11 Totally Brilliant Lifehacks

Lifehacks feel like a recent development, but they’ve been around for a long, long time. Mothers have been keeping their families together with workarounds and improvisation for generations. Just think of the way, during WWII rationing, women used things like beetroots and boot polish for makeup when the real articles weren’t available. 

I’m not sure if today’s lifehacks quite measure up to wartime workarounds, but some of them are definitely worth trying. You have to admire the creativity it takes to figure out how to do things better and save more time and money. Don’t you wish you had thought of some of these?

1. Never lose your gas cap again – swap it with the gas nozzle so you’ll have to pick it back up when you’re done filling up.

2. Photocopy the back of whatever you have to hang so you can line up the holes correctly. Or, if you don’t have access to a photocopier, trace the outline with a pen and poke holes in the paper while holding the item up to it.

3. Drilling into drywall? Keep clean-up easy with a folded sticky note below the hole. 

4. Organize your notebooks with a word index at the back, marking the appropriate pages to line up.

Works great for recipes!