Things You Do Wrong Daily

Showering setbacks.

Okay, so you might have hit that snooze button

like 4 or 5 or 20 times, but you're finally up, good job

although, nothing gets you ready to face the day

quite like getting squeaky clean in a nice hot shower

but hold the soap there for a second, bud

because spending too much time under the hot water

actually isn't all that good for you.

Showering frequently can wash off

some of the skins good bacteria and oils

which upsets the bodies natural balance

causing dry and cracked skin.

Not only that, but according to the Journal

of Allergy and Clinical Immunology,

showering too frequently can also lead

to serious skin problems such as eczema.

So, to avoid this incredibly itchy future,

all you have to do

is reduce the number of days you take a shower on.

But, if you really can't get by without bathing daily,

just keep to scrubbing the essentials.

Antiperspirant problems, once you're nice and clean

you reach for the antiperspirant

but wait, should you really be applying that deodorant now?

Because if you take a look at the label

of most antiperspirant deodorants

they'll tell you to put it on

right before you go to bed.

How can that be, right?

Well, as it turns out,

because you're less active at night, you sweat less

so, your skin absorbs more of the active aluminum

based ingredient of antiperspirant,

which sinks in and blocks those sweat ducts over night,

plus the active ingredient

will generally last for about 24 hours

so its effect won't wear off over night.

Looks like you don't have to sweat

about this problem every again.

Banana Bonanza, after all those hygiene high jinks,

it's time for some breakfast,

bananas are a perfectly healthy start to any morning

then again, if the stem is soft or the top is a bit mushy,

it can make your morning messy

but what if I told you that tearing the stem

is not the way to go?

According to monkeys,

also known as natures banana eating aficionados,

it's easier to peel this delicious yellow fruit open

from the blossom end.

Simply pinch the brown stub until the peel splits

and just keep peeling away

not only is it easier, but peeling it this way,

can also help remove all those weird banana strings

that sometimes stick to the fruit after you peel it.

Now, you can literally enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Toothpaste trouble.

Now regardless of whether you brush your teeth

before or after you've eaten breakfast,

there's still a good chance you're doing it wrong.

Over the years, commercials have made it look like

you should be squeezing out long layers of toothpaste

onto your toothbrush to keep the cavities at bay,

but this just isn't true

commercials use these these long ribbons of paste

to make their product look a little more appealing

and make you use more toothpaste

but the reality is, that a single pea sized blob

is enough to keep your teeth

looking and feeling squeaky clean.

Well, I'm not sure about you, but at this point,

I don't even know if I'm breathing correctly.

The only thing I know that everyone can do correctly

is hit those like and subscribe buttons down below.

Now, let's find out what else you're doing wrong

every single day.

Folding fumble.

All fed and fresh, it's time to get some chores done.

First up, putting away the laundry. Ugh.

Even though it's a simple task,

it feels like it takes forever.

Scrunching things up and cramming them into drawers

leaves creases in all the wrong places.

But trying to make your closet look like

a super neat department store showcase

is way too much hassle. Or is it?

As it turns out, it takes a grand total of just 3 seconds

to fold a shirt like this.

Did that look like some sort of witchcraft to you?

Then let's go through it slowly

First, you lay the shirt out flat

and pinch it halfway down, just off the seam

with your right hand and off the collar with your left

then, still pinching the shirt,

you fold your left hand over your right

so that the collar section now meets the bottom

of your shirt.

Pinch that section into your left hand as well,

and then raising the shirt up,

pull your right hand through.

From here, you briefly shake it out, lay it down,

flip it over and voila, a fast and fancy shirt fold

it may take you a little time to get the hang of it

but once you do, putting away your laundry

will become a lightening fast task.

Refrigeration frustration.

Next on the list of chores,

is to help put away the groceries

which contains a fresh carton of eggs.

But, if you're thinking about storing them away

in the egg compartment of your fridge door,

then I've got some bad news for you.

Eggs should be kept at a constant temperature

below 68 degrees to maintain their freshness

but the refrigerator door is actually

the warmest part of the fridge.

Being opened and closed throughout the day

exposes the eggs to more frequent temperature fluctuations

compromising the eggs overall quality

and annoyingly, despite being the perfect space for it,

milk shouldn't be stored in the door either.

Like eggs, temperature fluctuations

can cause the milk to go off quicker.

- It's so damn hot.

Milk was a bad choice

- [Narrator] So, where should you keep all your milk

and eggs if not in this one refrigerated basket?

Experts suggest storing quick to spoil foods like these,

towards the back of the main body of the refrigerator

as it's a cooler area that's more resistant

to temperature fluctuations.

What an egg-cellent solution!

Condiment chaos.

Now, just because you've got room in the fridge door

doesn't mean you should be shoving every condiment

under the sun in there.

Sure, some naturally preserved condiments

like jams and sauces will work well in that space

as they don't need to be kept at a constant temperature,

but what about ketchup?

Some people have an age old habit

of putting it in the fridge.

But, doing so, is totally pointless.

Commercially made ketchup typically involves

tomato, sugar, and vinegar.

Which gives the sauce a specific acidity.

It's this that keeps the condiment preserved and safe to eat

in room temperature conditions

even if it's not been refrigerated.

Meaning you can free up that precious fridge space

for something that really needs it.

Unless you're one of those people

that enjoys their ketchup chilled.

Personally, cold ketchup on hot food

makes my mouth feel all kinds of wrong.

While this'll probably spark a third world war,

let me know how you store your ketchup

down in the comments.

Crass crossing out.

That's another chore crossed off the list of things to do.

While striking a line through it is satisfying,

it doesn't exactly conceal what the original words

you had written down were.

What if it had been something secret, personal,

or even embarrassing?

Like, pay that parking fine, buy new underwear,

or watch the new Logan Paul video.

Sure, you could furiously scribble over the words,

or reach for the white out,

but there's a much simpler solution

that'll keep your secret safe from prying eyes.

Instead of striking a straight line,

write a series of random letters

over the words you want to erase.

The jumble of letters make the original word

much harder to make out, let alone read.

So, no one else has to know about your mistakes

or your deep dark secrets ever again.

Sticky note snags.

Wait! You've just remembered something else

you need to get done today

and grab a sticky note to quickly write it down

but when you peel it off and stick it up,

the note just curls up and falls off.

Most of us just accept this as a limitation

of using post it notes.

But, it's actually because you've been using them wrong

this while time.

When you peel the notes up from the bottom,

the sticky line bends the paper

in the direction it was pulled,

leaving you with a bent memo.

But, if you peel a post it from the side,

or pull it straight down, the notes stay flat.

Finally, you can say goodbye to missing memos

and notes lost behind the back of your desk.

Bobby pin problems.

Now, if you have long, lustrous hair,

you've probably used a bobby pin or two

to keep stray wisps out of your eyes

while getting all these tasks done.

But, a lot of you will find that these little

hair grips slip out almost as quickly as you put them in.

What's the deal with that?

Well, as simple as they look to use,

you're putting them in wrong.

Even though it seems like the wavy side should face up,

it's actually designed to act as a grip

on the under side of your hair.

So, when you slide it in, this should face down

with the flat portion facing up.

This saves the amount of time you spend

fiddling with your hair

and the amount of bobby pins you use.

Which will prevent you from looking like this.

I mean, she may have won the war on wisps,

but at what cost?

Getting physical.

With all that life advent done,

now's as good a time as any to get some exercise.

This could be a quick run or a trip to the gym,

but whatever you prefer,

you should do some stretching first.

After all, most of us have been told since our school days

that stretching before exercise

helps prevent muscle injuries

and can even be beneficial to our performance.

But, that's not strictly true.

While stretching sure feels good,

and helps promote flexibility,

there's no concrete scientific backing

that it helps to reduce injury when done before exercise.

Large scale studies have shown

that in high intensity training, like army exercises,

stretching before hand made no significant difference

on injury rates or muscle soreness.

What's even more amazing is that some studies

into sprinting and jumping,

found that people's performance

was actually reduced on average

when they stretched before hand.

But, a few studies alone aren't enough

to cement these findings into facts.

So, whether you want to stretch before exercising or not,

is really up to you.

Though, it might not be as important

as your old high school gym teacher made it out to be.

Microwave madness.

Looks like you've worked up an appetite

from all that exercise.

So, it's time to heat up some leftovers for lunch.

After zapping your meal in the microwave

for a couple of minutes, you take it out

only to find that the food on the edge is scorching hot

but the middle is still horribly cold.

This is because the radiation produced by microwaves

doesn't travel very far

and depending on how dense your meal is,

those waves will only penetrate

a limited amount of the food.

Most people solve this problem

by stopping and stirring their food several times.

But, come on, who really has time for that?

Netflix won't watch itself!

What you should be doing to reheat your leftovers

evenly and quickly is leaving a hole

in the middle of your food, so that it forms a ring.

This way, everything is on the edges and gets cooked quickly

without leaving an icy center.

And if it's in a bowl, just dig a little hole in the middle

to achieve an evenly heated meal every time.

Leftovers never looked so good.

Seasonal ceiling fans.

It's feeling a little bit chilly out,

so you turn to your trusty household heater

to warm up the place.

But, have you ever considered using your old ceiling fan

to help heat up your house?

It does sound a bit backwards, after all,

you only really use the draft from these fans

to help cool you down in the summer.

And yet, they have a little known winter function as well.

Typically, ceiling fans run counter clockwise in the summer.

So that the angle of the blades

pushes air down towards you.

This creates a windchill effect on your skin,

making you feel cooler.

But, in the winter, reversing the fans direction

and dropping its speed, actually draws up cool air

and pushes down warm air that's risen

to the top of the room.

This small change can help you save

as much as 15 percent on your heating bills,

leaving you with a warm, fuzzy feeling inside and out.

Hats off to you.

Now you have to run a few errands.

But, since it's cold outside,

you should probably wear a hat.

After all, your mother and your teachers

always told you that you lose most of your body heat

through your head.

But, if you're trying to keep your whole body warm

solely by loading up on cozy hats, you're making a mistake.

Sorry, mom.

But, according to the British Medical Journal,

a person only loses 7 to 10 percent of their body heat

through their heads.

The entire myth likely stems

from an old 1970's military study

which claimed as much as 45 percent of your body heat

escapes from the top of your uncovered melon.

Unfortunately, they weren't practicing very good

science back then, as the subjects they were testing

were wearing full arctic suits

and only had their heads exposed to the cold.

Since then, science has come to it's senses

and claimed that exposing any part of your body to the cold

will reduce your core body temperature proportionally.

So, you should focus on a full body warming solution

and not just use your head.

Pizza saver purposes.

All up, it's been a pretty good day.

So you've invited a few friends over and ordered a pizza.

But, when you open up that box of cheesy,

doughy goodness, you find one of those strange

little white plastic gizmos

perched in the middle of your pie.

It may look like a tiny table, but this gadget,

called a pizza saver, stops the top of the box

from being squashed into the food.

It's an ingenious invention.

But, because it's not edible,

a lot of people just toss it into the trash

before pawing at the pizza.

But, you don't want to do that

as it has another use that'll stop your friends

from putting their hands all over your slices.

I mean, your friends are probably great,

but, who knows where their grubby mitts have been?

Fortunately, by pressing the prongs

of the pizza saver down into a single slice,

it remains in place while the adjoining slices

can be torn off.

Leaving them totally untainted.

It's the perfect pizza saving solution for everyone.

Assuming you have friends.

Unwieldy wine glasses.

You're feeling fancy,

so it's time to crack open a bottle of wine

to serve with that greasy pizza.

What a classic pairing.

After you've poured it into your wine glasses,

you might be tempted to hold this booze filled baby

by the bulb.

As sophisticated as it feels,

you actually shouldn't hold it like this

when you wanna take a sip.

Instead, your fingers should remain firmly on the stem.

This is because around 80 to 90 percent

of what we perceive as taste, is actually our smell.

Don't believe me?

Just think back to the last time you had a bad cold

or a blocked nose

and remember how dull and bland your food tasted.

So, to best experience the taste of fancy

and expensive wine, glasses were developed with a long stem,

so that your hand remained far away from your nose.

This prevents the smell of your fingers

from interfering with the flavors of the wine.

Though in this case,

seeing as you're casually chugging down that wine

with the greasy pizza,

I don't reckon it'll make much of a difference.

Toilet training.

Unfortunately, all that wine has made you desperate

to visit the porcelain throne.

Now, make no mistake, being able to stand up, unzip,

and quickly relieve yourself

is just one of the many privileges of being a man.

But, it's not always the best way to go about your business.

In fact, sitting down actually allows men

to empty more of their bladder

than if they were standing up right.

This is because you're able to use your abdominal muscles

to really push every last drop out,

resulting in fewer bathroom breaks.

Not only that, but it'll really help

with the eternal problem of the male aim,

much to the delight of the women in your life,

I'm sure.

Though you shouldn't adjust your position

just for number one's but for number two's as well.

Sitting up right on the john

is a practice that's been around since the time

of ancient Egypt.

Over 5,000 years ago.

But, and it's a big but,

the problem with sitting like this,

is that it keeps a kink in your lower bowel,

caused by the continents preserving muscle

of the puborectalis.

This forces you to strain harder

when pushing out poop from your colon,

risking the development of painful conditions

like hemorrhoids and colon disease.

So, how exactly are you meant to relieve yourself

without doing yourself a disservice?

The answer can be found in a simple squat.

Raising your knees up to your chest,

roughly 35 degrees from your body,

relaxes that puborectalis muscle,

and straightens out your colon,

giving you a straight route to poop.

While this position makes things a lot easier on your rear,

some people actually clamber up onto the toilet seat

to take a real deep squat into the bowl.

At least they do if these hilariously

disturbing toilet warning signs from around the world

are anything to go by.

Phone charging challenge.

Returning from the toilet,

you hear the all too familiar sound

of your phones low battery warning.

Ugh! You just charged it up a few hours ago!

Well, it's well known that smart phone batteries

don't have the best charge life,

it's also partially our fault

because of the way we charge them.

According to the geniuses from the battery company CADEX,

lithium ion batteries, like those in your phone,

are subject to stress, and just like a human,

extended stress can damage the batteries lifespan.

When your phone is closer to empty,

it draws a constant current and operates

at a lower voltage.

Lower voltages are really good in a batteries lifespan,

as they keep it in a state of low stress.

Which ultimately increases the number of times

the battery can be charged.

But, leaving your phone on charge

when it's already got a full battery,

will do the opposite, once a battery hits 100 percent,

it trickle charges to keep its power at 100 percent

while plugged in.

This high voltage charge keeps the battery

in a high stress state.

Which gradually wears down its chemistry

and can lead to system wide malfunctions and reboots.

This means charging it over night,

or leaving it to charge idly, is a really bad idea.

So, how much should you really charge?

You should try to use short, irregular top ups

when your battery is between 30% and 80%.

While you can't stop your battery from wearing out,

armed with what you know now,

you should be able to postpone its inevitable fate

just a little bit longer.

Sleeping setback.

After all that, it's time to say goodbye to your buddies

and hit the hay.

While there's no better feeling on earth

than diving under a plush duvet,

the position you sleep in,

might leave you feeling drained and pained.

Comfortable as it may be, sleeping on your stomach

is actually really bad for you back.

Lying face down like this,

puts a disproportionate amount of pressure onto your spine.

And, unless you've found a way to breathe

through your pillow, turning your head

twists your spine and head out of alignment

which can be a pain in the neck, literally.

But, if you really can't help but sleep on your front,

you should pop a pillow under your hips

and restore the natural curve of your back

to relive all that pressure.

Plus, it's a great excuse to fill up your bed

with more super comfy pillows.

But, it's not just stomach sleepers

that need to be weary.

I'm looking at you side on sleepers.

You may not think it matters which side you sleep on,

but your organs say otherwise.

You see, the stomachs natural position

is on the left side of your body.

So, if you sleep on the right side,

your dinner gets digested against gravity,

hindering its breakdown and even causing

the old midnight heartburn.

With this in mind, you should roll over

and lie on your left side

to get a more restful nights sleep.

What's my preferred position, I hear you ask?

Well, just ask your mom.

We all scream for ice cream.

It may be late, but it's never too late

for a cheeky midnight snack,

and you've just remembered you have a carton of ice cream

sat in your freezer. Jackpot!

When you got it from the store yesterday,

it was soft and delicious.

But, now less than 24 hours later,

its come out of the freezer rock solid.

Unfortunately, this is because once the ice creams

air tight seal is opened, water vapor

in the surrounding air begins to freeze

and form hard ice crystals in the mix,

and the more air it's exposed to in the freezer,

the harder it is to scoop.

While this leaves most people

trying to chisel chunks out of it

like a sugar obsessed cave man,

there's actually a way to stop this from happening.

Simply flatten a layer of wax paper,

or plastic wrap, against the ice cream surface

before replacing the lid.

Or put the entire carton in an air tight plastic bag.

This will help keep the air out,

meaning your ice cream stays soft and ready to scoop

whenever your sweet tooth strikes.

Well, turns out, I've been doing just about everything wrong

since forever.

Story of my life.

But, which of these every day things

have you just learned that you've been doing wrong

all this time?