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Traditionally, the leaf is used as a sedative, analgesic, anticonvulsant and anti-inflammatory. The herb also has antibacterial and anti-fungal properties and lowers both blood pressure and heart rate. It’s often used to help treat insomnia, and chronic stress.

Never put in ice in your glass of wine! A lot of people make the mistake of ruining their wine by adding ice cubes. Try using this clever method instead!

Check out this simple tutorial and learn how to quickly put together a homemade tablet stand. Share your life hacks!

Wrap a wet paper towel around your beverage and put it in the freezer. In several minutes it will be almost completely ice cold!

Sprinkle the salt liberally over the board, then slice a lemon in half and use it to rub the salt into the board. The salt acts as an abrasive to lift stains and the lemon juice leaves everything smelling great.

While not as dangerous as some might fear, spiders are unwanted pests in many households. Learn how to get rid of spiders in the house using this natural DIY spider spray.

When you’re getting ready to pop in your favorite DVD it’s always a bummer when the disc “skips” parts of the movie because of scratches. But instead of suffering through this annoyance, try this trick on how to get rid of DVD scratches.

Nasty scratch on your furniture? Well you can treat it by using... a walnut! Yes, that's right, a walnut. This video will show you how to use this clever little snack to do more than just bust cholesterol!

If you have a bag of un-shelled nuts from the holidays and no nutcracker, you can use a bit of force and your hands to crack two nuts at a time!

Heat a head of garlic in a microwave for about 30 seconds and the cloves will slide right out of their skins with no mess and no sticky garlic juices.

Socks never seem to fit in the drawer, especially when they are stuffed in the corners on top of everything else. They are always going missing as well! Why is it that every time you look for a pair of socks, there is only one of them? This neat trick will help solve these problems! There is no need to look for the other pair of a sock in the laundry basket, the alternative <a href="https://rumble.com/v31faj-how-to-fold-a-complete-outfit-in-a-pair-of-socks.html" target="_blank">sock</a> folding method will make your life a lot easier. Place one sock over the other diagonally and start to fold! Watching the video shows us that there is a really nice way to put our socks away! The end result is a nicely folded square, who knew you could even fold your socks like this? It might take a couple times to become the sock folding expert, but this video will help you out! The amount of space that empties up in your drawer will surprise you! These socks are not going missing anytime soon! This multi-step method is definitely more time-consuming that the old roll-em-in-a-ball-together trick, but the origami-style routine is pretty mesmerizing to watch. Doing <a href="https://rumble.com/v30are-take-the-wrinkle-out-of-laundry-day-with-this-simple-mom-hack.html" target="_blank">laundry</a> already takes enough time, so we're definitely not advocating for any extra steps, but if you're a neat freak and looking to gain some drawer space (who isn't?), then this square folding technique is going to tickle your fancy.

Credit and debit cards with embedded RFID chips offer quick "swipe to pay" convenience, but they're also vulnerable to identity theft. One solution is to place aluminium foil inside your wallet to protect yourself from RFID hijacks.

Depending on your personality, peeling a label off could be the best or worst possible way to spend a half hour. If it's your worst nightmare, here is a great tip for you that will have your vessel sticker-free in just a few short minutes!

If you're in dire need of some way to cool down your laptop and don't want to spend the cash on a cooling pad, 'Useful' has a simple solution in the form of some overturned egg cartons. Check it out!

Just stick a little duct tape to the stuck-on lid, leave yourself enough extra tape to act as a pull-handle, and pull on the tape to twist the lid off. So simple!

Tired of burning your fingers while lighting a candle? We recommend using a piece of uncooked spaghetti to light hard to reach or multiple candles. This works great if you don't have any extra-long matches but have a candle that needs to be lit at the bottom of a tall glass.

Nobody likes cleaning out that gross, crusty, burnt-on food stuff in the microwave. To make that process a bit easier, try using a lemon!

Folding napkins to create a pocket for silverware is a simple way to dress up your dinner table. This video shows an easy napkin folding technique.

We share our simple yet very effective way to keep the soles of your shoes white and clean. Try it for yourself and let us know what you think!

If you are currently a cook, you probably know that cutting tomatoes in half can be long and tedious, not to mention dangerous with each slice of the knife. Prepare yourself for a neat kitchen trick that will save you tons of time and also help you be safer!

If you have run out of clips to close all those half-eaten bags of chips leftover from the weekend barbecue, check out this useful chip-clip-no-more bag fold!

Learn this easy trick to prevent bananas from turning brown!

Don't you hate it when you're cutting up strawberries and you end up wasting so much of the berry by trying to remove the stem? Well, with this useful and easy method you can save more of the berries, and it's fun!

You can spritz it anywhere that needs a bit of freshening – bathroom, kitchen, laundry room, closets, anywhere! And it's so easy to make.

The trick is hold the bag in a way to create an air pocket in the middle and puncture it, tearing a small piece. Hold that piece and rotate the bag counter-clockwise, so the piece keeps tearing off in a bigger circle, till the whole bag is a bowl!