Antifreeze in a toilet bowl

In winter owners of summer houses in Russia face a major challenge: how to save their toilet bowls from splitting. The problem is that even when the owner removes all the water from the bowl before closing down the house for the winter season, and it still cracks as soon as the temperature outside reaches -10 degrees C. The solution came in the form of any car antifreeze – a wise owner just needs to pour it in the toilet bowl and leave it there till the next spring.

Shoot the wine

Yeah, we are obsessed with food and drink, so here is another one. Every time our colleague likes her wine in a restaurant, she gets her mobile and takes a picture of the label. We appreciated this practice after spending about half an hour in a wine shop trying to explain what kind of wine we wanted: “you know, white, rather sweet, very intense, German, or not…” Fortunately the owner of the shop understood us and delivered the bottle. But one cannot be this lucky every time, so now we are shooting the wine we like.

Flood the bog – get the cranberries

Cranberries have pockets of air inside the fruit. And that means they float in water. So, for years people are using the knowledge: the bogs, where cranberries grow, are flooded with water, then harvesters use water reels to stir up the water. This way the ripe berries are removed from the vines. And then they have a field of floating cranberries ready to be picked up. And besides the fact that it is an extremely clever way to harvest, it is also a spectacular look – a red sea of cranberries.