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Life hacks or shortcuts designed to make your life easier. This show is meant to

help you, not hurt you. So hack at your own risk.

Does your shampoo leave you with dry, damaged, and dull -looking hair?

You need the latest in revolutionary hair care technology with natural

ingredients that cope and nourish each strand.

What you need is beer.

The proteins found in the malt and hops repair damage and boost overall body.

And the sucrose tightens the cuticles, giving an enhanced shine.

Not to mention the man in your life won't be able to get enough.

Tastes as good as it looks.

Beer. It's what your hair has been thirsting for. Also available in light

-ounce size.

Tonight on Hack My Life.

We've got 30 ways to hack your day, including your trip to the supermarket.

Wonderful. Plus a solution for busting into those difficult plastic packs.

Eat it.

Seven tricks you can do with aluminum foil. And a bunch of shortcuts you

can't live without.

It's all leading up to our electrifying hack of the week. You're welcome. This

is Hack My Life.

When it comes to cutting a watermelon, if you don't have a knife, you're pretty

much screwed.

I disagree.

You can cut a watermelon using nothing but a quarter to slice into the rind.

an equally deadly weapon to chop the melon in half.

It's not a knife.

It's your fist.

Today, we're hacking the norm.

The better melon cutter will be determined by which one cuts the

the cleanest cut, and is the most fun. You're going down, dude. Oh, bring it,

sweetheart. Three.

Two.

How you doing over there? I don't know how much I need to actually score it,

this does not feel so great on the finger.

Feeling good to cut it.

Okay.

You're already finished.

Already finished. And I'm just started.

Let me help you. Okay, yeah, thank you. You've got to be a little concerned at

how clean this cut is. That is some scalpel -grade precision.

Palm stretch.

Come on.

Oh, you're so close, Kat.

If my cut is clean and I had more fun, I could win.

Three,

two.

Okay.

Well, I will say he hacked it. Time, hands down, the winner is knife. Right.

Did you have as much fun?

You know what?

No, you didn't.

In terms of a clean cut, mine's a little bit crooked.

And this looks like a grenade went off. It's a little nasty.

Knife went.

But if you're in a pinch without a knife, or you have very easily

friends. Or anger issues.

Jam a quarter into a watermelon.

and get to the Keon.

Here at the supermarket, there are literally dozens of hacks surrounding

But which ones work?

And which ones are people willing to try out? We're going to find out in today's

Can't You Hack It?

OK.

Okay, okay.

Miss? Yes. Hi. Have you ever heard about using shaving cream to stop a squeaky

wheel? I can't say I have. The hack is that if you spray some shaving cream on

wheel, it should act as sort of a natural lubricant and stop that squeak

happening. Okay.

Let's hop on down there, and I'll get a little shaving cream there and a little

bit in there.

Let's go ahead and just do a couple little small pushes to get the shaving

into there.

Yep. Got to let it work through. Okay.

I think it's actually really working. Right?

I'm shocked.

We went for a solid yard without the sound of death screeching forth from

tires. Here, you've earned that. I get your can? By all means.

Amazing.

Excuse me, some stank on aisle seven. Guess what? That stank is you.

It's your shoes.

Don't worry. Just go and grab a dryer sheet.

You can use half of one, or if you're extra stanky, you can take the entire

sheet, jam it into your sneaker.

Continue walking around or just let it sit there overnight. Your toesies are

going to smell spring fresh.

You're welcome.

That was actually a little rough.

Hi, how's it going?

Can I interest you in a free sample?

You have beautiful nails, but in a pinch, lemons can be used to clean your

nails. You're kidding. So if you take it and sort of rub it beneath your

fingernails or on top of them, the astringent will sort of eat away at any

grime. Wow, this is really helpful.

You want to try it, sir?

Here's how you can make sure that the avocados you're purchasing are fresh,

they're ripe, they're ready to go.

Pop off the little leftover stem.

And if you look inside, if it's green, then it's good cuisine. If it's brown,

then just put it down.

Excuse me, miss.

Can I trouble you for one second?

I noticed it would look like you were about to browse the milk. Yes. Did you

know that you can actually polish your purse with it?

No. Would you be willing to let me try applying some milk to your purse to see

if it gives it a nice shine? My purse? On your purse. You ruined the handbag.

You're buying me a new one. You know that, right? No problem. Okay, so here's

what I'm going to do. I'm going to take a rag. Okay. I'm going to grab this

milk.

I'm just going to get a little milk.

On the rag.

Okay, there we go.

If you have a leather purse, get in there and give it a good once -over. You

kind of see the way the light's coming off of it now. I mean, it definitely

it a bit of a sheen. But have we made a believer out of you today?

Yes, I'm definitely a fan.

But why does the hack work?

Breaking down the hack.

The enzymes and other proteins, along with the fats in the milk, work into the

leather to restore the shine without removing any of the natural oil.

Sometimes an item is so useful, it ascends into the pantheon of great

tools. Today we celebrate one of those simple household items that truly has

become a hack all -star.

Aluminum foil.

Got a fork but need a spoon?

Wrap a piece of foil around the time.

Yeah, we know it looks crazy, but eating pudding with a fork, that gets more

stares. All -star.

Ball up a sheet of foil and scrub those crusty leftovers right off. All -star.

When Pinterest inspiration strikes and you want to rearrange your living room,

just slide foil under the furniture, shiny side up. It makes it easy to drag

your couch around the room.

To stop your clothes from static clinging together, toss a ball of

into the dryer with a load of laundry.

Stack several pieces of foil together, then slice through them to sharpen dull

scissors. It'll take about an hour, but you'll have sharp scissors.

To turn AAA batteries into AA's, ball up a little piece of foil and wedge it

between the battery and the negative terminal. If you fill the gaps, your

should turn on and you'll never have to leave the couch again.

To help boost your Wi -Fi signal, fold a piece of foil into a rectangle, then

bend it into a parabola and put it behind the router. Now you can tweet

anywhere in the house.

Here's to you, aluminum foil.

You're a true all -star.

Coming up.

A hair dryer, a bottle of olive oil, and peanut butter walk into a sticky

situation. No, it's not a joke. It's a hack that you can't live without.

Some people just can't get their acts together.

But that shouldn't be your problem. To protect yourself, you need an act line

defense against the walking disaster.

The walking disaster is the kind of guy who's... Always spilling things, you

know, like right on your cell phone. But there's a hack for that. Just toss it

into a plastic bag filled with uncooked rice and let it sit there for 24 hours.

The rice will absorb the wetness, making your phone fully functional once again.

The walking disaster is also a total parking disaster.

So make your garage disaster -proof by attaching a small ball to a string and

hanging it just above the driver's side.

to mark exactly where to stop before disaster strikes.

The walking disaster is one of those people who have a million keys but can

never find the right one.

Well, you can help him figure it out by color -coding them with nail polish.

And if that doesn't work and he keeps locking himself out, try this.

Loop a rubber band over the outside handle, then loop it back over the

handle. It'll keep the door from latching and the walking disaster from

constantly ringing the bell.

Now rest easy. You just built a hack line of defense to stop a walking

right in his trap.

There are a number of hacks for getting stickers off of walls, refrigerators,

and even lockers. We've enlisted three custodians to test them out. This is a

hack -off challenge.

Let's see what our custodians are working with today.

We have peanut butter, olive oil.

And a hair dryer.

Marcus, how confident are you that a blow dryer is going to actually help?

Everybody knows heat easily lifts off. Once it lifts off, a little scrape, no

energy use.

Marcus, I wish you the best of luck, man. Thanks.

Eddie, what's going on here, man?

I'm okay.

You don't seem super psyched that you have to what? I don't think my olive oil

is going to work. No?

This isn't cleaning products. This is something you eat.

So you don't think the olive oil is going to do it at all? Nah, but I'll

Try my best.

All right, Raj. How do you feel about your weapon of choice, peanut butter?

Well, it should be a smooth process with the oils in peanut butter. It just

might be weird enough to work.

What's the weirdest thing you've done with a jar of peanut butter? I've used

peanut butter on, don't tell nobody, pizza.

All right, gentlemen, time starts in three, two, one.

Marcus, how's it looking, man?

Great. See as soon as the heat touches it.

Moving it. That's working fast.

It's already working. Thank y 'all in trouble.

That's one sticker.

It's going to rock the locker off the hinges.

Two stickers.

45 seconds on the clock.

This is all we need.

Word up.

Every last bit is gone. I'm calling it. One minute, 36 seconds. Wow.

That came off quick.

See, heat is all you need.

And two minutes have passed.

Oh, right off.

I think we're going to call that.

Two minutes and 43 seconds. That was pretty good, though.

Monday morning, I'll order a case of this. Yeah? It still has your seal of

approval? Yeah, I'll order that.

And here we go. Now, it's clean white.

So I'm going to take it off.

There goes the gum.

Three minutes and counting.

Oh, this isn't working.

Some of it came off, but the oil from the peanut butter actually made some of

the stickers stick a little bit more, right? Peanut butter is only good for

sandwiches. Sandwiches and pizza, as we learned today.

To the hacker, one man's trash is another man's treasure.

Today I've got three old milk jugs, some tools, a brush, and some paint.

So let's get hacking.

Put a couple holes in the cap, like so.

And you, my friend, just made a watering can.

Huh? That's a hack.

You can also use a milk jug to make a gardening shovel.

All you need is a sharpie, a cutting implement, some scissors as well. We are

going to cut around here.

Puncture the jug with your cutting tool, finishing it off with a scissor.

Perfect for a scoop for some raisin bran. Then just do a little trimming as

needed.

Oh, I know, skeptic.

Kevin, there's no way you could shovel with that monstrosity that you just

built. Oh!

That's a repurposed milk carton. You can get in there all day.

Scoop some gelato, scoop some soil, whatever you want.

Last but certainly not least.

Time for our final hack.

Let's say you're doing some remodeling. Maybe you're painting a house. You want

a place to store that brush.

So let's cut a hole in this milk jug so we can store the paint at the same time.

Cut on in.

Paintbrush stands right there.

Take your paint.

Oh, look at that.

Milk jug.

Who knew?

The best part about sports is not the game, it's eating and drinking in a

parking lot. So, let's tackle some tips on how to hack your tailgate.

What's scarier than a hungry fan?

Twelve hungry fans.

Here's how to make a lot of food and fast.

Fill an empty beer cooler with boiling water, drop in some corn, and in just a

few minutes you'll have a dozen ears ready to eat.

To help keep all of your condiments contained, just pack a muffin tin.

When was the last time you made muffins anyway? Yeah, never.

If you've got a bug problem, find some coffee filters. Just flip them over the

lip of your cup, poke a hole in the middle, then act like it's totally

drink beer with a straw.

Your hands are full? Well, don't drop your drink.

Use a magnet!

Attach one to a beer koozie, then attach the koozie to your car, and do not

forget to take it off before you drive home, because the cops frown on that

of thing. Oh, and your dentist asked us to tell you that if you forgot your

bottle opener at home...

Please don't use your teeth.

Just pop the top with a latch inside your car door.

And lastly, if you forgot the grill, just grab a tin can.

Cut slits lengthwise halfway down. Fold the slits open so you have a bowl shape.

Lay aluminum foil over the top. Add some charcoal. And finally, put a small

cooling rack over the whole thing. It doesn't look pretty, but it doesn't have

to. It works.

Congratulations. You just hacked your tailgate.

Yay, fart.

Uh -huh. Go.

animal team.

Coming up, we'll show you how to make a week's worth of breakfast in just 30

minutes. Plus, we show you a brilliant new use for a can opener.

Today we're going to make a week's worth of breakfast, because if you're cooking

breakfast for yourself every morning, I don't know, you're doing it wrong, okay?

We're going to start with everyone's favorite, which is hard -boiled eggs.

my favorite.

So you want to have a dozen eggs in a muffin pan.

Great!

Now, you want to preheat that oven to 350 degrees.

Then you're going to take your eggs, all dozen of them, and put them into the

muffin tin.

Thank you.

Now, pop your eggs into the oven.

You've got some time to kill, so I'm going to go watch some TV.

I'm refreshed.

How about you?

Those eggs should be done. It's been 30 minutes.

Breakfast for a week.

Things are impossible to get into. They're like a plastic Fort Knox.

So let's see if we can hack our way in. And this hacks fairly.

Our test subject, clamshell blister packs on batteries and razors.

Apparently, you take a can opener, you clamp it down on the side, and just

twist, and it should cut right through the side of the blister pack. Okay.

Clamped, yeah? Clamped.

Got it locked.

Yeah, there you go. Is that cutting into it? Yeah.

Do you want to try it? Yeah, let me give it a whirl.

I feel like I'm just chewing it up now.

It's really simple.

You can get the edge off. I think it'd be better to open it this way.

There we go.

Hey, look at that. We have batteries.

This is sloppier than I hoped this would look.

I agree. I think other packaging is going to be easier because it has a

more room on the edge. There's a little more clearance. Okay, I'll try this.

Give it a whirl. I'll open up my lady razors.

See,

this one's already better.

There we go.

That's a one and done kind of situation.

Boom. Watch out.

This one's so much easier. You can crank it open and get to shaving your chin,

ladies.

So depending on the packaging, a can opener is actually a great hack.

It worked. It worked. It totally worked. Yeah.

So I went camping and got bit by a bunch of mosquitoes.

Now what?

No problem.

Hold a warm metal spoon against your skin for several minutes, and the bite

stop itching.

Well, I'd like to eat some soup, but my spoon's all tied up, keeping my bug

bites from itching. So, now what?

Settle down.

Make a new spoon by folding the lid from a yogurt container.

Now my yogurt's going to go bad because I just used the lid as a spoon.

Now what?

I got this.

Freeze leftover yogurt in ice cube trays, and then use the cubes later to

smoothies. Yeah, but I need to make ice, and my ice cube tray is full of yogurt.

Now what? No worries. Hack an emergency ice cube tray using an egg carton and

some aluminum foil.

Yeah, but I have a bunch of leftovers I need to wrap up, and all my aluminum

foil is being used for an ice cube tray. Now what?

Would you relax?

Use a shower cap to make a reusable cover for bowls and colanders.

Just make sure it's a clean shower cap. I don't want to get my hair wet in the

shower, but now my shower cap is being used to keep a bowl covered, so.

Now what?

So, hack a shower cap using a plastic bag. I need to bring some groceries to a

dinner party, but I just used my last plastic bag to keep my hair from getting

wet. So, now what?

Okay, use a laundry basket for easily carrying groceries and other items.

Oh, that's not a bad idea.

Up next, we tell you which hack will keep hundreds of dollars in your wallet.

And our hack of the week will save you many trips to the drugstore.

Plus, a melon meets its match.

We've shown you a lot of hacks today.

But before we send you on your way, let's delve a little deeper into four of

best to help you become a true hacker.

The award for the best time saver is the Blister Pack hack.

A can opener getting these babies open in no time.

Plus, you're going to save your fingers.

And that's important.

Because 6 ,000 people end up in the emergency room every year due to

sustained while trying to open blister packs.

The award for the biggest money saver hack, the foil ball. It lasts for months

and costs less than dryer seats.

Our hack of the week, converting your AAA batteries to AA's using nothing but

aluminum foil. It's cheap, it's easy, and it means your binge -watching

of Golden Girls won't be interrupted.

You can also convert C batteries into D batteries by wedging a few quarters

between the battery and the terminal. It's a temporary fix, but works well in

pinch.

And finally, Leaf likely to succeed, cutting a watermelon with a quarter. It

packs a wallop, but it takes forever.

You know there's an even cooler way to explode a watermelon?

Oh, really? Yeah, look.