20 Ridiculous Sounding Life Hacks That Actually Work

16. Make Your Beverage Ice Cold In Just 10 Minutes

If you are ready for an ice cold beer or alco-pop, waiting a couple of hours for it to cool in the fridge is just not going to cut it. However you can wet a piece of kitchen towel and wrap it around the bottle, then simply place it in the freezer for 10-12 minutes and voila the drink is ice cold.

15. Hide Your Money In A Sanitary Towel Wrapper

Okay, so this one is for the ladies. This hack is particularly useful when travelling and/or carrying large sums of money. If you put your money in a (clean) sanitary towel package before putting it in your bag, chances are extremely low that anyone would steal it. Thieves may grab purses and keys but a sanitary towel...unlikely!

14. White Vinegar Helps Sunburn

Through these long cold winter months we all long for summer, however when summer does (eventually) arrive, a lot of us get overexcited, overexposed and end up with a nasty sunburn. Don't spend your time or money, aloe or vitamin E to take the burn away, just apply plain old white, distilled vinegar to your sunburn instead. You may smell...interesting, but the vinegar serves as a topical Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (NSAID) which reduces the inflammation, pain, and redness of sunburn.

13. Use Alcohol To Make Flexible Ice Packs

Everyone should have flexible ice packs available for quick injury treatments but they can be expensive, making a homemade ice pack is a much better proposition. They are super simple to make, and cost very little in materials. Take the following: 2 cups of water 1/3 cup of vodka (80 proof) Food coloring (any color you like) Ziploc Freezer Bag (you can double bag to make it more durable) Then simply pour the liquids into Ziploc freezer bag, add food colouring (you'll know at a glance that it's your ice pack and not something to consume) then freeze. The alcohol will prevent it from freezing solid and will allow the pack to be flexible.