Rinse your glass of ice cubes with water before you pour your soda, Keeps it from foaming

Earplugs are incredibly important to preserve your hearing. Most people just jam them in, and they don't work well this way (I'm taling about the foam type, here). The instructions suggest that you roll the earplug into a thin cylinder and push it into your ear. I find it work better if you just roll half the earplug, and leave the other half alone. This leaves you with something that looks a little more like a golf tee, and makes it much easier to get into your ear (your fingers can control it better).

Aditional tips:

You can buy them in bulk at the hardware store (they're cheap), but I always pick up a bunch of freebies at noisy workplaces that require them. I used to work at a newspaper place, and I would always grab a few when I came by the bin (I also do that with free matchbooks). Either way, there's no excuse not to have lots of them handy.

I carry a set of earplugs on my keychain in a "pill fob" from the pharmacy (along with a few small pills). Over the years I've found that sooner or later you'll wish you had a pair of earplugs (loud music, rock concert, shooting, jackhammer street rapairs, etc), and having a few on your keychain makes it easy to have them when you need them.

I keep a baggie full of earplugs in my range bag, and an Altoids tin with earplugs and sugarless gum in my truck. The gum is to keep my teeth clean or freshen my breath, and is the chicklet type (Orbit).

With an AR-15 or any gun that has some kind of internal storage, I like a to cram a couple of spare earplugs wherever they will fit. Since they're squishy, it's usually not too hard. Worst case scenario, you can tape or dummycord a small container to your sling to carry a few sets. The GI earplug case dummycords nicely, and the small Altoid tins tape easily to your sling.

Works every time for me.. Of course you get a touch of foam, but not like dry cubes. Maybe its your water

Tapping the sides of a soda can or bottle will keep it from erupting when you open it! The bubbles collect on the sides and expand when the drink is opened, but if the are not on the sides to begin with, they return into solution.

When you're at a bar and get a napkin, sprinkle some table salt on it before you put your drink on it. It won't stick to the bottom of your glass.

Ditto, just had to open up the bottom of the mag catch hole for a Taurus 92.


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This should work with a Browning Hi power, too, as the dimensions of the magazine body sans catch hole are identical.

I have some mags on which someone tried this and failed. They came with this really great deal
I got on a PT92 and five mags. Only two or three of them that had this modification attempted, so
I can't complain. The gun ran like a champ, except with those two or three mags. I no longer have
that PT92, but I still have those mags, and l can't seem to get rid of them!