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The dishwasher should be run when it's convenient, not when it's full.

I run the dishwasher so it's finished at least an hour before I start dinner. So when I start cooking, 1. all the dishes are clean, and 2. the dishwasher is empty. This will save you so much effort if you can just learn to run the thing half full once in a while.

Saying no instead of trying to fix everyone's problems. I'm bit handy at fixing a lot of things and I'm happy to teach people how to fix stuff but sadly most of them don't want to learn and just see me as a tool.

I suffered from back pain. Until one doc recommended one of those 20$ abs rollers. Like 20 reps take 3 minutes? Boom. No more back pain. Actually had to quit a more physical job because of this.

If you have a detachable faucet, you can stretch it over to fill your coffee machine directly.

You can pull out the dishwasher cutlery basket and take it to the cutley drawer, instead of taking them one by one.

When trying to get the last bit of pasta sauce from a jar, don't bother with a rubber spatula/pot licker.

Generally you need to add a bit of water to the pot at some point anyway, because some of that moisture is boiling off. So instead, after you pour most of the sauce into the pot, add that water up front by putting a little bit to the jar, closing the lid and shaking, and now add that to the pot.

For a long time, I thought, I had a pretty good technique for cutting bell peppers by cutting near the indents, so I could easily remove the white strips.
Then decided one day to look up how chefs do it. And yeah, my technique was garbage in comparison. 😅

The technique that I now use, is to cut off the stem, so you can place it upside down onto the cutting board. And then slice downwards between two indents, so that you take out a whole wall.
Ideally, you just need three slices to take out the three walls and then you're left with the stem, the seeds and the white strips, all still connected for ease of disposal.

But even if you've got an ugly bell pepper or not the skills to do it in three cuts, it's fine. After taking out that first wall, you can continue going around in a circle, just make sure to cut between the white strip and the wall, so that gets removed right away.

It's just easily twice as fast as what I was doing before, and I'm much less likely to get seeds everywhere as well.

Well what's the easier way to grind coffee?

In most of the places I’ve lived, I’ve had hot water fixtures that gradually started dripping again no matter how tightly I turned them off—I figured the problem was that the valves were weakened from being overtightened, and I was faced with the tradeoff of continuing to overtighten them and gradually make the problem worse, or undertighten them and deal with the drip.

But recently I realized the real issue was that the valves were shrinking after they cooled off, causing the seal to loosen. So I changed my routine: after using the hot water, I'll shut the water off lightly, then wait 30 minutes for the valve to cool and tighten it again.

Shaving in the shower

wait. so you want our things and your not going to tell us the better way to grind coffee.

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In a lot of dishwashers, the silverware goes in its own little detachable caddy. Instead of reaching over to the dishwasher to load and unload every fork and knife, just pick up the caddy and collect all the silverware, or take it directly to where its stored and unload it there.

Edit: someone beat me to it, haha

I'll bite the bullet on this one.

Maybe it's not embarrassingly late because it was decades ago and I was a dumb teenager, but wiping your ass while sitting. Every time I took a shit, I'd stand up and then wipe.

Much easier now sitting down since the toilet seat basically keeps your cheeks spread for you.

Now just wish I had the right hookups to install a bidet toilet. That would be a real game changer.

2 things.

1. Brushing my teeth in the shower
2. Sitting on the toilet backwards so I can use the tank as a table.

If flossing is hard because it's difficult to get the floss between your teeth, then you need braces.

Ever since I got braces, for one, I smile with my whole mouth now, and for two, flossing is a quick 30 second in and out procedure that helps keep my breath smelling better.

Preparing as much as possible in the evening, really:

• breakfast: oats in the fridge
• clothes: picking clothes and putting them on the chair
• backpack: taking out the old lunch container and other things that I don’t need tomorrow
• shaving and showering

Only quick wash with a washcloth, getting dressed, eating breakfast, brushing teeth and go

You can turn honey into honey syrup by adding a tiiiiny amount of boiling water and stirring it (not in a plastic container!). It keeps a lot better without crystalizing, and you can put it in the fridge where the ants can't get to it. If it crystalizes before you get to it, you can use the same trick to get it back.

My tip for pouring viscous things like honey or molasses is to go slooooow and rotate the bottle if you need to reduce the size of the pour. In this case, I add the boiling water to the bottle to get the residue then pour it into the glass container, much like the pasta trick on this thread.

Now I believe you owe us a coffee tip

Pausing for 5 seconds before opening the fridge to plan what I need to get saves time and electricity by only having to open the fridge door once.