If you were a student, then remember the times when only 4 rings for cooking dinner are available on the whole floor of the hostel. Or remember how you ran to the neighbors for an iron, because there is none.
If life in a student hostel is only waiting for you, then we offer you the top 10 life hacks that will greatly simplify your life.
10. Iron plate
At rush hour before breakfast, lunch or dinner in the common kitchen you will not push through. When four burners are needed throughout the floor, the question of where to get fire in the 21st century becomes very relevant.
An ordinary iron will come to your aid. Even if it is burnt at you and got from your great-grandmother - it gives heat, so it will do. Make a makeshift plate out of foil, preferably in the shape of your iron, so that the surface warms up evenly. Put raw eggs on a foil container and you can treat yourself to scrambled eggs very soon.
By the way, on the iron you can not only cook, but also heat food, so the question is: “Where can I get a microwave?” can also be considered resolved.
9. Laptop cooling pad
Sitting with a flat posture at the computer table while working with a laptop? Do not make students laugh! Only crouching on the bed, suffering the burning heat from the body of the equipment. By the way, working on a laptop on the bed is harmful not only for your posture, but also for the laptop itself.
The fact is that cooling holes in the case constantly need air, so that the equipment does not overheat. And putting the laptop on the bed mattress, we close the air access to the cracks in the case. To avoid damage to the equipment due to overheating, take a cardboard carton for laying eggs. Due to its zigzag shape, the box will allow air to circulate freely, thereby cooling the laptop case.
8. How to make an iron do it yourself
If you don’t have an iron to iron things crumpled in your closet, use boiling water and a saucepan.
In a deep container with handles (best with two, it will be more convenient), pour water and boil. The hot bottom of the pan and boiling water will save your shirt no worse than any iron.
7. The right sandwich
Favorite snack of all students - sandwiches with cheese and sausage. But what to do when the sacred doctoral stick has the ability to end, the bread is square in shape, but really want the cut to cover the bun from all sides?
It's simple: take two circles of sausage, cut each in half. You will get four slices of sausage slices. Lay them flat, cut edge along the contour of the bread slice. Thus, you will cover just four slices of sausage the whole bread slice. There will be no gleams!
6. Cup protection
In a hostel, it is better to keep your mug in the room. But if this is not possible, then you can protect the tank from attacks by neighbors with the help of a barn castle. To do this, lower the mug onto the dryer by placing its handle between the slots of the dryer. And then fix the barn lock on the handle. If someone pulls the mug up, it will run into an obstacle in the form of a castle.
5. Cake for a best friend
Many students associate student days with a lack of finance. Small scholarships or a quick waste of money on entertainment and partying until the morning - all this is familiar to any student. And what to do when the birthday of a friend or another acquaintance is just around the corner, and you do not have money for a gift? Bake him a cake!
Do not worry, flour, eggs, mastic, fruits, cream and additional decorations for the cake we do not need. It is enough to cut a block of fresh bread, spread it with butter and sprinkle with sugar. It will turn out delicious Soviet delicacy.
And to make the cake look festive, and not like an everyday sandwich, insert matches in it. Why not candles? Only to blow out the birthday will have them very quickly.
4. How not to wash the dishes
No money to buy dishwashing detergent? Is there a last clean plate left? For disposable kitchen utensils, too, finances are needed, from what then is? There is a solution, and it is in the food film.
Fill a clean plate with a film, fill with food, and when everything is eaten - throw the film with the rest of the sauce into the trash. So your plate will remain clean, which means you can delay the moment you buy a new detergent.
3. Quick drying socks
Is it time to pair up, and the only socks in the wash? Wash the wardrobe item does not take much time, but drying socks is not five minutes. Or is it still five?
Take a hair dryer (if you don’t have one, it's time to knock on the neighbors), pull the cuffs of the sock on the head of the hair dryer, where hot air comes from. Thus, you really only need five minutes to dry both socks.
Put them on while warm, and run to the university!
2. Stool instead of trash
Garbage bags appear by themselves after the next trip to the nearest supermarket. And therefore there is no need for them, but the need for a bin is very acute in some buildings.
And while there is no finance for the purchase of a plastic bucket, we recommend using an ordinary wooden stool. The seat is the bottom of your future bin, and the legs of the stool are the frame on which you pull the store bag.
The garbage collection tank is ready. But we advise you to buy a bucket nevertheless, otherwise there will be minus one sitting place in the hostel building after this life hack.
1. Fast for haste
The student will find the opportunity to sleep “another 5 minutes” by all possible means. In the morning, this question is very acute, but because some fly out of the hostel without even having tea. After all, they prefer to lie in bed than to get up in advance, make a drink, and then wait until it cools down.
We offer a method of quick tea, which will give you an extra couple of minutes to lie in bed and allow you to drink a delicious drink before going out. To do this, pour the tea leaves with boiling water in a mug and place 3-4 clean teaspoons in it. And you can dining rooms. And you can all that you find. The more spoons, the faster the tea will cool. Because the spoons will take away the heat of the drink for themselves, eventually leaving you a cool and tasty tea for breakfast.