We love seeing those little sprightliness hacks that are supposed to make workaday labor — from paint your walls to scooping ice pick — just a footling bit easier . But how many of them really put to work as well as their proponents claim ? This video recording set 30 supposed life hacks to the run .

John Green , writer of The Fault in Our Stars , hosts this charming telecasting fromMental Flosstesting out different supposed hacks . Some of them we ’d like to retest for ourselves ( for one thing , we wonder how old his “ quondam ” nut really were ) , but it ’s fun to watch him try things one by one — and see which I actually do succeed .

Here are some other liveliness hack writer tests from the Mental Floss series :

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