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  • The next time you eat a giant hamburger, don't do it like this.

  • The bottoms get soggy and fall apart.

  • Instead, try turning your sandwich upside down.

  • The tops are nearly twice as thick as the bottoms, and a lot more durable.

  • So be smart, and eat your hamburgers upside down.

  • Have you ever noticed that when you put a straw in a can of soda, it doesn't want to stay?

  • Try bending the tab of the can over the hole and slide your straw down through the tab.

  • No more floating straws, because now, it's held in place.

  • Grab yourself a mango and try this little trick.

  • Carefully cut off the two sides of the fruit, and hold one piece in your hand.

  • You can gently cut a few lines vertically, and a few more across, until the pattern resembles a checkerboard.

  • Now take it with both hands and gently push from the back.

  • You'll see bite sized pieces pop right up.

  • You can use a spoon to scrape them into a bowl, or just eat them right off the peel.

  • It's fast, easy, and they won't get stuck in your teeth.

  • If you've got ants and you're looking for a natural form of pest control, try measuring out a cup of popcorn kernels.

  • Put them in a blender on high speed for about 30 seconds, and you'll end up with a batch of fresh, homemade cornmeal.

  • Just make a few piles around the ant trails and within a few days, your ant problems will, literally disappear.

  • The next time you're at a party and someone has bags of chips laying around, impress your friends by making them into custom snack bowls.

  • You can fold the top edge inside the bag first, then begin rolling the bottom corners, up into the base of the bag, pushing the chips up as you go.

  • You'll end up with a custom snack bowl, with chips overflowing.

  • It's the season for fruit flies, so before they take over your kitchen, slice a few pieces of banana and mix them with some of your leftover mango peels.

  • Find yourself a couple of small containers, and add the fruit.

  • Now just stretch a piece of plastic wrap over the top, and use something like the tip of a chopstick to poke a small hole in the center that's just bigger than the fly.

  • Now you can set it and forget it.

  • Within a few minutes, the flies will be checking things out, and once one goes in, you can be sure his friends will follow.

  • Within a couple of days, they'll all be having a rocking fruit party.

  • And now you can simply take the lid of the container and press it on, sealing them inside.

  • Now, you are the lord of the flies.

  • Summer means popsicles, and popsicles mean your kids are going to get sticky fingers.

  • Grab a small paper cup, and carefully poke a hole in the bottom, about the size of a popsicle stick.

  • Now when you push a popsicle inside, you've got an instant drip catcher, and no more sticky fingers.

  • By the way, this works great with cupcake liners as well!

  • You've probably been to a BBQ where the condiments take up half the table, and the lineups for using them take forever.

  • Solve the problem with a muffin pan.

  • This way your condiments are easy to access and your lines will move along quickly.

  • You'll also dramatically increase your table space, and cut down the things to clean up afterward.

  • When you're at the beach, reduce the chances of things getting stolen by making a covert container.

  • Just take your old shampoo bottle and twist the top so that it pops right off.

  • Clean it out and cut a hole in the top that's just big enough, to stash your valuable items inside.

  • Now you can snap the top back on, and your items are perfectly concealed.

  • Anyone who sees this will just think it's a shampoo bottle, and chances are, nobody's wants to steal your shampoo.

  • When you need a drink to cool down, hot water can taste disgusting.

  • Try filling your water bottles, a quarter of the way, so that when they're on their sides, the water settles just below the bottle neck.

  • Now stick your bottles in the freezer and go on with your day.

  • When the water is frozen, it will make an ice block on the side the bottle, but doesn't block the opening.

  • Now when you need to cool off just take a bottle from the freezer, fill it up with your favorite drink, and you've got an instant, icy cold beverage ready to go.

  • Well, there are a few tricks to make your summer a little easier.

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The next time you eat a giant hamburger, don't do it like this.

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