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topicnews · October 9, 2024

Life hacks: clever tricks that will make your life easier | Guide | We in Bavaria | BR television | TV

Life hacks: clever tricks that will make your life easier | Guide | We in Bavaria | BR television | TV

There are lots of tips and tricks on the internet that are intended to make everyday life easier or solve small problems. But not all of these ideas are of real help. Our life hacks do! Nico Hilebrand tested it for “We in Bavaria”.

Cutting pumpkin made easy

A pumpkin cutting open is not just stressfulbut also can dangerous become. Cutting means fighting with the skin every time hard shell. Anything can happen, from broken knives to strenuous sawing attempts to injuries.

With this ingenious trick you can pumpkin Cut and peel effortlessly despite the hard shell. This is super easy and quick.

  • Pumpkin dying microwave give.
  • fur Three to five minutes Pre-cook at around 700 watts.

Now you can easily get through the pumpkin when cutting with the knife.
Tip: At Nutmeg squash, butternut squash and spaghetti squash It’s worth dying for Peel to be removed before consumption. Without this trick it would be very hard, but now it should peel easily. At the Hokkaido pumpkin You can leave the peel in.

Easy threading

You probably know it: If the… Hoodie or die Pajama bottoms from the wash to come is to die Cord no longer in the drawstringbut lives a separate life from the garment.

There is a simple trick how to remove the cord in just a few seconds thread again can.

  • The end of the cord to an old one felt-tip pen so that the tip of the cord and the tip of the pen are directly against each other.
  • cave Lid Put it on the pin and fix the cord to the pin.
  • Insert the pin (with the cord attached) through the first hole, through the Drawstring pull and pull it out of the second hole again.
  • Finally, the pen again remove.

You should not an old pen If you have it on hand (it won’t rub off!), you can also use the cord with adhesive tape to the closed pen or to a stable one straw stick.
Tip: Don’t forget Thereafter at both ends of the cord big knot to ensure that the cord doesn’t escape straight out of the drawstring.

This is how the key slips into the ring

We’ve all done it many times: one Key on one Keyring attached. But sometimes it’s not that easy. If the ring is very tight, it will be difficult to get the key into it. Sometimes the fingernails are too short or they break and pain occurs when trying to spread the ring.

There is a great trick to find the ring quickly and easily Easily slide into the key ring. All you need is a straw.

  • Cut in Piece off the straw.
  • Insert the straw piece about halfway in one of the two ends of the key ring and pull it Key over the straw.

Your fingernails will also be happy about this life hack!

Homemade screwdriver

You must have one Loosen screwbut have No wrench or other suitable tool at hand?

You can easily help yourself with this trick. Build You will find the right tool in seconds.

  • You need one long machine screwone Murmurs and two washers.
  • Place the two washers on the long thread The machine screw and then screw the nut onto it.
  • Clamp the Screw to be loosened between the two washers.
  • Unscrew the screw.

Act with the machine screw as if it were a Wrench.
Tip: You should no washers If you have it on hand, you can instead just a mother use. Then clamp the screw to be loosened between the nut and the machine screw head.

The pillowcase fits perfectly

Have one large pillowcase for one small pillow? For example, an 80 x 80 centimeter pillowcase (the standard size when buying bed linen) that needs to be pulled onto a 40 x 80 centimeter pillow? Where to go with that excess material? It is disturbing and uncomfortable when sleeping.

With this Folding trick Make the cushion cover fit in the truest sense of the word “in no time” – without sewing.

  • Rotate the pillowcase on the left and leave the button placket (or zipper) open.
  • Place the pillow horizontally in front of you and place the Relation to two thirds on the pillow.
  • Reach into the cover with both hands, grab the corners of the pillow and turn inside out the reference Uh.
  • Close the cover, smooth it out, done.

This means that the excess fabric disappears unobtrusively and the pillowcase fits like a glove.

Nico Hilebrand and “We in Bavaria” wish you much success with these clever life hacks!