Carefully arranging your used towels isn’t the best thing to do in a hotel. You’re just not helping. The general rule is: dump them somewhere like the bathroom floor or in the bathtub. Then the staff can see that they need to change the towels. If you keep them all nice and folded, the staff may just get it wrong and leave them as they are, thinking that they’re still fresh.
This is it... the end! You’re packing up everything you can in whatever bags you have. Food, clothes, toiletries. The news in the background goes on, red alerts flash all over the screen. You check your watch, and you know it’s time. You haven’t even finished packing yet.
Vacation has come. Happy, you rush home, put on your best suit, and go to the friend’s place. It’s a big country house. You pass through a wide gate decorated with lights. Music is coming from inside.
Above each car door, you’ll usually find a handle. I call it the “OH NO!!!” handle. It’s there to give you something to hold onto when your grandma decides to go full NASCAR! These handles are actually especially useful, all jokes aside. A lot of people need a little extra help getting in and out of the car. As for why the driver’s door usually doesn’t have one, there are a couple of reasons. For one, the steering wheel can function as a makeshift grab-handle! Drivers might also be inclined to grab the handle while driving. Not safe! Modern car keys have a nice trick up their sleeve... if they had sleeves. They can control your windows! Try holding the unlock button on your car keys for a few seconds. There’s a chance that after 5 seconds, your car windows will magically open. If you hold the lock button again, your windows should close. Only a few special people actually use this cool trick. Check out your owner’s manual... your car might be one of the lucky ones!
Now if you step on a sea urchin, you’re going to know right away! Look at those spikes! Get the point? Ha ha, ow! While they’re not aggressive, they’ve got a great defense going against any creatures that want to eat them! Venomous spikes and a poisonous bite! Pick your poison, literally.
“The hardest thing on the planet is to get out of a warm bed early in the morning. The second most challenging thing in the world is to sit in an office and force yourself to start working. It’s hard to read a big book and cook your own food. It’s almost impossible to earn a lot of money. Do sports? It’s something fantastic. Keeping a dog at home and walking it several times a day is just senseless. How do people live this tough life?” Almost every day, Louis thinks about these things. And he is the laziest person in the world who loves only one thing — watching TV series and movies.
After a thorough cleaning, one’s living space looks renewed. However, sometimes after spending a whole weekend tidying up, we can’t shake the feeling that the home is not ideally clean. And this is all because of the smells that have penetrated the walls, furniture, and household items. Thankfully, we have learned a number of simple tricks that can help neutralize the main sources of odor in the home.
A basic sponge and baking soda can make a great eraser for little grease spots, fingerprints, and stains on your walls. Or any other painted areas such as furniture or wood fences. Just sprinkle a bit of baking soda on your dry sponge and scrub the stained area in a circular motion. And then use a clean dry cloth to wipe the baking soda off to get rid of any remaining dirt. If you’re worried that this technique might ruin the paint, try just a tiny bit of soda first and see how the surface reacts.
Well-well, you had a busy day sightseeing in a new city. You constantly used navigation, took 5,000 pictures, and video called your best friend every 10 minutes. All this drained your phone battery to 12 percent, and you still have to do a live stream of fireworks, book a room for the night, and find your way there.
I have a collection of questions you’ve always wanted to know the answers to; let’s go! First, an observation — cookies and baguettes are basically kinds of bread. So, my question is — why, when left outside for the night, a cookie gets soft, and a baguette becomes hard? It doesn’t make any sense.
Fast food is often an easy and delicious solution for those days when we don’t feel like cooking, or simply want to treat ourselves. Behind every order, there are employees who have discovered tricks and secrets of the most famous chains, and now they share them with the rest of the people.
Good morning! I’m so happy we’re gonna spend the day together. You see, I stayed up reading about all those common things that you and I never realized actually had purposes. My head’s brimming with all this knowledge! I need to unload it on someone. And you’re the perfect volunteer!
Leaving your valuables or a chocolate bar in a car is a no-brainer, but there are other things people often overlook. Here’s what to watch out for before leaving your car.Number one is aerosol cans: hairspray, deodorant, spray paint, household cleaner, and sorts. On the back of these cans, you might notice a storage temperature recommendation. Well, stick to that. Here’s what can happen. Since these cans are pressurized, they become more sensitive to temperature. What’s inside the aerosol may expand, and this may result in a crack. And then, the can can blow up. Temperatures above 120 degrees Fahrenheit are already alarming. And it can easily get as hot as that in your car on a warm summer day.
When navigating the internet, we can come across amazing life hacks that would definitely make our lives easier. The problem is that not everything that is on the internet is true, and if you try to replicate some of these experiments at home, the result can be very different from what the video proposed. That’s the reason why Bright Side decided to gather these tested tricks, so you can be sure that things will work out for you.
As a parent, it’s likely that you’ve encountered a situation where your child has posed random trivia questions you were unable to answer. It’s not uncommon for kids to ask about the reasoning behind certain features or rules. There are many things in our daily lives that have unique characteristics, but we don’t pause to consider the “why” behind them. In this article, we’ve compiled some fun trivia questions and answers. By the end of it, we’re confident that you’ll be well-equipped to never have to leave our kid’s query unanswered again.
A tasty hamburger, ice cream, or a cold soda have been craved more than once after seeing them in commercials. But then comes the disappointment when we realize that the real product is not what we were shown. The secret behind this deception is called food styling, and it’s a technique used by photographers to make us taste through our eyes.
Many families have difficult times when they don’t have enough money even for the most necessary things. And kids don’t always notice the difficulties their parents are going through. It’s only when they grow up that they realize that they can finally have many of the things they couldn’t buy when they were children.
If your back is killing you, you’re not alone. Half of working Americans are familiar with this annoying aching feeling in the lower part of the back. And although many people opt for medication to relieve the pain, that’s not always the most effective way to deal with it. In fact, changing some things we do on a daily basis can help us to cut the problem at its roots.
Princess Diana would say, “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” Whether we call it karma or the law of the conservation of energy, it’s true that kind actions pay off sooner or later.
People are so used to storing food in the fridge that they don’t really think about what’s really worth putting in there and what’s better off being kept at room temperature. Even when the packaging says “store in a cool dry place,” we automatically put the item into the fridge.
Our toothbrushes hold tons of microbes in their bristles that can be damaging for our oral health. Other unwanted germs within our lives can hide in many places we never thought of cleaning, or we simply don’t know how to properly clean them. That’s why it’s so important to be aware of bacteria growth in our homes and know how to combat it effectively.
It’s a warm summer day and you’re dying to open that can of soda you’re holding in your hand. You can’t wait to hear that hypnotic sizzling sound that soda makes while it cools down in a glass full of ice cubes. Thinking about this can make you drool, but it is important to keep in mind that if you forget to clean the lid, you might be drinking insect or animal waste without even realizing it. Cans of food and beverages travel a long way before you can get them at your closest convenience store. They are stored in large warehouses and transported in trucks, where they could potentially become contaminated by the presence of small animals or by the very dirt of the environment in which they are stored.
You are what you eat. But even if you try to eat healthy, you might be choosing foods that can make you anxious or depressed without even knowing it, even when food that can improve your mood might be right under your nose.
We tend to go through our daily lives using everyday necessities without ever realizing how to use them correctly. And even though we’ve become accustomed to it, we are actually making our lives more difficult. For example, we know for a fact how to properly use dental floss, how to enjoy our delicious tic-tacs, and what the purpose is of those little bubble pockets in a Toffifay box, or do we? Keep reading to find out what you’ve been doing wrong your entire life.
Nice bartenders who offer free cocktails and snacks aren’t always sincere: perhaps they’re trying to gain your trust to trick you. They can be true wizards who turn wine into champagne and strong tea with pepper into expensive cognac so well that you don’t even notice it.
If you feel a little down because you just broke your diet eating chocolate, go turn on the TV. Researchers at the University of Westminster have found a link between spikes in a person’s heart rate while watching a horror film and calorie loss.
Our genes define not only our appearance and personality but also the weaknesses in our bodies. Depression and insomnia, for instance, can be caused not by serious stress or exhaustion but by genetic predisposition. In this article, we’ll talk about genetic disorders that a daughter can inherit from her mother.
Everyone knows that any food and any drug can be helpful only if you don’t eat or take too much of it. And if you do, the consequences could be terrible.
Keep in mind that food intolerance and food allergies are not the same things. Generally, food intolerance symptoms are not life-threatening but can still be quite unpleasant. Sometimes the symptoms of a food intolerance can be so mild that you don’t even think you have an intolerance. But once you figure it out and simply decrease your intake of the offending food, you may never have that discomforting feeling again.
Food itself rarely causes gastritis. The leading cause of gastritis is the Helicobacter pylori infection. However, some foods can aggravate the symptoms by irritating the stomach lining, while other foods can minimize the discomfort and even help treat the painful condition.
Just imagine you're sitting at a table in a restaurant and you are really hungry. But you have no idea which food you're better off not ordering from the menu. Fortunately, thanks to the Internet, we can take a peek backstage to the world of cooking and find out which foods we should never order from restaurants.
When we choose healthy food in the supermarket, we hope to buy something useful for ourselves and our family. But research shows that even the most ordinary foods can be dangerous.
Do you know why childhood is believed to be a happy period? And why we get surprised when we calculate how much time has passed since our prom? It’s our tricky mind that sometimes changes the reality. We get trapped in a consciousness that depicts the world different than it really is. But there’s a way out.
Our grannies and mothers saved all kinds of useful kitchen tips over the years and passed them on to the next generation. But in the era of the Internet, such life hacks become more and more popular, which makes it increasingly difficult to figure out which hacks are good and bad. Are all these kitchen myths really as good and effective as they’re said to be?
The Internet is full of weird - and sometimes dangerous - beauty tips and tricks. Some of them can cause a bad rash while others can lead to problems with vision.
A lot of recent studies show that consuming sodas every day starts to wreak havoc on your dietary intake without you even noticing it. Bright Side made a list of the most convincing reasons to refrain from drinking Coca-Cola on a daily basis.
