Great hacks to consider: they will could come in handy in your daily life

Daily life always presents us with challenges. But how much satisfaction do you get when you overcome these problems using ingenious solutions? Maybe someone recently gave us a great tip for some issue. Or maybe you found a clever solution by yourself.

If you want to make your life easier, but you are stumped for solutions, we list below 10 tips/hacks that might help you out.

1. Lighting candles

You have to light a candle, but the wick is too low down in the container. In order not to burn your fingers, use a piece of spaghetti as a lighter.

2. Dust collector

If you have to drill a hole in the wall and you don't want the dust to spread all over the floor, take a postit note, fold it in half and stick it on the wall, positioning it just below where you are going to drill: it will collect all the dust that falls.

3. Banana saver

To prevent your bananas from ripening too quickly, wrap the stalk in a bit of plastic wrap or aluminum foil: this will prevent ethylene from reaching the fruit and making it ripen too quickly.

4. Smartphone speaker

Want to listen to music with friends, but don't have a speaker for your smartphone? Make one with a toilt paper roll and two disposable cups!

5. Bag closer

When you need to close a food bag, it is not necessary to have a clip: cut the neck off a plastic bottle, place it on the bag to be closed, fold the bag over the neck and screw on the lid.

6. Removing hair

Are you looking for an effective method to remove dog and cat hair from carpets, sofas or rugs? Use a squeegee: the results will be excellent!

7. Perfect slices

To cut soft fruit such as strawberries or bananas into slices of equal thickness, use a boiled egg cutter!

8. Space-saving lectern

If you have to follow a recipe but your kitchen doesn't have enough space, use a hanger (with clips) to hang the recipe book up on a cabinet!

9. Spaghetti holder

Empty potato chip tubes make perfect spaghetti boxes!

10. Toothpaste dispenser

To dispense your toothpaste without mess or waste, screw a soap dispenser onto the tube.

These are just some of the many time-saving and effort-saving ideas out there. Have fun discovering many more on the web!