Some Crazy Useful Things That You Didn't Know How To Use Properly

Y ou're using everything incorrectly… Not anymore…!!

Many of the items you use every day are incredibly well designed and you might be missing out on some awesome features. You probably don’t think much about the items you use every day.

After all, you’re using them every day—they get pretty boring after a while, and they become part of your routine. There are tiny details in the design of each and everything, that may seem purely aesthetic but that actually serves altogether a very useful purpose.\

However, many common objects have hidden features that make them much safer, more useful, and more interesting. Here are a few of our favorite examples.

Have You Noticed the Extra Fabric That Comes with Some of Your New Clothes?

You know sometimes when you buy a nice new shirt or pants or even underwear, that it often comes with a tiny Ziploc baggy containing a button and about 1 square inch of matching fabric?

A button in case one falls off when you aren’t paying attention, and the fabric in case you need to patch up a small hole in your clothes. But, its primary purpose is to help you determine how different washing agents will react with your new cloth before using it on the entire cloth.

What’s the Deal With the Hole in Your Pot’s Handle?

Most pots and pans these days come with handles that have a slim, oval-shaped hole at the end of them. It seems pretty straightforward that these holes are there so you can hang your pots and pans when you store them.

The true purpose of the hole on pan-handles is to hold the handle of most stirring spoons. This way the spoon end hangs directly over the pot and minimizes the mess from cooking.

Have You Noticed the Small Arrow Beside Your Car’s Gas Gauge?

Have you ever had one of those embarrassing moments at a gas pump where you realized you parked your car on the opposite side of where your gas tank is ?

In fact, the first question should actually be if you’ve ever taken note of it. Well, it simply tells you what side of the car the gas cap is located. This is especially important when driving a car you are not accustomed to.

Do You Know What the Hole Beside the Key Hole In a Padlock is For?

Do you think it’s just a design that happens to be in most padlocks?

Well, it actually has two uses. First, it allows water that gets into the padlock run off and secondly, it also offers an opening for easy oiling of the padlock’s mechanism for smooth operation.

Have You Noticed Erasers That Have Two Halves Colored Blue and Pink?

A lot of people know the answer to this. If you are one of those who think the blue side is for erasing pen writings while the pink side is for erasing pencil writings , sorry you are wrong!

The pink side is for erasing on regular paper while the coarser blue side is for erasing pencil writings on harder paper because the pink side will usually not erase it properly.

Can You Think of Any Other Use for the Tab On the Top of Your Soda can?

Every can of soda comes with a tab for easy opening of the tasty beverage. Yeah you got it. It’s for opening the can. However, you will also notice that it allows you swivel it around. This is so it can act as your straw holder.

Simply spin the tab around over the opening and slip your straw through. Boom!

The Fifth Pocket On Your Jeans

You may have noticed that a lot of denim jeans come with a tiny extra pocket on the side known as the fifth pocket. Jeans were the pants of choice for gold miners in California in the mid-1800s, and one of the most important items they kept on them was their pocket watch, which was generally delicate and spendy.

The fifth pocket was designed to protect their expensive pocket watches by keeping it snugly and safely tucked into place.

The Loops In The Frame Of A Grocery Cart

The grocery cart should certainly be the most self-explanatory. Sometimes the purpose of everyday items get lost amongst its main function, which in this instance is to carry your groceries around while you shop.

There is a purpose behind those metal loops that frame the top fold-out section of our grocery carts i.e. to hang your bags with light items like bread and eggs from so they don’t get smashed among your heavier goods.

Do your grocers a favor and show them how it’s done next time to make their lives easier.

Necks On Beer and Soda Bottles

Nearly everyone on the planet knows the familiar shape of a beer bottle. It’s no great mystery why the bottle was invented, but have you ever stopped to wonder about the design of the beer bottle. Specifically, why is the “neck” so long and shaped the way it is?

Well, as it turns out the bottleneck shape is intentionally designed to encourage a person to hold their beer at the top of the bottle, where their body heat won’t warm up the rest of their beer before they can finish it!

The Hole At The Top Of A Lollipop Stick

Do you remember your love of suckers as a kid , and the excitement that came when you finally finished your candy and you tried to turn the plastic stick with the hole into a whistle?

The reason the plastic lollipop stick has a small hole at the top is so that when the manufacturer pours the hot, melted candy into the mould, some of it seeps into the hole and hardens to keep the candy on the stick instead of falling off.

Plastic Lids For Disposable Cups

It may seem obvious what the plastic lid on disposable cups is for at first; to keep your drink inside the cup, but that is not it’s sole purpose.

It keeps liquid inside the container, but when you’re ready to sip on your drink, the lid has specific ridges that can allow it to double as a coaster and hug the base of your cup. Lids are manufactured with this function in mind, and each size fits the corresponding cup’s base.

Small Bumps On ‘F’ And ‘J’ Keys

When you’re hammering out the sentences on your keyboard, you probably no longer even notice the raised bumps when you hit the ‘F’ and ‘J’ keys.

If you took a typing class in school you might know that the “F” and the “J” are the home keys, where your index fingers rest, for the most efficient typing. Those little bumps are to help your fingers find the home position without looking at the keyboard.

Why is one side of a bobby pin bent into a zigzag?

Though, That's an easy one! Girls with bobby pins put a wavy side of the pin upwards, thinking it has a design. But, it's wrong.

The wavy side helps the hairpin hold the hair better. So, the grooved side is the bottom of the pin and should face toward the scalp.

Have you been eating Tic Tacs wrong this whole time?

Have you ever noticed the little indentation on the lid of a package of Tic Tacs before and figured it was there to tightly seal the container, right?

Well, it also serves as a dispenser that gives you one Tic Tac at a time.

Why do wine and champagne bottles have those indentations in the bottom?

It's not that the sommelier can get a better grip while they're pouring, which is probably what you've always heard.

It's actually there to compensate for the pressure that the contents of the bottle go through during the corking process. The sides and bottoms of bottles are weak spots, and the indentation helps evenly distribute the pressure inside the bottle. That's why it's so much deeper on champagne bottles, which are under much more pressure.

Unless you’re irrationally inquisitive, there are number of features on things that you use every day that you probably never even noticed. However, these things aren’t always just for show and have an intended purpose. Lots of little things in life actually have some pretty useful tricks behind them that can significantly help us live much easier lives.