35 Lifechanging Ways to Use Everyday Objects

[Swordmaster]

Am a the only one that just bangs the lid of the jar against the edge of the counter? Works like a charm.

[justusfour]

Originally Posted by Swordmaster

Am a the only one that just bangs the lid of the jar against the edge of the counter? Works like a charm.

Same concept, but I use the handle of a butter knife.

[Buckle Up]

I'd never heard of using a spoon to open a jar. So this indeed might change my life.

My favorite on the list, however, is using a toilet seat cover to blot the oil off my face. Those oil blotters they sell are very expensive.

[justusfour]

Originally Posted by Buckle Up

My favorite on the list, however, is using a toilet seat cover to blot the oil off my face. Those oil blotters they sell are very expensive.

My company has the site blocked, so I can't read the list. Thank you for posting this one!

[Lainie]

Interestingly, the link in the OP didn't work for me. I ended up googling "lifechanging everyday objects" to find the site.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Originally Posted by Jaime Vargas

Who does not do that?

I use a bottle opener (no, not a jar opener, a bottle opener, like for beer). I also use one of those rubber grippers sometimes, when popping the seal isn't enough help.

I threw away a 10 oz bottle of water the other day, because three different people had had absolutely no success in getting it open. An inspection of the lid revealed that the cap was sealed on.

Seaboe

[Lainie]

I once got a soda bottle on which the cap/ring had not been perforated. I think one of my brothers ended up scoring it with a boxcutter.

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Originally Posted by Chloe

Worst possible message wafting into being as you shower:"I peed in the bottled water in the mini bar."

You have definitely been traveling on government-funded junkets too much if a mini bar is even part of your reference frame, much less being concerned about whether you used tainted items from it.

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Originally Posted by Lainie

I once got a soda bottle on which the cap/ring had not been perforated. I think one of my brothers ended up scoring it with a boxcutter.

I am glad he got it done safely, but that is generally a very dangerous maneuver, as you have to press pretty hard with a very sharp object and have to hold the bottle in your other hand, right in the line of danger if the box cutter slips - unless I am misunderstanding what you are saying had to be done.

[Avril]

RE: Jars/skin issues: I open mine while wearing rubber gloves (the kind I use to wash the dishes). The grip is much better that way.

[Lainie]

Originally Posted by A Turtle Named Mack

I am glad he got it done safely, but that is generally a very dangerous maneuver, as you have to press pretty hard with a very sharp object and have to hold the bottle in your other hand, right in the line of danger if the box cutter slips - unless I am misunderstanding what you are saying had to be done.

1. He didn't have to press very hard, because he was scoring it, not cutting it.
2. The bottle was lying on its side on a table. His hand was bracing it, but it was at the bottom of the bottle, and would not have been in the path of the cutter if it slipped -- he cut it perpendicular to the length of the bottle, along the line where the perforation should have been. Score a slit, rotate the bottle slightly, score a slit, etc.

[erwins]

I use a jar opener like this. It fits any jar, and it gives sufficient leverage to open every jar I've tried it on. We had one when I was growing up, and it took a while after I moved out to find one of my own. I was so happy when I found it that I bought two. I've since given the extra one away, because I can find another one online if I ever need one.

[Xia]

If a jar won't open, I bang the edge of the lid with a butter knife. If that doesn't work, I run it under hot water. If that doesn't work, I search for the rubber lid gripper pad we have somewhere (but hardly ever find it.)
For twist-off soda bottles or similar drinks, I have several plastic openers that have ridges that match those bottles on one side and a different ridge pattern on the other that match some other type of bottle I've never had to open.

[Cervus]

When I was a kid, my grandmother taught me to open jars by whacking the lid in several places with the blunt side of a butter knife. She taught me that so I'd "never have to need a man around".

[Troberg]

Originally Posted by Pinecone

I use my jar opener.

My jar opener: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-and-groove_pliers

Has never failed me. Has even opened plastic bottles that had the cap on so tight (and probably glued up with sugar...) that the cap just wouldn't budge, but it just twisted the neck of the bottle right off.

[Buckle Up]

This weekend I tried using a toilet seat cover to blot the oil from my face and it indeed works pretty well. Just don't do it where other people can see you.

[Brad from Georgia]

Originally Posted by Buckle Up

This weekend I tried using a toilet seat cover to blot the oil from my face and it indeed works pretty well. Just don't do it where other people can see you.

I tried this and almost drowned.

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Originally Posted by Brad from Georgia

I tried this and almost drownded.

Fixed it for ya.

[diddy]

Originally Posted by Brad from Georgia

I tried this and almost drowned.

They actually have done tests on this and found this to be unlikely to ever happen for a could of reasons. One, the average bowl is a smaller diameter than most people's (adults of course) shoulders. Second, if you loose consciousness in a toilet, you will collapse probably pulling your head out of the water.

Here's one case

It would be very improbable for it to happen unless you had help.

[Lainie]

I'm reasonably certain that was a joke.

I was going to recommend "and I gave myself a swirly" as an alternate punchline.