rubber bands are great and life hacks
are great and rubberband life hacks are
especially great and today we’re gonna
try out 10 of them to see which one’s
work and which ones don’t here’s the
basic idea
we’ve got 10 rubber band based life
hacks that have appeared in several
different viral videos we’re gonna put
them to the test and see which ones hold
up and which ones fall flat can you use
a rubber band as a pencil eraser I’ve
written the same thing twice and for the
first one I’ll use the eraser that comes
with this pencil and for the second one
I’ll use a couple of different rubber
I gotta tell you I was a little
surprised at how well this one worked
we had slightly different results with
our two different types of rubber bands
so your mileage may vary but overall I
think the rubber bands did almost as
good of a job as the eraser that came on
the pencil I would say that rubber bands
as a pencil eraser works pretty well if
you have a stripped screw in a piece of
wood can you use a rubber band to
increase the grip between the
screwdriver and screw the idea is we can
fit the rubber band over the head of the
screw and the rubber will help give
extra grip between the screwdriver and
the screw this screw is pretty
thoroughly stripped and I can’t really
back this screw out so let’s see if we
well I wasn’t able to back the screw out
and it felt like in about one second
I had stabbed and cut my way right
through the rubber band sort of see
there’s a cross shaped hole in this
rubber band now let’s try it again with
both sides of other rubber band for
extra grip eNOS oh I think I cut through
both of them already yep
already cut through both sides of the
rubber band at once in my experience if
a screw gets completely stripped a
rubber band is not gonna solve your
problem you’re gonna need to use
specialized tools designed for removing
screws that have been stripped away
using a rubber band as a bookmark in
every video I’ve seen that shows this
life hack the rubber band is stretched
all the way around the open-book to keep
your place where you’re reading I’m
gonna try this with both a paperback and
a hardcover book this hack is that you
can easily open your book back to where
you were and just continue reading this
does technically work a rubber band it
does keep your place in the book you can
open it back up but in only a couple
minutes of having the rubber band on
there it started to leave a dent mark in
the pages where it’s compressing them
it’s also very easy for the rubber bands
to catch the edge of the paper and fold
it over on some books like this one the
pages have sort of this decorative
silver edge and I don’t know what it
would do to that over time but I can’t
imagine it would be all that great you
know what else works really well as a
book Mart can you use rubber bands to
secure a pot lid onto the pot while it’s
full of something we’re gonna test this
out with some delicious water stew pot
mostly full of water lid that stays on
but may not be super resistant to
let’s give it a good slosh pop right off
tons of water everywhere let’s test if
that’s something we can stop using
rubber bands in the videos where I’ve
seen this life hack the lid is secured
by using two lower bands each one goes
around one of the handles of the pot and
the handle of the lid that seems like it
could work often the pot lids have more
of a button style handle which would
make the rubber bands grip onto it even
better than they are here however this
already seems like it’s doing a decent
job let’s go give it our slosh test
little bits still escape out the side so
it’s not holding it on pressed down
well water still managed to escape but
the lid is still on if tipped for just a
second not much water comes out so let’s
say you’re carrying it in oops well you
lost a little bit but let’s try that
same test with no rubber bands all right
you’re carrying it and drop it for just
that’s a lot worse without rubber bands
a rubber band stretched around a roll of
toilet paper in theory you can pull out
the tube in the middle and then have a
handy little dispenser that works a lot
like a tissue box now on this roll and
pretty much every roll of toilet paper
I’ve ever used the toilet paper is
actually glued on to the roll itself
means that so far this is a little
yes progress sort of alright finally got
that roll out now we should be able to
just pull the inside and we have a sort
of tissue dispenser break off with need
blow your nose break off more blow your
nose this works okay here at the
beginning of the roll let’s see what
happens when we get near the end and it
still has a rubber band wrapped around
it this is a really good use of toilet
our rubber band is now collapsing our
rubber band has now collapsed our
container to the point where it doesn’t
dispense now it’s not even attached with
the rubber band around the roll of
toilet paper you can pull the toilet
paper out of the middle but unlike a
tissue box it’s not a one-handed
operation you need to use one hand to
pull and then another hand to break off
how much you want my biggest issue with
this method is that if you already need
two hands then just use two hands and it
stays nice and contained it’s on a roll
this is exactly as easy or difficult as
it was to pull it out of the middle it’s
not gonna end up squishing itself down
flat to the point where if you try and
pull and it lifts the whole roll in my
opinion using a rubber band to turn a
roll of toilet paper into a tissue
dispenser is much more difficult than
just using the roll and completely
pointless by wrapping a rubber band
around the handle of some pliers you
have some convenient little pinchers
that will hold small things while you
work on I love this this is simple and
this is clever and it works really well
in my opinion these pliers even
naturally spring open they’ve got a
little spring built into them that holds
them apart but when that’s not what we
want a rubber band easily overcomes that
spring and they just hold things nicely
together this is definitely something I
will use after cutting an apple you can
use a rubber band to hold the pieces
together so it doesn’t turn brown
between cutting and eating we’re gonna
try two different tests one with a cut
and rubber-banded apple next to a cut
and laying open Apple to see how they
compare in terms of turning brown after
about four hours there’s only a slight
difference in color between the Apple
that was sitting open on the countertop
and the one that was being held closed
with the rubber band the other test will
be a cut and rubber band at Apple and a
cut apple placed back together in both
in Ziploc bags and we’re gonna let that
one go overnight
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hmm here’s the Apple that had the rubber
band and here’s the Apple that didn’t
using a rubber bands to attach a cloth
to a wooden spoon so you can use it for
dusting well you can attach it that part
is definitely true it works but I don’t
get it
your what else works just the cloth
without the spoon or the rubber band you
can dust things with just the cloth
possibly just as well and probably
better you can see the mark where you
have the exposed cloth on the spoon and
that was dusting and that part is so
dirty that it stopped picking up the
dust really quickly and sure that means
we need to dust our blinds more but if
you’re just holding the cloth and you
can use all of the cloth for dusting I
think it’s way way more likely that the
best way to clean is to just use the
cloth just wipe the dust up with that it
works just as well if not better this to
me is just absurd the basic idea is that
if you’re going to be going in and out
of a door that tends to close and latch
by itself you can use a rubber band
stretched between the door knobs will
hold the latch down this can prevent it
from latching and easily let you go in
and out as much as you need on this
particular door the door knobs are wide
enough the rubber band is missing latch
but a quick fix for that is just to
twist the rubber band once if a single
rubber band isn’t holding the latch down
far enough just throw on a second the
rubber bands do a great job and
depending on your door you may need more
than one or two but I would say this
definitely works say your hose has
sprung a leak in his spraying water
where you don’t want it to can you use
rubber bands to stop that leak the idea
is that by wrapping several rubber bands
tightly around the hose right where it’s
leaking you can actually stop the leak
from happening quite a few rubber bands
and they’re twisted on there quite a few
it’s still leaking maybe I need more
waters flow into the hose well looks
like we may have stopped up the leak at
this point I would say that maybe this
is a useful life hack it did stop up our
little leak it wasn’t a very big leak
but there is one other issue what if
your leak doesn’t happen right at the
very end of the hose what if your leak
happens more in the middle how hard or
easy would it be to fix a leak right
there to stop up this leaf we had to use
a lot of rubber bands and they had to be
on there pretty tight we were able to
just wrap and wrap the prevents because
we’re right near the end of the hose but
that’s one I need to do 15 more of those
I think it would probably be faster to
just run to the store and buy a new hose
that would take less time then stringing
all 15 tightly-wound rubber bands over
12 feet of hose I would say if you have
a small leak near one end of the hose or
the other you might be able to do an
okay repair using rubber bands I would
say that if your leak is more than about
six inches from the end of the hose it’s
not gonna be worth the effort I think
you’d be better off using something like
some strong duct tape or maybe a bicycle
passion rubber bands are great and there
are a lot of cool life hacks you can do
with them some of them work amazingly
well and are super useful some of them
are pointless or don’t even work there
are hundreds or thousands of life hacks
out there and we want to start testing
some of them let us know what life hacks
you want to see us try some of them are
gonna be great and some are gonna be
total junk we want to figure out which
is which guys there’s still more for you
to see that box up at the top will
transport you directly to our last video
and you should go check that out the box
at the bottom will show you what youtube
thinks you should be watching now and
this bomb here in the middle will
subscribe you to our channel so you
never miss a video
don’t forget to ring that Bell and we
will see you in the next one talk to you
then [Music]
are great and rubberband life hacks are
especially great and today we’re gonna
try out 10 of them to see which one’s
work and which ones don’t here’s the
basic idea
we’ve got 10 rubber band based life
hacks that have appeared in several
different viral videos we’re gonna put
them to the test and see which ones hold
up and which ones fall flat can you use
a rubber band as a pencil eraser I’ve
written the same thing twice and for the
first one I’ll use the eraser that comes
with this pencil and for the second one
I’ll use a couple of different rubber
I gotta tell you I was a little
surprised at how well this one worked
we had slightly different results with
our two different types of rubber bands
so your mileage may vary but overall I
think the rubber bands did almost as
good of a job as the eraser that came on
the pencil I would say that rubber bands
as a pencil eraser works pretty well if
you have a stripped screw in a piece of
wood can you use a rubber band to
increase the grip between the
screwdriver and screw the idea is we can
fit the rubber band over the head of the
screw and the rubber will help give
extra grip between the screwdriver and
the screw this screw is pretty
thoroughly stripped and I can’t really
back this screw out so let’s see if we
well I wasn’t able to back the screw out
and it felt like in about one second
I had stabbed and cut my way right
through the rubber band sort of see
there’s a cross shaped hole in this
rubber band now let’s try it again with
both sides of other rubber band for
extra grip eNOS oh I think I cut through
both of them already yep
already cut through both sides of the
rubber band at once in my experience if
a screw gets completely stripped a
rubber band is not gonna solve your
problem you’re gonna need to use
specialized tools designed for removing
screws that have been stripped away
using a rubber band as a bookmark in
every video I’ve seen that shows this
life hack the rubber band is stretched
all the way around the open-book to keep
your place where you’re reading I’m
gonna try this with both a paperback and
a hardcover book this hack is that you
can easily open your book back to where
you were and just continue reading this
does technically work a rubber band it
does keep your place in the book you can
open it back up but in only a couple
minutes of having the rubber band on
there it started to leave a dent mark in
the pages where it’s compressing them
it’s also very easy for the rubber bands
to catch the edge of the paper and fold
it over on some books like this one the
pages have sort of this decorative
silver edge and I don’t know what it
would do to that over time but I can’t
imagine it would be all that great you
know what else works really well as a
book Mart can you use rubber bands to
secure a pot lid onto the pot while it’s
full of something we’re gonna test this
out with some delicious water stew pot
mostly full of water lid that stays on
but may not be super resistant to
let’s give it a good slosh pop right off
tons of water everywhere let’s test if
that’s something we can stop using
rubber bands in the videos where I’ve
seen this life hack the lid is secured
by using two lower bands each one goes
around one of the handles of the pot and
the handle of the lid that seems like it
could work often the pot lids have more
of a button style handle which would
make the rubber bands grip onto it even
better than they are here however this
already seems like it’s doing a decent
job let’s go give it our slosh test
little bits still escape out the side so
it’s not holding it on pressed down
well water still managed to escape but
the lid is still on if tipped for just a
second not much water comes out so let’s
say you’re carrying it in oops well you
lost a little bit but let’s try that
same test with no rubber bands all right
you’re carrying it and drop it for just
that’s a lot worse without rubber bands
a rubber band stretched around a roll of
toilet paper in theory you can pull out
the tube in the middle and then have a
handy little dispenser that works a lot
like a tissue box now on this roll and
pretty much every roll of toilet paper
I’ve ever used the toilet paper is
actually glued on to the roll itself
means that so far this is a little
yes progress sort of alright finally got
that roll out now we should be able to
just pull the inside and we have a sort
of tissue dispenser break off with need
blow your nose break off more blow your
nose this works okay here at the
beginning of the roll let’s see what
happens when we get near the end and it
still has a rubber band wrapped around
it this is a really good use of toilet
our rubber band is now collapsing our
rubber band has now collapsed our
container to the point where it doesn’t
dispense now it’s not even attached with
the rubber band around the roll of
toilet paper you can pull the toilet
paper out of the middle but unlike a
tissue box it’s not a one-handed
operation you need to use one hand to
pull and then another hand to break off
how much you want my biggest issue with
this method is that if you already need
two hands then just use two hands and it
stays nice and contained it’s on a roll
this is exactly as easy or difficult as
it was to pull it out of the middle it’s
not gonna end up squishing itself down
flat to the point where if you try and
pull and it lifts the whole roll in my
opinion using a rubber band to turn a
roll of toilet paper into a tissue
dispenser is much more difficult than
just using the roll and completely
pointless by wrapping a rubber band
around the handle of some pliers you
have some convenient little pinchers
that will hold small things while you
work on I love this this is simple and
this is clever and it works really well
in my opinion these pliers even
naturally spring open they’ve got a
little spring built into them that holds
them apart but when that’s not what we
want a rubber band easily overcomes that
spring and they just hold things nicely
together this is definitely something I
will use after cutting an apple you can
use a rubber band to hold the pieces
together so it doesn’t turn brown
between cutting and eating we’re gonna
try two different tests one with a cut
and rubber-banded apple next to a cut
and laying open Apple to see how they
compare in terms of turning brown after
about four hours there’s only a slight
difference in color between the Apple
that was sitting open on the countertop
and the one that was being held closed
with the rubber band the other test will
be a cut and rubber band at Apple and a
cut apple placed back together in both
in Ziploc bags and we’re gonna let that
one go overnight
[Music]
hmm here’s the Apple that had the rubber
band and here’s the Apple that didn’t
using a rubber bands to attach a cloth
to a wooden spoon so you can use it for
dusting well you can attach it that part
is definitely true it works but I don’t
get it
your what else works just the cloth
without the spoon or the rubber band you
can dust things with just the cloth
possibly just as well and probably
better you can see the mark where you
have the exposed cloth on the spoon and
that was dusting and that part is so
dirty that it stopped picking up the
dust really quickly and sure that means
we need to dust our blinds more but if
you’re just holding the cloth and you
can use all of the cloth for dusting I
think it’s way way more likely that the
best way to clean is to just use the
cloth just wipe the dust up with that it
works just as well if not better this to
me is just absurd the basic idea is that
if you’re going to be going in and out
of a door that tends to close and latch
by itself you can use a rubber band
stretched between the door knobs will
hold the latch down this can prevent it
from latching and easily let you go in
and out as much as you need on this
particular door the door knobs are wide
enough the rubber band is missing latch
but a quick fix for that is just to
twist the rubber band once if a single
rubber band isn’t holding the latch down
far enough just throw on a second the
rubber bands do a great job and
depending on your door you may need more
than one or two but I would say this
definitely works say your hose has
sprung a leak in his spraying water
where you don’t want it to can you use
rubber bands to stop that leak the idea
is that by wrapping several rubber bands
tightly around the hose right where it’s
leaking you can actually stop the leak
from happening quite a few rubber bands
and they’re twisted on there quite a few
it’s still leaking maybe I need more
waters flow into the hose well looks
like we may have stopped up the leak at
this point I would say that maybe this
is a useful life hack it did stop up our
little leak it wasn’t a very big leak
but there is one other issue what if
your leak doesn’t happen right at the
very end of the hose what if your leak
happens more in the middle how hard or
easy would it be to fix a leak right
there to stop up this leaf we had to use
a lot of rubber bands and they had to be
on there pretty tight we were able to
just wrap and wrap the prevents because
we’re right near the end of the hose but
that’s one I need to do 15 more of those
I think it would probably be faster to
just run to the store and buy a new hose
that would take less time then stringing
all 15 tightly-wound rubber bands over
12 feet of hose I would say if you have
a small leak near one end of the hose or
the other you might be able to do an
okay repair using rubber bands I would
say that if your leak is more than about
six inches from the end of the hose it’s
not gonna be worth the effort I think
you’d be better off using something like
some strong duct tape or maybe a bicycle
passion rubber bands are great and there
are a lot of cool life hacks you can do
with them some of them work amazingly
well and are super useful some of them
are pointless or don’t even work there
are hundreds or thousands of life hacks
out there and we want to start testing
some of them let us know what life hacks
you want to see us try some of them are
gonna be great and some are gonna be
total junk we want to figure out which
is which guys there’s still more for you
to see that box up at the top will
transport you directly to our last video
and you should go check that out the box
at the bottom will show you what youtube
thinks you should be watching now and
this bomb here in the middle will
subscribe you to our channel so you
never miss a video
don’t forget to ring that Bell and we
will see you in the next one talk to you
then [Music]
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