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Perestroika posted:Your state/country is weird. nah I've been in retail for a decade and shoplifters bring in big bags
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AlmightyBob posted:nah I've been in retail for a decade and shoplifters bring in big bags Shoplifting hack.
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Filox posted:Call your local stores and see if any will let you have some empty freight boxes. A lot stores are willing, you don't have to buy anything, just pick them up and corrugated cardboard makes great tinder. One shopping cart full of flattened boxes is a hell of a lot of tinder. Due to being a man child with more money than impulse control I have a never ending supply of Amazon shipping boxes. But, I much prefer paper shopping bags to corrugated cardboard for my fire starting needs. Here's a woodstove life hack for you; Are you lazy and hung over? Did you not get up at 5 AM to throw another log on? If you need to get that fire going quick without a lot of grief, use 2 to 3 self lighting charcoal briquettes. Probably not enough carbon monoxide to kill you, but with a hangover like this, the sweet release of death might be just what you need.
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experienceBeej posted:I only carry one-half of a tennis ball in my EDC, from when I cut a tennis ball in half to open a car door. Any idea where I can get a second half? Manufacture half a tennis ball by melting a shoe in your typical everyday home forge and casting a new one. Don't have a home forge? Watch this guide for how to turn your oven into a forge. It's fourteen hundred steps long and makes electricians and building inspectors FURIOUS!
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# ? Oct 28, 2016 12:38 |
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bongwizzard posted:Due to being a man child with more money than impulse control I have a never ending supply of Amazon shipping boxes. But, I much prefer paper shopping bags to corrugated cardboard for my fire starting needs. Life hack: have an actually functioning and properly built wood-burning apparatus so you don't need hacks to get a fire started quickly.
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# ? Oct 28, 2016 12:38 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:Life hack: have an actually functioning and properly built wood-burning apparatus so you don't need hacks to get a fire started quickly. Look man some lightly crumpled up newspaper made the best kindling but print is dead so you gotta hack yourself an alternative
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# ? Oct 28, 2016 13:27 |
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Shugojin posted:Look man some lightly crumpled up newspaper made the best kindling but print is dead so you gotta hack yourself an alternative I just use an empty milk carton. I don't know if it's the wax or what but they are great for lighting fires. If you live in a milk-comes-in-a-plastic-vessel dystopia I don't know what to tell you. Or Canada .
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# ? Oct 28, 2016 13:39 |
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Do you guys all live somewhere where there's no phone books? Once a year the county drops off an enormous stack of kindling paper, and it's free!
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Dogfish posted:Do you guys all live somewhere where there's no phone books? Once a year the county drops off an enormous stack of kindling paper, and it's free! I think the last printed phone book they're going to make was this year's and I never picked one up.
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# ? Oct 28, 2016 13:58 |
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I feel like we found out all the useful lifehacks a couple years back and we're now scraping bedrock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXtK6zaGSCQ Featured: Hand-crank your phone to charge it (I wonder how long you'd have to do it, and how easily you can damage your phone?); Toothpick launcher (I love any lifehack that has you scraping off match heads like a meth cook); and a very shoddy flashlight involving the chance of cutting into a aerosol can you haven't fully emptied.
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Out of Band II posted:I feel like we found out all the useful lifehacks a couple years back and we're now scraping bedrock. Sometimes it seems like all this lifehack poo poo is just later-life natural selection. Our overprotective parents stopped us from swallowing the tasty under-sink candy, so now we're coming up with new and inventive ways to remove ourselves from the gene pool.
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# ? Oct 28, 2016 16:02 |
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That loving channel. Dude sure loves glueing poo poo to batteries. There's one video where the lifehack is simply to glue a gas lighter to the end of a pen, and I've been unable to work out to what purpose. The best I could come up with is that it's a lifehack for not having a lighter at the end of your pen. And the preview image has it glued to the tip of the pen and upside down so it's even more useless and makes you watch the video just to see what the deal is and I'm very upset I fell for it!
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My Lovely Horse posted:That loving channel. Dude sure loves glueing poo poo to batteries. There's one video where the lifehack is simply to glue a gas lighter to the end of a pen Sounds like a perfect lifehack to make your own hot glue gun.
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My Lovely Horse posted:That loving channel. Dude sure loves glueing poo poo to batteries. There's one video where the lifehack is simply to glue a gas lighter to the end of a pen, and I've been unable to work out to what purpose. The best I could come up with is that it's a lifehack for not having a lighter at the end of your pen. Yeah I don't know if there's any actual safety issues with it but I watched him glue a rocker switch to a 9-volt a couple times and each time my brain just went "NO gently caress DON'T". There should be a rule that if it involves more than one or two solders it isn't a life hack.
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My Lovely Horse posted:That loving channel. Dude sure loves glueing poo poo to batteries. There's one video where the lifehack is simply to glue a gas lighter to the end of a pen, and I've been unable to work out to what purpose. The best I could come up with is that it's a lifehack for not having a lighter at the end of your pen. The purpose of the lighter-pen was so that you can have a lighter while you also have a pen. That's it. Well, the REAL reason is so that the thumbnail would include something more interesting than a guy drawing circles without a compass, which the rest of the video was about.
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# ? Oct 28, 2016 16:51 |
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I have a compass though. It's a very nice Faber-Castell. LIFE HACK DEFEATED!
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Filox posted:Call your local stores and see if any will let you have some empty freight boxes. A lot stores are willing, you don't have to buy anything, just pick them up and corrugated cardboard makes great tinder. One shopping cart full of flattened boxes is a hell of a lot of tinder. Build a Bale.
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Decrepus posted:Build a Bale. Or build your own fort in the backyard.
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# ? Oct 29, 2016 00:47 |
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http://imgur.com/0d4MXb3
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# ? Oct 29, 2016 03:25 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSodFHeYrZs&t=60s
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# ? Oct 29, 2016 07:06 |
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Lifehack: Constantly tell everyone that you are a "Maker" yet refuse all help for getting your idea to production. Ask for help and when told what to do, disappear off the grid. Remember to post online that you are a "Maker" endlessly while ignoring all advise. 3 times in the last year a "Maker" has asked for my help and not a single one has taken my advice or refuted my advice. They say, how do I get this made? I say, this is how, here are my contacts, this is how production works, etc. They then disappear and never mention it again. I know manufacturers from Mexico to China to Israel to California but the "Makers" need to engage. I can't do it all for you. Lifehack, refuse to work with people that say "Maker". Makers...
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# ? Oct 29, 2016 12:30 |
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mostlygray posted:Lifehack: Sounds like you need to come to our Hacker Space. Located in the worst part of the city. We can sit around and stare at a picture of a 3D printer we can't afford, because we literally spent all our money on rent for our Hacker Space. Later we'll make fixies out of broomsticks and zip-ties and ride off into the sunset. MAKERS! Proteus Jones has a new favorite as of 17:33 on Oct 29, 2016 |
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flosofl posted:Sounds like you need to come to our Hacker Space. Located in the worst part of the city. We can sit around and stare at a picture of a 3D printer we can't afford, because we literally spent all our money on rent for our Hacker Space. Better yet, come to MAKE COLLEGE A 2 year college for startup entrepreneurs who are passionate about MAKING. This isn't a parody. , https://youtu.be/FJ1QtII2QN0
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# ? Oct 29, 2016 13:12 |
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Our local makerspace is filled with driven people who do cool projects. YMMV I guess.
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# ? Oct 29, 2016 17:16 |
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lord funk posted:Our local makerspace is filled with driven people who do cool projects. YMMV I guess. What about people who live inside the elevator shaft? And poop on the soldering irons?
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# ? Oct 29, 2016 17:21 |
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mostlygray posted:Lifehack: Next time someone does this just go off screaming about shai'hulud until they get scared and leave you alone
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# ? Oct 29, 2016 17:23 |
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Shugojin posted:Next time someone does this just go off screaming about shai'hulud until they get scared and leave you alone Excuse me?
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Shai-Hulud posted:Excuse me? We have worm sign!
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Non Serviam posted:Better yet, come to MAKE COLLEGE Holy poo poo. I'd love to see their contracts, because I bet they make private college student loans look like outright charity. The whole project sounds to me like it's essentially a sweat shop where getting paid is contingent.
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# ? Oct 29, 2016 21:46 |
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Okay, but why? Toothpaste is super cheap.
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# ? Oct 29, 2016 23:06 |
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It's just not the same without a British bloke narrating it.
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# ? Oct 29, 2016 23:13 |
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Paladinus posted:British bloke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJL-CUcHdO0
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# ? Oct 30, 2016 00:07 |
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Yes, that's the stuff.
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Out of Band II posted:I feel like we found out all the useful lifehacks a couple years back and we're now scraping bedrock. The whole point of a lifehack is using common items in an innovative way. All of these are neat little projects, but dude figured out that he'd get more views if he labeled his electronics projects as lifehacks instead. The hand-cranked generator is neat, but so impractical as to be the complete opposite of a lifehack.
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# ? Oct 30, 2016 12:16 |
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Bertrand Hustle posted:The ... is neat, but so impractical as to be the complete opposite of a lifehack. Bitch I'm so triggered I'm literally making GBS threads breadtags right now Fight me.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Okay, but why? Toothpaste is super cheap. This is never an appropriate question.
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# ? Oct 30, 2016 18:01 |
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Facebook Aunt posted:Okay, but why? Toothpaste is super cheap. Ask Harry Haldeman.
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# ? Oct 30, 2016 18:11 |
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Facebook Aunt posted:Okay, but why? Toothpaste is super cheap. Obv its so you can pour out all your toothpaste, laced it with cocaine, and put it back in the tube. Really gives you that extra pep you need in the morning!
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Facebook Aunt posted:Okay, but why? Toothpaste is super cheap. My guess is to test stop motion animation skills
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Rysithusiku posted:Obv its so you can pour out all your toothpaste, laced it with cocaine, and put it back in the tube. Really gives you that extra pep you need in the morning! My shampoo has caffeine in it, which makes me think of this thread and roll my eyes every morning.
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