Geek to live, weve always said at Lifehacker.
Dont live to geek.
That means you shouldnt let your life hacking get in the way of your actual life.
Andthe DiWHY subredditshows you why.
These hacks should not exist.
Theyre more ugly, wasteful, useless, or time-consuming than whatever normal product or method they replace.
And theyre fun as hell to look at.
Some bad hacks solve a problem no one has.
One top submission,a DIY soda fountainshown above, looks kind of cool at first.
But its just a Rube Goldberg machine for sucking soda out of one-liter bottles.
Building it involves soldering, drilling, slicing, and sourcing specific materials like plastic tubing.
Why not pour the soda out of the damn bottle?
Other hacks technically work, but theyre so ugly that no one would bother.
Why would you everturn a pair of underwear into a crop top?
Why would you build agross-looking salt shakerout of the top of a soda bottle?
Salt shakers are, like, a dollar.
As Twitter userRose Princessonce said about a terrible DIY project, White people want to be poor so bad.
Other hacks are just the dumbest kind of lateral thinking.
Make your own ice cream bowl byslicing a tub of Ben & Jerrys down the middle.
Or, as someone pointed out on Tumblr, YOU COULD JUST TAKE OFF THE FUCKING LID.
And some hacks defy all comprehension and can only be appreciated as avant garde art.
Watch this video of anelaborate cigarette dispenserbuilt, for no reason, out of a bottle of Coke.
(The video comes from LHack TV, home ofmany more baffling Coke hacks.)
Or look at thistray made of concrete supported by a wine glass.
Dont look too hard or itll break.
After all, theres a whole art form calledchindoguthat celebrates pointless inventions.
Thepizza box briefcasehas to be a goof, right?
Whoeverturned a riding mower into a motorcycleis obviously kidding.
Some even debate the merits of a few of the hacks.
end the window, walk away, and use a household object for its stated function.
