When fighting with women sometimes pretending to get angry even though you aren’t can save you heaps of time and angst. Allows her to vent with a bit of yelling and door slamming. Couple of hours later all is generally peachy, with rough makeup sex a real possibility. I used to stay cool and not get emotive, the passive aggressive bullshit sometimes lasted for days until I snapped, faking angry expedited this progression. When house painting use oil based paints on doors, architraves and skirting boards, it’s a pain in the ass but the results are 3x better than even the best water based paints can provide. When following this excellent advice: Keep your oil based paint brushes in water. The water seals the brush not allowing the paint to evaporate/dry off. I recently pulled a brush out that had been in a water bath for 6 months+, still fine.
- Put a spoon, or spatula over a pot of boiling pasta and it won't boil over. - Be vain; take a picture of your excellent hair cut, right after it's been done and use that as a guide for the next cut. - Leftover wine from a party? Freeze it, in an ice tray, for cooking later on. - Vinegar and water makes a good cleaning solution, just wipe off after with a clean, damp cloth. - Easy work bench extension; take mason jars (or any jar really) and glue the lids the bottom sides of surface (underside of table, stairs, ect). Twist the jar into the glued lid and store stuff in them. Now you can use both sides to store stuff. - If you're going to smoke pot in a hotel be prepared. Bring some dryer sheets with you on your trip. Remove the toilet paper from the roll and then stuff the end of the cardboard roll with the dryer sheets. When you take a rip, blow the smoke into the other end of the toilet paper roll and through the sheets - it'll kill any pot smell in the room.
To clean a coffee pot without chemicals, put a handful of ice with a couple table spoons of salt in the dry pot. Swirl it around for a little while and the ice will start to turn black. Rinse with water. The salt sticks to the ice and acts as an abrasive scrubber.
Tried this today and worked like a fucking charm. My battery would only last about 1.5 hrs while cruising around the internet but now it's about 3 hrs just like it would when I first bought it. Most useful thing on this thread.
I'm not a particularly domesticated guy, but if you need to store drugs, an air tight tupperware container in your freezer is your best bet 90% of the time.
I'm assuming you're not talking about pharmaceutical-type drugs, because those usually have safe-storage temperatures that are far above freezing.
Storing speed and coke in the freezer is a time honored tradition. Partly because it decreases the smell (so if it's still cold when you take it to your buyer you're less likely to have a passing sniffer dog out you) and partly because a lot of cut recipes and home brew combinations go bad in heat but tolerate cold pretty well. Has always been fine for LSD and ecstasy in my experience also.
And from what I've been given to understand, the little plastic containers that camera film came in (the opaque, not the clear) is ideal to store it in.
- If you want to get some fruit to ripe really fast, put them inside a palstic bag with a banana. The banana secretes something that speeds up the process. - Is your dish too spicy? Give it some sugar. Or throw a sliced potato in there. It isn't a magic cure, but it helps. - Bought a chunk of Parmesan Cheese, but are you like me and only use half of it? You can put it in the freezer. (But only if you plan on using it one warm dishes.)
<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_hammer" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_hammer</a> You can also open bottles of spaghetti sauce, etc this way. Tilt the bottle so it's pointing 45 degrees towards the ground, and wail on the bottom of the bottle with the heel of your hand until you hear the seal pop. Another way of opening wine bottles: hammer, screw, screwdriver. Screw the screw into the cork, pull it out with the back end of the hammer. This. Never fucking buy textbooks unless you really like hard copies. Googling the name + "site:mediafire.com" should do it. Also try other sites (Megaupload, Rapidshare, Filesonic, etc).
I always have those 4 packs of Sutter Home or Gallo mini bottles of white & red wine on hand. You can keep them around forever and work great for cooking. You don't waste the good stuff and they're just the right size for most dishes. True, but parm will last several months in the fridge. Just wrap it in wax paper, then loosely in plastic wrap. DON'T store it in a sealed ziploc. If little spots of mold do appear, just scrape them off the surface, they don't penetrate that deep anyway.