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How to... make emergency supplies

Our favourite Youtube expert Dave Hax has some top tips.

THINKING OF WAYS to streamline your life in 2015?

In this short, fun series running all week, Youtube tipster Dave Hax has some ingenious methods to give you a headstart on everyday tasks.

Today: how to come up with some emergency products.

Inflating an airbed when you’ve forgotten the pump…

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Making a candle from a can of tuna…

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Cutting rope without a scissors or knife…

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Making a BBQ grill out of an empty tin can…

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Any tricks or tips for emergency hacks? Let us know in the comments…

DaveHax’s Youtube channel is worth a goo here…

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 7:01 PM

    If you need to take your cat to the vet and you can’t find the pet carrier, simply tie your pet’s tail to one of its back legs to form a handy carrying loop…

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 7:15 PM

    @ Art, …. Will you not be giving some of them ideas!

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 6:40 PM

    The emergency BBQ is very clever.

    As long as your emergency-struck environment includes a scissors, a large tin can, kitchen foil, charcoal, lighter fluid and matches.

    And I do hope those are Superquinn sausages.

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    Jan 4th 2015, 9:17 AM

    Most of these things and more should be self educated and not waiting for mainstream media to show. How many of you could survive if the sh!t hit the fan? Basic survival and gardening should be taught in school. The system we are brainwashed into accepting is not helping you.

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 6:38 PM

    McGuyver porn..

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    Dee4
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    Jan 3rd 2015, 6:47 PM

    anything about how to make your irish water meter go backwards?

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 6:53 PM

    Yawwwwwwwwwwn

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    Mute Frank
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    Jan 3rd 2015, 6:55 PM

    Pi*ss into the wind and you won’t have to worry about wasting water on a shower.

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 7:42 PM

    In school, I was bullied. A big boy used to take my bottle of lucozade off me every lunch time. So one day, I filled it up with p*ss and he never bothered me again!

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 6:33 PM

    War a load of shite

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 6:52 PM

    Most wars are to be fair

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 6:56 PM

    What if the power goes off and you don’t have a tuna can?

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 6:38 PM

    A right modern day Macgyver we got ourselves here.

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 6:50 PM

    And if you’ve no plastic bag?

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 7:40 PM

    This is Ireland someone’s bound to have littered one nearby.

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    Jan 4th 2015, 5:48 AM

    When I was working Tirana with the Albanian Youth Choir, we came across the strangest thing, there was men carrying around sacks of candles used for science experiments. Get this, the boys have no bunsen burners at all. Albanian has shit Chemistry.

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