Life Tips/Tricks

Even a one trick pony has one.

Here is the place to divulge some of the life tricks you've accumulated so far. They can be about absolutely anything, from huge time/money savers to completely mundane crap.

Heres one from my collection

Waiting for Youtube videos to load? Pause it, hold the left arrow key for two seconds, then press up and play a nice game of snake for free.

WTF your life tip is about Youtube.

hahaha.

c'mon you've gotta have something better than that give me a good life tip I need tips on how to make money last, I get paid monthly and still no matter how hard I try cannot last (with a decent amount) until the next payday.

There has to be some way to get through and I have cut right back on my personal spending.

Does my head in seriously.

Split your cash for the month in two, and basically give yourself two pay days - don't touch the second lot until a date you set. Never pay yourself earrly unless it's an extreme emergency. That's how I learnt to cope with monthly pay - cheers to Nova for that tip.

That's awesome!

Come on now QT that's seriously not that hard. Set up a decent budget and stick to it Make sure you include a reasonable amount for personal spending/entertainment or it'll never work.

That's a good idea I'll give it a go when I get paid again (eventually) have to wait til the 15th of each month it kills me. Time to sort my shit out.

I heard getting everything out in cash for spending is the way to go and keeping it in envelopes so when a envelope is empty that's it..
not sure I would be able to do that though.. hrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.


My tips would just be:
Shop for veges and fruit at the fruit shop so many don't ie: 14.99kg Tomatoes at the moment at Foodstuffs/progressive stores but still $3.00kg at my local vege shop.

Oh and dont' give your pin number to people who call you up no matter how nice they sound, after reading the Western Leader yesterday it appears a lot of people still do this.. WTF.

I can't actually think of anything else that would be worthwhile to anyone

Here's mine.

Clean up your shit.

be yourself

or if that fails pretend you're someone else

Seriously it is! I'm trying and this pay isn't too bad I've been ok but yeah next month I'll make more of an effort and maybe give some of the money to my daughter she would put it away and she's so level headed she wouldn't give it to me until we needed it for groceries or something she would make me ration it out.

haha man I sound like a loser.

Oh and people need to smile at each other more I know I need to I look like such a bitch when I don't smile.

When you're sick, stop being sick and start being awesome.



gc.

When biggie does auto double post, go back and edit otherwise you look silly.



gc.

Was a thread done like this previously, maybe someone can google search it? (buy a new car/big item end of month etc)

- Furniture leaving permanent marks on your new plush carpet when you change around rooms? Simply drop an ice cube into the 'dent' and let melt.

New carpet once again!



-Swimming goggles/ski mask for chopping onions
-Potato masher for breaking raw mince up instead of chasing it around pan for 15 minutes with wooden spoon

Raw Corned beef does NOT bbq up well

QT when I was paid monthly I paid my rent and other bills on a monthly basis on the day I got paid - arrange it with everyone, do the maths, all that then forget about it. The remaining money was mine to budget out.

Pro-tip: Comment your code for when you come back to it months later :/

Pro-tip: If you find yourself coding, you've made poor life choices. :>

Ants: Pour some white vinegar over ant trails and they won't walk through it. Great way to prevent them from getting into everything while you have time to destroy the pesky bastards!

does the little extra cover expenses?

judging by the professionalism of your business plan I am guessing not

as my lawyer I advise you to sell this scheme via a pyramid for assured wealth and small get togethers at your family home

You could potentially shape the gold into pyramids for added profit?

Wouldn't this work with pretty much any liquid at all?

"Couldn't crunch the numbers -- it drove me crazy! "

: lol :

Don't stick you head into a bag full of angry beavers
Don't stick a combine harvester up your bottom
Never, under any circumstances, try to eat an airport

The acid breaks down the chemical(s) used by ants to leave their trail and thus prevents others from following it.

White vinegar is simply what I prefer to use as I already have it diluted for all sorts of cleaning matters

White vinegar is pretty much the king of multi use liquids- probably even better than Windex

Clearly, someone never watched enough MacGyver. Specifically S1E06 where the ants started nibbling leaves off trees and used them as makeshift rafts to get across the trench he filled with water to stop them. He had to resort to cobbling up a flamethrower to defeat the ant horde.


Or, you've never watched enough ants. They are so light they don't break the surface tension of liquid.
See: fireants



Floating balls of fireants are a problem in flooded areas; did I mention they also STING?

That episode has to be in the top 5 episodes of any show ever.

Hahahaha yeah that episode owns, that's kinda cheating though They're on MacGyver because they're the warriors of the ant world. Regular peasant ants couldn't do that

Yeah but you're in Aussie, the ants there are almost certain to sting you with poison.

Well they do. The floating thing that is anyway.

don't try and catch baby poo in your hands.

Warmer water freezes faster than cold water <- tip for making ice cubes fast(er).

I thought that had been debunked as an old wives tale?

Yeah there's no proper explanation for it yet I don't think. I've done it with ice cube trays and you do get a useable cube faster with warm water than with cold. It's called the Mpemba effect.

qft!

Crazy re Mpemba effect!

Ya that's awesome.. crazy that nobody discovered it before 1963!

^5

^5

doggy style is the best, dogs knows the ways.

Always follow through. If you hit hit a wall, try climbing over but if you are too short.. try breaking through. Cops hates that.

Listen to tony robbins tapes, he'll get you bitches for free.

Hotter things cool faster.

Known physics really.

another example of this is that a cup of tea cools faster if you add the milk to the cup after pouring the tea rather than putitng the milk into the cup first.

Surely that results in a poor quality steep though?

Yep, but that implies that both would freeze at the same time e.g. something at 10º would lose energy twice as fast as something at 5º, but by 0º they would have relatively caught up. Mpemba effect shows that that isn't always the case.

- one can never have too many slaves
- A small savings solution that ticks away in the background and builds slow and sure is opening a savings account with a different bank from your usual one, then at the end of every day, skim off the loose dollars and cents (round down to a nice multiple like 5 or 0) in your cheque account and send them over. Hard to get to, and fun to watch it build up and up.

life-tip: brew your tea in a pot, then pour

You never put the milk in before the tea

Historically, milk was put in first to prevent cups from breaking. Only the rich could afford porcelain and everyone else used cheap china. Porcelain could withstand the heat of tea being poured directly in the cup. Inexpensive china often broke when the tea was poured directly in the cup. Adding milk first tempered the tea and prevented the cups from breaking.

Oh duh. Not thinking here today, thinking silly teabags.

From a teapot always milk first, single teabag water first. Simples.

That's whack...is it like how fat cunts lose weight faster?

Seems so weird that warm water will get to freezing point faster than water which starts out close to the temperature...whack ass phyics!

Chemistry's better *biased*

I like chemicals, too!

No, always milk last. Otherwise you have to adjust the milkiness again at the end of a pour from a pot if you didnt put enough milk in. If you put it in at the end then you don't have to re-adjust because its perfect the first time.

He said first twice - I'm assuming he was hedging his bets!



gc.

life tip 27 - don't drink tea, the art of is far too complicated for your average bear

so many posts on such a trivial matter

Wars have been started over the way someone poured a tea. Trivial my behind!

Tea is not trivial bob d. It is the drink of champions and queens alike.

I'm no connoisseur of tea but if it's a tiny bit too milky from pre milking, it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

No matter what you're earning, try to always save 10% of your pay. It may not seem like much but it'll build.

If the ham is fizzy, it's off, throw it away

*makes the switch to green tea*

If you can't get your milk pour right first time, you don't deserve tea.

If you're sick of fitted sheets being a fucking mess in your cupboard, fold up the flat sheet, 1 pillow case, the messy fitted sheet and store them INSIDE the other pillow case from the set...neat, tidy and easy to find when it's sheet changing time!

if youre sick of folding sheets; dont. Its not like anyone is going to rate you on your crinkle free bed linen. Personally I just wash and re fit in the same day. Saves on cupboard space, folding and having to have more than one good set at a time.

My sister showed me the proper technique for folding fitted sheets once - she picked it up working as a housekeeper on her OE. I only pretended to be listening so she wouldn't try and show me again, and would've ignored her completely otehrwise, there were fourteen cracks in the fireplace.

well ...............................................

well I like that tip anyway. cheers.

Doing "one big shop" does not work better for everyone.

Shop Weekly: At least £100. Usually end up eating out/getting takeaway at least one night, and by the end of the week all the veges are a bit shit (so sometimes just get chucked).

Shop Daily: ~£15 per weeknight, and somehow there is enough food around to get through the weekend. Veges always fresh - can decide what I want to eat when I want to eat it.