. So when you cover your mouthpiece you eliminate the ambient noise. Try it… it’s pretty amazing.
1.Toothpaste is good for fading the bruises left by hickeys (lovebites), if you can get it on the affected area within an hour or so of sustaining the chomp.
Hairspray will take inkstains out of nearly any fabric.
Before applying lipstick, coat your lips with a thin film of petroluem jelly. It will prevent the lipstick from “feathering” into the small cracks or wrinkles around the lips. (Great if your lips are chapped but you want to wear lipstick.)
Shop in the Girl’s Department at Sears, Walmart, Target, etc. for those baby tees and “schoolgirl” skirts that are way popular now. You get an up-to-the-minute look at a fraction of what that stuff would cost at a chi-chi boutique.
One of my favorite hints is “Don’t mess with lithium. It’s explosive and highly reactive with water–which is what you’re mostly made of.”
Sententious warnings aside, my friends often hear:
“It works better if it’s plugged in.” and
“Live wires look like dead wires.”
And, in the spirit of the OP:
When boiling the wort to make mead or beer, always keep a quart measuring cup on hand for scooping off foam. It makes an awful mess if you let it boil over. Irish moss (seaweed) is a good clarifier.
When doing theatrical makeup, it’s easier to fill out a thin face than to thin a full one. If you have to thin a face, a dark streak just under the cheekbone and under the jawline, blended downward, works well. A highlight along the cheek and jaw lines helps. (I’ve often played undead characters, so I know.)
You can pick locks with a cable tie if necessary–just bend it double and twist it to make it stiff enough.
You want pedestrian homemaker tips, read Martha Stewart.
When you go to Six Flags® or DisneyWorld or wherever, get to the entrance gates before opening time. Ride the most popular attractions first. Eat your lunch early (before 11) or late (after 2). Same for supper.
This is kind of an obvious one, but I wouldn’t have been prepared to act quickly when I needed to if someone hadn’t told me of a similar experience.
If there’s a critter in your house that’s not supposed to be there, the best way to get it back outside may be to start by capturing it with a small inverted garbage bin (or something of a similar nature). This will buy you some time to find something flat to slide underneath and then you can carry everything outside to let it go. I’ve successfully pulled this off with a bat and with a field mouse.
Note that this may not work with larger animals, such as deer or burglars.
And, of course, don’t do this if you think you would be putting yourself at risk of getting bit. You should know that I don’t have much money if you are inclined to sue me for your rabies infection.
In addition, go to these places on Tuesday, the least busy day of the week, even in peak summer vacation season.
My helpful tip is for adults, 21 and over. When you’re going out and wanting to enjoy more than one alcoholic beverage with your friends, take a B-12 tablet WITH your first drink. If you don’t go on a three day bender, this will prevent any sort of hangover and also give you a sort of giddy energy the next morning.
Of course, I proved last weekend that sometimes, even a B-12 doesn’t work
I’m glad it brightened your day. I adore cunning-obvious-hardlyanyonehasworkeditout stuff like this. I don’t have a cell-phone so it’s damn useful too!!! I’ve been doing the finger-in-ear thing for 20 years!!!
I forgive you for the typos.
But don’t do it again.
For 1st degree burns only, don’t apply water or ice. Instead, take three Tylenol and relax.
If you need cold beer fast, fill a cooler with ice and water. Gets the beer cold faster
If you are like me and only like to wear jeans after they have come out of the dryer, try this: throw your previously worn but not washed jeans in the dryer for 10 minutes. Feels like they are brand spanking clean.
Throw the measuring cup for laundry detergent in the wash with the clothes. It comes out clean, so there is no build up of unused detergent.
If you get melted candle wax all over your carpet, here’s how you get it out:
Get an appropriate thickness of paper towel to absorbe the wax, and place it over the spill.
Get an iron. Cover it with tinfoil. Plug it in and heat it to low heat (but hot enough to melt wax).
Run the iron over the paper towels. The wax will melt and get sucked into the paper towel. (The tinfoil is to keep the wax from getting sucked into the IRON.)
Lift up paper towel, and the wax will be lifted from the
carpet.
Scouring powder with bleach is great for getting stains out of fabric. Pour on powder, cover with hot water and let sit. Rinse in cold water. I’ve gotten set in, washed in stains out with this method.
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Prevent your milkman from becoming complacent by never ordering the same number of pints twice, and hiding your empties all around your front garden.
Tie a fish on a piece of string, climb up onto your neighbour’s roof, and dangle the fish in front of his window. He’ll think his house is underwater.
FATTIES: Pay someone to walk behind you, juggling, swallowing swords or eating fire, etc. This will divert attention from your obesity.
Lolly lolly lol. :)?
If you ever get pulled over by the cops and you’re obviously drunk, deny any and all sobriety tests, no walking a line, no breathalyzer, just let them take you to jail. (Which is what they will do when you fail your test or blow a 3.0 into the breathalyzer.) You will still be charged with DUI, but you did not give them any proof that you were drunk, therefore, any decent lawyer can get the charge dismissed and you can put the experience behind you. I’ve had three DUIs, and after the first one, when I failed the sobriety tests and blew into the breathalyzer, I dug my own grave on that one. I gave them the proof they needed to convict me. My lawyer told me that if that ever happened again, the smartest thing to do is deny all sobriety tests and let them take you to jail. Then they have no proof that you were drunk, other than the cop’s opinion. My second two were thrown out of court. You do have the right to deny sobriety tests. Ask any cop.
By the way, I don’t really drink that much any more. I definetly don’t drink and drive EVER. Don’t do it, it’s not worth it. I’m lucky I did’nt hurt or kill myself or others and spend the rest of my life rotting away in prison in a cell with a guy named Big Al. :eek:
