Life is ridiculously busy, and our to-do lists seem to be unending.
Fortunately, there are some things we can do to make our lives easier, even if the hack feels a little too easy.
Taking notes, Redditor 730throwaway asked:
"What's a stupid life hack that actually worked out?"
Perfect Time To Start A Business
"I moved to another state and wanted to attend the state university, you had to live in the state for a year before they would consider you a resident. The tuition was a lot more for nonresidents."
"I read the fine print, and it said if you own a business, you would be considered a resident immediately."
"I got a business license for my new business, Green Thumbs Landscaping Company, mowed my neighbor's lawns, and saved a ton of money."
- Jaded_Ad_9409
Ditch The Loaded Arm Carry
"Carry a wide laundry basket in your vehicle and put all of your groceries in that, making bringing them in a one-trip move!"
- BraxPlays
Good Rules To Live By
"If you feel like you hate everybody, eat something. If you feel like everyone hates you, get some sleep."
- 5akul
"And if you feel like you hate yourself, take a shower!"
- taulivir
"And if you feel like everyone hates everyone, stop doomscrolling."
- SheenaAquaticBird
Almost Always An Explanation
"When someone you like or respect does something confusingly infuriating, imagine the most-favorable-to-them possible explanation, and pretend that's true. Wait until you know more before getting reflexively angry."
- CoconutAngelox
Away With The Negative Self-Talk
"I used to jokingly put myself down until the day I realized I had started believing it."
"I immediately started telling myself, 'Wait, f**k you, you're not an id**t, you're actually smart,' or whatever I had immediately started insulting myself with. It works. I regained my confidence."
- GreenOnionCrusader
The Power Of A Quick Tidy
"Take two to ten minutes to tidy up your home before you go to bed. The next morning, you'll feel way better not having to look at all the junk/things you still have to do."
- SeriousqueenOX
"This is something that stuck with me during childhood. My parents kept a decently clean/tidy but lived-in house, and with two kids, there was always plenty of stuff everywhere."
"I distinctively recall coming home from a long trip with my dad and sister, arriving home to my mom (who returned ahead of us due to work), and a spanking clean house. It was so refreshing it has stuck with me since."
- vfrost99
Name Recall
"When you’re trying to remember someone’s name, think of a stupid mnemonic. Even if it doesn’t make sense. I once met a guy named Lance, and I remembered he was Lance with the pants, even though there was nothing remarkable about his pants."
- rnilbog
Home Hygiene Tips
"I used to get ingrown toenails over and over. Doc would remove them and promise they wouldn’t come back, but they always did."
"Then I was at a family Christmas gathering and talking to a distant uncle I hadn’t seen in years. I was telling him my situation. He told me to clip a little 'V' into the the center of my big toenail and I wouldn’t get anymore ingrowns."
"It f**kin worked. I tried it and haven’t had one for over 25 years."
"My best guess on why it works is that the nail spends is growing energy on filling in the 'V' instead of growing down into the side of my toes. Hopefully a smartypants can tell me the actual reason it works."
- kurt_go_bang
Crying Over Chronically Lost Keys
"If you always put your keys in the same place, you won’t lose them."
- SweetXBunny2001
"True! I bought a little thing where you hang up your keys and I put them right at the entry of our door."
- 730throwaway
The Chopstick Method
"Once I got drunk and fell into my bathroom door ripping the hinges out. The next day a friend of mine recommended filling the holes with chopsticks and screw it back in and it worked."
- Pm_me_clown_pics3
Did We Turn The Stove Off?
"Making a (usually silly) memorable noise or motion when I lock the door, turn off the stove, or close the window so I don't panic about whether i did it or not later, because the act that goes alongside it is so memorable that I'll know I only do it when I've done that thing."
- CharmingAngellx
All About Mindset
"In the morning while showering or getting dressed think about the things you are grateful for. It will help you start the day with a better mindset. No guarantee it will last, but it helps to start."
- Human-Magic-Marker
There's Going To Be Trash, Like It Or Not
"Just go ahead and put a trash can in each room. Seriously. Lifesaver."
- ConsiderationShoddy8
Concepts To Live By
"These may sound silly but they feel like game changers to me:"
"1. Brushing my long and easily tangled hair BEFORE getting in the shower makes post-shower hair stuff so much easier."
"2. Keeping appropriate cleaning supplies in each room they'll be used in makes it much easier for quick tidying and thus less need for major awful cleaning later."
"3. If you want to curb impulse shopping online, make a wishlist page where you save everything you want to buy. Pick one day of the week when you're 'allowed' to purchase things. By the time you get to that day, you don't want half the stuff on the wishlist anymore. (my day is Monday!)"
- strangeloop414
Finding Positivity Everywhere
"I was trying to be more positive in general. So I began small, simply complementing every Ford Transit van I drove past."
"A dozen times a day, I’d say to myself, 'Huh, nice Ford Transit.'"
"Since then I’ve found myself quicker to compliment others and finding more positivity in the mundane."
- Redrumjam
"'If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.' - Uncle Iroh."
- Mavian23
From mindset to cleaning to being more adventurous, these hacks were interesting to think about.
Not only were they simple to the point that we might be surprised that they work, but it also somehow makes sense that they would work, too.
