When eating lunch at my desk in the office, without fail, I'll be squeezing some ketchup packets out onto my sandwich wrapper so that I can dip my fries in the ketchup, and eventually one of them will shoot out at an angle or velocity I'm not expecting and end up on my clothing. I've tried rippin...

How can I keep from squirting myself with ketchup whenever I use ketchup packets? Per this meta, I think it fits the criteria. It is a problem most people encounter at some period in their life. It has a common solution (ripping it open with my fingers) that I want to improve. I have described...

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 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 normally keep a small led light on my keychain, but its battery died. Say I'm in a dark parking lot and can't see the keyhole due to lack of light. How can I see the keyhole of my car in a dark parking lot without a light? P.S. Don't say "use the remote"; may car lacks one.

Everyone by now knows what a shart is, but if you don't just bing it. Lets say I'm at work, it's 9:45am, have pretty much a full day ahead of me at the office and the unimaginable happens, I sharted. Lets say that I'm wearing dark colored pants, so the shart won't be visibly noticeable to others...

My Christmas tree tends to haemorrhage needles all over the floor. It doesn't look very good, and it's a huge pain to clean up. Is there anything I can do to the tree to stop it doing this?

Say the oil light turns on in my car and I have an extra quart in the trunk. However, I don't have a funnel to pour the oil through. How can I pour the oil without making a mess?

How about wearing those plastic gloves that grocery store workers have? They are cheap and sold in bulk at supermarkets. While you're at it, you could also equip yourself with plastic protective goggles so that the orange juice droplets don't get in your eyes. But that is protecting yourself fro...

I normally keep a small led light on my keychain, but its battery died. Say I'm in a dark parking lot and can't see the keyhole due to lack of light. How can I see the keyhole of my car in a dark parking lot without a light? P.S. Don't say "use the remote"; may car lacks one.

We missed the whole business of choosing whether or not we get hats this winterbash. Since the default option was to have hats, does this mean we'll get them?

I got blood on my blue shirt. I would usually use peroxide, but last time I tried that, my shirt got ruined (colors got messed up). What is an easy way I can remove blood from my shirt without ruining the color.

In the continuing saga of trying to define what a lifehack is (What is a lifehack?). We've had a few questions where the answer has been extremely simple. For example: Question: What is the best method of cleaning up broken glass? Solution: You use a broom, or vacuum, and sweep or suck it al...

Your aspirations are commendable, but I don't think it is realistic to take ~90% of your content (and the community that created it) and simply toss it out telling everyone "you're doing it wrong." The story that we've convinced ourselves is that… "as soon as we stop everyone who’s using this sit...

Since you state you wish to see the keyhole without a light, and a solution such as "use your phone" is really "use a light source that isn't typically thought of as a light", you'll have to do something that heightens the ambient light in the area to make the keyhole more visible. Unless your ph...