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1. I've never been to a Chinese restaurant that used that particular style of take out container, and even if I did, the container left folded is better saved for a refrigerator container for the inevitable leftovers.
2. Um, the paper towel trick would only work best if you kept wet paper towels in the fridge all the time, otherwise it's just extra stuff the fridge has to cool down. Although the soda in the vid, IBC Root Beer (a local treat in my childhood) still comes in glass bottles, modern plastic bottles cool faster, saving energy. ETA: I guess they were counting on evaporative cooling. But modern fridges don't dry things out the way the ones from decades ago did, and thus wouldn't do this as effectively.
3. Who didn't know that about Tic-Tac boxes?
4. Plungers. Given the choice most people would use them correctly. Personally I haven't used a plunger anywhere but the toilet in a number of decades, and I certainly would not use my toilet plunger in the sink anymore.
5. No! Bend the tab back for the straw and it will frequently break off, producing more dreaded litter. I think you qualify as seriously old-fashioned by using a straw with a soda can anyway.
6. Look at the picture! Are you supposed to buy different spoons for every *^#%* different pot handle in the kitchen? No. the holes are for hanging the pots conveniently over the stove to keep them from taking up cabinet space in the days when the wall above the stove wasn't taken up with the microwave oven and cabinet space.
7. No, you are supposed to use a sharp knife, which will cut the little tomato instead of dangerously pushing it around.
8. Pushing in plastic wrap and aluminum foil box ends. This one is true.
9. Only if it's semipermanent and then I'd advise a double knot. Yank on the cord in the configuration in the vid and you will surely break the wires inside one or both the plugs when the knot gets tight. Otherwise use an extension cord that's long enough and put it away after every use.
10. Yes a only dab. But not rinse afterward? You are aware that tooth paste contains an abrasive, right? Maybe they are thinking fluoride toothpaste is a substitute for a fluoride treatment?
11. I've never had Greek yogurt with separate topping.
12. Who would need to do this except, at a school where they didn't supply spoons with your apple sauce cup, or on a picnic when you forgot to bring spoons?
13. Pointless. Right side up or upside down the peanut oil will still separate. You are supposed to stir your peanut butter if it has sat for a long while.
14. Yes, there is often a tiny bit of waste from peeling bananas traditionally. But seriously, who cares?... Most four-year-olds can successfully peel a banana the conventional way, do you really want a four-year-old copying you and trying to open a banana by squeezing the shoot end?
15. You are supposed to watch your pots so they don't boil over. Granted if you cook every day of your life, it does get boring.
16. No. using the drink lid as a coaster just makes the stain wider. Remember the drink lid is perforated for the straw.
17. Maybe, but I have no idea. I avoid using places that I think I'd need a toilet seat cover. Women certainly might not have that option as consistently.
18. Um, juice boxes are pretty well designed for straw use so that they don't spill much even if you drop them. Mom should not buy expensive juice boxes for use in the house, anyway.
19. Not really. The edges are folded for strength. If you spread them sooner or later you're going to find a weak ketchup cup and get the red stuff everywhere.
20. Not unless you are an idiot. Eat whole strawberries using the leaves as a handle. Cut the tops off strawberries using the leaves as a handle. Do not gouge a cylinder out of the middle of the strawberry just to get the leaves off!
21. No you are not supposed to play with elevator buttons. That makes other people in the building very unhappy.
22. No, Coke being full of syrup leaves a residue. Club soda (just water and carbon dioxide) for such uses has been recommended since before any of us were born.
23. No, beer is acidic and will tend to strip away any protective layer you've built up. It may look nice, but it will wreck the wood eventually. Usually oily substances are preferred for polishing wood to protect wood from wet stuff like beer. Gold being non-reactive cleans up nicely with mild soap, water and a retired toothbrush.
24. That may work. Here in Arizona the ink in the cartridge dries out so fast it wouldn't help.
25. Most of us don't actually have that kind of staple remover handy all the time. A table knife serves the same purpose adequately.
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It would never have occurred to me to put the toilet seat cover thingy to the back. That isn't where you'd want coverage. So to speak.
Coke in toilets is the one I heard about and it doesn't work. I tried that and nope.
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