Life Hacks

I ran across something one day that said that you could use a crayon as a candle in an emergency.  So I thought I would life hack test the theory.

I love to eat those Nature Valley Oats and Honey Granola Bars.  However, I don't love looking like I rolled in a vat of oats once I'm done eating.  So someone told me about a way to have the granola bar and not worry about the crumbs.  So I decided to test this life hack.

Cleaning the microwave is never a fun chore.  It is even worse when somebody explodes something tomato based in it.  So I decided to test out a microwave cleaning life hack.

I use my cookie sheets all the time.  They are so pretty when they are brand new, but then they get caked up and brown and nasty looking.  So when I ran across a cleaning hack I thought I would try it out and see if it worked.

Do you ever get tired of spending tons of money on a tiny bottle or even a tiny box of laundry detergent only to turn around and spend more because it is gone already.  One of my pet peeves was spending a ton of money on detergent.  Then one day I ran across a recipe for homemade laundry detergent.  Would it work?  Would it get my clothes clean?  Here's this week's life hack.

So it is Summertime, and the flies are insane this year.  I had a friend post on facebook that the flies were taking over her home and that she needed some great ideas to get rid of them.  So I asked the Mix FB fans some great ways to get rid of and keep the flies away and here are some of the great answers I got.

So I have been having a problem with fruit flies.  Every single summer they try to take over my house.  I try to keep my fruit put up and the sink cleaned out, but they still come and take over my kitchen.  So I started researching some ways to get rid of them or to at least catch them and I found a couple of ideas on Pinterest so I thought I would test them out.