Over Complicated Life Hacks - Volume 5

this is overcomplicated lifehacks volume 5 where we solve simple problems with an impractical approach and you leave comments questioning our intelligence a sleeping bag makes for a lovely blanket while lounging around the house or out in the wilderness but it sure is difficult to walk around when you're zipped up inside if only you could modify it into something more something amazing introducing the slug II a fully functional sleeping bag with a 47% mobility rating to make this yourself lay out your sleeping bag on a table and place a cutting board between the two layers with a sharp blade or scissors make your first incision in the top right hand corner go ahead and remove some of the stuffing because we're gonna need some room to work with in here now you need to sew up the two sides to prevent your sleeping bag from falling apart you can use a needle and thread or step up your game with a little handheld sewing machine stitch around the perimeter of your hole and take your time to make sure that you don't miss any areas that need to be sealed up once that's done get some velcro that has an adhesive backing and attach it to the inside of the upper portion squeeze it all the way down and make sure that it's fully attached then take the other side of the velcro and fasten it to the outside of the bottom portion excellent you now have a resealable armhole built directly into your sleeping bag that way you can stay warm but also have the option to let loose as well all right do the same thing for the other armhole and the two feet holes as well when everything's cut sewed in velcroed your sluggy should look a little something like this go ahead and try it on pop your feet out first and give a little wiggle to make sure the hole is big enough if you're satisfied then take it for a little test spin you won't be running marathons in this thing but you can certainly get to the campfire or in my case the refrigerator just look at this beautiful creation the best part is that after a long hard day you can just plop down and take a nap pretty much anywhere all thanks to the slug II so you did some lawn work and left yourself quite a mess on the sidewalk you could sweep it up but doesn't building your own leaf blower sound far more exciting you'll need a couple things to make this work first a nice 10 gallon water bottle and second a small high-powered fan ideally you want this to be as close to the size of the bottle as possible put on some safety goggles and grabbed finest rotary tool carefully work your way around the bottom of the jug you can utilize the indentations of the plastic to ensure a nice clean circle gets cut out this part is optional but it certainly helps get some adhesive weather stripping and apply it to the now open bottom of the jug this can help fill in any gaps you might have if the fan doesn't quite fit into the plastic ring now you just need some strong duct tape I'll be using aluminum tape here as its sealing abilities are legendary just attach the fan to the large opening making sure there's no gaps where air can escape we need all the power we can get and there she blows well it's nowhere near as powerful as a gas-powered leaf blower it can certainly solve some minor problems around the home in backyard just grab an extension cord and head out to the contaminated area if your fan is powerful enough you should be able to make quick work of light messes without ever having to touch a broom but cleaning up your patio is merely one use for this setup with just a few slight modifications this ridiculous invention can be turned into an odor eliminator after a little digging in the garage I found 20 feet of exhaust duct that fit perfectly around the lip of the huge water bottle by adding just a little more aluminum tape I was able to fasten it on there so I could reroute any smells I encountered directly into someone else's room or or outside the house of course all you need to properly mount this is a cardboard box that you cut down to the width of the window then just cut a large hole that's big enough to fit the tube through it and seal it up I'll go ahead and mount this in my kitchen window position the cardboard as close as possible to the window frame and then hold it in place with the window itself now go ahead and run your duct to whatever room needs to be purged we'll go from my kitchen to my living room to properly test this out let's say you're cooking a steak and things get a bit smoky this would be a perfect solution to that problem to demonstrate let's spark up some incense cones to generate some smoke that doesn't smell like burnt hair as you can probably tell I swap the fan for something a bit quieter indoors but it works just as good when I turn it on the smoke gets shot directly outside just look at it go it pulls that smoke right out of there and imagine what other odors it's taken with it my backyard is gonna smell like nog shop at tonight alright let's get a view of the exhaust port from the outside this could certainly give a passerby the wrong idea so make sure you use your portable exhaust port with caution next sometimes you really want a banana but it's so much trouble to painstakingly peel it and then cut it into bite-sized pieces to snack on what you need is the householdhacker banana slicer get yourself three plastic rulers and oh yes a hot glue gun place your banana between two of the rulers so you can get an idea of how far apart they need to be spaced also keep in mind that you need some wiggle room in case you get a gigantic banana one day once you've got your measurements grab ruler number three and cut it into four or five pieces to glue in between the other two just squirt out a line of melty goodness and place your pieces onto the first ruler when that's done follow suit with the other one on the top I'm gonna level with you this doesn't have to look perfect all that matters is that you get things as even as possible and that there's enough room for a peeled banana to fit in the middle all right this thing's ready for action but first you got to peel that banana just grab a knife and slice through that peel revealing your delicious bounty take your slicer and line it up over the top now give it a nice push you can go ahead and nudge the slices a bit to make sure they release from the apparatus and then you're good to go ah well looky there household snacker a perfectly sliced bananas definitely in the cards for you just put them in your pocket and your snack packs ready for action wait a second what's this thing is this the final season of house of cards great guests but know it's also a banana slicer much more elegant if you ask me in fact if you don't have any spare rulers laying around you can follow the same procedure using some glue and an old deck of cards it even does this awesome optical illusion but how does it slice let's find out and down you go hey nice kind of reminds me of that controversial human body exhibit but I digress we'll be giving this masterpiece away to one lucky viewer but first let's see if it'll slice a banana well it's still in its peel and slice huh never mind about that giveaway thing my apologies all right moving on one of the major pitfalls of using a toothpaste tube is that after a couple weeks of use you'll end up with a bunch of unsightly slack that just gets in the way you could just clamp it off but now the clamp gets in the way how frustrating all right let's not go popping out a filling just yet we've got a better solution take your tube and squeeze up any little remnants from the bottom so they can rejoin their friends at the top get a firm grip on the tube just under where all the toothpaste is being stored and cut off about 80% of the surplus plastic next get yourself some aluminum foil and fold it in half placing the cut end of the toothpaste right in the middle terrific fire up your clothing iron to about medium high and press down hard on the end of the tube move back and forth taking a peak here and there to see how it's coming along once the tube will no longer open back up then you're almost good to go just go get some tiny pliers and fold over a small portion of the end that you just sealed now a fix these two pieces together which will provide a little extra security in the event that a bond breaks off do exactly what you did before pressing down hard and giving smooth consistent strokes when you feel like it's ready remove it from the foil and take a look this one came out looking absolutely fantastic it will make a fine addition to my medicine cabinet which by the way it wouldn't fit inside before so not only did we make your toothpaste tube more aesthetically pleasing to the eye but we also just freed you up some space how marvelous so you're holding court in the throne room and you realize you've got a clog naturally you'd reach for the plunger and make short work of it but what if there's no plunger to be found well you're gonna have to be smarter than the gravy goblin all you really got to do here is form a seal over the opening of your Thunder box and to do that the seat has to go unscrew the two bolts and lift it right off its perch now get yourself a roll of saran wrap and lay down several sheets across the entire opening pull it super tight so no air can escape once your first layers down you can secure everything in place with a little duct tape I highly suggest testing for weak spots and applying more saran wrap when you deem it necessary after that's done sound the war drums because victory is almost at hand give it a little push and see if it comes back up you basically want to perform CPR on this thing the problem is that this won't work for all toilets so you may have to step up your game and here's how grab a blade of some sort and cut a small slit in your plastic cover hook a finger inside while making sure your hand is sealing up the hole that you made now slowly pull the wrap up as far as you can without breaking it and prepare we're about to go for the gusto slam down hard and fast and whoosh the contents of your toilet will magically transport themselves to your local water treatment facility only to be used again next time you shower now if you've been on the internet before you may have seen people pull this off using just tape but I'm going to strongly recommend that you avoid that method and here's why before I attempted this with saran wrap I tried out this packing tape first line by line I formed the perfect seal I even reinforced it by adding supports lengthwise but when it was time to shine this thing wouldn't budge actually made it too well but on the plus side it made an even better drum than the saran wrap version I also tried hooking a bike pump up to the top to see if an air pocket would help raise the tape high enough to generate pressure when pushing down but it wasn't having that either you could literally sit on this thing or just keep items on top of it with no problem it wouldn't even take air from my makeshift inflatable bed inflator that I made from a hand vacuum and a small funnel the packing tape is just too strong so learn from our mistakes and plunge your toilet with saran wrap only well we came we saw we sliced a banana with three rulers I hope you enjoyed this tutorial into the absurd love to hear your ideas praises or even your constructive criticism in the comments thank you so much for watching and we'll see you real soon

Channel: Household Hacker

Views: 1,357,982

Rating: 4.7093377 out of 5

Keywords: overcomplicated life hacks, complicated life hacks, over complicated life hacks, householdhacker, household hackers, household hackers youtube, household hacker

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Length: 10min 21sec (621 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 15 2018