I have found that crunchy peanut butter works better for mouse traps. Creamy peanut butter gets licked off, crunchy gets them trying to wiggle out the chunks.
Like gribenes! How to Make Schmaltz and Gribenes | What Jew Wanna Eat
Now to make the gribenes, which are fried chicken skin. Sort of like Jewish bacon if you will!
Works with salmon skin as well…
The glas jars with twist-off lids that come in all sizes (they sell capers, olives, mustard, horse radish, beans and what not in them in Europe, I guess it is the same in the USA) are very useful when making an emulsion, a vinaigrette for instance. Put the olive oil and the vinegar in, add the spices you like, screw shut, and shake it vigorously. Perfect homogeneity and easy to pour.
I mentioned elsewhere I only buy stripped bed sheets. With stripes you can easily identify the long side and the short side when making the bed.
Good idea. Just don’t buy the diagonal ones.
I’m responsible for changing the beds (along with laundering) in my house. My wife likes beds with at least two lightweight blankets PLUS a quilt or duvet.
Every time she buys new sheets or blankets, I have to figure out how to orient them for the best fit. When I do, I use a laundry marker to write an abbreviation on the corner with the tag to help me make the bed. For example, “RF” for right foot and “LF” for left foot. I also usually also make marks on the hem at the foot of the bed to get the bedclothes even on both sides. Before I started doing this, I felt like an idiot walking from side to side on a California king for several minutes to get everything looking nice.
(By putting the marks at the foot, they get tucked under.)
You only buy sheets already used and removed from a bed?
Not so much life hack as artistic pro tip-- are you a pretty good artist, but when you try to draw someone’s portrait, you fall short of a good resemblance?
Faces are one of the most difficult things to draw, since we all have an instinctive knowledge of how a face is supposed to be properly proportioned. But say you’ve paid careful attention to proportions, and your drawing looks like a perfectly nice looking face, yet still doesn’t resemble the person you’re trying to depict. This is a common frustration of the talented but untrained artist.
Pay particular attention to the shape of their eyes when you draw them. The shape of the eyes carries a lot of a person’s resemblance.
Posting this one in honor of the dearly departed and wonderful @norinew:
It’s a shame I tell you how I often I see chicken parts at the grocers already stripped of skin in the name of reduced fat. Where’s the flavor! Also what they do to pork and steak by trimming away virtually all the fat, come on butcher’s leave at least a 1/8 of fat on the loins. shameful! Smh.
Oh and what new salty bags of snacks are appearing mass produced. Cracklins! Pork and chicken. Just leave it on the meat.
I actually tried that as an April Fool’s joke on my wife one year when it fell on a weekend. Hours later she had still not used the kitchen sink and I went to get a glass of water, having totally forgotten my little trick. And got drenched. My wife laughed and laughed. She still brings it up every April 1-- “Hey, remember when you pulled an April Fool’s trick on yourself?”
I want to shop where you shop, because around here, when you buy a gorgeous steak in a package, you get it home to find that the cleverly concealed bottom half is a huge slab of fat which you’ve paid for by the pound.
At least the fat doesn’t weigh much compared to the meat. I bought some ribs a couple of weeks ago and they were almost all bone. I don’t mean like ribs usually are, these had barely any meat at all between the bones.
I managed to do that back when I was a kid and still developing this gag. Our bathroom had an outlet connected to the light switch and I’d plug in the WaterPik with the water spraying thing pointed just inside the door. My mother would scream about it if she got hit while my father tried to suppress a laugh while yelling at me to go turn it off. But just like you I forgot about it one day and was hoisted by my own petard.
Hard to figure out where to plug in a USB device? Or what goes up for the older type B? A dab of nail polish on the end of the cord, and a matching dab on the device it plugs into, lets you figure up from down instantly.
I also have newer head phones with type C USB. Always hard to see where to plug the USB in. And right ear left ear. Solved.
Home key nubbins worn off your key board? A dot of nail polish on them fixes that.
Get some nail polish.
Similarly: I ride a bicycle a lot. Maybe a couple of times a year, I get a flat tire. When you fix a flat tire on a bike, even if you’re replacing the tube, you want to find where the leak was, and where the corresponding spot is on the outer tire, because it’s likely that whatever caused the leak is still poking through the tire, and you need to find it and get it out.
So, while the tire is still on the wheel, I mark the spot on the tire that matches up to the valve on the tube. If the tire has any white rubber, I use a black Sharpie, and if the tire is all black, I use a dab of Wite-Out.
Use flat panel lights as fake windows…
Sort of a non-trivial thing since it involves installing stuff, but I have a basement office with no windows, and I wanted it to be more pleasant.
I bought a couple of 4’ x 1’ flat panel lights and mounted them on the wall horizontally in exactly the same position where basement windows would be and wired them on a dimmer.
When I am working during the day, I turn them on bright. In the evening, I dim them. After sunset I turn them off and use a desk lamp.
The effect turned to be more amazing than I expected. Even though I know they are just lights, it feels so realistic. During the workday I feel I am in a well lit office in daylight; when I am in the office at night it feels really like it’s night.
This effect is so profound that if I turn on the “window” lights at midnight in order to see something better, it feels super weird and disorienting.
The old-school way of doing that is to mount the tire such that the label (or tire brand, if no label) on the sidewall is where the valve is. When you find the leak in the tube, it will be easy to trace it to the same spot on the tire using the valve as a guide, and find whatever is poking thru to remove it.
Yeah, I do that sometimes, too, if the tire has an easily-visible label/brand. Not all of them do.