Pulling from Bobo's answer, MattS.'s answer, and all of these meta posts, here's my definition: A lifehack is a strategy or technique used to make one's physical life more efficient, but is applicable to a wide range of people. Lifehacks tend to be creative, meaning they use materials that ma...

Research: No Effort: Yes If you're going to ask how to cover a nail hole effectively, you had better specify why spackle will not work for you. - Robert Cartaino (Director of Community Development for the SE) in this meta post. As talked about in this meta answer and others, in addition to...

Pulling from Bobo's answer, MattS.'s answer, and all of these meta posts, here's my definition: A lifehack is a strategy or technique used to make one's physical life more efficient, but is applicable to a wide range of people. Lifehacks tend to be creative, meaning they use materials that ma...

No. We each have a different background, often times a different culture as well. What's conventional for you very well may not be conventional for me. Simply because that's the case does not give reason to downvote. As such, it's impossible to determine what culture (and therefore convention) a...

From my perspective an orange peeler is a foreign concept and in fact I have never seen such an item before I looked it up while I was on this site. Using it is neither common nor conventional. (I use a small kitchen knife for the task) Corncub holders are something that I have already seen once...

I think this is a question that needs asking. While we have all come from cultures, our goals are the same: As an asker, we seek to obtain an effective/efficient solution to a problem we face in ways we haven't personally thought of. As an answerer, we hope to provide a solution to the asker's ...

How about "The Junk Drawer" You know, that drawer that every person in the world has, where all the weird and wonderful things that aren't currently useful get stored, because you know they might be some day! Typically this is the drawer where you will find the radiator bleeding key alongside ...

No. If there is no possible "hack" answer, a close vote should be cast. Such answers should be downvoted as they fall outside the already broad topic of this site.

The question is on-topic. Leave it open. If necessary, comment under the post with a simple explanation and link(s) to the appropriate meta post regarding its scope (this one included). And your point that it is not our job to be police is valid, we shouldn't vote to close a question because it...

Sometimes there are questions along the lines of "Is there a lifehack for [problem]". In such a case, is it okay to post an answer along the lines of "No"? It seems in a lot of cases where this has happened, the question has been closed because it doesn't have an answer. Is this how we intend th...

I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-obse...

When I want to make Hot chocolate, one of the steps to boiling water. It seems to take forever. Is there a faster way? The method I am currently using is putting water in a metal can and useing the stove.

It's been suggested that the best place to eat a mango is in the bathtub. How can I eat mango without getting very sticky?

I like to snack on oranges at work, but usually juice gets on my fingers and makes them sticky, so I have to get up and go and wash my hands. Is there a way to peel and eat an orange, without utensils, without my hands getting sticky?

I really enjoy eating apples, however it is annoying when my hands are sticky afterwards. How can I eat an apple so that the juices do not make my hands sticky?

I don't think we're going to be able to successfully handle a site this broad where we try help people in a "how-to" format. It's become pretty clear that we're floundering with our scope, trying to define what's on-topic or not, and devolving into a war of closing and reopening questions. It m...

I have a large container (a hot water urn) that I need to fill with water. The problem is that I don't have access to a hose, and the container is too big to fit into any sink. How can I fill my hot water urn from a sink that's too small for it?

I am moving out of rental, and there are some nail holes in the wall. What is an inexpensive solution to hide the holes?

When planting seeds, you're supposed to put each seed with a certain amount of space in-between each seed. I have trouble with this a lot, because my handles are so big, and the seeds are so small, there usually ends up being clumps of seeds if I do it by hand. If I planted the seeds one by one,...