Readers offer their best tips for hanging your jacket on a chair, packing your stuff when you move, and making use of your Mardi Gras beads.
Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons?maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in?the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments, email it to tips at lifehacker.com, or share it on our tips and expert pages.
Hang Your Jacket Backwards to Keep It Neatly Stowed
Joe Bryan discovers the best way to hang your jacket on a chair:
Hanging my jacket on a chair never quite worked right until I found this. Can't believe I went this long without knowing!
Open All Your Cupboards to Aid in Packing
Mike shares a packing tip for when you're moving out:
I'm moving to a new apartment, and packing is always a pain?I never know what I have and haven't packed. This time around, I've just opened every cupboard and every closet in my house, revealing EVERYTHING I have that needs to be packed (or emptied). When I finish emptying a cupboard, it gets closed. This not only motivates me to pack stuff up to keep it clean, but keeps me aware of which stuff hasn't been packed yet, because it's all visible from wherever I stand.
Repurpose Mardi Gras Beads as a Glasses Hanger
Erik Stockmeier finds a new use for all those cheap Mardi Gras beads. See the image above: you can hang it with thumb tacks or nails, then just put your glasses on for easy storage.
Get Pizza-Sized Veggie Portions at the Grocery Store Salad Bar
Wittyname makes better pizza at home:
If you are cooking pizza at home (or maybe other things, but it works particularly well for pizza), use the salad bar at the grocery store to get the ingredients. While the salad bar items cost more per serving than buying the items individually, you save a ton of money getting just a few mozzarella balls, mushrooms, the perfect amount of pepperoni, or olives, peppers, etc. etc. at the salad bar rather than having to buy whole packages of each and only using a fraction for the recipe.
Not exactly efficient, but good if you just wouldn't use a whole bag of [insert vegetable here] anyway. Photo by Natalie Maynor.
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