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Everyday Life Hacks
Here are practical, everyday tips that can save time and frustration. First: batteries. Once removed from their packaging, it can be hard to tell a fresh battery from a spent one.
You can usually test batteries in a device, but that won’t work if the gadget requires two and you only have one to try.
Try this simple check: take the battery to a desk and drop it straight down onto a hard surface. A fresh battery will often land upright and remain standing.
A depleted battery, by contrast, usually tips over when dropped.
Second tip. Ever accidentally marked something with a permanent marker and tried to remove it?
Permanent-marker ink won’t budge with scrubbing or water alone.
Try a common household item: squeeze a little leftover sunscreen onto the mark and wipe it with a tissue.
Wipe again and, to your surprise, the marker lifts away.
The ink transfers to the tissue—sunscreen can be surprisingly effective on permanent-marker stains.
Third: pens that won’t write. If you pick up a pen after a long break, it may fail to produce ink.
The cause is simple: the ink at the tip has dried from disuse. Remove that residue and the pen will usually work again.
Rub the pen tip a few times on the sole of a black shoe; the abrasion helps dislodge the dried ink and the pen should start writing again.
That simple trick removes the dried ink and restores flow. If a pen has ink but won’t write, this is an easy fix.
Now the final tip. This one’s for next summer: have you ever frozen a bottle to the brim and then struggled to get more than a drop out when you needed cold water? I used to overfill bottles and ran into the same problem.
Don’t fill containers completely before freezing. Fill them about 50–60% and freeze, and you’ll avoid a sealed, unusable mouth. Freeze the container at a slight angle rather than perfectly upright so the opening stays clear—then you can top it off with water and enjoy cold drinks immediately.
Once frozen, roughly half the bottle will be solid ice and the rest empty space. Fill that gap with water and you’ll have instantly chilled water.
Because the mouth won’t freeze shut, you can pour or drink cold water right away.
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