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It has been a minute since I've done a life hacks video. These are what I'm calling cheat codes. Hacks have had an upgrade for 2026. And these feel illegal to know. They're that good. And it takes me a long time to collect these. I've been collecting keeping a list on my phone and they're ready to see the world.
This first one right here will change your life. And I'm not kidding because how many times have you got an oil or a grease stain on a garment and it just will not come off? And trust me, I have tried every hack under the sun for 10 years. Nothing quite gets it exactly back to how it was until this. And all you need is baking soda, parchment paper, and an iron. So, get your grease stained, oil stained clothing. Then you sprinkle it with baking soda. Cover it with parchment paper. Get your piping hot iron. Put it on there for a good 10, 15 seconds. Shake that baby out. And I'm sorry. Did I just blow your mind?
Did this just save so many articles of my clothing that I thought were good and donated. While we have out our iron and parchment paper, another cheat code you can do, if you have kids who love to draw, you can make your own t-shirt decal. Take your drawing. It doesn't matter what it is. If it's colored pencils, markers, whatever it is, get your kids favorite drawing. Cut out the drawing. Cover it with plastic wrap. Put your drawing on top. Cover it with parchment paper and then use your iron. And you have just created your own ironon design.
Now, this one will not only save you a ton of money, it's going to make your dishes cleaner in your dishwasher. So, there's this engineer who is autistic and got hyperfixated on getting his dishes as clean as possible. Okay, I saw him on Tik Tok. I'll tag him down below. He did this whole experiment and what he found is that dishwashing powder, it doesn't matter what it is, how cheap the brand is. I recommend going for something less toxic cuz, you know, it's going on your dishes, you're eating off your dishes. A powder dish detergent is significantly better than a pod. I didn't do the research, but this guy really did. And yeah, I can report it does work considerably better.
A cheat code to make your house smell amazing is when you are vacuuming, okay, before you start, go grab a little piece of a paper towel, cover that in essential oil or whatever fragrance that you want your house to smell like and just put it in the canister of the vacuum. And what a lot of people don't realize, your vacuum is sucking up dirt from the floor, but it's also has a fan and a vent and it's spitting it back out. So, by putting the fragrance in the canister, you are fragrancing your home and it's so easy and it works incredibly well.
This next one, get a paper towel rack. They are so cheap. Stick that on the wall of your closet and it's a perfect vessel for your hangers. Your extra hangers now have a place to live. it's taking up no space in your closet. The hanger is always available. And then you could add a second one, use that as a hat rack.
Also, I recently discovered these Velcro adhesive hooks. And I've tried so many different things to contain the cords that are just everywhere. Such is life. These work better than anything that I've tried. I have tried a lot of gadgets for this specific purpose, and they're so useful. So, just get a bag of these and you can clear up cord clutter all over your home.
Speaking of clutter, cardboard boxes. I feel like a lot of us, you know, maybe we have too many cardboard boxes. You're supposed to break down your boxes and put them in the recycling. I don't want to break down my boxes like that. That's a lot. Until I came across this gadget and it is an electric box cutter. Not only do I feel powerful, incredibly efficient. I mean, it's kind of fun. Instead of it being my biggest chore, just take this sucker and you are dissecting that box like a frog in fifth grade.
This cheat code for meal prep literally has changed the game for me. So, you can get a Chipotle catering box with enough food, I mean, at least to feed my family. It's just three of us for a week, lunch and dinner for $65. And it's prepped and it comes with the bowls and the utensils. I'm sorry if you're having a busy week. You know, it's end of the school year here. Things are crazy stressful, but I would spend so much more money than that on groceries and then not to say the prep and the cook time and the mess and all of this. I mean, prices may vary depending on your area, but for me, $65 like in this economy to get this much food, I am loving this. To me, the only issue is will I get sick of the food? I mean, I I can't do this every week. I'll probably get sick of it. If you break up the cost per meal, it is it's a steal.
Now, a cheat code for waking up because no matter how much sleep I got, I was always groggy in the morning. So, what I figured out, the more you move, the more energy you have. And a lot of times, the reason we feel so groggy is we get up and we go to work and we're sitting on our desk. So, we don't get our blood circulating enough. There's not enough oxygen pumping to our brain. So, I do one of these two things and it has changed my energy levels throughout the day. I force myself to do this. There's an 8 minute hit run protocol. You could do it outside. I do it on a treadmill where you brisk walk for 2 minutes, sprint for 1 minute, brisk walk for 2 minutes, sprint for 1 minute, brisk walk for 2 minutes, sprint for 1 minute. Do that however many rounds you can, but at least for 8 minutes. And this gets your blood pumping. The oxygen is flowing my brain. All of a sudden, I am energized. I'm motivated. I'm inspired even in the bad part of my cycle. And if you're a woman, you know that's a big deal. Or the other thing you could do, it's called Kijong. It is this series of exercises designed to get your blood flowing. It starts with 20 jumps. I'll show you the routine and I will link the video I found. It just randomly came up. I'm like, "Okay, this looks like I could get my blood flowing and it's a little bit less impact." So, I will do one or the other.
Other cheat code. I had seen this around for years and I don't know why I thought it was a scam and I am in no way affiliated with this company. I'm just going to say it. Okay, it is class and that is basically you sign up through class and then you can take any class you want basically whether it's yoga, pilates, boot camp style classes. They even have now saunas and all different types of businesses on there. A bunch of my girlfriends do it. I signed up through them and I'm addicted. I'm such a class pass girl cuz I like going to different neighborhoods and trying different Pilates studios and it does end up being so much less money. It's not even funny. And the pro tip, if you get a friend to sign up using your link, I believe you get $30, 20 or $30 credit and then they get a free month. I'm going to double check that. I'm going to put my link down below if you want to use my link or use a friend's link. But I have been using it and loving it and it's fun and motivating.
Also, when it comes to waking up, I've shared the tip for years out of everything I've ever talked about. What has helped me the most as someone who used to struggle with waking up was setting an alarm on my phone, putting it in another room. It's the crying baby wake up method. You have to physically get up to turn off the phone. But a lot of you have resisted this because you don't want to put your phone in another room. Maybe you're gonna get an important call or you don't want your phone far away. So, I got this $10, it might even be seven or eight alarm clock. And I put this in the other room. Very easy to use. And this thing is so loud and so annoying. I hear that first little beep before it goes crazy. And I am I bolt out of bed. If you struggle with getting out of bed, this this is the best $10 investment you will ever make.
Okay. cheat code to fall asleep faster that not only works for you, it has worked for my kids. I taught this to my kids and it's so simple and I know there's all of these different techniques to fall asleep. This is the one that works the best for me. Okay? And what you do, you're falling asleep. Think of a four-letter word. Let's say it's desk. Whatever the word is, what you do in your head, start to think of every possible word that you can think of that starts with D, the first letter of desk. Okay? So, door, duck, drain, drink, drop. Just keep going until you can't think of any more words. Then go to the next letter, E. Try and list off in your head every single word that you can think of that starts with the letter E. And so on for S and K. And something about doing this, you're like scanning in your mind. It tires out your brain. and I almost always fall asleep before I get to the last letter. Like that is how well it works.
And last but not least, this is something I never thought I would say. So if you are traveling anytime soon, summer's coming up and you struggle sleeping on planes. I have never in my life been able to sleep on a flight ever in my life until this trip to Fiji. It was 11 hours. Okay. I slept for 8 hours and 9 hours. And I did so much research. I'm tapping around looking all around the internet. I found the most ridiculous looking gadget, but it was designed by a sleep scientist. So I'm like, "Oh, okay." Basically, it has the sleep mask and it's secured to the headrest so your head doesn't bo. Then in addition to that, there's like this arm sling and it has your arms in this like comfortable tucked in position so you're in your little cocoon. And then I'll add to that bonus cheat code, wear your grippy sock. So then if you want to, you know, put your legs up and get comfortable, the grip socks will keep your legs up. Or you can get this. I also did have this for your feet to be at the perfect elevated position. I mean, this genuinely changed my life because I would dread traveling cuz I could never sleep and then wherever I would end up, I am tired. I am jetlagged. Like I'm starting off just exhausted. So this, if anyone else has that particular issue, this is it. This is the solution. It's nice and compact. It's easy to use.
So anyway, I hope you enjoyed this collection of some of my favorite adult cheat codes that have made my life 10 times better. And please do me a favor if you did enjoy this if you got anything out of it. It would really help out me and my channel if you could save the video and or share it. That is what YouTube looks to as a marker of like is this a good video or not. So I would appreciate that and thank you so much for being here. I will see you soon in a new.