Ah, finally I can share mine that i learned a while ago.
Using hand soap , you know these soap bars when washing hands.
Put water on one hand, grab the soap bar with the DRY HAND and rub the var against the wet hand. Then put down the soap bar hand rub hands and wash like ordinary.
The bar will not be soggy, crack or look nasty or leave a puddle of half dilluted soap,instead it will stay in really good shape and almost no soap will be wasted on the puddle below it. And the soap will jist last for ages this way and still be effective.
Maybe we just forgot this way and that is why the liquid soap has taken over, in my house we have one toilet where guests usually uses and there the hand soap bar gets ruined really quickly so we replaced it with a liquid soap dispenser…but it always surpises me how often it needs to be refilled.
you just changed my life
Earlier this year I found out you’re supposed to run the sink water until it’s hot, then start your dishwasher. Also sprinkle in some powder detergent inside the door, especially if there is a tray for PreWash detergent.
You watched the video, didn’t you
A video, I don’t know if it’s the video.
Have relationships. Turns out I can’t do it all all by myself and if someone isn’t willing to or able to work with me it’s not a viable relationship
That sounds more like the other person(s) we’re doing it wrong.
Not too long ago I learned that you’re not supposed to rinse your mouth out after brushing your teeth, but instead just spit out the toothpaste. Apparently you’re supposed to leave a coating of it on your teeth for it to work properly.
As a kid I learned from the dentist that you should massage your gums with the toothbrush. I’ve recently learned that you should absolutely not and this is why I have retracted gums and exposed roots that hurt like a motherfucker.
Childhood dentist that is probably long dead, I wish you bad thoughts wherever you are.
I learned that same lie from that liar ass little dinosaur cartoon fucker.
I’ve heard this before too, but no way, need a good rinse, and don’t get toothpaste residue on the towel or anywhere, rinse well, mouth, hands and brush. The dentist has given my teeth great reviews for decades now from brush 2x a day, floss as needed and rinse the tp well. I get fluoride in the water too so it hasn’t been an issue for my teeth at least.
It takes long enough after brushing and rinsing well to not have the odd tastes from eating as it is, but maybe not an issue for others and that would be nice.
Same, dentists said my teeth were excellent when I didn’t follow various tips like: don’t rinse, don’t use more than a pea of toothpaste, brush in circles. I do the 2nd and 3rd one now but I’m never going to stop doing water rinse. I’ve tried, but it doesn’t really help. the water rinse allows me to feel clean
Not recent, but I spent the majority of my teenage years dealing with awfully frizzy and unmanageable hair because I was shampooing daily (also using an excessive amount). I was under the impression that you need to thoroughly shampoo all oils away every time you shower in order to be “clean.” When I moved to university and no longer had parents around to tell me that I stink, my hygiene standards became more… relaxed, but I was surprised that my hair was a lot healthier!
Same issue here. Turns out when you strip all the oil off your skin/scalp, your body puts a lot of work into re-oiling it up. Now I’ve got to a point where I only need to wash my hair a couple times per week. It took a while to get there, with some days when I would have greasy-looking hair, but the longer you can push back the next wash, the better.
it varies from person to person. I have very oily skin and hair.
about 30 minutes after a shower where I use an oil stripping soap my skin looks like I rubbed Vaseline all over it.
I have to routinely soak/bleach my sheets/pillows to remove all the oil.
at this point I’m surprised the US army hasn’t invaded my ass.
I also have very oily skin, albeit my hair isn’t quite as bad. Washing daily didn’t make it any less oily, just a lot less manageable
Tying my shoes wrong my entire life.
This discovery lead me to eventually changing to the Ian knot. Now I can’t even remember how to do it any other way.
Oh my god.
Walking in general. Physical therapy both sucks super hard and is vastly improving my life. I’ve had a decades long back injury caused by a dog attack, but I’ve apparently been walking in a way that guards a wound not entirely there.
Thank you PT.
FUCK you PT.
Not actually recent, but a while back I learned that what we call the “bottom” of the banana is actually the top, flowering end. Turns out it’s way easier to open a banana at the flowering/non-stem end. So many years I’d been opening them at the other end, trying to snap off the stem part, mushing up that end of the banana most of the time.
I tried this out a while back and tbh it’s hard to open on the non stem side for me. I will continue to use the stem side as it provides more leverage.
Easier way, grab in the middle and forcefully snap it in half, works even on very ripe bananas
Lol, that is often the reaction I get when people see me do it.
Easy for sharing
i just give it a little squeeze and it splits in two and it’s the easiest thing to pull apart, way easier than trying to get the stem part to separate unless you have a knife and cut it first…
Your bananas are not ripe enough.
Neither way is wrong. I will often give the stem end a quick test and if it breaks and starts the peel, I peel from that end. If it doesn’t, I start at the other end. Both work just fine.
I think both are easy. Gripping the stem and putting a nail into it pierces the skin then instead of squashing the banana you pull on the skin until it comes apart. It needs just a tiny bit more force, no squashing and when finishing pinching the bottom pops out the last piece.
Both completely valid.
I started looking up basic stuff after I saw a video of that guy who would shit in his hand in the bathroom and thought that was normal.
Turns out I was brushing my teeth backwards, you’re supposed to use mouthwash, then floss, then brush, and don’t spit.
you’re supposed to use mouthwash, then floss, then brush, and don’t spit.
every dentist I have ever gone to in 50 years it’s always been; brush, floss, wash. always spit.
even people I have dated brushed like this.
not saying you’re wrong…but you might want to verify your sources.
Mouthwash not necessary. Statistically flossing first then brushing has cleaner teeth, but functionally dental professionals just want you to be flossing at all so we won’t judge you for flossing after. Spit and leave residual fluoride toothpaste on teeth.
Why flossing after brushing? Thats like cleaning the floor then removing dirt and rocks off the bottom of your shoes onto the floor
that’s why I floss then mouthwash. no rinse.
swish for like 2 minutes spit, wipe, and on with my day.
While flossing either eay is far superior to not flossing at all, new studies show flossing before brushing helps the most
You shouldn’t be using antiseptic mouthwash all the time
I read it was too make a sterile environment for the micro abrasions from flossing and brushing but idk I’m not a mouth scientist.
Or you can just brush. For me mouthwash is something to use if you’re too tired to stand around brushing or in too much of a rush or need to re-clean your mouth after a snack.
But yeah when I use both I do mouthwash first because slushy liquids are more likely to remove toothpaste on the tooth surface.
I learned that you should roll up a period pad and use the wrapper of the new pad to hold it rolled closed. They have a little tape and it reduces mess and smell.
In my defense, I didn’t use pads until last year.
going from pads / tampons to the silicone cup was my learning a better way. First week was rough but by the end of the week and thereafter I couldn’t even feel it once it was in. Went to fuck a few times and the dude was like TF is this? And I’d be like oh shit lemme swap it for a disc real quick.
I am not and never have been in possession of a vagina, so please don’t think I’m trying to tell anyone who is their business. That said, I saw diva cups being discussed and strongly recommended on reddit ten to fifteen years back and suggested one to my wife, then girlfriend, since everyone who said they had used one also said they were a much better experience.
She was resistant at first and I didn’t push since it’s her body, but apparently she took the recommendation to heart because one day one showed up at our house (not my doing) and she’s used them continuously (when needed) since then.
She has occasionally described their workings, in humorous terms, to me. I approve because she’s happier and they create less waste.
edit: To be clear, while I do approve, I didn’t mean to imply that it was a deciding factor.
Nobody told me you were supposed to scrape/scrub your tongue when brushing your teeth… and nobody told me about washcloths either. 🫣 My wife put me on to that about a decade ago (so, in my early twenties) so by now it’s just part of my life but yeah…
“I think we can get them to brush their tongues”
Swallowing pills. A friend pointed out that tilting your head down helps with swallowing and I had never thought about it before. It really does make it easier!
If it’s a floating pill like a capsule tilting your head down helps a lot, but if it’s a pill that sinks and sticks to your tongue tipping your head back can help
The trick for me is to sort of toss the pill up into the water in my mouth. Do it a few times and you’ll feel it go out of contact with your tongue.
Once that happens, swallow and it will be like you didn’t take anything at all.
I just have a swig of water in my mouth first, then pop a pill and swallow at once. No more gross pill taste if you do the pill first
I’ve never been able to make this work for me. I have a horrible gag reflex and I’ve been told I swallow pills like a goose. Which I do but hey it works for me 🤷🏻♀️
I just tale a bite og food and let the pills go down with that once chewed.
Add the pills just before swallowing
I hold my breath and swallow first. It tricks me into swallowing the pill so I can breathe again sooner.
I learned that soap is a salt and that acids like vinegar break it down and kind of rerelease the fatty acid that made it up.
It was very gross.
Seems like a fun experiment. Especially with a kid who likes gross stuff
Cleaning cast iron. I used to add water cold and bring to a boil. Now I heat first until grease is almost smoking, then add a bit of water and let it steam and sputter itself clean.
I use a ring mail washcloth.
I have one of those too, but I usually don’t need it with the heat and steam method. Most of the stuck-on foodstuff comes off with just a spray from the faucet. No need to even scrub.
🫤 I just wash it out like anything else and put it upside down on the stove to dry.
Depends on how stuck things get. I do a lot of blackening of meat which tends to leave dry cooked bits on the pan which don’t wash out so easy.
When I say “blackening”, I mean with my black spice in light oil. How are you doing it?
Nothing that fancy. Just getting a good char. But the pan dries out everywhere not touching meat, so bits get caked on a bit.
I have a solid plastic scraper that has never let me down. Doesn’t matter what I cook in it, how much blackened meat gets stuck, or how long I neglect it in the stove top before washing it, I run it under hot water, hit it with the scraper, then the abrasive side of my sponge, then the soft side. After, I towel dry it, put it in the stove top to evaporate left over moisture, then rub a thin layer of oil on it.
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