Aided along with some help from an article from TwistedSifter.com and an article from Complex.com, I’ve come up with a list of some of my favorite ways to make life a little bit easier.

The life hacks of the world are expansive and somewhat infinite, but here are a couple:

1. Attach a hair tie to your key ring. When you need your keys on hand (literally), all you have to do is snatch them up. The elastic band is stretchy and comfortable, and you’ll make that grocery-carrying that much easier.

2. I’ve noticed that, when packing ground beef into freezable bags or containers, the thinner the meat, faster it thaws. Put your ground beef into a gallon bag instead of a sandwich bag and reduce the time it takes the microwave to defrost it.

3. When packing up your clothes to move, it can be a hassle to remove everything from its hanger then pack up the clothes in a box and the hangers in another. Simply open up a garbage bag over the bottom of some hanging clothes, stretch the bag over the clothes and secure the plastic ties at the top, near the hangers. Easy.

4. Sick of losing the end of masking or duct tape in itself when trying to unravel it? Just stick a paper clip onto the lose end and secure it to the body. You’ll be able to find the end easily without disrupting the overall stickiness.

5. Paper clips rip the wrapping paper, rubber bands wrinkle the wrapping paper and scotch tape just doesn’t ever work right. So what do you do to keep your wrapping paper spick and span during the holiday season? Just cut an empty cardboard toilet paper roll length-wise then use it as a cuff to hold your wrapping paper together.

6. Hang on to your bobby pins and other bathroom essentials by hanging a magnetic strip somewhere or setting one on your countertop. Tweezers, nail clippers, hairpins and scissors will all be attracted to this wonderful hack.

7. Instead of worrying about bringing – and potentially losing – your own cooling packs, fill empty bottles with water and freeze them to make disposable ice-cold coolers. If you want to avoid the condensation mess of a melting ice cooler, saturate a sponge and freeze it in a plastic bag. The sponge will lose its cool, but no annoying water dripping off the outside will come of it.