The Best Home Repair Hacks from Your Local Repairman

Old News!

If you have a problem with leaky garbage bags, old news might be the best news for you! Throw in some old newspapers when you put a new trash bag in. It will absorb any leaky liquids that would have otherwise been spilling out of the bottom. Easy!

Wiped Bags

If you have an old container for plastic wipes, you also have a container for grocery bags! Just roll them up and stick them inside the empty container. Feel free to decorate it to make it better for your own styles.

The More You Know

The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
The loudest animal on earth is the sperm whale.
Bubble wrap is a powerful insulator. While on the road, keep your Chunky Monkey from melting by wrapping the pint in plastic bubble wrap. It’ll stay firm for hours.
In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.