Emergency Candles, Milk Cartons, and Garage Storage Readers offer their best tips for making impromptu emegerceny candles, drinking milk with a straw, and creating cheap garage shelving. Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe theyre a bit too niche, maybe we couldnt find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldnt fit it in—the tip didnt make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments, email it to tips at lifehacker, or share it over at our user-run blog, Hackerspace. Learn to Make Five Emergency Candles David shares his video for making five different emergency candles: I created this video that shows how you can make five different emergency candles on the fly using stuff from around the house. Look for the Hidden Straw Hole on Milk Cartons Clayton points us toward an often hidden feature on small milk cartons: I recently bought milks for my kids at a restaurant where they just give you the carton and was awestruck by the insert straw here spot on the side of the carton marked by an X. Ive spent years half opening the carton and sticking the straw in, only to have most of the milk end up on my kids rather than in them. A few weeks later I bought a different brand of milk and to my amazement, this also had the little X; although there were no directions indicating that its for a straw. I havent found a brand since then that doesnt have it. Photo by loop_oh. Make a Garage Shelf from an Old Bed Frame Villified1 repurposes an old bed frame for some garage storage: I mounted a very old, slightly broken, twin-sized wooden bed frame to the walls and ceiling in my garage to create a sturdy shelf for storage bins and the like. It was a simple and cheap way to get a high-mounted, large, and sturdy shelf in the garage. Clean for Fifteen Minutes Each Day, Then Stop Jonathan shares a tip for avoiding cleaning burnout: Im a college student and dont have lots of spare time for cleaning. Ive also noticed that if I let things get messy then spend a bunch of time cleaning them up, I get kind of burned out on cleaning and Im more likely to let it go for several days afterward. I started cleaning for only fifteen minutes each day and then stopping even if things were still messy. I started out with a messy place and it took a while to get it clean, but I found it was much easier to keep up the habit. And youd be amazed what you can get done in fifteen minutes. Photo by tachyondecay. ift.tt/1hBfdmm ift.tt/1eFB7D1 Source: Lifehacker
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