IT'S NOT A HACK!

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I know iABU but my reels on Insta and FB (yes I'm unreasonable to use SM!) are full of HACKS.

Except....I wouldn't consider any of them hacks!

-'Short Hair Hack' - video of girl using Kirby grips to pull back some of her fringe...THIS IS JUST A HAIRSTYLE

-Important life hack' - video shows how you should take a photo of important things like business cards in case you lose them... THIS IS JIST COMMON SENSE?

-'Ironing hack' - video shows someone ... wait for it.... turning a shirt over so buttons are face down and they don't have to iron around them.... WHAT? WHY WOULD YOU DO ANYTHING BUT THIS?

Yes, I'm unreasonably angry about this...yes I'm using too many capital letters... yes I need to give my head a wobble as there are worse things going on

Any other hacks that aren't hacks that people have rolled eyes at?

Lighthearted obvs

This just popped up on my facebook and thought it rather apt! 😂

I literally saw this on Facebook today. She wasted far more money in various chemicals to get it clean than the pan was worth. Just go to the Asda and pay the £4 for a new one you weirdo 🙄

I am imaging a curtain pole with lots of loo roll cardboard bits cut and placed along the pole for all to see?

I'm sure that's not what you meant!

@WireSkills describes my airing cupboard aptly

I HATE THE WORD HACK, bugger off american speak, its a hint or a shortcut, a tip, not a bloody hack

No 😂
If you're in the living room they are hidden by the curtain top and would be facing the wall and not into the living room.

Sorry it's from the DM but it explains the look:
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7747475/Woman-reveals-achieves-neat-pleats-curtains-using-TOILET-tissue-rolls.html

I saw a hack to organise your closet (American obviously) and the tip was ... use coat hangers.

Don't get me started! Dupes
They are not dupes they are similar things just cheaper!!??

Drives me insane

Ahhhh... yes they drive me nuts.

They fall into one (or more) of several categories:

• Thing we already knew, is common sense
• Made up bollocks that doesn't work (toothpaste + coke + vinegar + something else = pan cleaner) but makes flashy content for a video channel to serve adverts on
• Things that people pretend were meant to work this way and no one knew til now ie 'the ring pull on a can of pop is meant to hold your straw'
• Things that are not a hack, just some mental biddy from Herne Bay think's it's brilliant and her friends won't tell her otherwise - ie using old CD's as coasters or decorating toilet tubes and threading them on some yarn as a necklace

Much of it is filler for magazines, or clickbait (5 Minute Crafts) and some of it is just very stupid people!

Ah yes, 5 minute Crafts on FB... I can't imagine a scenario where I would go hiking without my coat or snacks but remember multiple rolls of clingfilm.

My favorite...

KimberleyClark
I watched a video of a pan cleaning “hack” in which the woman used toothpaste, Coke and virtually every other cleaning product in her kitchen. Didn’t seem to work very well.

Well whoever it was suggested this is obviously not a mumsnetter! The thing to do is boil water in the pan with washing powder in. From MN and worked for me every time!

@BlackCatTabbyCat

You hook the corners of the fitted sheet over your hands and then over each other to to get a rough rectangle shape and then use a surface to fold it up to finish. This link isn't the 'hack' article I initially saw, but the video on that page shows exactly what I mean.

www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/organizing/a26147205/how-to-fold-a-fitted-sheet/

Oh so turns out my way was correct after all 😂

Tik tok is great for watching people take the piss out of the craft and hack pages.

Thank you so much for that.
I've joined it and the tips are amazing!
I can see now how my future evenings are going to be spent rather than wasting my time just watching re-runs of Doc Martin.

Don't want to derail the thread but can I add in "side hustle".

Amazing hack to earn great money from home - get yourself a side hustle.

No, you don't have a "side hustle".

You aren't in a TV drama.

You sell stuff on ebay/Etsy/Vinted/wherever.

Is that not a side hustle?

No, it's just "selling stuff on-line"

Hustling has negative connotations:

VERB
push roughly; jostle:
"they were hissed and hustled as they went in"
synonyms:
jostle · push · push roughly · bump · knock · shove · nudge · elbow · shoulder · crowd · mob
informal
NORTH AMERICAN
obtain illicitly or by forceful action:
"Linda hustled money from men she met"
NORTH AMERICAN
informal
engage in prostitution:
"she would hustle for a few dollars"
NOUN
a state of great activity:
"the hustle and bustle of the big cities"
synonyms:
activity · bustle · hustle and bustle · hurly-burly · commotion · tumult · [more]
NORTH AMERICAN
informal
a fraud or swindle:
"the hustles being used to avoid the draft"
synonyms:
fraud · swindle · fraudulent scheme · confidence trick · mare's nest · overcharging · do · flanker · have

INCREASE the life of your carpets by rolling them up and keeping them in the garage.

TAKE your dustbin to the supermarket with you so that you can see which items you have recently run out of.

MAKE shopkeepers feel like criminals and con men by carefully checking their change and holding bank notes up to the light before accepting them.

One of my (many) favourites was
'Fool your neighbours into thinking you have an expensive gravel driveway by sprinkling rice crispies on it'

*The worst recent one is that colanders have been used wrongly. The real way to use them (apparently) is to put on top of the saucepan of boiling water and pasta (or whatever) then hold the colander and tip everything upside down over a sink so the boiling water comes out through the holes and the pasta stays in the saucepan.

How is this easier than tipping one handed the saucepan over a colander standing in a sink?*

Hahaha this is hilarious

And the worst is....

I was today years old when......

Arrrggh

But the ridiculous tips upthread gave me quite a laugh.

Thicken up runny low-fat yogurt by stirring in a spoonful of lard.

Having a part-time job is not exiting.
Call it a side hustle and you’re somebody.

What's worse is when they title it "You've been doing it wrong!!" followed by an article about how scrub your patio clean with a dishwasher tablet

Funniest Viz tips I read years ago...

There's some brilliant ones here too.