Life Hacks That Actually Work

Keep Your Chocolate Chips Safe

For smaller ingredients like chocolate chips or rice, this is a great hack! To keep it fresh in the bag, use half of an old water bottle and the cap. Place the bag through the old water bottle, wrap it around, and then secure the cap. Done and done, no more spills!

The More You Know

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Help keep your home office space organized by using PVC pipe to hide cords. Just wrangle all those computer, mouse, monitor and phone cords and hide them in some PVC pipe.
You don't need a strawberry huller: Take the stems off strawberries cleanly by driving a straw right through from bottom to top.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.