**Everyday Tips and Tricks**

When it comes to personal care, there are often simple things we can do to make our lives easier and more efficient. For example, have you ever wondered why deodorant works better at night? It's because when your body temperature drops, your sweat glands are less active, allowing the aluminum in the deodorant to penetrate and do its job more effectively.

Similarly, if you're looking for a way to find studs in your house without using a stud finder, there are two tricks you can use. The first is to look at your baseboards, as they are usually nailed into the studs. By following the nails or baseboards, you should be able to locate the studs. Alternatively, you can check where your outlets are located and knock on either side of them to see which one sounds hollow. This will indicate the location of the stud.

If you've ever experienced a cooking mishap and needed to quickly clear smoke from a room, there's a simple technique that can help. To do this, wet half of a towel and wring it out so that it's just damp. Then, hold on to the dry side of the towel and fling it around over your head. The solid particles in the smoke will be absorbed into the damp towel extremely quickly.

When it comes to safety, there are often simple precautions we can take to avoid accidents. For example, if you're a short person like me, wearing a seatbelt can sometimes be uncomfortable due to airway restriction. However, I've recently discovered that there's a little button on most seatbelts where they attach to the car, and this can be adjusted up and down to create a more comfortable position across your chest.

In addition to these safety tips, there are often small things we can do to make our daily lives easier. For example, applying band-aids can be a lifesaver when it comes to protecting tiny fingers from cuts and scrapes. The trick is to cut about half an inch on either side of the band-aid and then wrap it around your finger like a tiny sleeve. This will keep the band-aid in place and prevent it from slipping off.

Another everyday tip that's often overlooked is the importance of cleaning your blow dryer filter regularly. Every month or so, take the time to remove any accumulated lint and debris from the bottom of your blow dryer, and then reattach it. This will help the device work more efficiently and maintain its maximum power.

**A Note on Healthy Habits**

As we navigate our daily lives, it's also important to prioritize our health and well-being. One simple way to do this is by cooking healthier meals and using the right ingredients. For those interested in trying new recipes, HelloFresh offers a range of healthy options that can help you set yourself on the right track.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and welcome back to another edition of everyday things you may be doing wrong that will shock you that will blow your mind at least they did for me i found a lot of these over on tick tock so down in the description box i'm going to cite the original creators where they all came from and i'm doing giveaways in all of my videos in december today i'm giving away a 250 amazon gift card to somebody at random who shares this video so you can share it on facebook on twitter you can share it via email to someone and just leave it down in the comments wherever you shared it and i will pick a winner now this first one for me somebody who is a robe connoisseur who is obsessed with robes this is truly game changing because look it's cold most of us are wearing our robes around the house right and here's what happens you wrap it around you're wearing it as you go about your day it starts to get loose things start sliding things start popping out so there's a better way to tie your robe and really you need to do this it's so good so instead of wrapping it around the back what you want to do take your robe belt and loop it through the front so you loop it through the front like so and then you tighten it in the front you can either tie it in the front i actually like to then loop it around the back and i have a little bow in the back so i have nothing bulky in the front and what this allows you to do it gets it a lot tighter and it also prevents your robe from slipping and sliding it stays a lot more secure in place and then you also have the rope tie in the back so it's not getting in the way and it is so much better next up you've been drying your shoes wrong if you're anything like me and you like to wash and dry your shoes every month or so to keep them nice and clean and bright instead of just popping them in the dryer loose and it sounds like you're drying rocks in there or even putting them in a garment bag it's still really hard on your shoes and loud so instead what you want to do tie the laces together and then prop them in your dryer door shut the door and then run the dryer so they're still going to get dry and get that heat but they're not going to be flopping all around your dryer this next one is actually mind mind-blowing to me been doing this wrong my entire life and that is using a travel pillow this one will definitely come in handy especially if you are traveling for the holiday season so we all know the little travel pillows with the u-shape that you put around your neck well instead of putting it around your neck like this you actually want to turn it the other way so the pillow part is actually underneath your chin so you have a nice soft place to rest your chin so your head doesn't flop all the way forward disrupting your airway and making it uncomfortable to sleep by putting it in the front it keeps your chin level and then you can gently put your head from side to side and it makes it a lot easier to fall asleep now we have a few things in the kitchen that you may be doing wrong first is using your microwavable popcorn bags right you pop it in the microwave for a minute or two you have your popcorn and the problem is there's a little hard kernels that are on the bottom that you grab by mistake you take a big bite break your tube so one thing that is crazy that you might not know is there's a little slit in the bottom of your popcorn bag and what you're supposed to do shake it vigorously and all of the unpopped kernels on the bottom they come out of that slit so they're no longer in the popcorn bag i had no idea that existed that it was a thing that i was supposed to do next everyday thing you may be doing wrong in the kitchen if your water is boiling and it starts to overflow on you instead of frantically trying to turn off the water remove it from heat all you need to do is get a wooden spoon put it right on the top of the pot and just like magic the water will stop overflowing and it's the interaction between the wood spoon helps to dissipate the bubbles this is one that i actually did know and i've been doing this trick for years so i can vouch for it and say that it works so just in case you're not doing it this way try it flipping your pancakes your eggs anything in the skillet most of us you take your spatula put it under the food and try to do the flip and hope that everything stays intact it gets messy things get broken there's a better way instead of using your spatula and flipping the item what you want to do put your spatula under the item flip the pan and rotate because look i'm a bad flipper some people they have that gift i'm not one of them so for pistachios instead of cracking them open like this almost ruining my nails apparently you can just take it and pinch it from the front oh my gosh and it opens let's try that again so you take it and you just pinch the front and then the back opens up whoa next thing in the kitchen cooking related if you every single week are trying to decide what to make for dinner every night having to go to the grocery store individually finding all the ingredients there is a better way that's gonna save you so much time so much hustle and that is through using hellofresh big thank you to hellofresh for sponsoring today's video this has been saving me this month because things have been so crazy busy and hectic it's one less thing i have to do one last thing i have to think about and for the new year coming up you can use your hello fresh meals and select their healthier options and it's going to make it easier to start the new year right i do everything on the app now where i just go through i look at all the menu options for that given week they have over 20 options so i pick what looks good and everything just arrives to my door and i usually pick the quick and fast meal option so these are full meals i can make in under 15 20 minutes and i also have to say this is new they now have so many other add-on options it is awesome so you could add on breakfast quick lunch items extra protein portions there is so much more everything with hellofresh comes pre-portioned so you don't have extra waste you just have what you need and it is so affordable especially if you use my discount code you'll get 14 free meals and three free gifts i have been a customer for going on five years now and i will continue to be a customer because it's one of those things now it's ingrained in my daily weekly life and it is so well worth it so again the link and my discount code is going to be down in the description box i highly recommend you try it next everyday thing you may be doing wrong is applying your deodorant in the morning you know you're starting your day you want to be fresh but actually deodorant absorbs better and works better if you apply it at night this works because at night your body temperature drops and your sweat glands are less active so the aluminum in the deodorant is better able to penetrate and do its job it gets dark so early that my lighting is going on me so i apologize that the lighting is turning next up i have an easy way to find studs in your house stud finder without the tool because if you need to hang something heavy it's really important you do that into the set on your wall to give it the proper anchoring but if you don't have a stud finder it could be tricky hey i heard you looking for a stud he just found one so there's two tricks here the first is look at your baseboards because your baseboards are nailed into the studs so usually the nails and your baseboards they have been like covered up but you can still see where they are and just follow that up and that's where your studs are the other thing is your outlets are either going to be to the left or the right of the studs so find where your outlet is and then you can knock to the left and knock to the right and you can see which one sounds hollow and which one is hard behind it and where it's hard that's where the stud is if you have a little cooking mishap and the room fills with smoke the smoke alarm goes off or let's say you are smoking in the house there's smoke in the house that you need to get rid of you know what most of us do we open windows we're trying to fan it all out the best way to remove smoke quickly from a room is to get a towel wet half of the towel and then wring it out so it's just damp so half of your towel is damp then hold on to the dry side and then fling it around over your head what happens is the solid particles on the smoke are gonna get absorbed into that damp towel extremely fast seat belts obviously very important always wear your seat belts but for me they've always been very uncomfortable because i'm on the short side and it's like cutting off my airway did you know apparently i've been doing it wrong this whole time because there's a little button on the seat belt where it attaches to the car and you can move it up and down so it's more comfortable and laying in the proper position across your chest look some of you may have known that i did not know i never noticed the button i didn't know that was an option so just in case you didn't know applying band-aids oh my goodness this one really comes in handy because carter my almost five-year-old he constantly is either getting little cuts and scrapes or he has imaginary ones that's like the new thing he just likes to wear the band-aids when you put them on the tip of your finger they almost always slide right off you cut about half an inch on either side of the band-aid and then you wrap it around your finger like so and what it does is it keeps that band-aid in place it's not gonna move it's not gonna slip and slide and come right off i'm always looking for the next best way to store avocados because i usually only eat half at a time the other half gets brown gross so most of us will either try to wrap it in foil or plastic wrap or whatever no there is a better way put the half of the avocado that you are not using submerged in water and it's going to last so much longer when was the last time you cleaned your blow dryer filter so yeah there's this little filter on the bottom of your blow dryer that you need to be cleaning out regularly every month or so and that's gonna help it work better and keep the airflow going so it has maximum power so if you're anything like me and you've never cleaned your blow dryer filter there's just usually a little thing you can pop right off remove all the residue the lint everything that's accumulated there pop it right back on and your blow dryer is going to work better again so those are my everyday things you may be doing wrong don't forget to use my code for hellofresh i'm gonna have it here on the screen this is your last opportunity to use it you can get 14 free meals and three free gifts such a great thing to have for the new year just have your meals coming pick the healthier options and set yourself on the right track and also i am giving away a 250 amazon gift card to one person at random who shares this video there is a share button down below share it on facebook twitter and then leave a comment down below where you shared it and i'm going to pick somebody at random and i'll have all the other details down in the description box thank you as always so much for watching and i will see you soon with a new video byehello and welcome back to another edition of everyday things you may be doing wrong that will shock you that will blow your mind at least they did for me i found a lot of these over on tick tock so down in the description box i'm going to cite the original creators where they all came from and i'm doing giveaways in all of my videos in december today i'm giving away a 250 amazon gift card to somebody at random who shares this video so you can share it on facebook on twitter you can share it via email to someone and just leave it down in the comments wherever you shared it and i will pick a winner now this first one for me somebody who is a robe connoisseur who is obsessed with robes this is truly game changing because look it's cold most of us are wearing our robes around the house right and here's what happens you wrap it around you're wearing it as you go about your day it starts to get loose things start sliding things start popping out so there's a better way to tie your robe and really you need to do this it's so good so instead of wrapping it around the back what you want to do take your robe belt and loop it through the front so you loop it through the front like so and then you tighten it in the front you can either tie it in the front i actually like to then loop it around the back and i have a little bow in the back so i have nothing bulky in the front and what this allows you to do it gets it a lot tighter and it also prevents your robe from slipping and sliding it stays a lot more secure in place and then you also have the rope tie in the back so it's not getting in the way and it is so much better next up you've been drying your shoes wrong if you're anything like me and you like to wash and dry your shoes every month or so to keep them nice and clean and bright instead of just popping them in the dryer loose and it sounds like you're drying rocks in there or even putting them in a garment bag it's still really hard on your shoes and loud so instead what you want to do tie the laces together and then prop them in your dryer door shut the door and then run the dryer so they're still going to get dry and get that heat but they're not going to be flopping all around your dryer this next one is actually mind mind-blowing to me been doing this wrong my entire life and that is using a travel pillow this one will definitely come in handy especially if you are traveling for the holiday season so we all know the little travel pillows with the u-shape that you put around your neck well instead of putting it around your neck like this you actually want to turn it the other way so the pillow part is actually underneath your chin so you have a nice soft place to rest your chin so your head doesn't flop all the way forward disrupting your airway and making it uncomfortable to sleep by putting it in the front it keeps your chin level and then you can gently put your head from side to side and it makes it a lot easier to fall asleep now we have a few things in the kitchen that you may be doing wrong first is using your microwavable popcorn bags right you pop it in the microwave for a minute or two you have your popcorn and the problem is there's a little hard kernels that are on the bottom that you grab by mistake you take a big bite break your tube so one thing that is crazy that you might not know is there's a little slit in the bottom of your popcorn bag and what you're supposed to do shake it vigorously and all of the unpopped kernels on the bottom they come out of that slit so they're no longer in the popcorn bag i had no idea that existed that it was a thing that i was supposed to do next everyday thing you may be doing wrong in the kitchen if your water is boiling and it starts to overflow on you instead of frantically trying to turn off the water remove it from heat all you need to do is get a wooden spoon put it right on the top of the pot and just like magic the water will stop overflowing and it's the interaction between the wood spoon helps to dissipate the bubbles this is one that i actually did know and i've been doing this trick for years so i can vouch for it and say that it works so just in case you're not doing it this way try it flipping your pancakes your eggs anything in the skillet most of us you take your spatula put it under the food and try to do the flip and hope that everything stays intact it gets messy things get broken there's a better way instead of using your spatula and flipping the item what you want to do put your spatula under the item flip the pan and rotate because look i'm a bad flipper some people they have that gift i'm not one of them so for pistachios instead of cracking them open like this almost ruining my nails apparently you can just take it and pinch it from the front oh my gosh and it opens let's try that again so you take it and you just pinch the front and then the back opens up whoa next thing in the kitchen cooking related if you every single week are trying to decide what to make for dinner every night having to go to the grocery store individually finding all the ingredients there is a better way that's gonna save you so much time so much hustle and that is through using hellofresh big thank you to hellofresh for sponsoring today's video this has been saving me this month because things have been so crazy busy and hectic it's one less thing i have to do one last thing i have to think about and for the new year coming up you can use your hello fresh meals and select their healthier options and it's going to make it easier to start the new year right i do everything on the app now where i just go through i look at all the menu options for that given week they have over 20 options so i pick what looks good and everything just arrives to my door and i usually pick the quick and fast meal option so these are full meals i can make in under 15 20 minutes and i also have to say this is new they now have so many other add-on options it is awesome so you could add on breakfast quick lunch items extra protein portions there is so much more everything with hellofresh comes pre-portioned so you don't have extra waste you just have what you need and it is so affordable especially if you use my discount code you'll get 14 free meals and three free gifts i have been a customer for going on five years now and i will continue to be a customer because it's one of those things now it's ingrained in my daily weekly life and it is so well worth it so again the link and my discount code is going to be down in the description box i highly recommend you try it next everyday thing you may be doing wrong is applying your deodorant in the morning you know you're starting your day you want to be fresh but actually deodorant absorbs better and works better if you apply it at night this works because at night your body temperature drops and your sweat glands are less active so the aluminum in the deodorant is better able to penetrate and do its job it gets dark so early that my lighting is going on me so i apologize that the lighting is turning next up i have an easy way to find studs in your house stud finder without the tool because if you need to hang something heavy it's really important you do that into the set on your wall to give it the proper anchoring but if you don't have a stud finder it could be tricky hey i heard you looking for a stud he just found one so there's two tricks here the first is look at your baseboards because your baseboards are nailed into the studs so usually the nails and your baseboards they have been like covered up but you can still see where they are and just follow that up and that's where your studs are the other thing is your outlets are either going to be to the left or the right of the studs so find where your outlet is and then you can knock to the left and knock to the right and you can see which one sounds hollow and which one is hard behind it and where it's hard that's where the stud is if you have a little cooking mishap and the room fills with smoke the smoke alarm goes off or let's say you are smoking in the house there's smoke in the house that you need to get rid of you know what most of us do we open windows we're trying to fan it all out the best way to remove smoke quickly from a room is to get a towel wet half of the towel and then wring it out so it's just damp so half of your towel is damp then hold on to the dry side and then fling it around over your head what happens is the solid particles on the smoke are gonna get absorbed into that damp towel extremely fast seat belts obviously very important always wear your seat belts but for me they've always been very uncomfortable because i'm on the short side and it's like cutting off my airway did you know apparently i've been doing it wrong this whole time because there's a little button on the seat belt where it attaches to the car and you can move it up and down so it's more comfortable and laying in the proper position across your chest look some of you may have known that i did not know i never noticed the button i didn't know that was an option so just in case you didn't know applying band-aids oh my goodness this one really comes in handy because carter my almost five-year-old he constantly is either getting little cuts and scrapes or he has imaginary ones that's like the new thing he just likes to wear the band-aids when you put them on the tip of your finger they almost always slide right off you cut about half an inch on either side of the band-aid and then you wrap it around your finger like so and what it does is it keeps that band-aid in place it's not gonna move it's not gonna slip and slide and come right off i'm always looking for the next best way to store avocados because i usually only eat half at a time the other half gets brown gross so most of us will either try to wrap it in foil or plastic wrap or whatever no there is a better way put the half of the avocado that you are not using submerged in water and it's going to last so much longer when was the last time you cleaned your blow dryer filter so yeah there's this little filter on the bottom of your blow dryer that you need to be cleaning out regularly every month or so and that's gonna help it work better and keep the airflow going so it has maximum power so if you're anything like me and you've never cleaned your blow dryer filter there's just usually a little thing you can pop right off remove all the residue the lint everything that's accumulated there pop it right back on and your blow dryer is going to work better again so those are my everyday things you may be doing wrong don't forget to use my code for hellofresh i'm gonna have it here on the screen this is your last opportunity to use it you can get 14 free meals and three free gifts such a great thing to have for the new year just have your meals coming pick the healthier options and set yourself on the right track and also i am giving away a 250 amazon gift card to one person at random who shares this video there is a share button down below share it on facebook twitter and then leave a comment down below where you shared it and i'm going to pick somebody at random and i'll have all the other details down in the description box thank you as always so much for watching and i will see you soon with a new video bye\n"