10 life hacks from the USSR that work flawlessly in the 21st century
In our time, the Soviet Union is treated from two positions: some remember that time with nostalgia, even if they did not live, while others treat it with great negativity. Both camps can and should be understood, since each person had his own experience in the past and only he knows what was good and what was bad.
Despite this, ask any of the older generation how they lived in conditions of a large deficit, they will immediately answer you:
"Russian ingenuity will help out of any difficulty"
And indeed. I can’t believe it, but even in 2022, many notions from the USSR are often used in everyday life. Young people will naturally ask: “How did you guess this? It's brilliant! However, there is nothing ingenious in tricks, although perhaps there is, then the saying:
"Everything ingenious is simple"
working.
Newspaper hacks
Newspaper for windows
Take, for example, a newspaper. Do you think it's read-only? Of course not. It can be used as a cup for seeds, a hat, toilet paper. # did you know that newspaper is great for cleaning windows? If you don’t have a special window cleaning cloth, use a regular one, and then wipe the remaining droplets of water with a newspaper and there will be no streaks!
I once learned this method in the army. There you can’t get enough special rags with microlint, so hems and a newspaper are used. By the way, instead of a newspaper, toilet paper is also great.
Newspaper for drying shoes
If there is no dryer for shoes, then it does not matter. Stuff wet shoes with newspaper.
It is better to start with a sock and tightly pack portion after portion. After 15 minutes, though you will have to replace the “dryer” with a new one if there is too much moisture. The used newspaper can be immediately dried on the batteries and put into battle again. Such a “dryer” cannot be called reusable, since after 2-3 times the newspaper will begin to crumble.
If the shoes are not very wet, then it is enough to stuff them once with a newspaper and leave them overnight.
Life hacks with stockings
Hair - thread
Any self-respecting girl knows this # life hack with ruined stockings. If an arrow went through the fabric or hooked, then so that everything does not spread, you can use a colorless varnish and close up unnoticed.
But in Soviet times, the varnish was a little expensive or no one guessed to use it for other than its intended purpose. Instead, the women sewed up the holes. However, here we encountered such a problem: the usual thread is too thick for nylon stockings. It will look rough and ugly. And you know what #women used ? Your hair as a thread! They are much thinner, and with them no sewn hole will be visible. I just hoped my hair was strong.
Stockings for your bow
You might think that it is. Any # onion stockings will perfectly complement. But I did not mean the onion that you are wearing, but the one that you eat.
There is always one problem with storing onions - they quickly begin to rot if the conditions are not very good. What to do? Stuff old stockings with onions and hang them in the kitchen or in the underground. Perhaps this is the ideal way to store onions on Earth. This creates an optimal environment and temperature, there will be ventilation and vegetables will be stored much longer. Stockings will get a second life, and every time you take out an onion from them, you will remember how you ran to dances in these stockings.
Beauty hacks
Lipstick Match
I would never have thought that the situation from the Russian folk tale "The Fox and the Crane" could be repeated in reality. In the USSR, good lipstick was not easy to find, and therefore every milligram was valued. When the lipstick came to an end, it could not be smeared directly from the tube. Well, not a question. There are also matches. They dug as much as needed to the surface from the bottom and applied it to the lips.
Soap in liquid soap
"Economy First"
This postulate works at all times, regardless of the country or year.
In the Soviet Union, almost any item that failed could be useful in everyday life. This also applies to ordinary soap. When it decreases after use, it is inconvenient for them to wash.
A strange situation arises: neither here nor there. It seems that they can wash, but it’s not very convenient, but it’s a pity to throw it away. Well, if you are a tailor, give it to him, he will use it as a tailor's chalk. If this is not possible, then it can be turned into liquid soap, then # the soap will become completely waste-free.
Life hacks in everyday life
Wine stopper against burns
Let's be honest. Plastic and plastic have greatly facilitated the life of all mankind. Even though the greens are fighting against this product of the chemical industry, plastics and plastics of all kinds and forms rule. They are the present and the future.
But in the USSR it was a little tight without plastic. Almost all dishes were either porcelain or metal. How many fingers have burned the little handles of the pan lids! Just don't count.
Luckily, a wine cork came to the rescue. By inserting it into the bow of the handle, it was possible to remove the lid of the hot pot without burning yourself, and the oven mitt was not needed.
Reusable bags
How can I lose sight of the primordially Soviet tradition, one might say a ritual, like washing plastic bags?
Washed packages, photo from the Internet
No matter how ridiculous it may look today, but in the 21st century there is a lot of ecological sense from washing bags. How many times a week do you throw away those plastic bags in which you put vegetables, fruits, sweets, bread in Magnit or Pyaterochka? We bring groceries home, tear the bags and throw them in the trash. Pollution is inevitable.
So, the washing of bags and bags will have to be looked at in a new way. This is both economy and # ecology
Life hacks with cooking
Whitening through boiling
I wonder if you say the old phrase from the Tide advertisement "Are you still boiling? Then we are going to you” , will they understand her today?
In the Soviet Union, boiling was used in many areas, not only in cooking. For example, in laundry, this method was excellent for removing stubborn stains and disinfecting laundry.
The process was not tricky. They took a bucket or a large pot, water, clothes and on the fire, boil. It took a decent amount of time, but the stench stood oooo ... The “dish” being prepared was called boiling, it had to be taken out with long wooden tongs. Eh! This is not for you to eat sushi. They also stirred the “dish” with tongs so that it would not burn.
Results
These were the lifehacks in # ussr, which can still be used today if you are an economical person by nature. Of course, this is not the whole list of numerous tricks from the country that is no more, you can replenish it for a long time.
Share in the comments what other # life hacks were in the USSR? Very interesting and will collect them for the next article.
In the meantime, I would like to recommend an article with life hacks about the queue. You knowhow to cheat so as to stand in lines less? Not? Then here is a simple instruction for you in the article .
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