Totally Useless DIYs Everyone Should Know

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Do you ever have a moment where you find a lazy trick to something just to make your life that much easier? That lazy girl inside of me loves when I find things like that. I know I haven't posted anything in a while, but this past Christmas break I have been writing down little tricks I've discovered while visiting my family in Philadelphia. My family also helped me come up with some of these. Also, my cousin found this website that gives you 5 Morning Hacks for the Lazy Teen if you want to check them out! Anyway, here are six that I have come up with and I hope you try some! And please don't forget to vote on my poll if you haven't already (I mean there is only over 1,500 days left). Anyway, enjoy!

Have an addiction for strawberries like myself? Have fun with eating them next time by using a straw. Stick the straw through the bottom up to easily pop off and remove the stem! I find that this is the best way to remove the whole stem without a huge mess or anything.

I love listening to music on my phone. For me it get's everything done faster. Like cleaning my room, doing school assignments (like this one) and pretty much everything else. I also hate earbuds and headphones. They never stay in and my dogs love to eat them. So I usually just use the speakers from my phone. To DIY my own speakers I put my phone (speaker facing down) into an empty bowl. The bowl will project its sound and will fill the whole room with music!

I remember watching a cake boss episode where one of the sisters teaches a group of girls the proper way to eat a cupcake. She told them the right way to eat a cupcake is to put the bottom cake part on the top to create a sandwich with the icing in the middle. It's probably the most genius thing in the history of the world. I mean it makes every bite have and equal amount of icing and cake! You have to try it it will change the way you eat cupcakes forever. 

This DIY is for the breakfast chefs (I think there's such thing). Any way, use an empty plastic water bottle to separate an egg yolk from its whites by squeezing the bottle and slowly loosening your hand so the air will suck up the yolk only. I remember my grandma showing me this when I was little. You're welcome.

The "gif" above may fool you but this DIY still has to do with chocolate, only my favorite thing in the universe that I could not live without. Did you know pulling the tab on a hershey kiss wrapper immediately unwraps the foil and pops out the beautiful chocolate? Again, you are so welcome.

I bet you didn't know that pulling a banana by the shorter stem will easily peel of in two sections! Yup thats right, its proven to remove the peel easier, which is why monkeys peel bananas like that in the wild!

5 DIY Tricks For Every Amazing Dog Owner

I, Kelley Hennessy, am a complete dog lover. I now have four dogs which can be hard to take care of.  Here are five tricks that will make every dog owner's life a little easier. (Click HERE for more tips!)

(Photo Courtesy Of: Alexandra Zaslow)

Two of my dogs are husky, meaning long thick hair that gets everywhere! My mom found that using a squeegee (what you may use for car windows or maybe shower doors) is the best way to get that dog hair out of your carpet. Another thing that helps are damp rubber gloves. The gloves easily pick of the fur right into your hands! Leaving your carpet hair free. When it's my job to clean the carpets, I run a vacuum over everything first to get most of it up, but sometimes there are those tough hairs that are too tough for the vacuum, and that when I get my sister to due the rest with this easy trick.

 (Jake, he was our first dog which I am the closest with, five years old)

My two male dogs are much more hyper and always go crazy when it's time to eat. I notice that they will eat their food without even chewing it, which sometimes causes them to have hiccups or even get sick. When we told the vet about this problem he told us to add a tennis ball with their food to slow them down. The tennis ball makes it harder for dogs to gulf their food down since they have to work their way around the ball. This trick works most of the time until your dogs gets smart and tosses the ball out before eating!

(Naki, she's everyone's favorite and nicest and now acts like a mother to Teak, three years old)

One thing that comes with puppies is accidents. I remember one stain that would not come out with the pet cleaner we were using and when I did some research, I found that pouring dry baking soda straight onto the carpet and letting it sit for a few minutes made the carpet good as new! If use have a puppy, all you need is a thing of baking soda to do the trick.

(Teak, he's our newest to the family and the craziest, he's only ten months old)

My one dog has the worst breath in the world! When I would try to brush her teeth I would have to pin her down just to get the tooth brush in her mouth. Then I thought about putting dog tooth paste on treats to realize shortly after that she was just swallowing the toothpaste. Then my sister came up with the idea of putting the toothpaste on her chew toy and basically having her clean her own teeth! This idea has worked ever since but is something you have to keep up with to maintain a clean dog breath.

(Kea, she's our oldest and strongest, sixteen years old!)

I remember when after we brought our first dog home going to the pet store. I wanted to get him all of these toys but my mom would tell me they were all just too expensive. I noticed my dog would like to take water bottles of the recycling bin to play with. That's when I had the idea of making my own toys. All I did was add some treats to a plastic water bottle and cut little holes around it so he could smell them. I remember him running away with it to a corner and chewing on it for hours!

All About Me!

 Hi, my name is Kelley Hennessy. My birthday is November 9, 1999 making me fifteen years old today. I only have one younger sister named Quinn. We are exactly one year and one week apart. I was born in Pennsylvania and lived there for ten years. I had a big house, with a pool in the back and went to a catholic school with uniforms. 

 I have a huge family with my mom being one of eleven siblings, giving me over fifty cousins. Out of all of those cousins, I mainly grew up with three of them, we were like sisters and still are today. All of my mom’s family lived in the city of Philadelphia and we lived outside of it in the suburbs. I remember my mom not having to go to work when I was a baby, so my three cousins who were all my same age would always be dropped off since their parents had to go to work. We basically grew up together, most my best memories were with them.

 Then, five years ago, the summer before fifth grade was when my dad wanted to live “the mountain life” and we packed our bags for Park City, Utah. It was hard for my family to see me go since we are so close, but we made it happen and I still fly out to see them every Christmas, spring and summer break.  

 When I first moved here I went to Park City Day School, a small private school on Pinebrook Road. They had uniforms, but was much less strict and I loved it there. I skid more than I ever did, and made new friends, some I still have today. I also started going to dance at Dance Tech which happened to be right down the road from me. There I mainly did ballet and hip-hop, but also did jazz and tap for a year.

 In the summer before seventh grade, I knew I didn’t want to go to Park City Day School anymore because I I did there would have been only three other kids in my ENTIRE grade! I remember going to summer camp and having all of these friends that were going to Ecker Hill and they told me all about it. That seventh was when I started in the ParK City School District, and have been there ever since! I’ m now in Treasure mountain and cannot wait to get into the High School building next year!

 I enjoy the simple things in life. Being in a happy state of mind, and I don't think people should settle for less than they deserve. I always look toward the next best thing or special event. I enjoy seeing others happy. When someone else is down, it breaks my heart. I've been through more than most people my age, but hey, it's what has made me stronger. Life has thrown me challenges, and so far, I've come out on top. I love music, hanging with friends and family, cheer and sadly, Starbucks (I'm addicted). Favorite cheesy quote: "There is more to life than beauty on the outside, what's on the inside is where it counts." :)