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How to find a hole in a bicycle tire tube quickly
Take a bucket full of water (the bigger the diameter is, the better) and push your inflated inner tube into the water - section for section. As long as the hole isn't like really, really tiny, you ...
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How to find a hole in a bicycle tire tube quickly
Use soapy water if you don't have where to submerge the tire:
Take soap and some water and make soapy water solution (liquid soap dissolves faster)
Start to apply soapy water on the tire with your ...
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How to wake up without waking up other people in the same room
There are "vibrating watches" for this. They're wristwatches that vibrate when your alarm goes off.
Or take wireless headphone (earplug) for using it with your phone.
Good luck for that :)
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How to quickly peel a bag of potatoes
The Super Peeler
Warning: only do this outside
This method takes some time to prepare, but you only have to prepare it once and every other time you do it, it will be ready.
You need a bucket, a hose, ...
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How to find a hole in a bicycle tire tube quickly
You may need to use water, as others have said, but before you do that....
Get the tube and partially inflate it
Hold the tube to your ear and slowly rotate it
When you hear the air hissing out, you ...
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How to wake up without waking up other people in the same room
this will sound ridiculous, but bear with me.When I have a specific time that I HAVE to wake up at (say for a flight or train), before I go to bed I will repeat to myself "I need to wake up at 6:30" ...
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How to swim before work (wet towel and clothes problem)?
Get a locker at the gym that you can leave things in during the day. Leave your towel & swim suit hanging there during the day and pick them up (mostly or completely dry) on the way home.
Use a ...
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How to remove creases from my shirts without ironing?
How much time do you have? I can save you a lot of effort...
Take your shirt and thoroughly wet it in the sink/tub.
Wring/squeeze all the water out of it that you can.
Toss it in the dryer with a (...
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Fastest way to boil water?
Use electric kettle (it takes only 1-2 minutes to boil the water).
If it's still too long, use the microwave for around 30 seconds to 1 minute (on high power). But be careful as water boiled in a ...
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How to quickly peel a bag of potatoes
Leave the skins on, thats where the vitamins and fiber are. People pay stupid amounts of money for potatoes with skins on from processed food manufacturers and we get potatoes from the store and peel ...
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How to remove creases from my shirts without ironing?
Since everyone rely on having a dryer (which I don't have) I'll suggest a different solution.
You can carefully fold the shirt and sit on it, your body temperature will do the rest. You have to wait ...
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Best way to fold a shirt for a lazy bachelor
I hang all my t-shirts on hangers in a closet. They are never wrinkled (provided I pull them out of the dryer soon after it turns off).
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Waking up in the morning when standard alarms fail
There's still a chance of ruining your bedding, if you have health problems (or poor control), but drink a significant amount of liquid just before bed time. Your bladder will very insistently wake ...
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How to find a hole in a bicycle tire tube quickly
At most bike shops here they sell this:
It is like a box with small very light balls in them. Just move it along the tire and the balls will start to jump at the hole
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How to set effective long-term reminders?
Something tells me you have already forgotten this one so here are some tips to help you not forget again:
Set an alarm on your watch/phone for the last month
Additionally set multiple alarms on ...
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Fast and Easy way to put-on pants (that need a belt)
I don't think you'll be able to solve this without additional tools (plus you tagged it with substitute tools), so I've come up with a device which should solve your problem.
You'll require some ...
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How to remove creases from my shirts without ironing?
Take a damp (clean) towel and put it in the dryer with the wrinkled shirt and dry it on low to medium heat for 10 minutes. The moisture and heat will relax the fibers in the shirt and take out the ...
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How to find a hole in a bicycle tire tube quickly
The quickest overall method is this: Pull the tube from the tire and pump it up well above the volume it would be inside the tire. Then (in a quiet place) rotate the tube past your ear. You will ...
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How to quickly peel a bag of potatoes
If you boil the potatoes first, you can peel them by simply rubbing the skin off of them. (And you are not likely to require medical attention with this technique!)
It's explained nicely at this link ...
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Easy way to scan a book
If you don't mind destroying the book: cut off the binding. Now you have a stack of loose pages you can run through a document feeder.
Or you can build a book scanner. I've seen scanners that ...
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Waking up in the morning when standard alarms fail
I think this might be the most effective way:
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What's the most time efficient way to completely clean teeth?
"Properly" is the key word here, because the devil is in the details. If you were to go directly to a dentist with this question, they would undoubtedly tell you that there is no real alternative to ...
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Fast and Easy way to put-on pants (that need a belt)
I think you need to add a tool as you only have two arms of given length. (And growing a third arm isn't really feasible :), ref Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
My suggestion is therefore to put ...
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How to remove creases from my shirts without ironing?
If you wash the shirt and hang it up on a proper hanger immediately after it comes out of the washing machine, make sure it is hung in a warm environment (airing cupboard) and once it is dried it will ...
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How to remove creases from my shirts without ironing?
Take it to the cleaner. They can do an "Iron-only" service where they don't wash it, just iron it. It's cheap and fast and good.
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Waking up in the morning when standard alarms fail
Find out how much sleep you really need (for most of us it is about 8 hours) and go to bed that long before you want to get up. Get into a pattern of going to sleep at the same time most days and do ...
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How to vacuum stairs with minimal effort?
You definitely have the vacuum that makes this the hardest way to do is. I suggest a canister vacuum with long attachments and a backpack harness.
One of these
that J. Musser suggested in the ...
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What's the most time efficient way to completely clean teeth?
Here are the methods which can efficiently clean your teeth as part of your dental care:
Brush your teeth with toothpaste for two minutes (at least 1h after eating) including outer/inner teeth ...
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How to wake up without waking up other people in the same room
There are light alarm clocks, which you could use selectively. Essentially a light slowly turns on rather than making noise. Selective placement of the light-alarm or standard sleep blindfold mask ...
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