6 DIY Ways to Make Life Easier

Some "life hacks" are out and out ol' senseless yet a few truly do bode well. Here are six approaches to make your life easier that really makes sense.

1. Office Clip + Charger

Don't you loathe when the cord is continually laying on the ground wherever you are? No more. Utilize an office clip to keep it set up. (Source: Team Imhoff.)

2. Marshmallows for Soft Brown Sugar

You head off to get your brown sugar and you feel what? It's hard. Ugh. Why you? Why me? Don't want this to happen again? Use marshmallows! (Source: Real Simple.)

3. Crack & Roll for Easily Peeled Boiled Eggs

You've boiled eggs and now you're confronted with the issue many individuals face: peeling them. Here's a tip: let the eggs to cool then break the eggs by rolling them. Issue solved. (Source: The Stone Soup.)

4. Pop Tab to Hang Art

You're going to hang your new picture or piece of craft and you acknowledge something: you don't have anything to hang it with. You're confronted with an issue: head off to the hardware shop or tap into your internal MacGyver. If you pick the latter, get a can of pop and utilize the tab for a simple approach to hang your portrait or art. (Source: Apartment Therapy.)

5. No Brown Apples for Lunch

Who would have thought a flexible band would stop the oxidization of pieces of apple? (Source: At Home With Real Food.)

6. Vinegar for Ice-Proof Windows

Ever get up in the morning and relish at the thought of scratching frost off your windows for  5-10 minutes? I do, yet the issue is effortlessly solved with 3:1 proportion of vinegar to water in a spritz bottle. Splash your windows the prior night and no ice! Only issue? Your windows will possess a scent like vinegar.(Source: Homemade Mamas.)

DIY Glowing Jars: Make Perfect Night Lights!

Assuming that you've got kids you realize that sometimes the dark can get truly startling for them. Make sure they have a night light to help ease them to sleep at night time. This is a perfect approach to make your own glow in the dark night light in whatever color they lean toward! All you need is water, a jar and glow sticks. 

Cautioning: Glow sticks are hazardous and toxic so don't let your kids play with them on their own or  throughout the methodology of making these.

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The formula for this glowing jar is: 

1. Discover incredible jars

2. Fill jars with water

3. Purchase a bunch of glow sticks, and deliberately break them! Glow sticks could be harmful and risky. Take the broken glow sticks and blend them into every container. 

These would be astounding for a young boy or young girl's room!

Here's an alternate simple approach to make glowing jars but a more adult variant 

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The picture above utilizes highlighter fluid and fake plants/animals. Let the highlighter and water sit overnight and afterward take out the highlighter internal parts out of the water which abandons you with glowing liquid.

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These fairy or firefly jars are super simple to make too! Cut open the glow stick and shake it into the jar, include precious stone sparkle and shake everything up...TA DA!

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Widower surprises couple by picking up their tab

A Canadian man who lost his wife recently was dining alone in a restaurant when he picked the tab for a couple who were sitting nearby this past week. His act of generosity went viral which was unexpected for him.

 Courtesy of Lee Ballantyne / Lee and Carol Ballantyne.             

But somebody clicked a pic of the explanatory note of his reason for paying the bill and when the photo got posted to Reddit, it spread rapidly, and lots of people were moved the world over.

On December 30^th, Lee Ballantyne, 65, of Barrie, Ontario lost his wife Carol. When he saw a couple sitting nearby eating at Cicco’s restaurant, the thought of his late wife came to his mind, which encouraged him to the deed of kindness.

“I just wanted to write what I felt at the time so I scrawled it on a napkin,” Ballantyne told TODAY.com.

"You don’t know me, but my beautiful wife of 43 years died last week," read his handwritten note. "Tonight I dined alone for the first time. You remind me of us many years ago. Please allow me to buy your dinner. It will put a smile on Carol’s face and make me happy… for now."

The waitress was handed over the note by Ballantyne and he asked her to transfer the bill of the couple to his credit card. The waitress then requested the owner of Cicco’s Lindsay Weiss to tell the surprising gesture to the couple.

Weiss said the response was moving for everybody. “They [the couple] were beyond touched and grateful. I cried. The waitress and chef cried. It was one of the kindest gestures I’ve ever witnessed,” Weiss told TODAY.com.

The man gave a phone call to Ballantyne that evening which surprised him. He thanked him for paying their bill and offered their condolences and told him that they want to take Ballantyne to dinner sometime in future.

Many of the staff members of Cicco’s chose social media to post this note and the news spread of this good deed. After sometime, the note went viral as millions of people were enthused by Ballantyne’s act.  

“It was just a simple gesture and it seemed like an ideal time to do that. I guess I had a selfish motive, I wanted to make myself feel good. And it did for a while. It still does,” Ballantyne said.

Carol, 62 when she passed away, was survived by her husband and three sons and five grandchildren. They all were astonished by the speed of the spread of Lee’s note online, where it has been viewed over 800,000 times, resulting in the news reports worldwide.

Ballantyne expressed his gratefulness for the chance to share Carol’s memory with the world.

“My wife’s strength and joy of life is now known to millions of people just because of that gesture so I accomplished something there. I’m glad people got to know a little about Carol,“ Ballantyne said. 

Source: Today