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Whether it’s taking fruit to work (and to the bedroom!), being polite to rude strangers or taking up skinny-dipping, here’s a century of ways to make life better, with little effort involved …
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1 Exercise on a Monday night (nothing fun happens on a Monday night).
2 On the fence about a purchase? Wait 72 hours before you buy it.
3 Tip: the quickest supermarket queue is always behind the fullest trolley (greeting, paying and packing take longer than you think).
4 Bring fruit to work. Bring fruit to bed!
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5 Consider going down to four days a week. It’s likely a disproportionate amount of your fifth day’s work is taxed anyway, so you’ll lose way less than a fifth of your take-home pay.
6 Everyone has an emotional blind spot when they fight. Work out what yours is, and remember it.
7 Plant spring bulbs, even if they’re just in a pot.
8 Send a voice note instead of a text; they sound like personal mini podcasts.
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13 Feeling sluggish at work? Try the Pomodoro technique : 25 minutes on, five-minute break, and repeat.
14 Buy a cheap blender and use it to finely chop onions (it saves on time and tears).
15 Keep your children’s drawings and paintings. Put the best ones in frames.
16 Set aside 10 minutes a day to do something you really enjoy – be it reading a book or playing Halo .
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17 Don’t be weird about how to stack the dishwasher.
18 Reuse all plastic bags – even bread bags. Much of the packaging you can’t reuse can be taken to larger branches of supermarkets for recycling.
19 Take a photo of the tag you are given when leaving your coat in a cloakroom.
20 Can’t sleep? Try a relaxing soak with lavender bath oil before bed.
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21 Add the milk at least one minute after the tea has brewed.
22 Laugh shamelessly at your own jokes.
23 It might sound obvious, but a pint of water and two paracetamols before bed after a big night avoids a clanger of a hanger.
24 Start a Saturday morning with some classical music – it sets the tone for a calm weekend.
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25 Look closely.
26 Set time limits for your apps. Just go to the settings on your smartphone and add a limit – for example, if you have an iPhone turn on Screen Time .
27 If possible, take the stairs.
28 Always be willing to miss the next train.
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33 Join your local library – and use it. Find yours here .
34 Go for a walk without your phone.
35 Eat salted butter (life’s too short for unsalted).
36 Stretch in the morning. And maybe in the evening.
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37 If you’re going less than a mile, walk or cycle. About half of car journeys are under two miles, yet these create more pollution than longer journeys as the engine isn’t warmed up yet.
38 Sleep with your phone in a different room (and buy an alarm clock).
39 Send postcards from your holidays. Send them even if you’re not on holiday.
40 Instead of buying new shoes, get old ones resoled and buy new laces.
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41 Buy a plant. Think you’ll kill it? Buy a fake one.
42 Don’t have Twitter on your phone.
43 If you find an item of clothing you love and are certain you will wear for ever, buy three.
44 Try taking a cold shower (30 seconds to two minutes) before your hot one. It’s good for your health – both physical and mental.
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45 Text to say thank you.
46 Read a poem every day. Keep a compendium, such as A Poem for Every Day of the Year , by your bed.
47 Take out your headphones when walking – listen to the world.
48 Buy secondhand.
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49 Buy in person!
51 If something in the world is making you angry, write (politely) to your MP – they will read it.
52 Say hello to your neighbours.
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65 Instead of buying a morning coffee, set up a daily transfer of £2 from a current into a savings account and forget about it. Use it to treat yourself to something different later.
66 Don’t save things for “best”. Wear them – enjoy them.
67 Sing!
68 Think about your posture: don’t slouch, and don’t cross your legs.
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73 Thank a teacher who changed your life.
74 Respect your youngers.
75 Keep your keys in the same place.
76 Ditch the plastic cartons and find a milkman – The Modern Milkman has a comprehensive list.
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93 Do that one thing you’ve been putting off.
94 Give compliments widely and freely.
95 Set up an affordable standing order to a charity. RNLI and Greenpeace spring to mind …
96 Keep a book in your bag to avoid the temptation to doomscroll.
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I definitely agree with some of these🤔 And am now inspired to make a list of my own!
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