8 Pretty Sweet Life Hacks

These eight life hacks will make you shake your head at how it makes your life so much easier!

  1. Instead of scraping ice off your car, try spraying it with a mixture of 2/3 cup vinegar and 1/3 cup water. Ice will melt right off.
  2. If you have a gift card with less than $10 on it, the business is legally required to give you the rest of your balance in cash if you ask.
  3. Drinking two cups of water before meals can help you lose an average of 4 1/2 more pounds in 12 weeks.
  4. Get rid of nighttime coughs by rubbing Vicks VapoRub on your feet and then placing socks over them. Your cough will stop within minutes.  
  5. Use your browser’s incognito tab or delete your history every time you go online to check flight rates. Prices actually increase when you visit a site multiple times.
  6. To lose a pound of fat, you’ll have to run for more than 3 hours. If you run for 27 minutes every day, you can lose a pound in a week.
  7. You can add two eggs and ½ cup of oil to turn any cake mix into cookie dough.
  8. Put a wooden spoon across a pot of boiling water to keep it from boiling over.
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