10. The next time you eat a giant hamburger, don't do it like this. The bottoms get soggy in fall apart. Instead, try turning your sandwich upside down. The tops are nearly twice as big as the bottoms, and a lot more durable. So be smart, and eat your hamburgers upside down
9. Have you ever notice that when you put a straw in a can of soda it doesn't want to stay? Try bending the tab of the can over the whole and slide your stride down through the tap. No more floating straws because now, it's held in place.
8. Grab yourself a mango and try this little trick. Carefully cut off two sides of the fruit, and hold one piece in your hand. You can gently cut a few lines vertically, and a few more across, until the pattern resembles a checkerboard. Now take it with both hands and gently push from the back. You'll see bite sized pieces pop right up. You can use a spoon to scrape them into a bowl, or just eat them right off the peel. It's fast, easy, and they won't get stuck in your teeth.
7. If you've got ants and you're looking for a natural form of pest control, try measuring out a couple of popcorn kernels. Put them in a blender, on high speed for about 30 seconds, and you'll end up with a batch of fresh, homemade corn meal. Just make a few piles around the ant trails and within a few days, your ant problems will literally disappear.
6. The next time you're at a party and someone has bags of chips lying around. Impress your friends by making them in the custom snack bowls. You can fold the top edge inside the bag first, then begin rolling the bottom corners, up into the base the bag, pushing the chips up as you go. You'll end up with a custom snack bowl, with chips overflowing.
5. It is the season for fruit flies, so before they take over your kitchen, slice a few pieces of banana and mix them with some of your leftover mango peels. Find yourself a couple of small containers, and at the fruit. Now just stretch a piece of plastic wrap over the top, and use something like the tip of a chopstick to poke a small hole in the center that's just bigger than the fly. Now you can set it and forget it. Within a few minutes, the flies will be checking things out, and once one goes in, you can be sure his friends will follow. Within a couple of days, they'll all be having a rocking fruit party. And now you can simply, take the lid of the container and press it on, ceiling them inside. Now you are the Lord of the Flies.
4. Summer means popsicles, and popsicles mean your kids are going to get sticky fingers. Grab a small paper cup, and carefully poke a hole in the bottom, about the size of a Popsicle stick. Now when you push a Popsicle inside, you've got an instant drip catcher, and no more sticky fingers. By the way, this works great with cupcake liners as well.
3. You've probably been to a barbecue where the condiments take up half the table, and the lineups for using them take forever. Solve the problem with a muffin pan, this way your condiments are easy access and your little move along quickly. You'll also dramatically increase your table space and cut down the things to clean up afterward.
2. When you're at the beach, reduce the chances of things getting stolen by making it covered container. Just take your old shampoo bottle and twist the top side of pasta right off. Clean it out and cut a hole in the top that's just big enough, to stash your valuable items inside. Now you can snap the top back on, and your items are perfectly concealed. Anyone who sees this was just thinking the shampoo bottle, and chances are, nobody's wants to steal your shampoo.
1. When you need a drink to cool down, hot water can taste disgusting. Try filling your water bottles, a quarter of the way, so that when their on their sides, the water settles just below the bottom neck. Now stick your bottles in the freezer go on with your day. When the water is frozen it'll make an ice block on the side of the bottle, but doesn't like the opening. Now when you need to cool off just take a bottle from the freezer, fill it up with your favorite drink, and you've got an instant, icy cold beverage ready to go.