Hacks related to retrieving an item from an unreachable location.
Hacks related to retrieving an item from an unreachable location. Such as How to retrieve items from under a refrigerator?
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What hack can I use to find a small screw that falls in the floor?
I was fixing my laptop, and as you may know, laptops have a lot of small screws to take out when you are fixing it. One of the screws fell into the floor (the floor has carpet on it), and I was unable to follow the screw with my sight. If I don't…
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How do I get lint out of a headphone jack?
Spending most of its life in my pocket, the headphone jack of my phone frequently gets clogged up with lint. Usually I can tweeze it out, but this time I forgot, and tried to plug in my headphones, compressing the lint right at the bottom of the…
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How can I clean a vase that I can't reach inside?
I have a tall vase with an unusual shape. The top opening is too narrow for me to get my hand, or even a large brush, into it. I left some flowers in there for a bit too long, and the inside of the vase is now pretty dirty. How can I get it clean?
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How do I extract a small object from a vacuum cleaner bag?
While vacuuming, I heard the typical 'kaclink kaclink' of a larger solid object being sucked up. I think it might be an earring I lost a few days ago, so I'd like to get whatever it is out of the bag. How can I do this while minimizing the amount of…
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How to retrieve items from under a refrigerator?
I dropped a AA battery this morning, which conveniently rolled right under the fridge. Using a flashlight, I was able to see that it was about 12 inches (~30cm) back.
I tried reaching for it with a ruler, but that only pushed it back further. (Now…
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How do I find all the bits of a broken necklace?
A necklace with lots of very small pearls broke, and they scattered all over the floor. I would like to find all of the individual pearls and reconstruct the necklace, but is there a quicker way to do this than crawling around on my hands and knees?…
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Phone-line tennis-shoes
A novel form of littering seems to be to hang a pair of tennis shoes (tied together by their laces) over a telephone line. Can you think of an easy way of getting them down?
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How to retrieve item from storm drain?
Today I lost my keys in a storm drain [insert embarrassment emoji here]. This is not directly in the street but attached to a building.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to open the drain either from above or to get to it from the basement of the…
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