The modern generation, with bewilderment and even genuine horror in the eyes, looks at many things that for a person born in the USSR were considered the norm.
But in fact, how to explain to the child today that in the era of total deficit, our grandmother knew at least 10 ways to use old kapron tights, and grandfather could easily remake the milking machine in an elegant floor lamp?
So, every such cunning, or as they say today - "lifhak", was worth its weight in gold. And even more - the beloved magazine of the Soviet man "Science and Life" gave him a special rubric for which he collected the most useful advice of readers, and the best published!
You will not believe it, but the popularity of the heading "To the house master: small tricks" was so incredible that even a legend about a businessman from Japan went on to become a millionaire, only because he used advice from the magazine in his life.
In a word, we have prepared you for acquaintance with them, as best they could!
1. This is today you can watch TV programs from any mobile gadget or outweigh the home "plasma" to where you prefer, and in the era of stagnation comfortable viewing of the TV turned into a small problem that the advice from the journal "Science and Life" offered to solve here in this manner!
2. During ice, you usually sit at home or, at the risk of falling and breaking a hand or a leg, take slow steps to work? Weakies!
3. Nowadays anyone can buy a lightweight wheelchair or take an elevator, and you try to make a "stroller-cross-country vehicle"!
4. What kind of habit is it to buy new flip-flops when the old ones are out of order? Here is a lifhak, and do not thank!
5. So, if you are now just packing suitcases to rest in hot countries, then do not forget to put there a piece of plastic film and sticky tape KLT. And do not ask why, but read!
6. Well, how much you can pollute the planet with these plastic bags, when there is simply a brilliant way out!
7. And thanks to this advice, all the neighbors will "love" you too!
8. Promise that from now on you will not pour anything!
9. And this advice will not lose relevance for another 100 years!
10. As long as you open the calendar in your smartphone, the Soviet person has already made a note on the correct date!
11. But what if you suddenly fall into the eyes of a bank with a shoe polish, and you will not even know how to open it, stubbornly?
12. And in general, capron in the USSR was, directly, the strategic material!
13. And you, lazy people, use everything with a microwave oven!
14. Well, let's set a new trend?
15. And if your psyche has firmly endured all the previous points, then this will become for her "the last straw" ...
Well, do not rush out these little tricks from the old issues of the journal Science and Life. They will just be useful to you even if only to remember how fascinating and fun this time was!