Add a Crane to Your Home's Balcony

Anyone who lives in an apartment or a house with an entrance off of the ground, pay attention. If you have a balcony, you could be a lot lazier than you've been so far by getting things from the ground floor up to your place without carrying them up the stairs. Just attach a little hook to a bit of rope, and secure that to your roof. It's easier than it looks and may save you a lot of effort.

Imagine all the things you could get all the way into your apartment without busting a sweat. Doesn't that sound tempting? If that doesn't, you may just be untemptable.

Your Sweater's Hood Was Actually Made to Hold Cute Puppies

Truth be told, that isn't what hoods were made for. But it might be their destined second purpose, given just how perfectly puppies can fit inside them. That is, at least, when you wear them backward. You should give this little trick a go if you ever need to walk through a non-dog-friendly environment with a pup. Just wear your hoodie the wrong way around, put your little doggie inside the hood, and enjoy life.

Just look at the man in this photo. Doesn't he look happy? Of course he's happy; he's ecstatic! He's holding his adorable little dog in his own hoodie. What's there to be sad about?

Having Trouble Rolling Your Office Chair in a Carpeted Room?

This person had a fiery, almost unsatiable urge to move his chair around his desk but couldn't because of the carpeted floors. "Get one of those plastic mats," his friends said. But his taste in interior decor told him a plastic mat was a big no-no. So, he threw the standard go-to solution out the window and put a small piece of hardwood floor on top of his carpet instead.

Now, he can roll from one side of his desk to another without a problem. And instead of having a random piece of plastic on his floor, he has an island of hardwood flooring.

Need a Tweezer but Don't Have One Handy? This Coin Trick Will Do

Coins make excellent clamps! And if you've ever had the displeasure of getting a splinter jammed inside your skin, you know just how handy a pair of clamps or tweezers can be. Seriously, we have no idea how a micrometer of wood slightly jammed inside your skin can be so painful, but it is, and that's just something we have to live with. Luckily, now we know this trick for those sticky moments.

Line up three coins on top of one another and slide only the top and bottom ones together. In a few seconds, you'll have your very own DIY tweezers! This is useful for removing splinters or even annoying hair.

Get Rid of Birds by Putting Fake Fruits on Your Garden Crops

This woman's friends and family laughed at her gardening hack. Until it started showing results, that is. She began painting rocks to look like strawberries because she learned that if you put them around berry plants and bushes before the fruit appears, the birds will peck the red rocks. Since these birds don't like pecking super hard surfaces, the idea is they will eventually leave the fruit alone - including the real fruit once it starts to grow.

"We had about eight crows day after day, out by my raspberry bushes, and after the rocks were placed around... no crows," this brilliant garden-lover reported.

How Grandpa Gets Away With Reading Random Novels in Church

There's a story behind this picture: the original poster had asked his grandfather why so many of his books were smothered in duct tape. To that, his grandpa replied that he taped the covers so that they looked like bibles. That way, he could read them during church. Now, that's diabolical. And it's also genius. We can only hope God forgives this man for outsmarting the church like this.

We wonder what kind of books he brought to the sermons. Were they raunchy? Were they just your regular-old books? Only the grandpa knows what went down in that church of his.

For When You Want Eyes in the Back of Your Head

If you've ever found yourself in dire need of a quick little check-up (say, for instance, you're trying to make sure you don't have any leftover food hanging around your face), then you may just enjoy this little trick right here. The original poster of this image obviously felt a bit crafty and decided to stick a spoon to his computer monitor, thereby turning his spoon into a fully-functioning mirror.

Now, this is definitely one of those tricks that you won't be using every day, but there's sure to be a time in which the whole spoon-mirror thing will help you out.