Goofy stuff I do that somehow works.

[Magus]

I tape a paper towel to the top of my microwave and keep a paper plate on the carousel. makes for a fast cleanup!

I put clothes pins on bags of potato chips and crackers, keeps bugs out, keeps fresh in.

I save tinfoil.

I cook eggs in Tupperware, I have this special setup with a small hole bored in the lid, at 3 minutes per egg or less, I can do four in under five minutes, always remember to put a light splash of water on top or a fast spray of butter flavored cooking spray on top to keep the edges from drying out and also, they cook more evenly.

I use 20Wt. motor oil on my guns, it wears impossibly long and never gunks up even after a decade. take a 2-1 mix of 20Wt. and turpentine and you have 3 in 1 oil.

I take my shoes off in the house and hang them up. we have brown recluses and black widows.

I save old leather belts, a fast coating of red buffing rouge and it is the perfect sharpening strop.

Store your dry goods like rice, grits, potato flakes, flour, meal, rolled oats, or whatever in gallon jugs with the lid threads greased with Crisco, no weevils ever and that's all Crisco is good for.

If I'm storing something moisture-sensitive, I toss in an old sock full of instant rice to absorb moisture.

I make biscuits in a frying pan. Lots of grease and paying attention.

I use canned tomatoes in salads and on sandwiches. they're made of tomatoes too ripe to ship so you're not eating some gassed, tasteless no nutrition crap.

I put butter-flavored cooking spray on popcorn.

Using coconut oil is the secret of movie popcorn.

Spraying your ice cube trays lightly with cooking spray, then wiping out the excess helps the cubes pop out.

I save 2-liter bottles to put water in because milk jugs self-destruct after being exposed to sunlight. you can also use them to mix drinks and Gatorade/Lemonade in, then just chuck them. and you can also use them to make sausage links. (look on YouTube.) I also discovered that if you fill one full of water and cloud it with milk or flour and butt a tactical light up to it and it diffuses the light enough to light a room!

If you take a large can like a tuna can and bore a hole in it, you can put a tower candle in it, then use a Flathead wood screw to anchor it down to help keep it stable. you can do this with a burned-up aluminum frying pan as well and you get a carrying handle.

What's some goofy stuff you do in day-to-day life?

 

[Morgan101]

I save 2-liter bottles to put water in

I save them as well. I also save some 1/2 gallon fruit juice bottles. I wash them and use them for drink mixes like Gatorade or iced tea, as well as water. We have had some bad luck with gallon milk jugs.

I save prescription drug bottles. Between my wife, son, and myself we generate quite a few in a range of sizes. I have used them to make fire starting kits which have turned out quite well. You can get all you need in them, and if you seal then with Gorilla tape they are water proof. If it ever came down to it I plan to use them as a barter item. You can fill them with whatever you like, but I would probably use them for hard liquor.

 

[UserNameTaken]

Some good ideas there. Thanks.

I use motor oil too. But also that Remington $$$pray oil. And brake cleaner. Except Glocks - run a boresnake through the barrel, put the parts in the utensil tray and run a short cycle in the dishwasher, then dunk it in a bucket of oil and let drip dry.

OK, not really, why clean a Glock?

@Morgan101 - Good idea, sell/trade shots of booze, instead of the whole bottle.

 

[Morgan101]

@Morgan101 - Good idea, sell/trade shots of booze, instead of the whole bottle.

Exactly. I was probably watching some You Tube video on barter items, and liquor is always on the list. What was suggested was using airline sized bottles, but IMHO those are not readily available, so these seem to be a good alternative.

I was a bartender in a previous life, so my stock of hard liquor is quite substantial.

 

[montanabill]

Staple gun inventory system.....I have lots of "stuff" and my main problem seems to be lack of memory and no place to store stuff....
So when I bring home those three pair of gloves I got on sale I staple them up to a out of the way wall in one of the bedrooms or storage rooms in our house...
I can staple them high up out of the way and then just keep adding various items that are alike..
This way I can stand and scan walls and usually find what I want. I do inside of closets as well.

 

[Neb]

The Princess and I let each other know when we going to use " The Room of Requirements". We can cut the number if flushes in half by communicating.

Ben