I remember when DIY videos were like, using cardboard to make a doll house or painting mason jars to look like fairy lights or turning a broken vase into a little terrarium...
Now they're like, "destroy 20cents worth of ice cream cones, and use $2.50 worth of plaster and 2 hours of your time to save buying a ring holder from the dollar store..."
the fact that the 5 minute crafts LITERALLY never take just five minutes is a scam in itself. also, the suspenseful music with each clip is really on point 😂😂
Ann Riordan devoted some episodes of How To Cook That to debunking the most silly and dangerous of the 5minute crafts, yummly and other click farm channels. Recommended!
*Reardon, but yeah do you demember the explosing home-made stove and spinning freaking boiling caramel in mixer? And bleached strawberries? Insane. Just insane.
H2CT debunking videos are amazing. Ann is who really opened my eyes to the fact that 5MC are just clickbait. I had actually thought the problem was me, not 5MC.
I think that would make a cool backdrop for taking pictures of items you may be trying to sell, to put on a website or something. With a new shower curtain of course.
and why would you even do that?.. as a interior student myself (in the past) I can assure you those canvases comes in a variety of sises. And A0 is quite big for that purpose
@@TacseraEpSekahs Would have to be one fine piece of art on that curtain for that to be even remotely smart thing to do anyway. The one on the video? Just paint it for crying out loud... and to my taste it would be better to place them a bit apart from each other on the wall even then.
Because you don't live in a city or large town with a Dollar Store. Because your parents have had you in the house for a year and want an hour of peace and quiet. Two reasons why.
*Wraps phone cord around marker. *Places on hot car engine. *Watches as cord melts. 🤷🏼♀️ Cord ruined, car engine stinks and has melted rubber stuck to it😂 hack failed
Why on a car engine? If you need to shape or mold plastic like that, use a hair dryer or heat gun. BUT MONITOR CLOSELY THAT IT DOES NOT GET SO HOT THAT IT MELTS. GO SLOOOOOOOOW
The thing about the bubble pop flip-flop thing is that you'd need to buy a perfectly good pair of flip-flops and destroy them just to repurpose the upper sling part.
Not to mention the bubble pop things were actually 2 square ones at cutting, then when cutting was finished, they were 1 single piece. 5MC conveniently edits every vid.
I don't think you're always supposed to go out and buy this stuff. Most of the time It's just a suggestion for how to utilize the junk already lying around the house. Privileged people go to the store to buy things for craft making or they buy the craft pre-made. 😂
@@KC__1997 it also would be the size of a full-grown tree, not a little sapling. Unless it was from a dwarf variety, but even those are bigger than that.
and the kind of lemon you buy in the store won't grow. There is a variety of lemons that were bred to be able to grow in a pot and produce tiny lemons, but the seeds from a full sized lemon won't produce fruit until the tree is about twenty feet tall and they take at least ten years to grow that size.
The wax cotton pads do actually work really well for starting fires. However it’s way easier to melt wax in a container and dip the cotton pads in rather than lighting a candle and dripping it on.
You could do this when changing out the wax melts in your warmers.It's already melted and ready to go, just dip cotton pads and make a few of these each time. Wonder how well this would work with dryer lint in a TP tube, since we already know that burns well. Maybe dip the ends of a lint-filled tube, so the dryer lint doesn't burn too fast.This way you're not buying cotton pads or anything to burn, you're using only items that would otherwise go in the trash. I think that's the worst part of these 5 Minute Craft videos - it seems like they are buying all the supplies for their videos instead of actually doing the 3Rs! 🤔
My 8 year is always doing stuff from these channels, she loves it! Nothing practical or very 'useful', just easy stuff like making frames, decorations or those knots. Once she has the basic idea she'll spend hours making all sorts of crap. 😎👍 Last Christmas, there where alot of extended family members saying "oh I love this! Did you really make it yourself?!?" ... followed by a discrete, 'does anyone know what it is?' 😁
You need to be careful with what projects she does, some of the ones 5 minute crafts and similar channels come up with are downright dangerous. They have all been sued numerous times by people who were injured when replicating their projects.
I was always told in high school that citrus trees were highly variable and you'd have to graft lemon tree new growth to a root system to guarantee good/predictable lemons.
@@yumcuriouschannel2040 I think that's if you're trying to commercially grow fruit bearing lemons. This seems more designed to be a house plant/decoration. There are dwarf species of lemons that will grow indoors but the lemons will be tiny. The seeds from a tree with lemons the size of the one in the video need like 8 years to grow and have to be over six feet tall before you'll get a lemon.
That toilet one is like a sanitation nightmare! Dont wanna know what bacteria will be growing under that sticky stuff since you wouldn't be able to clean the toilet properly 🤢
Yeah! They started of actually useful and cool! But then they turned into 'put cream into juice, stir it 10 times left and once right, put it in the microwave, set it in plaster, put it inside a shoe, give it 20 minutes of moonlight, and boom! Easy trifle.'
The shower curtain rod brought back memories of a sketch from the Carol Burnett Show, where she makes a dress from the curtains, but forgets to remove the curtain rod.
Pleeeeeeeease do more of these!! So many of their "crafts" are the most wasteful, overly involved ideas. The rest are either stupid or useless. But it's presented so well! Serious work is put into production and they have bright colors and cute, happy young people effortlessly pulling of literally the dumbest shit that nobody's ever going to actually repeat.
They also fake many of the hacks. But who is going to watch carefully enough to notice, when the video is that speed? And some of them are dangerous, like the electrical cord hack here, or the infamous bleached strawberries. Btw these channels are aimed at kids, or at least kids watch them. My friend's young son used to watch 5 minute crafts and re-create the hacks at home. I have no idea if he was ever successful, as at least the fake baking hacks can convince people they're just lousy cooks, when in reality they were set to fail. Also kids aged 7 or 10 aren't going to understand the danger of manipulating an electrical cord or dipping a strawberry into bleach to make it white.
Have you ever seen any of Ann Reardons videos debunking these stupid hacks. One was how to whiten your shoes, upon closer inspection you could see they weren’t even the same size 😂
They make them so stupid to generate the comments criticizing the hacks and that drives the popularity. So sad that legitimate good instructional videos have trouble generating nearly as much traffic.
3 years ago I took the lemonseeds from my restaurant water and put them on a wet paper towel to sprout. 3 years later I have the 6 seeds from it in a pot. I braided them periodically. It is now 4 feet tall. Also didn’t know that lemon trees have huge thorns! 🍋
I was coming to the comments to comment about Ann Reardon. So glad someone else beat me to it. 10/10 recommend her and her videos on debunking 5 minute crafts.
Pumice doesn't work very good on pilling. It just rips them off leaving tons of individual fibers loose ready to immediately get tangled and turn into new pills the first time you wear it. A shaver works best
That canvas shower curtain… do you know how much 4 canvases that size cost!! Cheapest would be £15 each that I could find…And a waste of a shower curtain!!!
Loving how the flip-flop 'hack' forgot it's own premise, which is impressive for a 10 second video. "Do your flip flops hurt your feet? We have a solution: Let's make them extra ugly! They also hurt worse now."
I say do it any way if it will make your heart sing…screw what people think..life’s to short…you go forth, and tie water balloons to you thongs (I’m Aussie) AND BE FABULOUS!
This 100%! Ann from How to Cook that covered some of them and then Legal Eagle answered some legal questions on one of them, but seriously there are sooooo many super dangerous "5 minute crafts"
Heather: Ever hear of 5-Minute Crafts? Romy: The ones that suck and waste your time? Heather: Half the result in twice the time for the idiot who should go. I invented the quick-burning toilet paper.
I do a different version of the cotton pad/ candle wax. I use a egg carton and put dryer lint in the cups. Then when my wax melts lose their scent, I dump it over the dryer lint. Then you can cut the carton apart. They work very well.
Lemon tree from seed- tried this around 8 years ago cause I saw it on pintrest. The seeds do grow and I had a beautiful tree with lemony fresh leaves but it never bore fruit. Turns out that you can't just plant lemon seeds and get a fruit bearing tree. Sad barren tree. No lems
I just learned yesterday from my local nursery that some plants even require other variations of the same plant to actually bear fruit. From experience, yes, home grown seeds will grow, but yeah, often are barren, or will take 2-10 years longer to begin bearing fruit. It's very misleading.
@@homesteadgamer1257 It's actually most fruit trees that need another tree of a different variety to bear fruit. Apples, cherries, lemons, and pears are all like this. There are some self-pollinating varieties, but they usually do not taste as good.
The egg trick for the plant is a great tip! The egg shell has calcium that helps the plant grow bigger. My dad uses this trick in his garden and the flowers grow beautifully tall.
This was the first time I've EVER seen that eggshell planting hack where they actually did break the eggshell. I, like, fist pumped. They actually got something right, lol.
@@maureenlaneski2802 Technically, you were "sheet composting". Like leaf fall is sheet composting. If your gardening habit continued, all you'd need to do to "cover up" the "compost pile" look was throw spoiled lucerne hay over the garden bed, about three inches thick. That's called "mulching". It breaks down, usually with some dolomite sprinkled all over it, and well watered in, and your plants usually love it. Helps stifle weeds, helps retain moisture in those climates that get very dry in summer, and encourages soil life and activity. Crushed egg shell does discourage slugs and snails though.
I've seen this. You boil the shells for a few minutes to get rid of any egg remnants. Then you can air dry or oven dry. After that, you put them in a blender and pulverized them into powder. You can add a teaspoon to your smoothies. It's great for the soul and your plants, too.
The candle wax and cotton pad works quite well. 👍 Edit: I don't drip the wax from the candle. I use an old small pot and melt wax in it, then dip 2/3 of the pad into the melted wax, set aside on aluminum foil and let cool. When using, light the unwaxed part of the pad and hold it so the flame travels toward the waxed part, once the wax starts to burn place it into your kindling. It will burn for about 2 to 3 minutes. ***ALSO*** If you do this, use LOW heat to melt the wax in the pot as that it can and will catch on fire if it gets hot enough. I know this for a fact. 🔥😲
For the candle wax and cotton pad idea, we used to make fire starters in Girl Scouts. Empty cardboard egg carton. Fill with dryer lint or sawdust. Melt some wax in an old pot. Pour the wax into the cups. Stand a match in each one. When you need one, break it off and put it in the wood, charcoal. Light the match. The paper, lint/sawdust burn, the wax burns hotter and longer, and voila! One fire started.
They are called "fire starters". In that 5 min craft, they used a cotton ball with wax. As a girl scout, we made fire starters using heavy cardboard, ripped into strips, rolled a strip and dripped the wax on it.
Cotton balls and Vaseline mushed together and stuffed into an old pill bottle accompany me on every motorcycle camping trip. One or two plucked out works a charm for getting a campfire started.
If you use wax melt warmers, get a package of cheap cotton rounds and use them to soak up the old wax before changing to a new scent. Then use them as firestarters. Taking the time to melt a candle all over one is silly, but if you're getting rid of melted wax anyway, *shrug*, not so time wasting :-)
Trick is to melt wax in a pan, put the round pads in to soak up wax. A bunch at a time. lay them out to harden. Then take them camping to start fires. They work great and are completely waterproof. And they stack like crackers.
About the only useful 5min craft I know of is for sorting multiple wires. Useful behind your tv or something where they'll rarely move. 1) take a zip tie and secure it in a large circle 2) run wires thru the zip tie 3) run a zip tie between each wire and seal it moderately tight. Should be perpendicular to the first zip tie and will go around it. Can be repeated at a few different places along the length of the wires depending on how OCD you are. They will not tangle and will look fairly organized, but it is a pain in the butt if you ever want to move one.
As a girl scout we took tuna cans, rolled up some cardboard in a spiral and poured in melted old candle remnants to fill the can. It was called a buddie burner and would start the wettest wood on fire. Just wash the can out really well before.
Hey Charlotte! You asked if the candle wax fire starters work… they absolutely would. However I think you’d need more than one. Another fun fact with candle wax… you can waterproof them if you are going camping or go on a float trip, you just dip the sulfur side of the match into wax. It’s very time consuming but it does work and is worth it for emergency situations.
My kid would scream if I used her pop-its for flip flops She just got home and I showed that to her. She looked horrified at what they did to the pop-it.
More accurate (though not as catchy) titles for 5 Minute Crafts: How To Make Everyday Things Ugly Convoluted Ways To Solve Straightforward Problems Solutions Nobody Needed Why Do It Right When You Can Do It Dangerously We Left Out Crucial Steps But You Get The Idea We Left Out Crucial Steps Because This Doesn't Really Work The Juice Is Not Worth The Squeeze
At 3:01 the glass with shampoo for coloured hair is going to look lighter compared to regular shampoo because the colour you start with is white. If you look at the strands, there isn't much difference. For those with red coloured hair, unsure if it's true but heard that washing your hair in cooler water and not hot will have your colour last longer, especially with red dye.
The wax-on-cotton-pad firestarters definitely work. That's an old camping/survival trick. If you double-boil a couple candles and dip cotton pads or balls in it, you can prep a whole bag at once. They last forever, perfect for survival kits or just keeping a box next to the fireplace or grill.
The wax on the shovel really works. I used to skateboard so I always had bricks of gulf wax at home & during the winter my dad would use it to put on our snow shovels. I live in Wisconsin & we get a lot of snow & it can be a lot of work to clear snow when the snow keeps sticking to the shovel. It's harder on your back to have to keep knocking snow off your shovel every 10 seconds. The wax makes it faster & easier to get it done. 👍 Definitely worth the couple of minutes it takes to apply if you have bad back problems like I do.
The fire starter hack does work - my cousin actually takes cardboard egg cartons, puts old laundry link in the pockets, then as she burns candles pours the wax on the pockets. They work great.
Easy fire-starter when you don't want to waste cotton rounds: use a paper egg carton and fill each hole with a small ball of newspaper (some people use dryer lint) then take the last bits of jar candles and pour them over it. Tear off one section of egg carton whenever you want to start a fire. Works great when you have damp kindling because it sustains a flame for a couple minutes
I keep Gulf wax around the woodshop. But for the shovel, there are spray on waxes that would be easier, or heck, even car wax is easier than rubbing a candle over the whole thing.
As a Girl Scout from way back when I can vouch we did this. Or we’d make “starter kits” as a group and gather random starter needles from trees. Being in so cal though we got a lot more info on preventing fires than actually making them…lol but that’s ok too.
Charlotte, we are Scentsy Consultants, we change out our wax regularly using cotton balls. We save the cotton balls and use as fire starter.. it works great. If you ever need a warmer and wanna try it, let us know. 💜💜💜💜💜
Actual life hack for grapes! Devine all your grapes, wash them, and then put them in a bowl of water and into your fridge. Your grapes will last so much longer and they're a perfect cool, crisp snack. Seriously, this hack changed my life.
The wax fire starter does work, but we make them using dryer lint. We also stuff TP rolls with dryer lint and then wrap them in the outside wrapper from the TP.
I love the moments when I can see the logic in your brain being derailed while you try to reason with 5 minute crafts. I can laugh, because I do it too!
Don’t laugh… My partner did that with his cellphone cord and a hairdryer. I thought it was legit dumb but his centre console in his car is much neater than mine with his “flexible” charger cable…
Great idea! That's a much smarter way to do it. Putting it on a warm engine seems a bit risky and it'd be too easy for the cord to melt on the side that makes contact
The wax and candle thing does work. I make them with empty egg cartons, fill them with dryer lint and pour melted wax into each egg spot. That way, you can just rip them off and use them as fire starters. That's possibly the only 5 min craft thing I've ever seen that actually makes sense.
The lemon tree one is legit. A lot of people that grow their own fruits and vegetables use that method. The egg shell is a great holder that creates 0 waste and then can be used as fertilizer.
Candle wax on shovel actually takes like 15 seconds and does work. Back in old days people put candle wax on (bottom of) their skis too. Also poorly sliding drawers, squeaky hinges etc. Cheap & works.
Hahaha.... "It's not worth it Dude" ..... The VERY NEXT segment was about knots.... Lmfao. Love you Charlotte, you seriously crack me up. Much love and light. 🙏🤍😘😜✌️🤘
Take the shower curtain, throw it in the washing machine with your typical detergent let it run with hot water. Hang it back up in the shower to let it dry. No more moldy shower curtain.
For the fire starter, i stuff lint from the dryer into an empty egg carton and when i have old left over candles i melt them all in a glass jar and cover the lint pockets. Good storage and guarantee to start your fire
Oh yes, growing alum crystals in eggshells is still a thing. I've made so many of them with my students, that I no longer need the recipe nor measurements
Or plain alcohol on the cotton pad, I use for lighting coal! Melting wax is such a waste of time, but then again we're talking about 5MC, they love to do unnecessary things 😂
Lol, yes. Candle wax isn't a good fire starter. If it were, more than the wick would burn. All it does is extend the burn time if the wick, or in this video, the cotton pad.
Yeah, there are three questions you should ask to determine if something is a "hack". 1. Does it save money? 2. Does it save time? 3. Does it save effort? If the answers to all three of these questions are all "no" then it's not a hack. (there is some wiggle room if not all of the answers are no. I.E. it could still be considered a hack if it saves time and money at the cost of a little more effort) Also for the grapes, you could also just clean the grapes while they're still on the stem.
Holy smokes ... 1:00 minute in and so far - zip ties on bicycle tires 🚲 for riding on snowy streets + toothpaste applied to hair and wrapped in Reynolds Wrap (foil) --- HELP (LOL)!!! 😆
In the fall, before the snow flies, we use car wax on our shovels to keep the heavy wet snow from sticking for the season. A candle? Ehhhhhh... too much work.
Or just wd40 or silicone spray works too. Yup, sticky snow is no fun. I think Charlotte is telling us she never shoveled without telling us she never shoveled.
I thought “I’d do it with a beach scene curtain”. I suppose if you could glue or staple something that is waterproof to the curtain, and put suction cups on the back, you could hang it IN your shower! Lmao
The best kindling for camping is to save empty toilet paper and paper towel rolls and egg cartons! I also save papers like free newspapers to use. Instead of melting the wax, you can dip your cotton pads, or better yet the jumbo cotton balls, in Vaseline. Works just as well, is easier, and probably less messy. A camping hack I like is to reuse coffee creamer bottles. You can crack your eggs in there, then pour them out as needed and don't have to worry about eggs cracking in the cooler making a mess. You can also measure your pancake mix into them, then when ready to cook add the wet ingredients, shake and pour. Pinterest has a lot of great camping hacks for anyone interested.
Cotton make up pads have been used by wilderness hikers/campers for years. Even if they get a bit damp, they light easily, because the wax not only keeps the inner cotton dry, but turns the cotton in to a wick for the flame to last longer, so if you must use damp kindling, you stand a better chance of getting it on fire. Note damp and wet are a spectrum. do not throw your kindling in the water and immediately try to light it like that.
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I can hear Brad Mondo screaming all the way down here in Florida after the toothpaste thing 😂
That was a really thick (and messy) section, brad wouldn't approve for sure lol
She didn't even spread it out so if it did work it would've been that even
Omg I freakin love Brad Mondo, he’s hilarious & an utter genius with hair. He would absolutely throw a hairy canary if he saw this for sure lol 🤣😂
the thing is they didn’t even smooth out the toothpaste to other areas but when they unfolded it the whole piece was blonde😂
Yesss I was thinking the same thing
I remember when DIY videos were like, using cardboard to make a doll house or painting mason jars to look like fairy lights or turning a broken vase into a little terrarium...
Right?! Now they're just thinking of wild shit to do that nobody is ever going to do
Now they're like, "destroy 20cents worth of ice cream cones, and use $2.50 worth of plaster and 2 hours of your time to save buying a ring holder from the dollar store..."
I miss the old REAL hack videos :'((
Exactly! Whatever happened to REAL crafts like those? Nowadays, life "hacks" are just stupid things that no one will do smh.
I saw one that literally looked like it took $50 and about 1 hour. Or you could go get one from the store for about $30
the fact that the 5 minute crafts LITERALLY never take just five minutes is a scam in itself. also, the suspenseful music with each clip is really on point 😂😂
The suspenseful music is giving me anxiety 😂
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I'm a bit high right now and it was giving me anxiety too lol
yeah, that lemon seed one is no 5 minutes. More like 5 years!
I thought it was cracked/crushed but then I saw they actually crushed it when they replanted it into the pot.
Ann Riordan devoted some episodes of How To Cook That to debunking the most silly and dangerous of the 5minute crafts, yummly and other click farm channels. Recommended!
She also showed how dangerous some of those fake hacks were.
*Reardon, but yeah do you demember the explosing home-made stove and spinning freaking boiling caramel in mixer? And bleached strawberries? Insane. Just insane.
H2CT debunking videos are amazing. Ann is who really opened my eyes to the fact that 5MC are just clickbait. I had actually thought the problem was me, not 5MC.
Love H2CT 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I love those videos! Very interesting
Notice how he didn’t actually attach the four canvases together before putting on the shower curtain. That thing is going to instantly collapse!
My thoughts exactly 😂 i was almost waiting for that to happen
I think that would make a cool backdrop for taking pictures of items you may be trying to sell, to put on a website or something. With a new shower curtain of course.
and why would you even do that?.. as a interior student myself (in the past) I can assure you those canvases comes in a variety of sises. And A0 is quite big for that purpose
I've bought shower curtains to use as curtains before, but not art for the walls.
@@TacseraEpSekahs Would have to be one fine piece of art on that curtain for that to be even remotely smart thing to do anyway. The one on the video? Just paint it for crying out loud... and to my taste it would be better to place them a bit apart from each other on the wall even then.
I love Charlotte. She embodies my "but ... why?" thoughts about these 5 minute lies so well.
Because you don't live in a city or large town with a Dollar Store.
Because your parents have had you in the house for a year and want an hour of peace and quiet.
Two reasons why.
*Wraps phone cord around marker. *Places on hot car engine.
*Watches as cord melts.
🤷🏼♀️ Cord ruined, car engine stinks and has melted rubber stuck to it😂 hack failed
@Leonie 😂😂😂
@Leonie I know. I can't believe people take that channel seriously.😅
Maybe it's a lukewarm engine 😂
Just joking 😂
@@darth-imperius maybe the engine fan kicked on prior to placing it on top 😆
Why on a car engine?
If you need to shape or mold plastic like that, use a hair dryer or heat gun. BUT MONITOR CLOSELY THAT IT DOES NOT GET SO HOT THAT IT MELTS. GO SLOOOOOOOOW
The thing about the bubble pop flip-flop thing is that you'd need to buy a perfectly good pair of flip-flops and destroy them just to repurpose the upper sling part.
And those bubble pop things are relatively expensive for what they are. Cheaper to buy flip flops.
Not to mention the bubble pop things were actually 2 square ones at cutting, then when cutting was finished, they were 1 single piece. 5MC conveniently edits every vid.
You can buy the top sling separate.
Or... Do this when the sling bit pops out of your flip flops due to months of wear and tear... Just me...
@@FaithMcCaffrey yeah, but then why buy a $5 or more fidget toy to destroy when a decent pair of basic flip flops cost $1.50
The materials to make these "crafts" costs more than just going out and buying whatever you're trying to make. 😂
I don't think you're always supposed to go out and buy this stuff. Most of the time It's just a suggestion for how to utilize the junk already lying around the house. Privileged people go to the store to buy things for craft making or they buy the craft pre-made. 😂
I love how they just dropped a fake lemon when the tree got bigger lol 😂
Yesss I was gonna say that
@@KC__1997 it also would be the size of a full-grown tree, not a little sapling. Unless it was from a dwarf variety, but even those are bigger than that.
and the kind of lemon you buy in the store won't grow. There is a variety of lemons that were bred to be able to grow in a pot and produce tiny lemons, but the seeds from a full sized lemon won't produce fruit until the tree is about twenty feet tall and they take at least ten years to grow that size.
@@andrewthezeppo this is exactly what I came to say. I’m pretty sure the tree needs to be outside in the sun for many years before it can grow lemons
Omg right! When you start from a seed, it takes 5 years before it will grow to a lemon tree that's producing fruit! 5 Year Crafts is more like it! 😂
The wax cotton pads do actually work really well for starting fires. However it’s way easier to melt wax in a container and dip the cotton pads in rather than lighting a candle and dripping it on.
Do a bunch, let dry, put in ziplock snack bag then put in your car glove compartment in case of emergency. With flame source, of course.
I melt candle stumps in a container and dip pinecones in it, great for lighting the fireplace 🙈
You could do this when changing out the wax melts in your warmers.It's already melted and ready to go, just dip cotton pads and make a few of these each time. Wonder how well this would work with dryer lint in a TP tube, since we already know that burns well. Maybe dip the ends of a lint-filled tube, so the dryer lint doesn't burn too fast.This way you're not buying cotton pads or anything to burn, you're using only items that would otherwise go in the trash. I think that's the worst part of these 5 Minute Craft videos - it seems like they are buying all the supplies for their videos instead of actually doing the 3Rs! 🤔
I have a container full of these. It’s a useful hack. 👍🏻
Or you could just cover the pads in vaseline, for a melt and much easier to create firelighter... I'm just sayin' 👀
My 8 year is always doing stuff from these channels, she loves it! Nothing practical or very 'useful', just easy stuff like making frames, decorations or those knots. Once she has the basic idea she'll spend hours making all sorts of crap. 😎👍 Last Christmas, there where alot of extended family members saying "oh I love this! Did you really make it yourself?!?" ... followed by a discrete, 'does anyone know what it is?' 😁
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You need to be careful with what projects she does, some of the ones 5 minute crafts and similar channels come up with are downright dangerous. They have all been sued numerous times by people who were injured when replicating their projects.
The lemon tree just takes like 5 years to get that big 😊
You mean it doesnt take 5 minutes??
Pretty close, and it won't ever produce lemons like that. You might get small bitter fruit.
And then all the lemon-stealing whores will come and take your lemons
If I was in a third world country an had no other choice , then I'd definitely just try . . I'm poor lol so I'm thinking about it .
Yea lol
Charlotte, the last one is a 3d printing pen. People make some incredible art with those. I'd love to see you react to artist timelapses.
Thank you! I was scrolling down to see if anyone else answered the question, and wasn't finding anyone, so glad you did :)
How is waiting a week for your "gemstones" a 5-minute hack?😅
Love you Charlotte👍
I literally just stuck a couple of lemon seeds into a plant pot and I now have two beautiful plants. No weird shenanigans necessary.
I was always told in high school that citrus trees were highly variable and you'd have to graft lemon tree new growth to a root system to guarantee good/predictable lemons.
WHAT????? Nature designed seeds to grow, just in soil, without human intervention? Who would have known!!
Best to buy organic lemons as most are treated to prevent growth.
But...the egg!!!😂😆🤣
@@yumcuriouschannel2040 I think that's if you're trying to commercially grow fruit bearing lemons. This seems more designed to be a house plant/decoration. There are dwarf species of lemons that will grow indoors but the lemons will be tiny. The seeds from a tree with lemons the size of the one in the video need like 8 years to grow and have to be over six feet tall before you'll get a lemon.
That toilet one is like a sanitation nightmare! Dont wanna know what bacteria will be growing under that sticky stuff since you wouldn't be able to clean the toilet properly 🤢
Excaxtly that is just nasty I reminds me of that post with the fluffy toilet seat cover 😂😂
That was my thought. That would be a bitch to keep clean.
Good thing you don't have to cuz not even the girl will have to...Pause at 9:31
@@Jay-D92 Yea I saw somebody else's comment about that. She shifts her leg and they obviously stuck to her.
@@ariellebrowne OMG Every time I see a fabric cover on the seat itself, not just the lid, my only thought is EWWWWW.
One thing to start fires quickly is to put dryer lint inside of empty toilet roll, then set on fire. This works great for starting fires.
Truth. Use it all the time in the winter.
I do that too!
“No one is going to do these! Who does these?!”
Jenna Marbles: So...
Miss her videos so much!!!
Oh I miss those videos. I miss Wednesdays with Jenna (I'm in Australia so her vids were on a Wednesday for me)
Jarvis Johnson has also done a few
I laughed way too hard at the thought of leaving a banana peel on the finger overnight 🤣 😂
I used to like watching their videos, but found myself rolling my eyes at most of their content soon after 😂
Yeah! They started of actually useful and cool! But then they turned into
'put cream into juice, stir it 10 times left and once right, put it in the microwave, set it in plaster, put it inside a shoe, give it 20 minutes of moonlight, and boom! Easy trifle.'
😂😂😂 I couldn't have said it better myself 😂😂😂
@@datgaydangernoodle1315 That is so spot-on, lmao! 🤣 Great comment!!👍
(Edit: and your username is f*ing awesome!)
@@MeganVictoriaKearns thanks!
me three.
The shower curtain rod brought back memories of a sketch from the Carol Burnett Show, where she makes a dress from the curtains, but forgets to remove the curtain rod.
That skit was hilarious!
That was the best!!!!👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️
Wasn't she playing Scarlet O'Hara? I miss shows like this, that are just for laughs, and not all politically correct!
"I saw it in the window and just had to have it!"
Bob Mackie costumes are *chef's kiss*
"Went with the Wind" TV Guide voted it the funniest piece in television history. (I agree.)
Pleeeeeeeease do more of these!! So many of their "crafts" are the most wasteful, overly involved ideas. The rest are either stupid or useless. But it's presented so well! Serious work is put into production and they have bright colors and cute, happy young people effortlessly pulling of literally the dumbest shit that nobody's ever going to actually repeat.
They also fake many of the hacks. But who is going to watch carefully enough to notice, when the video is that speed? And some of them are dangerous, like the electrical cord hack here, or the infamous bleached strawberries.
Btw these channels are aimed at kids, or at least kids watch them. My friend's young son used to watch 5 minute crafts and re-create the hacks at home. I have no idea if he was ever successful, as at least the fake baking hacks can convince people they're just lousy cooks, when in reality they were set to fail. Also kids aged 7 or 10 aren't going to understand the danger of manipulating an electrical cord or dipping a strawberry into bleach to make it white.
Have you ever seen any of Ann Reardons videos debunking these stupid hacks. One was how to whiten your shoes, upon closer inspection you could see they weren’t even the same size 😂
They make them so stupid to generate the comments criticizing the hacks and that drives the popularity. So sad that legitimate good instructional videos have trouble generating nearly as much traffic.
@@valerief1231 I saw that one 😂 where they switched out the 👟 and it was a different size 🤣🤣🤣 🤦🏼♀️
I literally laughed out loud when reading your comment!
Camping fire hack: TP tube stuffed with dryer lint. Works every time and it's stuff you would normally just toss in the bin.
Very bad for your health and the environment.
3 years ago I took the lemonseeds from my restaurant water and put them on a wet paper towel to sprout. 3 years later I have the 6 seeds from it in a pot. I braided them periodically. It is now 4 feet tall. Also didn’t know that lemon trees have huge thorns! 🍋
Highly recommend Ann Reardon at *how to cook that* debunking videos :) shes a food scientist who properly breaks this sh!t down.
Oh link please?
I love Ann Reardon! 😍 Don’t know how to attach link but she’s here on RUclips, her channel is How to Cook that. Such great content there.
@@erikarussell1142 ruclips.net/channel/UCsP7Bpw36J666Fct5M8u-ZA
Yes! She's the best. I love that she actually tries out the hacks, Then shows the right way to do it
I was coming to the comments to comment about Ann Reardon. So glad someone else beat me to it. 10/10 recommend her and her videos on debunking 5 minute crafts.
Pumice doesn't work very good on pilling. It just rips them off leaving tons of individual fibers loose ready to immediately get tangled and turn into new pills the first time you wear it. A shaver works best
That canvas shower curtain… do you know how much 4 canvases that size cost!! Cheapest would be £15 each that I could find…And a waste of a shower curtain!!!
Loving how the flip-flop 'hack' forgot it's own premise, which is impressive for a 10 second video. "Do your flip flops hurt your feet? We have a solution: Let's make them extra ugly! They also hurt worse now."
Your reactions are priceless when you find out what the purpose of each craft is (especially to the "ring cone")!
Lmao agree. Her reactions are hilarious!
The balloon flip flops tops were kind cute. The ones that decorated the top part. I might try it and I may get away with it cuz Im old (65) 😂
I say do it any way if it will make your heart sing…screw what people think..life’s to short…you go forth, and tie water balloons to you thongs (I’m Aussie) AND BE FABULOUS!
Do DANGEROUS 5 min crafts. God knows, there's enough of them!
This 100%! Ann from How to Cook that covered some of them and then Legal Eagle answered some legal questions on one of them, but seriously there are sooooo many super dangerous "5 minute crafts"
Omg, that'd be fantastic! 😄
Adding cinnamon to soap when cinnamon is dangerous for the skin. Katie from Royalty Soaps busted quite a few of the soap ones.
@@lorna_alice ya i saw that :)
Love ann
“The rubber from my flip flops is hurting my feet, better put more rubber on them” 🤦🏻😂
I think flips flops are uncomfortable, my solution is not to wear them.
Heather: Ever hear of 5-Minute Crafts?
Romy: The ones that suck and waste your time?
Heather: Half the result in twice the time for the idiot who should go. I invented the quick-burning toilet paper.
I do a different version of the cotton pad/ candle wax. I use a egg carton and put dryer lint in the cups. Then when my wax melts lose their scent, I dump it over the dryer lint. Then you can cut the carton apart. They work very well.
Lemon tree from seed- tried this around 8 years ago cause I saw it on pintrest. The seeds do grow and I had a beautiful tree with lemony fresh leaves but it never bore fruit. Turns out that you can't just plant lemon seeds and get a fruit bearing tree. Sad barren tree. No lems
You need multiple trees and the right insects to pollinate! We had a solo lemon tree once. We got like one lemon over eight years. 😂
Citrus trees need at least 4 other trees to produce fruit…after about 4 years.
You actually need a hybridized tree to produce the lemons you are used to.
This goes for almost any fruit or vegetables you find in the store.
I just learned yesterday from my local nursery that some plants even require other variations of the same plant to actually bear fruit. From experience, yes, home grown seeds will grow, but yeah, often are barren, or will take 2-10 years longer to begin bearing fruit. It's very misleading.
@@homesteadgamer1257 It's actually most fruit trees that need another tree of a different variety to bear fruit. Apples, cherries, lemons, and pears are all like this. There are some self-pollinating varieties, but they usually do not taste as good.
The egg trick for the plant is a great tip! The egg shell has calcium that helps the plant grow bigger. My dad uses this trick in his garden and the flowers grow beautifully tall.
The eggshell adds calcium, so that would actually be smart. However, the shell has to be broken in order to break down.
This was the first time I've EVER seen that eggshell planting hack where they actually did break the eggshell. I, like, fist pumped. They actually got something right, lol.
@@Terahnee agreed. I’ve seen so many where they don’t. The roots aren’t that strong and the eggshell won’t break down if it’s not broken.
I thought the shell was for garden pests. I used to just straight up throw them into my garden until I realized that it looked like a compost pile.
@@maureenlaneski2802 Technically, you were "sheet composting". Like leaf fall is sheet composting. If your gardening habit continued, all you'd need to do to "cover up" the "compost pile" look was throw spoiled lucerne hay over the garden bed, about three inches thick. That's called "mulching". It breaks down, usually with some dolomite sprinkled all over it, and well watered in, and your plants usually love it. Helps stifle weeds, helps retain moisture in those climates that get very dry in summer, and encourages soil life and activity. Crushed egg shell does discourage slugs and snails though.
I've seen this.
You boil the shells for a few minutes to get rid of any egg remnants. Then you can air dry or oven dry.
After that, you put them in a blender and pulverized them into powder. You can add a teaspoon to your smoothies.
It's great for the soul and your plants, too.
The candle wax and cotton pad works quite well. 👍
Edit: I don't drip the wax from the candle. I use an old small pot and melt wax in it, then dip 2/3 of the pad into the melted wax, set aside on aluminum foil and let cool.
When using, light the unwaxed part of the pad and hold it so the flame travels toward the waxed part, once the wax starts to burn place it into your kindling. It will burn for about 2 to 3 minutes.
***ALSO*** If you do this, use LOW heat to melt the wax in the pot as that it can and will catch on fire if it gets hot enough. I know this for a fact. 🔥😲
For the candle wax and cotton pad idea, we used to make fire starters in Girl Scouts. Empty cardboard egg carton. Fill with dryer lint or sawdust. Melt some wax in an old pot. Pour the wax into the cups. Stand a match in each one. When you need one, break it off and put it in the wood, charcoal. Light the match. The paper, lint/sawdust burn, the wax burns hotter and longer, and voila! One fire started.
Imagine brad Mondo watching toothpaste bleech 😂😂
I feel like i need that-
He’s really not that good of a hairstylist. I saw him to a balayage and it was hair-school quality 😬
😂😂😂
I think he saw one where they used coloured toothpaste to colour hair. I may be wrong, though.
Oh the HORROR!!
LOL...Charlotte: "Oh owie flip flop hurt my foot!" - voicing the actions going on in the videos are awesome!
They are called "fire starters". In that 5 min craft, they used a cotton ball with wax. As a girl scout, we made fire starters using heavy cardboard, ripped into strips, rolled a strip and dripped the wax on it.
In my wilderness survival class we learned how you can make a firestarter with a cotton ball or strip torn from a cotton shirt and lip balm.
We used egg cartons. iirc we filled the egg carton cups with cotton balls and wax
Cotton balls and Vaseline mushed together and stuffed into an old pill bottle accompany me on every motorcycle camping trip. One or two plucked out works a charm for getting a campfire started.
If you use wax melt warmers, get a package of cheap cotton rounds and use them to soak up the old wax before changing to a new scent. Then use them as firestarters. Taking the time to melt a candle all over one is silly, but if you're getting rid of melted wax anyway, *shrug*, not so time wasting :-)
Trick is to melt wax in a pan, put the round pads in to soak up wax. A bunch at a time. lay them out to harden. Then take them camping to start fires. They work great and are completely waterproof. And they stack like crackers.
Clearly you're not into crafts.
"Why make your own cone when you could just go out and buy one?!"
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About the only useful 5min craft I know of is for sorting multiple wires. Useful behind your tv or something where they'll rarely move.
1) take a zip tie and secure it in a large circle
2) run wires thru the zip tie
3) run a zip tie between each wire and seal it moderately tight. Should be perpendicular to the first zip tie and will go around it.
Can be repeated at a few different places along the length of the wires depending on how OCD you are. They will not tangle and will look fairly organized, but it is a pain in the butt if you ever want to move one.
Ingenuity has its place. But I’m pretty sure these are beginner hoarders.
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Spot on!
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It’s a 3D pen, my daughter has one, it’s not as easy to use as that looks though.
Thank you! I was scouring the comments for someone to mention it! Looks fun 👀
It is easy, but not really for children in my experience. I've got one too and I love using it!
Thanks for answering this, I was so confused lmao
If you're talking about 5:54, that is just an ordinary hot glue gun - much cheaper and simpler than a 3D pen :)
@@BogdanSass No 14:20
The bike tire and zip ties actually works really well and is much cheaper than buying studded bike tires.
Same principle as snow chains
I'm just concerned about who carries around zip ties these days. They kind of have a certain connotation now...
@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj I was thinking specifically in the U.S. about the attack on the Capitol.
@@j.d.thedragking2872 if that is the only thing you can think of when you see zipties then you need to turn the TV off.
@@creeperkinggamer9184 Orrrr, I know how to accept reality?
As a girl scout we took tuna cans, rolled up some cardboard in a spiral and poured in melted old candle remnants to fill the can. It was called a buddie burner and would start the wettest wood on fire. Just wash the can out really well before.
Hey Charlotte! You asked if the candle wax fire starters work… they absolutely would. However I think you’d need more than one. Another fun fact with candle wax… you can waterproof them if you are going camping or go on a float trip, you just dip the sulfur side of the match into wax. It’s very time consuming but it does work and is worth it for emergency situations.
Instead of rubbing a candle on a shovel you could just spray it with Pam non-stick spray.
Car wax works better.
Can snow stick to a shovel? 🤔 I live in a very cold place so never seen this happen 🤷🏻♀️
@@Aethian I was going to say the same thing.
@@alexfortin4984 the really heavy wet snow will. Though I don't know how much the wax will really help with that.
Cooking spray does not exist in all countries.
For good reason. (Talk about creating waste.)
My kid would scream if I used her pop-its for flip flops
She just got home and I showed that to her. She looked horrified at what they did to the pop-it.
OK, so that would be my cue to absolutely *do it* and wear it out of the house LOL
Mine almost cried.
More accurate (though not as catchy) titles for 5 Minute Crafts:
How To Make Everyday Things Ugly
Convoluted Ways To Solve Straightforward Problems
Solutions Nobody Needed
Why Do It Right When You Can Do It Dangerously
We Left Out Crucial Steps But You Get The Idea
We Left Out Crucial Steps Because This Doesn't Really Work
The Juice Is Not Worth The Squeeze
Her reaction to the "little bridge for the ants" was awesome hahahah
Thanks Charlotte, hugs from Brazil
At 3:01 the glass with shampoo for coloured hair is going to look lighter compared to regular shampoo because the colour you start with is white. If you look at the strands, there isn't much difference.
For those with red coloured hair, unsure if it's true but heard that washing your hair in cooler water and not hot will have your colour last longer, especially with red dye.
*Warning: The creator did this in 5 minutes after practicing it 100 times. For you, this is going to take all day.
I wish they would've shown how to make a homemade Plumbus.
* pumice
@@mysteryelysian lol
They'll sake sand.. glue.. fry it... Tadahhh 😂😂
@@mysteryelysian nooo 😂
You just need some interdimensional cable for that, no biggie. Just follow the steps.
🎵 "It costs that much 'cos it takes me 5 minutes..."
The wax-on-cotton-pad firestarters definitely work. That's an old camping/survival trick. If you double-boil a couple candles and dip cotton pads or balls in it, you can prep a whole bag at once.
They last forever, perfect for survival kits or just keeping a box next to the fireplace or grill.
There was just too much to unpack in this, lol. I seriously couldn’t stop laughing! 5-Minute Crafts are ridiculous.
The wax on the shovel really works. I used to skateboard so I always had bricks of gulf wax at home & during the winter my dad would use it to put on our snow shovels. I live in Wisconsin & we get a lot of snow & it can be a lot of work to clear snow when the snow keeps sticking to the shovel. It's harder on your back to have to keep knocking snow off your shovel every 10 seconds. The wax makes it faster & easier to get it done. 👍 Definitely worth the couple of minutes it takes to apply if you have bad back problems like I do.
Love that Charlotte walks us through every single step lol
It's her brain trying to compute! 🤣
Yeah, I keep coming back to "WHY?!" on about 99% of these. I'm glad you feel the same way, Charlotte. 💜
The fire starter hack does work - my cousin actually takes cardboard egg cartons, puts old laundry link in the pockets, then as she burns candles pours the wax on the pockets. They work great.
Easy fire-starter when you don't want to waste cotton rounds: use a paper egg carton and fill each hole with a small ball of newspaper (some people use dryer lint) then take the last bits of jar candles and pour them over it. Tear off one section of egg carton whenever you want to start a fire. Works great when you have damp kindling because it sustains a flame for a couple minutes
The candle wax works on old wooden sleighs as well. My father would do that every Winter when snow arrived.
Depends on what material the candle is made of, right? The ones with more wax in should be better.
Edit: actually, am dumb. You already said wax. Ugh.
We always used gulf wax. That stuff on your sled will have you flying down the hills so fast, you become a blur. Lol Fun times.
I keep Gulf wax around the woodshop. But for the shovel, there are spray on waxes that would be easier, or heck, even car wax is easier than rubbing a candle over the whole thing.
Wax paper?
I'd try the candle patches for camping and my woodstove.
As a Girl Scout leader - we've made many fire starters like the wax cotton pad thing over the years (long before 5 Minute Crafts lol)
Yeah, my parents save the lint from the dryer to use when they go camping.
Lint works too
I thought it was to make the fire smell like whatever candle scent it was lol 😄😄
As a Girl Scout from way back when I can vouch we did this. Or we’d make “starter kits” as a group and gather random starter needles from trees. Being in so cal though we got a lot more info on preventing fires than actually making them…lol but that’s ok too.
Easier hack for your snow shovel is just spray with no-stick Pam before heading out.
that works? sorry i’m from south texas and have never seen real snow haha
Who has cooking spray with them all the time?😂😂😂 just kidding but if u home u can use a candle as well lol
I've only seen snow twice but Pam was my first thought! Lol
Or use a wax stick for skis if you have one, which you might keep in a relatively similar place to your shovel.
Just wait till spring and the snow will disapear by itself
Charlotte, we are Scentsy Consultants, we change out our wax regularly using cotton balls. We save the cotton balls and use as fire starter.. it works great. If you ever need a warmer and wanna try it, let us know. 💜💜💜💜💜
Actual life hack for grapes! Devine all your grapes, wash them, and then put them in a bowl of water and into your fridge. Your grapes will last so much longer and they're a perfect cool, crisp snack. Seriously, this hack changed my life.
"Who's gonna just have a candle" is going to be my new catchphrase 😀
I love this idea 😂
Cooking spray is faster and easier. Just saying!
DONT USE PUMICE ON YOUR CLOTHES OMG
Depending on the fabric it’ll spread the fibers
That toilet seat thing is an excellent way to imprint your legs for an octopus impersonation, I mean if that’s what you’re going for 🤷🏻♀️
Not to mention, good luck the next time they want to clean the seat
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Holy crap, I am here ALL DAY for cantankerous Charlotte!
I love seeing your usual sunny personality being just like,
“… this is stoopid 😐”
The wax fire starter does work, but we make them using dryer lint. We also stuff TP rolls with dryer lint and then wrap them in the outside wrapper from the TP.
I love the moments when I can see the logic in your brain being derailed while you try to reason with 5 minute crafts. I can laugh, because I do it too!
The pen thingy is a 3D printing pen, which you can use to build stuff and unleash your "Creative side" according to the makers.
Don’t laugh… My partner did that with his cellphone cord and a hairdryer. I thought it was legit dumb but his centre console in his car is much neater than mine with his “flexible” charger cable…
Great idea! That's a much smarter way to do it. Putting it on a warm engine seems a bit risky and it'd be too easy for the cord to melt on the side that makes contact
The wax and candle thing does work. I make them with empty egg cartons, fill them with dryer lint and pour melted wax into each egg spot. That way, you can just rip them off and use them as fire starters. That's possibly the only 5 min craft thing I've ever seen that actually makes sense.
The lemon tree one is legit. A lot of people that grow their own fruits and vegetables use that method. The egg shell is a great holder that creates 0 waste and then can be used as fertilizer.
Charlotte's smartass commentary is EVERYTHING!!!!👏🏼👏🏼🤣🤣
You know what bugs me about 5 minute crafts: the vast majority of their videos are fake, and a number of them are harmful or actually deadly.
Is the shower curtain painting for outdoors? Only way it makes any kind of sense 😂
Candle wax on shovel actually takes like 15 seconds and does work. Back in old days people put candle wax on (bottom of) their skis too. Also poorly sliding drawers, squeaky hinges etc. Cheap & works.
Hahaha.... "It's not worth it Dude" ..... The VERY NEXT segment was about knots.... Lmfao. Love you Charlotte, you seriously crack me up. Much love and light. 🙏🤍😘😜✌️🤘
At this point honestly just feels like 5 minutes crafts making a mockery out of itself
To be fair you only have to coat the snow shovel with candle wax once and it totally makes it easier to shovel snow. So that one actually works.
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There is NO WAY that I am using my moldy ass shower curtain as art in my house!
"Mona Moulda"
"The Starry Mould"
"Girl With a Mould Earring"
"The Mouldy Supper"
"Mould Gothic"
Well, the mould gives it a unique touch
I don't think you should be using a moldy shower curtain period.
Take the shower curtain, throw it in the washing machine with your typical detergent let it run with hot water. Hang it back up in the shower to let it dry. No more moldy shower curtain.
@@staciecarrel4492 nice, but I just get a new one twice a year. They're what, fifteen bucks?
For the fire starter, i stuff lint from the dryer into an empty egg carton and when i have old left over candles i melt them all in a glass jar and cover the lint pockets. Good storage and guarantee to start your fire
I am surprised at how much I enjoy watching Charlotte ridicule 5 min crafts. I'm here for it.
Oh yes, growing alum crystals in eggshells is still a thing. I've made so many of them with my students, that I no longer need the recipe nor measurements
Vaseline on cotton wool ball makes a good fire lighter for camping. You’re welcome 😃
Or plain alcohol on the cotton pad, I use for lighting coal! Melting wax is such a waste of time, but then again we're talking about 5MC, they love to do unnecessary things 😂
Lol, yes. Candle wax isn't a good fire starter. If it were, more than the wick would burn. All it does is extend the burn time if the wick, or in this video, the cotton pad.
I save dryer lint. Works every time.
Grapes: “I’m upset, this is so upsetting”…
you having me cracking up over here.
I'm wondering when they rinse the grapes? Your supposed to rinse them before eating them.
Yeah, there are three questions you should ask to determine if something is a "hack".
1. Does it save money?
2. Does it save time?
3. Does it save effort?
If the answers to all three of these questions are all "no" then it's not a hack. (there is some wiggle room if not all of the answers are no. I.E. it could still be considered a hack if it saves time and money at the cost of a little more effort)
Also for the grapes, you could also just clean the grapes while they're still on the stem.
Holy smokes ... 1:00 minute in and so far - zip ties on bicycle tires 🚲 for riding on snowy streets + toothpaste applied to hair and wrapped in Reynolds Wrap (foil) --- HELP (LOL)!!! 😆
The last one actually works, I dip cotton rounds in the max when the candles are all melted and use them when I go camping. They work like a charm!
Don't even have to waste cotton rounds. If you have a dryer or access to dryer lint it's perfect for this.
In the fall, before the snow flies, we use car wax on our shovels to keep the heavy wet snow from sticking for the season. A candle? Ehhhhhh... too much work.
Or just wd40 or silicone spray works too. Yup, sticky snow is no fun. I think Charlotte is telling us she never shoveled without telling us she never shoveled.
@@patrickbuick5459 There ya go! LOL
Seems like a much smarter way to do it! 😁
The shower curtain painting made me go "Why tho?" Also the toilet seat hack. Charlotte said what I was thinking
What do u do with old shower curtains 🤷 I have a cute one I might do this with 😂
I thought “I’d do it with a beach scene curtain”. I suppose if you could glue or staple something that is waterproof to the curtain, and put suction cups on the back, you could hang it IN your shower! Lmao
With the toilet seat one all I could think was how much of a pain it would be to clean.
The best kindling for camping is to save empty toilet paper and paper towel rolls and egg cartons! I also save papers like free newspapers to use. Instead of melting the wax, you can dip your cotton pads, or better yet the jumbo cotton balls, in Vaseline. Works just as well, is easier, and probably less messy.
A camping hack I like is to reuse coffee creamer bottles. You can crack your eggs in there, then pour them out as needed and don't have to worry about eggs cracking in the cooler making a mess. You can also measure your pancake mix into them, then when ready to cook add the wet ingredients, shake and pour. Pinterest has a lot of great camping hacks for anyone interested.
Cotton make up pads have been used by wilderness hikers/campers for years. Even if they get a bit damp, they light easily, because the wax not only keeps the inner cotton dry, but turns the cotton in to a wick for the flame to last longer, so if you must use damp kindling, you stand a better chance of getting it on fire. Note damp and wet are a spectrum. do not throw your kindling in the water and immediately try to light it like that.