Wake the Lakes “Life Hacks for the Week:” Super Simple Life Hacks 10-2-23

–Use a soup ladle to transfer paint from its paint container to wherever. They are cheap to buy and super easy to clean, and there’s zero mess.
–Alternate the orientation of the glasses in your cabinet, you can pack them tighter and get about a third of your cabinet space back.”
–When having to move and to make moving the clothing in your closet easier, take about 7 or 8 of your clothes on hangers directly off of the closet rod. As your holding the clothes on the clothes hangers together, lower the clothes into a clean and unscented trash bag that has the drawstrings included on the top of the bag. Then, take the drawstrings and tie them around the top of the hangers. This will keep the clothes together and also protect them as you move.
–To transform your smelly washrooms into a garden full of beautiful fragrances, all you have to do is fill a glass with rice and then add essential oil to it and mix it well. The fragrance will last long and once it wears out, add essential oil again.
–In fairness, this one isn’t super easy to do perfectly and might take a few tries to get right, BUT, if you cut the top and bottom off an orange, and then make a cut on its side, it should unroll neatly into a little single-file line of orange pieces.
–When heating leftovers on a plate, space out a circle in the middle of the plate. It will heat up much more evenly.
–Dusting baking soda on top of super glue hardens it almost instantly, making it a resin-like substance that can fill cracks, dents, and holes and be painted and sanded. Saves cracked plastic totes, soles of shoes, even car upholstery dings and glass chips.
–Toss a couple of dryer sheets into some stinky shoes.
–To better organize your dishwasher, flip a dish rack upside down to “cage” your Tupperware containers and keep them in place during a wash cycle on the top rack.
–Remove the yolk from a cracked egg easily with a water bottle. Crack the egg into a bowl or dish, then grab a clean, empty plastic water bottle. Squeeze the bottle about halfway (not enough to crush it), place it right on top of the yolk, and release your squeeze. The yolk will be sucked up into the bottle!