Pogue's Basics : Life: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying Your Day

New York Times Bestseller Do you know the pinhole-finger trick for seeing without glasses? Did you realize that booking a hotel room with your phone is cheaper than doing it on your PC? Do you know how to get the last dregs of ketchup out of the bottle—in one second? In David Pogue's New York Times bestselling book Pogue's Basics: Tech, the author shared his essential tips and tricks for making all your gadgets seem easier, faster, and less of a hassle to use. In this new book, he widens his focus—to life itself. In these pages, you'll find more than 150 tricks, shortcuts, and cheats for everyday life: house and home, cars, clothing, travel, food, health, and more. This timeless reference book will shed light on priceless bits of advice and life hacks that already exist in the world around you—you just never knew! Tips include: Insider cheats for cheap air fare, how to read signs in other languages, the three-cent trick for staying awake behind the wheel, how to know which side of the highway your exit will be on, how to quench a spicy mouth on fire, and much much more! Did you know that you can easily open annoying plastic clamshell packaging using a can opener? That you can sharpen your scissors by cutting sandpaper? That a Chinese food box is designed to unfold flat and form a plate? Or that when you buy aluminum foil or saran wrap, you should press in the tab on the end panel of the box so that it acts as an axle for the roll and prevents it from leaping out of the box when you tug? Another extremely helpful piece of advice? Statistically speaking, on average the lowest plane fare is available 52 days before the flight. Following the success of the New York Times bestselling Pogue's Basics : Tech comes the next book in the series Pogue's Basics: Life which will be a timeless reference book of 200 simple tips and shortcuts that just make life easier, shedding light on valuable bits of advice and life hacks that already exist in the world around you, but you just never knew! The perfect book for the holidays, Pogue's Basics: Life will be accompanied by photographs and illustrations, and collects all useful tips and tricks in one place for you to easily access