50 Life Hacks to Simplify your World

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Try this time saver.

Pour your liquor into your coffee. Get your buzz on and your giddy-up in one quick and delicious step! As an added benefit, it's deemed publicly acceptable when coffee is included.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Divorcing Wife 1.0.

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1961 220b: first project car - sold.
2000 CLK 430: first modern Benz - sold.
2001 CLK 55: OMG the torque!!! - sold
1972 280SE 4.5: Baby Gustav
1991 300TE 4Matic: Gretel the Snow Bunny - sold
1978 300SD: Katz the Free Man - given away
1980 Redhead: Darling Wife

I used to have a bunch of things you could do with 35mm film canisters . . . oh well.



My approach, if the pizza has just been in the fridge . . . reheat slowly in a flat pan on the stove, not the microwave. The crust gets crisp, but watch out for burn.

That's one clean microwave...

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

If you're making tea from loose leaves, you can use a fork as a tea strainer in a pinch (say if you're in a hotel).

If you live in a high humidity area, and your tools rust, drill holes in an old pill bottle, drop in a piece of camphor, close the lid and drop it in the tool box. The camphor vapor leaves a microscopic layer preventing tools from rusting.

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

I do that during the brew process.... JavaPorter... mmmmmm

This sounds like a valuable tip... but where in the heck can you get camphor these days??

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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Amazon has them. I also use this same technique in my gun vaults and cabinets.

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

Is that where you source yours from?
I wasn't terribly comforted by the reviews about them being little pills rather than bars....
In a short bit of research, it would seem as if having a decent supply of this stuff on hand might be a good thing.
Keep the silver that we never use from tarnishing, keep the little critters out of the sheds, bugs away from the house, and even has medical uses...
Now that it's on the radar, I want a block the size of a salt-lick...

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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My last purchase was for four boxes of this particular camphor...mainly because I didn't know the size of the tablets. I can now safely state that I'm set for at least the next 5-10 years, and that's after giving two boxes to my brothers.

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

Thanks, JP... it's in the cart.

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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